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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Tweet from @mitchellh tl;dr; AI produces ~60x performance bump. Expert human produces ~4400x performance bump. There are places for both expert humans and AI. For instance, a relatively cheap AI solution can become expensive when used at scale. And an expert human […] [Original post on clar.ke]

Tweet by @mitchellh

I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem.

As an experiment, I rewrote the Ghostty core render state in Go, with access to identically laid out data structures as Ghostty and the exact same validation tests. I made a purposely naive renderer (simple, correct, but slow). 88ms per frame with 150,000 allocations (horrendous, lol)!

I then kickstarted a Ralph loop to bring the frame times down. I told it it can't modify input data structures or the public API or tests (they're correct), but it can do anything else it wants. It got to work.

It has worked for about 4 hours. I've spent around $350 on this experiment so far. The results?

88ms => 1.5ms
150K allocs => ~500 allocs

Incredible right? Nope.

My hand-written renderer I ported has frame times (same benchmark) of ~20us (0.020ms) and 0 allocations in the update path.

This is the problem with psychosis and lacking systems understanding. If you don't understand the system, you're going to accept that this is an incredible result. If you understand the system, you'll see better solutions immediately and can do roughly 75x better on throughput.

The people who blindly trust agent output are in the former camp. They're sheeple, overdrinking from a fountain of mediocrity.

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

My daughter wants me to dress up for Halloween as Abby Saja from K-pop Demon Hunters. I've got 5 months to get a 6 pack 😬 I'll need to lose about 1kg fat a week for 10 weeks then 0.5kg a week for another 10 weeks all while making gains. Not wanting to disappoint a […] [Original post on clar.ke]

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

I probably shouldn't rely on my 4yo to apply sunscreen to my back. #DadFail #Parenting #DadLife

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

It looks like some tankers are messing with their AIS transponders unless this oil tanker really can travel across land at ~50knots. #Hormuz #Iran #oilTanker #AIS

AIS chart showing oil tanker travelling at ~50knots over land past the Strait of Hormuz

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

I want to start playing games with my 4yo daughter so I started experimenting making games. That way I can tailor them to her interests and skill level, like giving her an edge with aiming etc until she gets the coordination. This game isn't for my daughter but a […] [Original post on clar.ke]

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Am I a hacker!? $0.57 for FREE! And it only cost me $100 in subscription + extra usage fees. I'll have something interesting to show for this soon. I've been working on an OpenClaw alternative. It's like OpenClaw but with elastic bands around the pinchers. It's based […] [Original post on clar.ke]

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

It's Wednesday at 7pm 😅 Looks like I'm going to have to start thinking for myself soon

Claude Pro subscription 95% weekly limit hit within 46 hours

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

@samloonie maybe? The cleaning cycle registered a small blip on the particulate matter sensor in my studio upstairs from the kitchen and nothing in our bedroom. For reference, that second blip is me starting our woodstove with the door open. Our oven is fairly new […] [Original post on clar.ke]

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Ice breaking on the Wolfe Island car ferry. I don't think we actually needed the car ferry today, we could probably have just driven across 😅 #Canada #Ontario #Kingston #WolfeIsland

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Quinte is on the MeshMap! I'm starting a local network and we have our first meetup on the 27th. QuinteMesh.ca #Meshtastic #Mesh #Belleville #BellevilleOn #Quinte #PrinceEdwardCounty

MeshMap showing the location of a single node in the Quinte Region

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

The 20yo Blackberry form factor used by the LILYGO T-Deck is perfect for my 4yo. I'm introducing her to Meshtastic. #Meshtastic

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

I'm making my daughter Marisol custom smarties with her first initial on them #hacking #DadLife

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

Our 2019 Nissan LEAF hits 100,000Km today. We bought it second hand last year. With Ontario's ultra-low off peak pricing, we've saved about $2.5K in fuel in 12 months. #Ontario #EV #LEAF #NissanLEAF

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2024

A graph showing when the election results became certain #Canada #USPol

Google trends for "moving to Canada" showing spike on election night

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024

[USPOL] The first heading on the politics section of CNN is SCOTUS. I enjoy living in a country where most people can't name the judges of our Supreme Court. #Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #CNN #SCOTUS

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2024

I nearly forgot that I had a Tesla Cybertruck deposit. I was suspicious they'd even be legal in Canada. $137,990CAD seems a bit steep for a $35KUSD truck #TeslaCybertruck #Canada #Tesla

Cybertruck ready for sale in Canada for $137,990CAD

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Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified: @greg.clar.ke.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2024

Poetry is a Python packaging and dependency management tool. I wasn't sure of the syntax so I asked ChatGPT-4 "Using poetry, how do I create a new python project?" It wasn't the response I expected but I was not disappointed 🤣 #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #AI #ChatGPT #ChatGPT4 #Poetry #Python

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