https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm....

When Sundar Pichai announces that 75% of all new code at Google is AI-generated, their stock price goes up. If he were to announce that 75% of all new code at Google is now written by junior engineers, this would trigger a massive sell-off and a lot of employees would resign.

What does this flow look like in Brokk? Do models still need to resort to using obsolete terminal-based CLI tools in order to find stuff?

Unfortunately in almost every case, dunder methods made it harder for me to collaborate with other people on the same codebase. And I get it. Tinkering with `__setattr__` leads to recursion errors if you're not careful, `__call__` introduces state in an unexpected place (wait, foo is a class instance? But but it behaves just like a function...). It's one of the only "stupid Python tricks" I can think of that lacks a clear analog in other programming languages, so polyglots without a strong Python background tend to hate them. I've tried to make the case on two separate occasions that dunder methods represent a more object-oriented approach to dealing with systemic complexity than type dispatch, and I stand by this. But I concede that the benefits of making the codebase nicer and more ergonomic in some places invariably requires writing class definitions that look horrendous in other places. So it's not so much that dunder methods reduce that complexity, so much as try to contain it and hopefully prevent it from spilling out into the main execution logic.

P.S. - Trey, if you're reading this, hello from a former TA!

Was uniqueness ever a guarantee? It's a distance metric. It's reasonable to assume that two features can be equidistant to the ideal solution to a linear system of equations. Maybe I'm missing something.

I think reasonable minds can disagree about whether CBDCs are any more or less suitable than the alternatives (which seem worse to me in some respects, and certainly are worse in others) but either way, the world's central banks are singing a similar tune in unison right now. Like it or not, the macroeconomic tailwinds favor a more decentralized approach to cross-border settlements and we'll soon have infrastructure to enable this at massive scale.

> It isn't nothing new,

It is though. The infrastructure to support cross-border payments with CBDCs is bleeding edge stuff. The term floated around in obscurity for a while, but it's only been in use since 2019 or so. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CBDCs_by_country

I think we can safely expect at least one major CBDC-based cross-border payment system to launch by the end of the year. Soramitsu is the most promising candidate IMHO. A prevailing theory is that foreign corporations that operate domestically within a country will need to create accounts with a domestic central bank for CBDC payments to work efficiently. If this becomes a reality, the status of the dollar's "exorbitant privilege" will be up for immediate dispute. Its geopolitical hegemony over global finance won't be swept away overnight, but it will suffer a major blow. Only time will tell how serious.

Software is atrocious. Everything else, extremely happy. While everyone else queues up in an endless Costco line to save $10 off their $100 gas bill, I just relax and order sushi while my car chugs free Level 1 electricity outside.

If it hadn't been for Rich Hickey, or Clojure, I'm not sure I'd have the slightest inkling of how joyful and creative it can be to write software. It was an A+ experience, even if I'd be swiftly fired for trying to push logic like that into production.