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New comment by itsafarqueue in "Railway secures $100M to challenge AWS"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:55:34 +0000

How many hours does it take AWS to clear $100M in free cash flow?

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:44:00 +0000

It’s not the whimsy. It’s that the whimsy is laced with casual disdain, a touch too much “let me buy you a stick of gum and show you how to chew it”, a frustrated tenor never stated but dog whistled “you dumb fucks”. A soft sharp stink of someone very smart shoving that fact in your face as they evangelise “the obvious truth” you’re too stupid to see.

And maybe he’s even right. But the reaction is to the flavour of chip on the shoulder delivery mixed into an otherwise fun piece.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Proof of Corn"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:16:42 +0000

Slop.

I have zero doubt Claude is going to do what AI does and plough forward. Emails will get sent, recommendations made, stuff done.

And it will be slop. Worse than what it does with code, the outcomes of which are highly correlated with the expertise of the user past a certain point.

Seth wins his point. AI can, via humans giving it permission to do things, affect the world. So can my chaos monkey random script.

Fred should have qualified: _usefully_ affect the world. Deliver a margin of Utility.

We’re miles off that high bar.

Disclosure: all in on AI

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:43:33 +0000

Two whole projects. A stampede.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

itsafarqueue — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:50:39 +0000

Vie(t)nam

New comment by itsafarqueue in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:50:42 +0000

Only after exhausting every other avenue

New comment by itsafarqueue in "AI Pullback Has Officially Started"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:26:05 +0000

AI creates the most spectacular happy path demos. It’s hard not to extrapolate to infinity when you see it.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cognitive load is what matters"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:09:17 +0000

Don’t bother with this if you want to get promoted. Others have discussed this in thread and are right. If you build beautiful, simplified abstractions, your skill will be taken for granted as these interfaces appear obvious once discovered (by virtue of their proximity to truth, incredibly difficult to create, easy to verify). If you are in even a reasonably large org, go the other way. Be an Architecture astronaut. Build complex, clever stuff that is deliberately high cognitive load. Get your bus-factor as close to one as possible. Go the other way only if your comp is directly tied to company performance.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Getting good results from Claude Code"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:23:17 +0000

The doom loop Gemini gets into is genuinely unpleasant to read.

“I’m so stupid. I should be ashamed of myself. I’m such a loser. Idiot, idiot. Oh god I suck. I’m an embarrassment.”

The torture Google must RL on this model, man.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Getting good results from Claude Code"

itsafarqueue — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:18:43 +0000

Really useful comment thanks. Reminder that LLMs aren’t just for coding.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding"

itsafarqueue — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:16:39 +0000

This generalises to “Agents respond well to red/green feedback loops”.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 07:31:05 +0000

Doesn’t this all go to shit if they can’t flip into a for profit by December? Tons of cash commitments are tied to that far-from-finalised outcome.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 07:26:36 +0000

This guy gets it. +1

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Deep Agents"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 07:11:36 +0000

I used to consult on this type of thing. I’m not entirely convinced this is what’s happening here but it’s close enough, and is a well trod playbook - dress up the mundane in theatre and performance, create a taxonomy that’s specific to you, then sell access to the thing.

Next step is to try flood the SEO zone with your thing. It’s great if you can piggyback other key terms (deep *, agents) and.. I’m already bored writing this up it’s so [what’s the word for sheer resigned exhaustion at the capitalist corporate soul kill that is this type of work]

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cerebras Code"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:51:42 +0000

At full pace that means 62 mins until you hit the daily cap.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cerebras Code"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:49:47 +0000

Bait and switched their FAQ after the fact too. Come on Cerebras, it’s only VC money you’re burning here in the first place, let’s see some commitment to winning market share. :money: :fire:

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cerebras Code"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:38:36 +0000

Your “one enter” press might generate dozens or even hundreds of messages in an agent. Every file read, re-read, read a bit more, edit, whoops re-edit, ls, grep, etc etc counts as a message.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Cerebras Code"

itsafarqueue — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:31:39 +0000

Yup. If you’ve ever watched a 60+ minute agent loop spawning sub agents, your “one message” prompt leaves you several hundred messages in the hole.

New comment by itsafarqueue in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

itsafarqueue — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:50:33 +0000

You’re absolutely right!

New comment by itsafarqueue in "Two narratives about AI"

itsafarqueue — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:25:35 +0000

That study is going to go down as the red herring it is. Shows little more than people with minimal experience using LLMs for dev do it wrong.