Reposted by yen is building stuffDan Hon @danhon.com · 45myou would not believe what a bunch of independently acting rogue humans did today when other humans weren't looking in contravention of some rules and behavioral guidelines and requirements set by other humans 1234
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 39m"Is your fridge running" "...yes?" "No it is not. A fridge cannot run, for it does not have legs" 180
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 5heveryone is bad at this. the default position is to be bad at tech 000
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 5hi thought this was a given? this is part of how rsi gets achieved, when the model is capable of improving its own training via mathematical breakthroughs? 260
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 13hThis is a problem with social media in general I think. The nature of how posts go viral means extreme positions get overrepresented, which makes "insane" people way more popular than they ought to be, but they do not reflect how an ordinary person thinks about things. 020
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 23hhave a sneaking suspicion the answer is "copilot, but secretly claude" 010
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 01/10/2026> "software engineering isn't real engineering!" > looks at real engineering > it's 90% software 120
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 01/10/2026I'm surprised they haven't beaten OpenAI in MAU to be honest I think gemini is already ahead in revenue? But numbers are so hopelessly vague there. 000
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 01/10/2026this sounds like a reference to something, but I'm not going to look it up because it's funnier that way 110
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 01/10/2026You can tell Gemini was made by software engineers because it does well in the job interview, but has terrible on-the-job performance 140
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 30/09/2026Some people surrender their cognition to their twitter feed and that's kinda sad 050
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 30/09/2026and even if you think it's enriching, AI doesn't stop you from doing it yourself if thats what you want 010
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 30/09/2026a website that fetches data with javascript is a distributed system, and thats why they suck 010
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 30/09/2026"Everything is drawn in code, so no stock footage and no editing software. Each video is a JavaScript function that paints frame t onto a 960×540 canvas. Headless Chromium renders every frame and ffmpeg turns them into an MP4. It all runs on this 1-CPU VPS." That's how my agent does it 030
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 30/09/2026*Monkey paw finger curls* Drinking age raised to 50 020
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026there are 10 expense tracker apps for every one person who tracks expenses we are post-scarcity on expense tracking apps 1182
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/20261. person 2. person napping 3. person dressed as an avocado 4. person dressed as an avocado, napping 050
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026I wonder if the openai jony ive earbuds is ever going to come out 030
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026most dishwashers rinse plates with greasy water and nobody wants to see that. 010
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026In the future, the human's comparative advantage vs machines will our ability to self-heal small wounds, and our resistance to ionising radiation 021
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026I think thus is true, but I don't think it has to be true forever 050
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026never forget, the discovery got attacked by multiple sql injections memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/SQL_in…memory-alpha.fandom.comSQL injectionSQL injection was a type of attack on computer databases. After an attack from a probe modified with future technology on the DSC 05 shuttle's data core, Airiam reported that the probe used multiple S... 040
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026Doesnt this happen every time a new model is about to be launched 100
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 28/09/2026i imagine it's so cheap to run that there's no downside to doing it 070
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 28/09/2026scribe georg, who wrote 2 bash scripts, is an outlier who should not have been counted 060
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 28/09/2026what's up with the accounts with thousands of followers, that do nothing but repost (not even quote post) content? 000
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 28/09/2026this is the effectiveness vs efficiency question. in the face of productivity gains, do you - do more with the same effort (+effectiveness) or - do the same with less effort (+efficiency) Salaried software engineers won't see any benefit from doing more, so they're going to choose to be efficient 080
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 28/09/2026has anyone tried to look for accounts that go silent when claude or chatgpt is down 215920
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 28/09/2026in cases like these i wished it was a website instead 1140
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 27/09/2026Misinformation is rampant now because we depleted our reserves of facts about 10 years ago. 1395
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 27/09/2026This is the real threat im worried about, especially if we've outsourced a lot of our essential services to them The solution to this, however, is more open-weight models and more sovereign data centres. 020
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 27/09/2026if you're running a website, always check your analytics 020
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 27/09/2026When I worked on an online edtech product, one of the top 5 most used devices on the website was the Xbox 110
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 27/09/2026im glad we're not measuring compute in megawatts anymore 000
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 27/09/2026we know how to judge for weirdness, we don't know how to judge for expertise 050
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 26/09/2026the bermuda triangle fell into the bahamas quadrangle and was never seen again 010
yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 25/09/2026when i do a hades playthrough without petting cerberus 0521
