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New comment by resize2996 in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

resize2996 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:56:22 +0000

I found a good cat-sitter through Rover and would do crime if she made it a condition of her next visit.

New comment by resize2996 in "Beyond agentic coding"

resize2996 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:34:10 +0000

Warning: I was in two different project experimenting with similar forms of db access at the same time. don't do that.

New comment by resize2996 in "Beyond agentic coding"

resize2996 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:30:10 +0000

find the reflections in the rushing river

New comment by resize2996 in "My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it"

resize2996 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:35:34 +0000

yeah, I don't think the jenga tower is changing but the levels of abstraction will.

New comment by resize2996 in "Claude Code CLI was broken"

resize2996 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:57:24 +0000

the abstractions around this stuff are still a jenga stack with round pieces... I think it will tighten up over the next year or so for real world use cases. Right now it's great if one is a "build your own tools" kinda person.

New comment by resize2996 in "Claude Code CLI was broken"

resize2996 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:58:33 +0000

"fundamental tenet"? There's not an engineering pope speaking ex cathedra.

New comment by resize2996 in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

resize2996 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:27:38 +0000

I thought they were making fun of my new jersey accent.

New comment by resize2996 in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

resize2996 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:32:41 +0000

compilers can only produce machine code. so unorginal.

New comment by resize2996 in "Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain"

resize2996 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:05:00 +0000

> Which poor people exactly do you consider privileged, and why?

those with insulation from genocide and displacement despite poverty.

their point is that, say, a german peasant in 17th century couldn't avoid the Thirty Years War.

New comment by resize2996 in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

resize2996 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:28:23 +0000

The big players (Gemini, Claude Code, Codex) and then aider and opencode for open source.

I keep my setup modular/composable so I can swap pieces and keep it usable by anyone (agent, human, time traveler) depending on what the task needs. In the aughts I standardized on "keep worklogs and notes on tools and refine them into runbooks" so that has translated pretty well to agentic skills/tools. (a man page is a perfectly cromulent skill, btw.)

New comment by resize2996 in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

resize2996 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:40:05 +0000

tbf, OpenCode's development cycle seems pretty fast. If someone announced AGI in the morning, I'd bet they have it integrated by EOD.

I also use OpenCode extensively, but bounce around to test out the other ones.

New comment by resize2996 in "Classical statues were not painted horribly"

resize2996 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:49:14 +0000

That is how scholarship works. It’s like a math proof: they’re interested in proving the base case. If someone else wants to do more speculative work to theorize what a well-painted version would look like, that would be super cool, but it wouldn’t be scholarship.

New comment by resize2996 in "Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different?"

resize2996 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:54:16 +0000

I paid for my internet and used it all day long.

New comment by resize2996 in "The terminal of the future"

resize2996 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:29:17 +0000

> what problems are they solving

programmatic text manipulation

New comment by resize2996 in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

resize2996 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:11:07 +0000

the eternal september 2: it's eternaler this time

New comment by resize2996 in "GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders"

resize2996 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:58:50 +0000

same things as drugs and alcohol, I imagine the side effects are different but still negative!

New comment by resize2996 in "Why the open social web matters now"

resize2996 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 05:58:32 +0000

ok, but what if my friends have terrible taste.

New comment by resize2996 in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

resize2996 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:56:12 +0000

Eventually, some of these companies will realize that a well-managed customer service org is a profit center and they will get an enormous amount of business. Unfortunately, they'll all keep fucking over customers until they realize that accepting life in the crab bucket is a negative-sum game.

I'm considering going back to school to write a "Google Fi 2016-2023: A Case Study in Enshittification" thesis but I'm not sure what academic discipline it fits under.

(I'll say it again for those in the back, if you're looking for ideas, there's arbitrage in service.)

New comment by resize2996 in "AI and Home-Cooked Software"

resize2996 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:21:12 +0000

I do not know the future, every line of code is a plausible-looking liability.

New comment by resize2996 in "Baseball durations after the pitch clock"

resize2996 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:06:19 +0000

"Advertising is a cancer" is the moderate position, in that it assumes the patient can be saved. My personal view is that art that has been infected by advertising should be taken out back and shot.

I'm glad you enjoyed the show! Again, my personal opinion is that we gather more enjoyment out of these things if we spend a modicum of effort to curate our experiences rather than being spoon-fed the slop with the largest marketing budget.

As for "we're smart adults": The research on cognitive biases wrt advertising is settled. No, we're really really really not smrt.

Edit: I realized I am criticizing without offering a solution to my 2nd para. Think about the art (music / games / movies / comics) you like. Find those artists on the internet and see what art they recommend, and then consume that.