Your comment also feels that you are not happy about where the industry is headed but don't you think your anger is misplaced?

I recently tried to write an elevator simulator (harder than I thought it would be) entirely on my own. I wrote the tests as a markdown spec and used an LLM to actually convert them to tests according to my interface. That was definitely a little gratifying, but not even close to what I used to feel. Of course, fully blaming LLMs is not really fair. There's also Life™ but LLMs definitely helped this soft-atrophy.

I simultaneously feel called out and encouraged by the post. The gym analogy feels apt. I guess I need to work on my recovery as well as hit a different gym which isn't named software.

1: I didn't know it was called ETL back then

2: I'm one of those weirdos who learnt a NoSQL DB first

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    Summary A = summarise(message 1 to P)
    Summary B = summarise(Summary A, message P+1 to Q)
    Summary C = summarise(Summary B, message Q+1 to R)

> volume is potentially arbitrarily large is that one sub-agent can call lcm_expand multiple times - either vertically or horizontally

I'm assuming from this that it's the latter? In that case, that addresses my concern about not blowing up the context window immediately.

> Because expansion can recover arbitrarily large volumes of earlier conversation, this tool is restricted to sub-agents spawned via the Task tool; the main agent cannot call it directly. This restriction prevents uncontrolled context growth in the primary interaction loop.

What if the lcm_expand is called for a summary that has 1000s of messages that immediately floods the sub-agent's own context window?

Does lcm_expand only unroll one "layer" of the DAG and unrolls more if needed by another subagent?

There is a bug in the entity tracking. For the entity "github", it shows a positive sentiment. HN does NOT like GitHub (for reasons good or bad). If you click on it, it shows you stories about other seemingly unrelated stories.

https://ethos.devrupt.io/entities/github

The most memorable read of this year was "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1846) by Alexander Dumas .

It's one of the greatest stories ever told. It's ~1250 pages but I sped through it in 3 weeks even if I'm a slow reader.

Highly recommended!

I also read The Stranger by Camus and the two top Orwells which lived up to the hype.

On the other hand, features like these are kinda distracting to me. I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for the core product and developer features getting buggier day by day.

I've been facing a number of rough edges lately. The plan mode's support for multiple plans in a single chat breaks often, todos don't get created or marked properly, the new changed files UX is atrocious (just take me to the file), it's not able to adhere to simple prompts in a low context window usage chat (Sonnet 4.5), etc.

It sucks to try different editors every few months but I might have to do that if this continues.

That's a lot less that what TSGO promised when it was first announced (A 10x faster Typescript¹). Hopefully this is just the result of it being experimental.

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- Smallest animal: Myxobolus Shekel. Smaller than a WBC at 10 micrometeres.

- Biggest butterfly: Queen Alexandra's Birdwing. Bigger than human brain at 18cm.

- Largest insect to ever live: Meganeura (283 MYA). At 40cm long, a dragonfly larger than a house cat.

- Rafflesias are larger than German Shepherds

- Earth's largest crab: Japanese Spider Crab. 1m, legs pan of 3.75m. More than half the size of a human.

- Always thought Mososaurs were largest animal to ever live but it's the Blue whale at 26m. I don't think I ever appreciated how unfathomably huge they are. (The largest Mosasaur found was 13m. There's a speculated size of 17m as well.)

- World's largest living tree: Hyperion - a giant redwood in california at 115m.

Love seeing something so polished and inspiring. Amazing illustrations and even better music.

Thanks Neal for these projects!

> If you are using Bun (which doesn't natively support using and uses a transpiler which is incompatible with this library)...

I skimmed the issues but I couldn't find any issues on Bun regarding this except for: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/discussions/4325

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