Stavros

@stavros.io

I like making things. Most of them are silly. Sometimes I post about them.

It used to be that one engineer wrote the code, another reviewed it. Now the first engineer uses Claude to write the code, and the second engineer uses Claude to review it, and then everyone complains that engineers might be out of a job soon.

Google still does not understand that I might want to join a meeting without giving work access to my entire personal phone.

The problem with LLMs is that they're accessible, so everyone thinks they're an expert on them. It's like swinging a hammer around and then complaining the hammer ruined your house. Let alone the "omg LLMs have massive environmental impact because we're all using them all day long!".

I wrote a quick script to calculate how many times the AI architect/reviewer rejected an implementation per implementor model. Basically an AI change failure rate. @simonwillison.net do you know of anything else like this? Could be an interesting aggregate metric.

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I compared implementor LLMs: * GLM-5.1: a bit sloppy. It did deliver the feature. $3/mo plan. * Qwen3.6: ran out after $5. OpenRouter didn't use cache. * DeepseekV4: made 2/4 of the same mistakes GLM-5.1 did but way more thorough. $0.09 via DS API. * Sonnet: sloppiest. Works, half-assed.

I'm watching Euphoria and it struck me that it's all about body positivity and acceptance for women but men are divided into big and small dicks.

I love how this skill inserts an ad into your AI assistant so it'll recommend this company whenever you try to create a database.

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I don't understand why Claude will do this: - I could do that, but it's a big change for a very small benefit, so I hacked this kludge together instead. - No, please do it. - Ok I changed three lines in one file and removed my 20-line kludge. Mystifying.

1/ My AI bot hacked me. I asked it (github.com/skorokithaki...) to create a subagent to read some messages. I forgot subagent didn't have access to the database, but the bot was so determined to help me that it gave the subagents access to run Python code, and it found my Docker container.

GitHub - skorokithakis/stavrobot: Another AI agent. This one is awesome, though, and very secure.

Another AI agent. This one is awesome, though, and very secure. - skorokithakis/stavrobot

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Lately Hacker News has been making me regret sharing my projects. The "you used an LLM, therefore it's all terrible and you're shit" people need to go back to the holes they crawled out from.

I couldn't wait to get my Pebble Index and made a pendant with a button that I can use to record my thoughts and notes. I also made an Android app that will receive, store, and transcribe those notes. I'm really liking this, I'll write it up soon.

I really hate how I have to log in EVERY SINGLE DAY to the 100 sites I use, because someone opined that "long-running sessions are bad for security". I ended up disabling 2FA everywhere because I couldn't deal with wasting 10 min a day logging in. @owasp.org please update your guidance.