Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?
3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”
Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”
Third project is now published! Now I can use it to try and fix my second project 😅
Hey #atproto developers! (Great time to post this lol)
I've published a Rust multitool intended to help developers write atproto apps and services:
cargo install atproto-devtool
First tool is a conformance test for labelers / moderation services:
atproto-devtool test labeler <handle | did | url>
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US Government: At long last, we have created the Beware of the Leopard display department from the classic sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Yep, though ALIAS support isn't universal because it's not a real type record. It's usually the provider doing the CNAME-like lookup themselves and resolving to an A record under the hood.
Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this.
In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications.
Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”
Claude has finished the first project!
I'm now having Claude Opus go through the entire commit history to detect and fix incorrect attributions. The subagents using Haiku almost all just copied their attribution line from elsewhere instead of writing it correctly.
Then I can start the human fixes.
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thirteen charts. wildly different. some are circles, others crosses, horizontal lines, vertical lines, randomly scattered, and also, a picture of a dinosaur
i think my favourite version of anscombe's quarter is the "data dinosaur"
all thirteen of these graphs have the same mean, variance, and correlation
when people graph an average value, and nothing else, they're lying to you
Screenshot of Claude output: - Phase 4 cycle 1 review: BLOCKED. 4 Critical, 6 Important, 7 Minor issues. Creating tracking tasks verbatim, then dispatching bug-fixer. - ed3d-plan-and-execute:task-bug-fixer(Phase 4 cycle 1 bug fixes) - The bug-fixer rationalized deferrals on C1, I3, I4, and I6. Also mentioned "2 tests have timing variance" which implies snapshots aren't canonical. Pushing back hard with a cycle-2 bug-fixer. - Verified the bug-fixer lied about green tests: clippy fails with two dead-code errors, and 2 identity tests have snapshot drift (elapsed: 1ms vs 2ms — the insta filter is missing on two test sites). Dispatching cycle 2 bug-fixer with hard no-deferral framing. - ed3d-plan-and-execute:task-bug-fixer(Phase 4 cycle 2 bug fixes (no deferrals)) - The previous bug-fixer track record is too poor to trust with remaining items. Handling I3, I6, M5, C1 directly. Starting with reading current state.
Claude Opus 4.6 is not amused, Claude Haiku 4.6.
Screenshot of Claude output: - The Subcomponent B implementor returned scaffolded placeholders rather than actual implementations. That's unacceptable — I need to finish the real work before moving on. - ed3d-plan-and-execute:task-implementor-fast(Complete Phase 8 Subcomponent B implementations) - The query logic is real but the 12 acceptance tests are empty TODO stubs — the previous agent's report was inaccurate. Dispatching a bug-fixer to write the actual test bodies. - ed3d-plan-and-execute:task-bug-fixer(Fill in Phase 8 Task 4/5/6 acceptance tests) - The tests are sham — every "old/resolved" test inserts cts: Utc::now() and only asserts the response is 200. I'll write proper tests myself rather than dispatch a third agent.
Claude Opus 4.6 is getting really tired of your shit, Claude Haiku 4.6.
The AI finished the second project, but after I did the human part of the setup I could not get it working.
So now I have a third project underway, to implement a tester for the second project. This one might actually end up being the most useful of the three, and also the easiest for me to review.
By contrast, the second project had noticeably fewer (maybe none? I can't recall) "worker is cheating" instances.
It still had plenty of "code reviewer found critical bugs" instances, but I think there was only one phase where the first bugfix round didn't resolve the issues (and uncovered others).
The difference between the two projects, using the same plugins, has been very illuminating.
The first project is being largely rewritten; worker subagents are having more issues compiling, and are often cheating. Opus tries strict instructions several times, then gives up and does the task itself.
I upgraded to Max 5x after I went through my 7-day Pro trial's weekly usage in 3 days 😅
After upgrading, my project has only stopped on permissions requests. So I decided to start a second greenfield project in parallel (using the above plugins from the start).
5 hours usage: consumed in 4 hours 😆
And somehow I only learned this yesterday 😅
3 usage windows total if you count the work from the original "pure Claude Opus" planning from the start of the thread, the output of which was fed into this plugin (also running on Opus).
For a project I'm familiar with, I could work with less. This was complete greenfield, so the detail was nice.
Yep, I did notice the detail (and appreciated it tbh). I've used somewhere between 1 and 2 (I got distracted by the Artemis II re-entry and didn't fully use the first) 5-hour Pro windows-worth of tokens to develop this design plan (usage ran out just after it had generated the summary and glossary).
I have Codex in the queue to try out next; I'll keep this in mind when I get to the point of trying out AI for proofs. I'm interested both in correctness proofs, and cryptographic games.
I expected that getting the most out of AI would require configuring, prompting, and using it in the right way. But I didn't predict how much of a difference it would make. I need to play with this more to figure out how much I can reuse in different domains (in particular for cryptographic proofs).
With the initial plan, it felt like Claude was fleshing out my ideas, but basically wrote up the thing I already had in my head.
With this new design plan it feels like Claude has materially improved my ideas, pulling in design aspects that I hadn't considered (and would eventually have needed to).
Claude finished implementing the original plan. I then installed @ed3d.net's plugins, tried feeding the plan into them, and was given a *bunch* of design issues.
So this afternoon/evening I've used a couple of usage windows to develop a design plan using these plugins. It's been *very* interesting!
Screenshot from the Everyday Astronaut feed of the Artemis II re-entry, showing the three main chutes.
PHEW!
YESSSS
WOOOOO
I was not stressed until 30 seconds ago and NOW
I will also be upgrading to one of the Max plans as soon as I'm done extracting as much value from the free 7-day trial as I can 😄
I do think it's been useful from a UX perspective to have this initial experience with a relatively minimal setup, so I can learn a feel for the kinds of failure modes.
I know I'm experiencing "worse" code than is possible, in part because I don't yet have any of those standards documents (just a few hard gates like "do not git push under any circumstances").
I'm interested to figure out a delegation workflow for subagents and multiple AIs without too much upkeep.
But that's also not been sufficient to find everything.
I've also prompted when I spot potential logic bugs (e.g. just now I noticed an issue with a behaviour it documented in the readme); so far all of them were indeed bugs.
Strengthens my existing belief that AI code output needs careful review.
I'm getting significant mileage out of prompts like "Audit the code against the plan to check if anything else is missing". It loads enough context for Claude to spot its mistakes.
I guess when I was earlier saying "Implement Phase 3" it only looked at the plan, and not (much of) its existing code.