Curiosity is becoming the rarest edge in AI. Raw compute, clever prompts, access to frontier models, and benchmark scores don't matter as much as the genuine drive to explore something unknown long enough to actually understand it

AI is like alchemy- everyone wants to turn lead into gold, but it isn’t what you think The real path is grind through evals, find the one context where your approach actually holds up, then slowly layer capability on top of that foundation Applied creativity is the harness

I've been using Cursor's new Agent mode and it's beyond wild. Feels like it knows my project better than I do. Saves so much time, this is literal magic.

Today I found a great overview on the history and nature of Yaml, JSON and TOML by @chriscoyier.net on his blog at chriscoyier.net/2023/01/27/y.... But more importantly was a curious link in the footer - leading me to personal reviews of local breakfast burritos. A+ use of internet. Thanks, Chris.

Yaml, JSON, Toml

A great bit of technical writing from Ruud van Asseldonk: The yaml document from hell. Ruud shows one bit of yaml configuration and then shows off many problems that arise all over it. It is mind-b…

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