Dan Sylveste
@constantinejn.bsky.social
Friend to monsters, companion to bees
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Anyone have the live Taibbi webcam feed?
January 3, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Anyone have the live Taibbi webcam feed?
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
⏺ These are substantial refactoring tasks. Let me spawn architect agents to analyze and plan
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM
⏺ These are substantial refactoring tasks. Let me spawn architect agents to analyze and plan
don't think it's dawned upon the brow of much folk in the "asking questions" business that there really isn't any way to get that contraband material _out_ of Senoir Gr*ck. It's, like, _baked_ into it.
All they're currently doing is saying "we're sorry it got out".
All they're currently doing is saying "we're sorry it got out".
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
don't think it's dawned upon the brow of much folk in the "asking questions" business that there really isn't any way to get that contraband material _out_ of Senoir Gr*ck. It's, like, _baked_ into it.
All they're currently doing is saying "we're sorry it got out".
All they're currently doing is saying "we're sorry it got out".
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Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025
arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012
arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012
Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025
The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to different agents, and even write a full p...
arxiv.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025
arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012
arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012
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January 1, 2026, new york city
January 1, 2026 at 10:14 PM
January 1, 2026, new york city
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hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling
January 2, 2026 at 1:47 PM
hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling
Behold
Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
January 2, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Behold
Catherine Mary Stewart was the woman of the dreams of the cringe nerdy 1980s version of me from the last century. Last Star fighter (also, too, immensely cringe).
But this really is a great film I truly adored.
“Daddy would have bought us uzis”
But this really is a great film I truly adored.
“Daddy would have bought us uzis”
Have been working on this for a while -- got the chance to do an oral history of Night of the Comet, one of my absolute fave '80s horror movies, over at @nerdist.bsky.social!
nerdist.com/article/nigh...
nerdist.com/article/nigh...
The Fascinating History and Horror Legacy of NIGHT OF THE COMET
Night of the Comet is a loving ode to B-movies of generations past and pure horror gem packed with an intriguing history.
nerdist.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Catherine Mary Stewart was the woman of the dreams of the cringe nerdy 1980s version of me from the last century. Last Star fighter (also, too, immensely cringe).
But this really is a great film I truly adored.
“Daddy would have bought us uzis”
But this really is a great film I truly adored.
“Daddy would have bought us uzis”
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Turns out politicians can *do* things? Did the other ones know this or?
Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
January 1, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Turns out politicians can *do* things? Did the other ones know this or?
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There's been a lot of discourse lately about how coding agents have become overwhelming, and that SWEs who don't use them yet just won't be able to catch up. I don't believe this is true, but we do need to know what problems coding agents are solving to approach them with an engineering mindset.
Coding Agents Are Easy, Actually
Software engineering is here to stay
karashiiro.leaflet.pub
January 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
There's been a lot of discourse lately about how coding agents have become overwhelming, and that SWEs who don't use them yet just won't be able to catch up. I don't believe this is true, but we do need to know what problems coding agents are solving to approach them with an engineering mindset.
They fear the contrast above all else.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
They fear the contrast above all else.
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continually tapping the "short form video is fundamentally evil and deleterious to society" sign
Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad
Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions
arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714
Ht: HowTown
Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions
arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714
Ht: HowTown
December 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
continually tapping the "short form video is fundamentally evil and deleterious to society" sign
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From the perspective of the average person in universe, Star Wars is the story of Count Dooku warning everyone Palpatine was a tyrant and being tragically ignored the misguided old Jedi companions he was forced to take up arms against, only to be vindicated upon death.
December 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
From the perspective of the average person in universe, Star Wars is the story of Count Dooku warning everyone Palpatine was a tyrant and being tragically ignored the misguided old Jedi companions he was forced to take up arms against, only to be vindicated upon death.
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Reflects my experience so far as well as thoughts on the ethics, reality and stark choices we don’t have any choice but to make.
I've spent a couple of days working on this one, and it didn't end up quite where I expected it to. But I think this is the clearest way I can describe where my head's at, why I approach LLMs in the way that I do, and why, while it's describing-not-prescribing, it's a little light prescribing too.
The abstraction you didn't ask for
When I say
ed3d.net
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reflects my experience so far as well as thoughts on the ethics, reality and stark choices we don’t have any choice but to make.
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“Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times’ sake?”
December 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times’ sake?”