Over the past 15 years few people have been wrong more frequently than Sal Khan.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Breaking: Sal Khan, an MIT engineer and Harvard MBA who has no background in education, nor much curiosity about it, still knows next to nothing about the industry he perpetually fails to disrupt.

New blog post: With AI, you barely need a frontend framework dlants.me/vamp.html #ai #frontend #webdev

Wrote about a road trip I took with a friend who's since died. "The Desert" is up in Marrow Magazine, Issue 16. marrowmagazine.com/the-desert/

I put together a #reading recs page on my blog. Any recommendations for things I might enjoy are welcome! dlants.me/reading-recs...

New blog post! How does #AI change software engineering? dlants.me/ai-se.html

Official post is up! Thanks @miamioh-press.bsky.social ! #booksky #writing #publishing

Miami University Press@miamioh-press.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re so happy to announce that a winner has been selected for the 2026 Novella Prize! Congratulations to Chris Dodds and his manuscript NECESSARY CUTS! Chris Dodds lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and two feral goblins. Necessary Cuts is his first book.

New blog post! Why I don't think AGI is imminent dlants.me/agi-not-immi... #ai #llm #agi

Spent the weekend hacking together [a personal knowledge base cli](https:// github.com/dlants/pkb) / agent skill.

I've been working on adding skills to my #nvim #neovim #ai plugin, magenta, and I think it mostly works now! github.com/dlants/magen...

dotfiles/magenta-skills/browser at main · dlants/dotfiles

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I’ve released a new Neovim plugin: deepl.nvim. It provides a simple DeepL translation workflow directly inside Neovim — no switching windows or copying text around. #neovim #nvim #lua #deepl github.com/walkersumida...

hey @simonwillison.net, I don't suppose you have done any reverse engineering of the skills implementation within claude code? I'm really curious how they instruct the agent to use the skill descriptions, and how they keep the skills from being lost in the early context as the agent works.

I wrote a new blog post about the culture of hard work in tech, perfectionism, self-compassion and my dreams for the tech industry. You can read it here: Self compassion and the disposable engineer dlants.me/self-compass...

@udini.bsky.social really enjoying the book! For me it's been a nice reminder to resume my efforts to let go of chasing measurable strength and chasing fatigue. Leaving the gym when you're not tired is tough!

One of my dreams for my #nvim / #neovim ai plugin is to use it as a writing / research assistant. I took a small step forward on that today by improving the way it handles reading pdf files github.com/dlants/magen...

Pdf pager by dlants · Pull Request #184 · dlants/magenta.nvim

The previous solution of converting pdfs to text wasn't really working for me - too much info got corrupted in the translation. I think this sets magenta up to work well with semantic search, s...

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Some updates for my #neovim #nvim ai plugin github.com/dlants/magen... - I improved the turn-taking. You can now interrupt the agent by sending additional messages or use the @async prefix to your message to enqueue it to be sent at the next turn-taking opportunity

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After watching @mitchellh.com talk about this, I was inspired to try eliminating tmux from my workflow and using #ghostty directly www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-qt... One thing I missed was being able to have a tmux session per project, and my fzf session switcher github.com/dlants/dotfi...

ok this was actually pretty dope. I asked claude sonnet 4 (using my magenta plugin) what the actual clickable area of a "tick" was in d3. It created a demo html page, opened it using the playwright mcp server, and ran some experiments to give me a grounded answer.

I'm seeing a lot of commentary blaming the egregious data leak from the Tea dating safety app on vibe coding I'm confident that, in this particular case, that's not what happened: the code at fault looks to have been written back in late 2023 simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/26/...

I added next-edit-prediction to my #neovim #nvim plugin, magenta.nvim This was pretty interesting to implement! (thread)

I just shipped "@" commands for my #neovim #nvim #ai plugin. `@file:<path>` to add file to context `@diff:<path>`/ `@staged:<path>` to add the diffs to your message It was pretty tricky to get fzf-powered matching for files within your repo! github.com/dlants/magen... Check it @neovim.io

Very interesting details shared by Garry: - Windsurf had ~250 employees - ~55 eng, ~185 sales - Hired ~150 ppl (mostly sales) the last 12 months (likely all enterprise sales) - ~40 core engineers went to Google Reads like Google only wanted (most of the) eng team, and no sales

Got shader-based cursor smear set up in #ghostty nightly. Ahh so smooth github.com/dlants/dotfi...

I wrote a new blog post: dlants.me/ai-whiplash.... It's about the skill of using #ai, and my experiences and insights from developing my #neovim #nvim ai plugin, as well as some commentary on the continued relevance of neovim in the AI age.

On July 3d, my wife and I shipped a new human into our family. Since then, between diaper changes and feedings, I've had a lot of downtime, which I have been sinking into my #neovim / #nvim ai plugin github.com/dlants/magen... I've been shipping improvements at a pretty fast clip!

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New in github.com/dlants/magen... #nvim #neovim #ai #llm plugin: - @diag / @qf / @buffers quickly populate context into your prompt - @fast keyword in inline edit mode to use the faster model (like claude haiku) - dot-repeat for inline edit actions - better cache usage - stability improvements

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A tool-use-focused LLM plugin for neovim. Contribute to dlants/magenta.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Refactoring a personal project with magenta... I converted the first file with a lot of oversight, then had the agent create a markdown file with instructions based on what it learned. Now using sub-agents to do the rest in parallel. github.com/dlants/magen... #neovim #nvim

Over the weekend I added the copilot provider, and web_search support for openai to my #neovim #nvim plugin github.com/dlants/magen...

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A tool-use-focused LLM plugin for neovim. Contribute to dlants/magenta.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I just shipped basic MCP support for my #nvim #neovim coding assistant plugin: github.com/dlants/magen...

MCP support by dlants · Pull Request #109 · dlants/magenta.nvim

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An new hire sent me a message today. He was an intern a year ago, and I briefly paired with him during a project. He was really awed by how quickly I moved around the codebase in #neovim #nvim. Since then, he got really into neovim and wanted to thank me for introducing him to it.