esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 01/10/2026There’s an upshot in the ramp up, and the scope, and the versatility, of what an individual can accomplish. But the dynamic is only hands off if you can afford not to care. If you have to care, you have to fully plunge in. So, it isn’t casual. 000
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 01/10/2026Just grabbing one idea and holding it and forcing a robot to articulate it not just in rough form but exact precision, it’s still iterative, it’s still labor, and it’s genuinely exhausting to do as well. 100
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 01/10/2026Folks have long thought that executing on an idea was about as much work as perceiving it. There’s this notion that using robots changes it so it is. But really, what’s going on is that now you have to perceive the idea over and over again for the same amount of time. 120
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 28/09/2026YUP. Ask the robots programmed to give us answers for an answer, and they will dutifully provide one. Is it right? No, that's a different thing altogether, isn't it? But boy does it sure give answer shaped responses, every time! 011
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 28/09/2026What's really bugging me about it is that the conceit that there's value here can't be refuted fully, and so I keep winding up chasing busywork. Even proofing it with a second opinion LLM doesn't help. The models err towards agreeing, so you wind up chasing something down to find it isn't a risk. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 28/09/2026Yeah, largely, "security threats" offered to me by LLMs over the last month or so have been internals. Lots of them have _technical_ risk, but are fully walled off from the outside world in every practical way. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 26/09/2026Yeah he’s definitely trolling to see if he can set them up for a blowback screaming-and-crying-about-being-silenced tour or something. Which is worth banning him on its own honestly. 000
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 26/09/2026I often wonder if game moderation teams know they can kick people out for any reason, and that “wrecking the vibes” is a good reason anyway. (I know. It’s probably executive fiat that stops them.) 120
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 19/09/2026One of my favorite things about this is how many creative undertakings turn out to be about the context we carry around while we’re doing it and less about the output. It’s like, all of them 000
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 15/09/2026oh dang, brilliant. like, a pledge, maybe. a slow uzi pledge. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 15/09/2026if only there were something anyone could do to stop the coming uzi blastin' rampage 😔 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 12/09/2026Really?! Oh for crying out loud. They should put them in and see how the numbers look. For funsies 100
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 11/09/2026Yeah, I keep trying to remind people that Claude server side is also running in one of these, and a lot of the different model flavors are probably more about that server side harness and specific tokens the model has embedded, than any actual breakthrough 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 09/09/2026I'm low context here but - it had a large mapping of intent to Lean tokens, I'm presuming. That means it navigated towards the shape of that proof, or in other words it's a very good general purpose solving algorithm, given a mass of time and tokenized data (which we knew) 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 06/09/2026I keep saying this to folks (also the power tool thing you say below, as well) - everything good about these things is a combination of boring software and new training tokens such as for thinking / tool use. It’s enabled by a new natural language interface, which is cool! But still 000
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 25/08/2026I sort of map this to the reticence a lot of folks have to writing or at least sketching out state charts for even trivial stuff. It reveals a lot! And it saves you a ton of wasted effort! Often it even reveals the experience of using the logic the code details. But people think of it as busywork. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 19/07/2026If the universe were kinder we’d have seen Tony Todd and Brad Douriff in a buddy cop movie series, except with monsters. 000
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/07/2026Totally! Good advice. My preference is to have a vague idea of: - major motivational plot beat - general appearance & personality - a driving goal And I try to 7-words-or-less whatever I can (Also I try to find a way to quickly accept & get along with other player characters) 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 05/07/2026Real hard to find something that feels like Pink + White did, too 000
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 21/06/2026An old tension between me and a friend is “quadrafecta” (me; correct) and “fourfecteca” (him; Terry; wrong) 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/06/2026It's important to know that you don't have to be a master of economics to understand that the decades of decline we've seen all followed this exact pattern, and I'm very sorry to see so many folks, young and old, yet again not take it seriously. 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/06/2026So, again: worrying charts like the linked graphics are not people gloating and being wrong about AI, or missing the point. They're an eyeball on vulture capitalists in the act, harvesting the middle / lower class yet again. It's not reckless to them, it's reckless (and predatory!) to us. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/06/2026So the main risk isn't "will AI stick around?" (it will) or "will we find useful application of it?" (we have and will). It's this: When one of the players in this phony money investment circle capsizes, what damage is it going to cause to _us_? Right now it seems like: a lot. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/06/2026A bubble popping isn't a threat to the majority of these orgs because they don't plan to be the ones falling. They're planning to be poised to scoop up the spoils of whoever DOES fail, though. And the resulting bank run / harvest / bailout will be a huge, zero-consequence windfall for those left 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/06/2026"Well, the younguns," I guess? It feels like if people witnessed the economic apocalypses we've had first-hand, we'd be more concerned? Then again, maybe not! Folks my age / older are ignoring it right now too. But in retrospect, we're all like: shit that sucked. And that's what bubbles do. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/06/2026This turned into kinda a flame war but, aside from that, what's kind of stunning to me is how few of the responders seem to understand what an economic bubble of this size popping would do to the world economy. It's dangerous! 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 15/06/2026Oh nice! Thank you for publishing the table of contents. I know this is semi-polarizing, but I try to steer people away from RSCs / React compiler when I show them how I wield React, and I've been looking for a reference to point to which shares that focus. This looks like just the thing :) 010
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 12/06/2026The strategy behind behavior like this is often to just keep asking and asking, preferably around different company each time, until you finally get enough people saying what you want to hear. It’s not asking for an answer, it’s looking for permission 010
Reposted by esmevane, sorrynora @nora.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Proud to finally share what I've been working on. I'm excited for a future where privacy is normal. encryptedspaces.orgwired.comSignal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration AppsThe new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance. 212030
Reposted by esmevane, sorrySam Guay @samguayart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The Orchid's Dream, 2026 Finished this painting that I’ve been working on since 2020 (concept sketch was pre-2020). During that time it mostly sat on my easel neglected while I worked on higher priorities. Prints are in the works, join my newsletter if that’s something you’re interested in. 5360127
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 11/06/2026My pet peeve with node is the thirty-packages-for-one-basic-thing pattern, where some popular tool "provides" a "plugin ecosystem". Their site is just a search box. You try it, suddenly you're spending your weeks configuring undocumented version combos so you can parse one thing in markdown. 020
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 10/06/2026Yeah, actually, amen to that. Maybe being in a lot of online spaces inoculates some of us. Like, if you've got experience in older, big, online communities then you've probably gone through a few hostile takeovers and either guarded against them successfully, or had to bail. 020
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 10/06/2026I get it! Some people actively worked hard to get those numbers high, and like, it sucks to think of all that going to waste. But it's hard to get lots of them to understand that it already DID go to waste - late in '22, maybe before (also, this is how online communities have always worked, sadly) 130
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 09/06/2026I remember when the game mags at the time kept claiming it took an entire day to walk from one side of Hyrule to the next, and I kept looking for specifics like "(in game time, which moves quicker than ours)". But nope, no one mentioned that, or that days are like 4 minutes. 110
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 09/06/2026Great thread, article, and TIL about this discourse too All kinds of buildouts are better with this sort of directionality, imo. Find your outside-in concretion, deliver it, then tease the components out and stabilize them for broader use. We _think_ we see the components up front, but often not. 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 09/06/2026Their live performance of that one on MTV Spring Break was one of those "I'm gonna sit down and shut up and pay full attention to this" music moments for me (Do you know if they re-released this album w/ the Spring Break recording of Everything Zen? It felt like I heard a different version before) 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 08/06/2026oh thank goodness. After whatever the heck the Summer Game Fest was, I need to see an actual game showcase 010
esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 06/06/2026bemused is a bullshit word and I'm sick of pretending it isn't 000