Notes
These short posts include "asides" from the my original blogs, a sample of "tweets" from Twitter, and more recently are often syndicated to my Fediverse profile.
When I first started using coding agents:
“Recent changes have caused an error rendering the template file /path/to/file.html. Please review the following error message and suggest necessary corrections. [relevant portion of stack trace]”
Today: “Oops! [lazy copy-paste of stack trace]”
More efficient circuits that require proteins grown with bacteria? I’m looking forward to seeing how we manage to connect bioreactors and chip fabs.
SpaceX is doing amazing work, and is full of engineers I really want to celebrate.
I would find the usual regulatory capture antics gross, but that’s not why I cannot enjoy their achievement. It’s that every success of these brilliant people is directly empowering their actively-fascist oligarch. And I despise him all the more for this.
I have been trying models from 3 providers on 2 very different codebases and using 4 different agent/IDE toolchains. For any given task, all of these variables figure into which setup works best.
Anyone who asserts “this is the best model for coding” is oversimplifying, grifting, or has found an optimal configuration that eludes me.
I so tired of exaggerated ink traps.
There is a growing body of research into LLM self-awareness but I am particularly fascinated by the “evaluation awareness” research by Anthropic into the Hawthorne effect in LLMs. (h/t to @futureshape.bsky.social for the connection)