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New comment by krashidov in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

krashidov — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:51:35 +0000

It's already been done - VR

New comment by krashidov in "Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents"

krashidov — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:24:18 +0000

> make it give you a final score

what does this mean exactly? A scored based on what?

New comment by krashidov in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

krashidov — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:16:02 +0000

"This tree only makes up 0.0001% of the forest. If it is lit on fire, the forest will be fine"

New comment by krashidov in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

krashidov — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:35:08 +0000

Did you hand write the skills or did you have an agent audit your work and infer patterns?

New comment by krashidov in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"

krashidov — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:30:28 +0000

I felt the same. Even the off topic arguments don't many sense. Some sort of weird rant about acronyms that made no sense to me. Waste of time

New comment by krashidov in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

krashidov — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:19:28 +0000

serious question - is it a good idea to make all of my endpoints look like:

/api/how-to-make-anthrax-nuke/users/

and now i have some defense against automated scans ?

New comment by krashidov in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

krashidov — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:15:39 +0000

this sounds like convex.dev or https://spacetimedb.com/ (full disclosure I don't use either)

New comment by krashidov in "Can we have the day off?"

krashidov — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:34:30 +0000

I agree it would be nice. Technically you can start a company and do 4 day work weeks only

New comment by krashidov in "Can we have the day off?"

krashidov — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:10:29 +0000

> Why? I don't need 10x more stuff.

If everyone had said this 100 years ago we wouldn't have the Polio vaccine, air conditioning etc.

There are lots of problems in the world and there are still a ton of incentives to fix those problems. Yes there is also greed, scams, and exploitation - but that's never going to go away

New comment by krashidov in "Can we have the day off?"

krashidov — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:03:44 +0000

> If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week.

That would be true if you and only you are 10x more productive than anyone else. Since everyone is now 10x more productive it just means you have to work just as much as before since you're competition can outwork you. I don't get why people don't understand this.

New comment by krashidov in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

krashidov — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:18:57 +0000

I am surprised they aren't leaning into the agent dev tool mania right now. File syncing is actually very in demand right now and everyone is not doing a great job figuring it out.

New comment by krashidov in "Ferrari Luce"

krashidov — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:58:15 +0000

I will say, Teslas usually have too much torque because I feel very nauseous in them as a passenger. Having more fine grained control over the torque profile might be nice

New comment by krashidov in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

krashidov — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:14:45 +0000

> We've got a QA agent that needs to run through, say, 200 markdown files of requirements in a browser session. Its a cool system that has really helped improve our team's efficiency. For the longest time we tried everything to get a prompt like the following working: "Look in this directory at the requirements files. For each requirement file, create a todo list item to determine if the application meets the requirements outlined in that file". In other words: Letting the model manage the high level control flow.

This is cool. Can you elaborate on it? Is it flaky? Does it take a long time?

New comment by krashidov in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

krashidov — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:13:05 +0000

FWIW I've had the opposite experience. Whenever I work late the output is absolute garbage. If I work past midnight it takes me 3 hours to get done what would have taken me 30 mins in the morning, and with way less frustration and stress. Your inputs to the LLM are only as good as how fresh your mind is so I've made it a rule to not work past midnight (unless there's an emergency).

In the good old days you would reach flow and actually know when you're too tired to continue. Now you can just say "please just fix it" over and over again and get yourself in a slophole much easier.

New comment by krashidov in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

krashidov — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:40:14 +0000

Isn't this just picking up pennies on an active railroad track? You'll win small bets and then get run over once a long tail event completely wipes you out.

New comment by krashidov in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

krashidov — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:08:26 +0000

Do they still serve ads when you click the Start button?

New comment by krashidov in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

krashidov — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:49:52 +0000

We're building this at type.com. Ideally one day we want to build the next gen protocol so that we're not searching for yet another communications platform, but it's going to take a while for chat to stabilize with all the generative UI and agentic stuff we're building. We're even talking about open sourcing it.

With regards to the specific complaints about not owning your data, we're building the product so that you own your data and you can run your agents and read your messages however often you want. Obviously when we build a platform and others build 3rd party apps we will have to have some restrictions so it'll be a steady balance in the future

New comment by krashidov in "A better streams API is possible for JavaScript"

krashidov — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:25:26 +0000

> WebAssembly failed to keep some of its promises here

classic case of not using an await before your promise

New comment by krashidov in "Looks like it is happening"

krashidov — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:56:57 +0000

The cynical part of me thinks that software has peaked. New languages and technology will be derivatives of existing tech. There will be no React successor. There will never be a browser that can run something other than JS. And the reason for that is because in 20 years the new engineers will not know how to code anymore.

The optimist in me thinks that the clear progress in how good the models have gotten shows that this is wrong. Agentic software development is not a closed loop

New comment by krashidov in "I’m joining OpenAI"

krashidov — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:49:15 +0000

yes that's the blunder I'm talking about