100+ skills and they're all just markdown with examples. the whole agent revolution is basically 'write better docs'

I've been writing about the problems with reviewing AI generated code today and this random reddit comment nailed it better than I could.

Trying to read up on best practice with AI assisted coding and it's mostly people selling AI tools posing their marketing docs as insightful blog posts. Problem is the content is hollow and handwavy, coupled with ludicrous claims, there's no meat on these bones.

Imagine your team doing agentic coding in the codebase serving mills of customers without understanding how it works, and you get paged at 2 am, and since no one knows how the system works you need to ask LLM to tell you, and it gives you, wait for it... a PLAUSIBLE answer what might be wrong.

A nototiousky bad product we use at work has introduced a smart AI search bar. It is far far worse than their simple search form with specific fields. I've switched to the old UI because it actually fucking works.

Can't wait for this AI bubble to pop and all these shitty features to dissappear.

Now that's an interesting idea.

Lobby incentive tagline: "Thou art famished it seemeth"

Glad to see pragmatism from the pragmatic engineer. I share this experience; I'm busier, not more effective.

The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive.

In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

Claude code internals, fucking hilarious. Pleading with it to be deterministic and not lie.

I read "Super Cooperators" years ago and it discussed the optimal strategy for this. Basically, allow one breach, as it could be a mistake or have mitigating circumstances. Twice is a pattern and you should stop all collaboration, as they're a parasite, then broadcast their distrustfulness socially.

Conference season is here, and AI talks are everywhere. No surprise there.

I use AI tools myself and I see genuine value in them as part of how we work. Not in the "use it or die" sense that the bandwagon market keeps selling.
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I loved Lair Of The Clockwork God, it’s worth whatever they’re charging for it

The AI Efficiency Trap There's a story about Henry Ford. Ford supposedly wanted to pay his workers enough so they could afford to buy the cars they were building. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. The point stands: your workers and your customers are often the same people. Now look at what's happening in tech right now. Atlassian just cut 1,600 jobs. Meta is planning to lay off around 15,000 people.

Reinforcement loops are an interesting thing in systems thinking. This week when I heard the news from Atlassian another one of those love reality moments hit me. In today's post I try to roughly sketch the mental model of a system that unfolded in my brain.

I've started spotting project READMEs written by LLMs. The key clue, they reference functionality that doesn't exist.

"Run tests via this command"

* Folder does not exist *

This makes me distrust everything else in the readme.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down.

But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

We trialled Coderabbit, half of its comments were hallucinated bullshit. "Use this method for consistency" (method does not exist).

IME most of the code documentation generated by LLMs is redundant.

The dev didn't want to write docs, got lazy, and orderrd the summary machine to generate something. They never cared about the output, it was simply a box ticking exercise. The resulting docs tell you nothing useful.

a default RPG Maker forest. An anime character says "Fascinating, Mr. Data. Everything in the environment appears to be made of these hard-edged squares..." Also the anime character is Jean Luc Picard

Check out this RPG Maker game about the crew from Star Trek TNG going into a holodeck sim that Data made from default RPG Maker assets

coleo_kin.itch.io/datas-advent...

"Why is my feed full of shit?"
* Realises I'm in the discover tab *
"Ohhhhh..."

As always "just" is doing some industrial level lifting in those statements.

I will always repost when Outer Wilds is on sale, one of the absolute best games ever made

It's only fair that if I spend $15 to see a film and I like it, the director now works for me, and his/her next film must be created in accordance with my desires.

We're treating writing code as the bottleneck, but really the bottleneck is the impact of legacy decisions. Design is about minimising these impacts. Instead we're accelerating them by writing code faster and compounding these problems.

Nice! Looking forward this.

Have one more 👍. Really enjoying the game so far. The writing is top notch. I'm at the micro-worlds bit and it has me in stitches.

It's been hard (it's being hard?) to learn how to make human connections. It's still a learnable skill.

Just bounced off Notion and switched to Sublime Text for my markdown note taking needs.

Notion kept auto formatting things incorrectly and got in the way more than it helped.