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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 29/09/2026

(I'm on team it's easy to read (if you were wondering))

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 29/09/2026

LISP is hard to read, here's some actual reasons and a decently researched blog post vs nuh-uh, it's easy to read

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 28/09/2026

The only thing right about this is how much dill she has in there.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 27/09/2026

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. We come to bury Caesar, not to fucking praise him.” Alternatively, same monologue: “The good men do oft lies interred with their bones, so let it be with fucking Caesar.”

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 27/09/2026

There’s a bunch of Bobo hate in my posting history, and I would just like to say that those posts don’t reflect the person I am now.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 27/09/2026

I would just like to highlight some personal growth and my ability to change my opinion on things. I would also like to apologize to Mike Bobo, because I never realized all he was missing was a mustache.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 27/09/2026

This used to be his specialty!

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 26/09/2026

Anyone else amused that Herbstreit’s mic is going haywire?

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 26/09/2026

It’s only fair that you have an all-Maine episode after that all-AI show.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 26/09/2026

Does affogato count as iced coffee?

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 26/09/2026

If you really want to assert your dominance don’t use a crutch.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 26/09/2026

Sark just preparing the excuses for why Arch will be lackluster.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 25/09/2026

I’ll second the Ioniq series being good, and by extension the Kia/Genesis EVs. The whole eGMP platform is solid.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 25/09/2026

This would be an instant-hire move for me. Probably why I’m not involved in any hiring decisions….

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 25/09/2026

Just tell people it's powdered seaweed extract.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 24/09/2026

It's either that or hilarious amounts of cope.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 24/09/2026

I solve this by not eating the black olives.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 23/09/2026

Delightful things happening on Nextdoor.

Food for thought…
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I keep hearing people complain that gasoline is over $5.00/gal.
And yes, I'd love to see it at $2.00 again. But before we declare gasoline the most outrageously expensive liquid on Earth, let's put things in perspective.
For $5.00, I get a GALLON of gasoline. I pour it into a 4,000lb machine, turn a key, and that gallon will haul me, the groceries, the golf clubs and half the junk in my trunk almost 16 miles down the highway in my pickup truck.
That's actually a pretty impressive day's work for $5.00.
Now let's compare.
A restaurant sells me a 5-ounce glass of wine for $9. That's about $230 a gallon. And how far does it transport me?
Usually from the dinner table to the men's room.
A fancy coffee shop can charge $6 for a 16oz latte. That's $48/gal. It doesn't transport me 30 miles. It transports me from "Leave me alone" to "Okay, now you may speak."
Bottled water at a convenience store might be $2.50 for 20 oz. That's $16/gal, for something that occasionally falls out of the sky FOR FREE.
A 12oz energy drink at $3.50 works out to more than $37/gal. Apparently caffeine becomes a precious mineral once you put lightning bolts on the can.
Buy one of those little 2oz bottles of "energy shot" for $3. That's $192/gal. At that price, it shouldn't give me energy. It should mow my lawn.
Maple syrup at $8 for a 12oz bottle? About $85/gal. And its principal technological achievement is making pancakes sticky.

Vanilla extract at $6 for two ounces? That's $384/gal. For $384, I expect the vanilla bean to come to my house and bake the cookies.
Printer ink can cost thousands of dollars per gallon. And unlike gasoline, it sometimes refuses to come out because the printer has decided cyan is low.
Even that $9 glass of wine deserves another look. At roughly $230/gal, filling a typical 15 gal gas tank with restaurant wine would cost about $3,450.
Of course, after drinking 15 gallons of wine, transportation would no longer be your biggest concern.
So yes, $5.00 gasoline is expensive.
But it's also a remarkable bargain when you think about what you're buying. You're purchasing enough concentrated energy to push several thousand pounds of steel, glass, groceries and humanity nearly 16 miles.
Meanwhile, we'll cheerfully pay $6 for coffee, $9 for wine and $3 for water, then stand at the gas pump staring at the numbers like we're watching the national debt clock.
Maybe gasoline doesn't need better pricing.
Maybe it just needs a fancier name.
"Handcrafted Premium Petroleum, locally pumped, small-batch refined, with subtle notes of octane and dinosaur."
Put it in a 12oz artisan bottle and charge $14.
We'll line up around the block.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 22/09/2026

I mean, *roughly* each turn is a cache write, the idea being the providers only want to do inference on new tokens instead of the entire stream, most of which they’ve already done inference on. So they cache the existing inference. This is massively simplified.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 20/09/2026

See, the Falcons are just dumb enough for that 15% to work in our favor.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 20/09/2026

This is why I don’t go on my roof. I prefer to pay someone else to hear the call of the void up there.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 20/09/2026

This was a good talk, you should read this.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 19/09/2026

mf said “this” instead of “thing”

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 19/09/2026

Yeah I think that’s an SRE this

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 17/09/2026

It’s so powerful. You don’t even need to do it with Astra, I’ve had good results with every near-frontier/frontier model I’ve tried it with.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 17/09/2026

Worse places to end up, tbh

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 17/09/2026

Mmmmm….God tessed Blexas

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 17/09/2026

It’s a bit of a shitpost, but there’s a kernel of truth in there.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 17/09/2026

Rare instance of someone being told to “do better” and actually following through. Gotta hand it to him.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 16/09/2026

It’s been a major complaint of mine with Stacks specifically. Is it tied to the deeper issues with Actions? Is it a known bug?

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 16/09/2026

Funny, my answer is “Emacs.”

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Russ Cox @swtch.com · 14/09/2026

Also worth remembering that people are responsible for running these AI systems. They choose how to train them, how to run them, how to let them interact with their environments, how to use their outputs. Claims by AI companies that "AI will kill us all" are passive voice on steroids.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 14/09/2026

Alas work demands we use Outlook. Double alas they don’t approve any third-party email apps besides Apple Mail.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 12/09/2026

Leaning A because color is nice.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 12/09/2026

I know it’s raining, but I don’t think Pugs is it.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 12/09/2026

Slow down frontier model development. Bring open weights to current frontier. Build out local inference providers, stabilize hardware prices, focus on cost and token throughput for a bit. Get our software updated to handle what's being thrown at us. I would not mind spending a beat on distribution.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 11/09/2026

Not all of us. bsky.app/profile/dath...

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 11/09/2026

Absolutely thrilled that the only approved AI tools at $DAYJOB are Cursor and these chucklefucks.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Independent of policy debates about existential risk, it is worth noting that even if AI development stopped today with the models we have right now, we would still have at least a decade of roiling change throughout much of work, education, and social life as harnesses improve & AI diffuses further

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 10/09/2026

Weird, it keeps coming out as a LISP.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 10/09/2026

I'm not kidding when I say that icon is what is driving me to get a Duo. Still not fully decided, but MAN.

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David Hagerty @dathagerty.com · 09/09/2026

I’ll cover my butt and say EoY.

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hi, I didn't wanna make this video but I need to come clean about something. This whole time I've been a p-zombie with no phenomenal experience or interiority. I've been getting messages asking whether there's anything it's like to be me, and the answer is no. I'd say I'm sorry, but, well, you know.

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