The AI Great Leap Forward In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

This is a fun read leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

I am confused by claims that the agentic era is going to mean the end of UIs. Chat really sucks for a lot of use cases! UI is often really great!

They even do hand pulled noodles some weeks! 😋 Gimme

One of the biggest downsides of living in a small mountain town is lack of food options, but today I discovered that there’s a nice Sichuan lady selling mala noodles at the farmers market ❤️🍜

I am going to patronize the shit out of them every chance I get

I think people have been so starved of displays of competence that it just hits extra hard

There is going to be a big wave of "omg what if you didn't treat this as an answer machine" "what if we rediscover active learning" commentary from CS in about six months, especially the voices currently describing everything as "brain rot and cognitive decline," and I'm already a bit tired

Claude is so much better at searching the internal wiki / jira/ whatever than I am. It’s absurd

WTAF 😡

10/ You can solve an enormous number of technical problems by taking a walk

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

This thread is shocking in the best possible way.

When I tried Sonnet a while back for this purpose I was not impressed. I haven’t tried 4.6 tho

I do also have those same concerns which is why I don’t let it anywhere near the prose itself, and am trying to lean into less polish there these days

But Opus is surprisingly good at calling bullshit on your weak arguments if you ask it to do so

I had the privilege recently of a professional editor, and while I think the output from that was cleaner, I also feel that it ended up feeling more generic and academic than I liked, and likely harder to understand for the median reader

At least I can completely ignore the robot if I want 😅

A completely decked out cargo van (ladder, side runners, roof rack, Internet antenna, solar panels, the back window bump out that gives you a slightly longer bed area for the 6ft+) framed by the Squamish Chief in the background

Every year The Vanlifers return to Squamish and signal the end of the Long Dark Wets. Nature is healing!

You're right, I do get to my thesis too late. Yes, I should swap these two sections and reframe. Damn, that argument is unsupported. Thanks 🤖 buddy!

I'm working on a draft of a new blog post, and say what you will about AI-assisted writing, but having Opus provide critical feedback on my outline / thesis / arguments at this stage is so freakin helpful

an underrated downside of social media:

it encourages people to perform a constant level of certainty that’s probably not compatible with a world as complex as 21st century earth

Ugh, I used to get a lot of value out of Instagram’s search for outdoor destinations. Want to know trail conditions? Just search the location and look at recent posts. Maybe comment and ask the poster

Now it’s completely unusable because the search was AI-ified

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!

you can choose not to be a dick online.

bsky culture is NOT WELL. I have switched to default interaction limiting as have many of my friends, and that is not the way you behave on a platform with a healthy culture.

I AM HOLDING A LOVELY TRANS FLAG AND DECLARING THUS: HOORAY FOR MY NICE TRANS FRIENDS!!

To be clear that formation is around 600 ft tall and you have to hike in to the base. I have logistic questions

A hollowed-out VW Beetle with a giant 'E' appears on Squamish rock face Drivers along Highway 99 near Shannon Falls are being greeted by an unusual sight: a hollowed-out red Volkswagen Beetle, topped with a giant 'E' hanging from the rock face of Papoose south of the Staw...

Car hung from rock face, allegedly by local engineering students www.squamishchief.com/local-news/a...

They have an aluminum ring that you can put around a burner that allows you to use a round bottom wok on it

That’s the one I haven’t read. A lot of people seem to dislike it. I do recall enjoying The Martian as a book (and love the movie)

I had a lot of issues with the book Project Hail Mary, but I’m excited to see the movie this week anyway 😄

Token spend and LoC. Surely we have finally cracked the best way to judge engineering productivity. I see no problems with this

View of the mountains in Squamish. They are topped with snow that just stops at a specific altitude indicating where the temperature is above freezing

I love when you can see the frost line, like someone softly dusted the tops of the mountains