Isaac Corbrey

@isaaccorbrey.com

Jujutsu sorcerer, whisperer of Rust, namer of things, cogitator of cognitives. 📜 Blog: https://isaaccorbrey.com 🍱 Links: https://blento.isaaccorbrey.com ☕ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/icorbrey 💛 Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/isaaccorbrey.com

I taught myself programming as a 13-year-old to make Minecraft mods. My dad works in construction, my mother in childcare. "Computer class" at school included "how to use Word 2008" I did this myself. I can't help but wonder if a more restricted internet would ever allow for such self-development.

Random idea: a specification for password requirements so that password managers can just autogenerate the most secure acceptable password.

Hello. If you struggle with maladaptive overachievement, and anxiety about productivity, and you experience relief at the sensation of productivity and difficulty regulating your behavior around demands for you to be productive, that doesn't make you a bad person, and that is not addiction.

Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email

Fastmail offers EU data region

Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.

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sure your “ai” can write code at the 99th percentile and solve open problems in mathematics, but can it get stoned playing factorio and forget why you were refactoring blue circuits in the first place

i regretfully report that i have been owned me: "but the chef's knife is the workhorse of the kitchen!" my girlfriend: "no, your girlfriend is the workhorse of the kitchen!"

LLMs have allowed me to expand my toolbox well beyond what it used to be, especially since I struggle to internalize them unless I encounter them in situ. I am a stronger, more opinionated, and more analytical developer thanks to my time spent wrangling agents to do my bidding.

Andrew Lisowski 💻@hipstersmoothie.com · 4d ago

I think LLMs have made me grow and learn as a dev A lot about building things is knowing what exists, what methods work well, and when to apply it all. With an LLM i'm constantly learning about things I didnt know and building things in ways I would never of had time to before

I find that most of the edits I need to make to Claude-generated code to get it to a reasonable level of quality are deleting and rewriting comments. It is interesting that it is so much worse at documentation than logic.