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New comment by tired_and_awake in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

tired_and_awake — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:22:07 +0000

I am right there with you. We might lack the language to describe this emotional state; its like the opposite of FAFO? There's also this nuance that they were acquired by meta so yeah they're rich but now they're working for not-serious people and will flame out in 18 months.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "I gave Claude access to my pen plotter"

tired_and_awake — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:47:09 +0000

Hey OP I also got interested in seeing LLMs draw and came up with this vibe coded interface. I have a million ideas for taking it forward just need the time... Lmk if you're interested in connecting?

https://github.com/acadien/displai

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

tired_and_awake — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:04:52 +0000

I feel for you. Hopefully your colleagues come around and realize that if they submit the code they are responsible for the slop.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:18:00 +0000

Hey just wanted to thank you for the healthy back and forth! I respect your opinion and don't hold mine strongly. That said I'm eager for this space to mature and for us all to figure out the best way to interact with fault prone code generation tooling... Especially at scale where we all have the hardest time navigating complexity.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:42:45 +0000

I think this misses the point, see the other comments. Fully scaled agentic coding replaces managers too :) cause for celebration all around

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:41:54 +0000

Completely agree and great points. The conclusion of "agents are writing the tests" etc is where I'm at as well. More over the code quality itself is also an agentic problem, as is compile time, reliability, portability... Turtles all the way down as you say.

All code interactions all happen through agents.

I suppose the question is if the agents only produce Swiss cheese solutions at scale and there's no way to fill in those gaps (at scale). Then yeah fully agentic coding is probably a pipe dream.

On the other hand if you can stand up a code generation machine where it's watts + Gpus + time => software products. Then well... It's only a matter of time until app stores entirely disappear or get really weird. It's hard to fathom the change that's coming to our profession in this world.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

tired_and_awake — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:31:10 +0000

The moment all code is interacted with through agents I cease to care about code quality. The only thing that matters is the quality of the product, cost of maintenance etc. exactly the thing we measure software development orgs against. It could be handy to have these projects deployed to demonstrate their utility and efficacy? Looking at PRs of agents feels a wrong headed, like who cares if agents code is hard to read if agents are managing the code base?

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

tired_and_awake — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:43:38 +0000

Early adopters will early adopt. They will toil,feedback, improve, repeat. Tools will over optimize then dramatically shift based on learnings.

This chaps will continue until something moderately productive and easily adoptable comes out. FOMO will strike all of us from time to time. Some of us will even try out the latest and greatest and see if it sticks.

Some companies will mandate arbitrary code generation standards because "it's the basis of their success", it will polarize their talent pool. Later, it will be impossible to determine if they were (not) successful "inspite of" or "because of" such wild decisions.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians"

tired_and_awake — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:16:11 +0000

About a decade ago I was interviewed for Apple's self driving car project and an exec on the project asked me to define these exact 4 things in great detail and provide examples. Shrugs.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "We’re secretly winning the war on cancer"

tired_and_awake — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:55:53 +0000

Seriously are you trolling? Or do you just enjoy making things up?

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Palma 2"

tired_and_awake — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:52:12 +0000

If you install signal or WhatsApp would it work?

New comment by tired_and_awake in "I don't think I can trust Google as my search engine anymore"

tired_and_awake — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:11:24 +0000

Search is effectively an openly solved problem, not something privately held onto by a few with secret technology.

I haven't missed a single aspect of Google search having switched to Duckduckgo 2 years ago. As others have commented here, where search fails often LLMs step up.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Magnetic field sorting of superconducting graphite particles with Tc>400K (2024)"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:49:24 +0000

The hand waviest simplest answer i can think of is... basically quantum effects dominate and require that the background thermal noise be eliminated to be pervasive.

Its like trying to juggle on a top of a moving plane - the balls won't really do what you want with 300mph winds blowing. Go inside on steady ground and your tosses are the dominant forces on the balls.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Magnetic field sorting of superconducting graphite particles with Tc>400K (2024)"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:44:42 +0000

Yeah this is almost common at this point, specifically with carbon nano structures. The reason why is it is very expensive to manufacture specific structures but cheap and easy to make a ton of random structures. So yeah you "just" sort through the random ones, of course sorting through to find the desired structure can be fantastically difficult, but hey it works!

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Reflect Orbital: Sunlight after dark using a constellation of spatial reflectors"

tired_and_awake — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:53:48 +0000

If this is a legitimate concern perhaps they can launch a second set of satellites to block peak sunlight.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:03:49 +0000

It's a good point. There is a target on the back of scientists who do research that is perceived as social science but is infact biology. Seems like they then construct myths of waste/corruption (just read this thread) and punish everyone.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:55:30 +0000

174 scientists either at the NIH or funded by the NIH have won the Nobel prize. https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/nobel-l...

Odds are if you or someone you know has been treated with ... Any kind of modern medicine ... You have personally been impacted by NIH. That ignores the epidemiological knock on effects that we all benefit from oh and the whole "understanding of biological systems".

But screw it, they need to get in line with the party.

New comment by tired_and_awake in "New underwater footage raise sabotage suspicions against Yi Peng 3"

tired_and_awake — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 20:52:58 +0000

Assuming this was orchestrated by a nation state I wonder what the goal is? Just causing mayhem and incurring cost? Is there some specific function of these cables? Is this a negotiating tactic?

New comment by tired_and_awake in "Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics"

tired_and_awake — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:33:36 +0000

At my current place of work our entire Product org is tech illiterate and it's such a loss. In engineering we built a data science team to do their job for them and serve up pretty plots and constantly evolving dashboards instead of that team learning evening a modicum of tech.

Thanks for the article OP, I agree with the sentiment!

New comment by tired_and_awake in "PR process killing morale and productivity"

tired_and_awake — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:58:51 +0000

If you join a company and are confronted with dozens of PR comments - assuming this process isn't sufficiently well documented - see if a tech lead or manager will host an open forum review. Review the code and the comments and discuss + document. A one off discussion won't be a permanent fix, but it can help!