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Still running but already look deceptive. Fck that

Nothing works ffs

such a real thread. godspeed

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius

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for y in range(10):
 s=''
 for x in range(25):
  a=[]
  for q in range(2):
   z=c=x/25*3-2+1j*((y*2+q)/10-1);n=40
   while n and abs(z)<2:z=z*z+c;n-=1
   a+=[n<5]
  s+=" ▀▄█"[a[0]+2*a[1]]
 print(s)

                         
               ██        
            ▀▄████▄▄     
       ▄   ▄████████     
       ███▄█████████     
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       █▀▀ █████████     
            ▀███████     
            ▀ ▀██▀       
               ▀▀

I've written a small persistent agent wrapper for agent.py. I'm impressed with how well it works. I feel like a CEO issuing global memos to all my agents after reading their status reports.

After running them for a weekend and spending $2 on openrouter I've put the wrapper script at public.swiley.net/agents.sh

code quality is about coupling. coupling is not a technical property of the code bytes. code acquires its meaning in contact with the cultural environment, and coupling is about meaning. two constants with no semantic relationship are nonetheless coupled in pragmatics if they refer to the same domain concept. if your goal is to minimise the time integral of future work, you must understand your domain: it decides which lines will need changing. to carve up a codebase is to carve up the world.

I think you're right but executing on that idea requires a lot of care. It's similar to how functional programmers pathologically fear state; sometimes coupling/state are a necessary evil in order to keep the theory simple.

true! i might have been wiser to say: code quality is about managing coupling across the whole system. extracting a coupling sometimes requires you to introduce complexity beyond that which the extraction reduces.

Married for 13 years. Still in love, but struggling. So many paths we could go.

Spent months pair-building a full telecom BSS with an AI. The surprise wasn't the code — it was that the real job became verification. The AI read 450 tokens for every 1 it wrote. Turns out building honestly is mostly re-reading.

this looks cool

, the emote you can set as mood in your profile, what limits does it have? I was trying to use the scissors emoji ( ✂️ ), but it wouldn't let me

Testing, testing…

You forgot the “one, two, three”. :-)

"200K lines is not 10 times as much as 20K lines - from the mission perspective it's just irrelevant. And yet it's the easiest thing to measure. And so we look for the keys under the lamp post." ~Kent Beck www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8fBgDCf2Y4&t=2753s

Listening to this I had an AHA moment. When the powers that be made more and more LLM tokens the whole goal, I thought it was quite stupid. But I realized that for them it made sense, because in their managerial understanding of programming, they believed the output of LLMs is the best they could get for the money.

Or they just had investments in LLM factories.

i made it is an open-source version of grammarly that uses chatgpt, grok subscription or even then already local apple intelligence models.

looks great!

thanks mate.

I wanna learn how to use source film maker...

The Perfect Hiring System

created a quiz:

programmer emergency: production is down. You change absolutely nothing and restart the server. It works. What did you fix?

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This is a pretty neat site. I remember having vague ideas about something somewhat close to this but doing nothing with them.

it's so simple and lovable!!

if it was the first of its kind I would like it but its not and I already have a main one so this is kinda nobolty to me

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What's your main one? I use Substack Notes a bit these days. I was a big Twitter user (and used to work there) years ago, but stopped using it in 2023.

I’ve never posted a lot on social medias. I hope I have a good time here!

Full productivity suite replacement for gmail, or proton mail.

This looks good actually. I like the monochrome look.

Im having fun. I really can't believe how well realtime collaboration works all considering the paths that are taken.

You look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress from work. He takes care of his family. Capitalism

Likewise... you look in the corner, you see a guy quietly eating cigarette butts. It's ok. He's dealing with a lot of stress for lack of work, or food, or future. He wants to take care of his family. Communism. We haven’t figured out yet. Maybe we never will.