"impediment to action advances action. what stands in the way, becomes the way".

I know gas town made a splash here a while back and some colleagues promote software factories, but I haven’t seen much real output..have any of you?

I prefer the guided development approach where it’s a pretty detailed dialog with the LLM. The results are good but it’s hardly hands off.

If I squint I can almost see this fully automated development life cycle, so why aren’t there real life examples out there?

Specifically, AI companies want to inflate the utility of AI because that's how they make money. There should be guardrails where appropriate. Unfortunately, as usual, we need to make mistakes before we can learn from them.

Robotaxis do exist, but they are not made equal. Tesla's for instance are 4x worse than humans: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...

My other immediate thought -- Tesla's autopilot. I've never used it so I'm not sure I'm fully correct here, but apparently it requires you to be vigilant and take over in certain situations? Wonder how well that works out in practice.

I'm trying to switch to Corne keyboards and the key maps are critical.

This is just another reminder that powerful global entities are composed of lazy, bored individuals. It’s a wonder we get anything done.

My other thought, that I can't articulate that well is....what about testing? Sure LLMs can generate tons of code but so what? If your two sentence prompt is for a tiny feature that's one thing. If you ask Claude to "build me a todo system" the results will likely rapidly diverge from what you're expecting. The specification for the system is the code, right? I just don't see how this can scale.

I haven't been keeping up with the progress in this space. Last I heard, Benz introduced some sort of self driving feature AND accepted full liability for it (whereas Tesla does not). How does Benz's self driving compare to Teslas?

I've been trying to learn how to model using Fusion 360. It's not clicking for me. Probably lack of practice. Wondering if OpenSCAD would be a better solution. Goal is to be able to design useful things for 3d printing..

Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!!

Also why are people using speaker phones in public places at max volume. The speaker in your phone is designed to deliver the sound directly to your ear, probably at higher fidelity.

I'm loving the fact that battery technology will eventually eliminate weed wackers.

Sorry if I sound cranky, I find loud noises challenging.

It's not perfect, but it doesn't need to be, to be useful.

I have enabled some google services to play with (maps, calendars), that required me to put my credit card down. I'm thinking I should get a prepaid credit card so if things get out of hand, they'll shut me down rather than keep charging me until my max credit limit.

I ended up getting a steam deck which is just amazing and the kids ended up on on tablets (minecraft/roblox) and on PCs (arma and such).

For split screen we ended up occasionally connecting the steam deck to the tv and re-pairing Xbox controllers to it.