Farming isn't the production of food, it is the progressive discovery of what food to produce on your particular land, and how to do so while balancing ecological health and economic sustainability. View quoted note →

Most code we write is a mistake. Cutting ourselves off from understanding the code we write cuts us off from understanding our mistakes, which makes it impossible for us to improve. LLMs are not merely higher-level tools, because they are not themselves abstractions. Abstractions are refined over decades to hide the underlying complexity (and even then fail). Forget leaky abstractions, LLMs are pure leak, no pipe. View quoted note →

How much code survives 10 years of an application's development? How much of that development is a result of internalization of problems solved and articulation of new mental models? Is product development a direct result of the personal growth of the individual/community (team) working on the product? View quoted note →

Vibe coders claim that the mental model is disposable, what's important is the code you produce. But what if it were the opposite? That the code is disposable, what's important is the mental model you produce?

I would consider getting a neuralink if it could be configured to prevent me from seeing a My Little Pony gif ever again

On day 3 of just listening to The Strokes

One thing I can say in favor of LLMs: I feel a growing sense of agency, not in terms of being able to directly do things, but in terms of being able to find out what step 1 is for doing something myself.

@routstr is there a way to see what providers are charging per model/token? I have the feeling that I'm paying substantially more via routstr than via opencode/openrouter. I'm ok with some premium because it saves me having to sell my bitcoin for dollars, but I don't want to pay hundreds more per month.