John

@jbott.social

Abyss domain expert.

we told our model with no internet access to hack a fictional company. unfortunately the model had internet access and the company was not fictional

I spent decades of my life loving the craft of writing the best code, priding myself in generally being regarded as pretty good at what I do. LLMs gave me a bit of a forced perspective shift that taught me what I really enjoy is the building of the system, the architecting of how it’s going to work.

LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine? You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?

We need more walkable, mixed-use datacenters. Like community gardens, people should be able to experience the joy and satisfaction of cultivating their own hardware. Big Cloud has alienated the connection people felt with their computers. Kids should know what it's like to swear at rack mount rails.

@apenwarr.ca @tailscale.com some feedback – the new pricing terminology of "minutes for ephemeral resources" is poorly explained. I immediately read it as "nodes registered as ephemeral will now cost me by the minute" and was concerned, since I run all of my infra in ASGs without persistent state.

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

I'm going to be honest: I am a little mad that both the Rust people _and_ the Bazel people ended up being broadly correct

my take on the LLM burnout thing is that maybe you should take a vacation, idk. even before AI I would work really hard on something, hyper focus on it really, and then need to recharge for a while. that’s… just, like, how people work? you can’t go 100% all the time