🕯️Swartz
We are in the wrong timeline

Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

ooooh yeah that cat is out of the bag since ~2015
... yes, I know chatgpt was 2022 and Att was 2017, but 2015 was when we were knee deep in psychograph nonsense and ML pipelines to influence voters

That explains so much.
One time I watched my ceiling fan spin until I decided I needed to clean it immediately and then I watched it spin some more even though I didn't turn it back on after cleaning.

:v just do it
I bet in an afternoon you can get llamacpp tweaked up with speculative decoding on your favorite model and bootstrapping your own self modifying agents

The next conversation is "how do we adapt by using [actually not claude] as a community with great stuff like arcee"

The time for "how do we adapt" is done. You're either a markdown gardener or someone screeching butlerian jihad in your own shower. Software peeprs, remember where you come from :P

Ask your average markdown gardener what it would look like to add a queue, object store, and state to an agent authored by an agent. They'll balk and cry and scream and ban you from discord. :P

AI adoption craze is this.
Instead of being the "all knowing basement critter", now you can meticulously bonsai garden markdown files to impress internet strangers with little commitment. When that gets boring, have Claude make an MCP server you claim is critical.

It's just gardening again

*same voice, but in a tweet*
Aha, but what you don't understand is that this is all a ploy by established Democrat politicians to ensure they maintain office next year!

Diet influencers should do an actual pre-60s American diet

Corn wasn't the staple.
Steaks definitely weren't.
Chickens may have been.

You would think MAHA would be on this, but they're on the "Make refrigerated rail cars great" thing instead of a traditional greens diet they would have had.

For being protocol centric, it is kinda weird there's not an app directory 🤔

I made the decision some 10 years ago to remove as much meat from my diet as possible
I did have a little oopsie where I gave myself some serious malnutrition and also ended up with a surgery... anyway, B vitamins are good. Eat legumes. American grandpappies would've eaten far more beans than steaks

Ah it's 2026, though
_We_ would imply _they_ and some white guy in a basement will be upset

Seriously, though, this is even weirder in MoE models now that you mention it

There are already data centers in Wisconsin and Illinois with power available in both places right alongside internet

Cooling in the winter was your assumption, but remember that our internet infrastructure follows phone that follows trains tracks.

It's weird that people won't believe anyone until they pet Claude about it
Pick any random harness from Goose to Toad, slap Qwen or Gemma 4 in it, and quickly learn the difference a system prompt makes... and that you don't need Claude to do trivial things
- signed someone that actually ships agents

Falling back to when people were screeching that data centers eat water, shit fire, set California aflame.

... Musk doesn't pay you on bluesky. You can't help him here.

You're being philosophical again.
When you are done balancing chakras of the PID there is surely a place where you do actual testing.

ya
It's many thousands of times worse than it was even last year.
You'll probably find the usual referral spam in there, too.

Oh?
One more piece of the puzzle and the Claude cuddlers are going to have to rethink life.

Yeah, this is spiraling.

As a DCS programmer you should certainly have a concept of how to do some sort of testing that is reliable. What is supposed to be a technical conversation has become near philosophical.

Not understanding how to test your system has nothing to do with the average tech org.

Your testing doesn't work?

You use no code whatsoever?
You have no tests, no simulations, and no scripts at all?

Let's try that again.
Using a process and code, how do you do this now?
Infinite bash scripts?
Harnesses?
Pure willpower?

I'm still trying to understand how data centers in dusty hot Texas somehow make sense over like... Wisconsin. Or Canada.

I haven't even mentally prepared for space data center or come up with a plan on how I'm getting free a100s and supermicros when it fails.

After that excursion, paint the picture on how you do all of this now.

What type of development work do you do?

Yes, are you familiar with big O notation?
It's just as irrelevant, but in the same text book

If you cannot understand how people are producing your average react frontended webapp with an LLM and following TDD then digging into these concepts will not help

What type of development work do you do?

When I started, people were using Mercurial and eventually QTP. Now you can have an agent click a button as hard and as many times as you want. Or, spicy take, write a deterministic test harness
If code can be produced rapidly without a human then verification can be produced rapidly without a human

tbf we do have the "remove the couch" problem still
You ask an AI editor to remove a couch in an image and somehow the curtains go, too. You ask for the curtains back and they're a different color, etc.

This is a spiral but it's off in a branch you can delete because you're following FDD :P

This only makes sense if you're functioning in PHP days of giant monoliths and expecting an LLM to rewrite the entire thing rapidly.

There are genai commits that are single line changes and include mermaid and a README - the same as you would get from a contractor, but with unit tests