Toots from 2025-05-29
“To make it all worse, I feel like we’re constantly being gaslighted by benchmarks, by influe…
“To make it all worse, I feel like we’re constantly being gaslighted by benchmarks, by influencers who can now sell you this new magic shovel, and by a flurry of companies that are trying to convince us that it’s an “agent” and definitely not just another cron job.”
https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai
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“Of what others do you speak?” the Prodigy demanded. Master Foo said: “All your future sel…
“Of what others do you speak?” the Prodigy demanded.
Master Foo said: “All your future selves.”
Upon hearing this, the Prodigy was enlightened.”
https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html
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Define the constraints, enable the discovery. Nobody wants to optimize a nonlinear function that …
Define the constraints, enable the discovery. Nobody wants to optimize a nonlinear function that hallucinates with each gradient descent step.
“The most powerful technique I’ve discovered is having the AI generate tests before implementations. This creates a stable foundation in an otherwise ephemeral process.” https://ctosub.com/p/the-ctos-ephemeral-approach?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true
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This. Embracing solid meta-engineering practices makes development more rewarding, safe, and agil…
This. Embracing solid meta-engineering practices makes development more rewarding, safe, and agile. People aren’t “vibe constraining” expected behavior.
“I wonder if one of the reasons I’m finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of people that I see in online discussions is that effectively all of the code I work on has automated tests.” https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/automated-tests/