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everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes
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here’s my tech ins and outs for 2026
out
- depending on big tech
- only ever creating public content for money or clout
- platforms/protocol lock in
in:
- making fun little websites and apps for friends
- self hosting
- pirating
- small online communities
out
- depending on big tech
- only ever creating public content for money or clout
- platforms/protocol lock in
in:
- making fun little websites and apps for friends
- self hosting
- pirating
- small online communities
December 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM
here’s my tech ins and outs for 2026
out
- depending on big tech
- only ever creating public content for money or clout
- platforms/protocol lock in
in:
- making fun little websites and apps for friends
- self hosting
- pirating
- small online communities
out
- depending on big tech
- only ever creating public content for money or clout
- platforms/protocol lock in
in:
- making fun little websites and apps for friends
- self hosting
- pirating
- small online communities
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Use AI unto others as you would have them use AI unto you
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Use AI unto others as you would have them use AI unto you
Mistral Vibe CLI is out, and *sigh, man we've got to stop normalizing piping random scripts off the internet directly to bash, it's just not right, is it too much to ask for this to be packaged as almost anything else than a bash script? Surely it can be ✨coded✨ in like a couple of sessions.
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mistral Vibe CLI is out, and *sigh, man we've got to stop normalizing piping random scripts off the internet directly to bash, it's just not right, is it too much to ask for this to be packaged as almost anything else than a bash script? Surely it can be ✨coded✨ in like a couple of sessions.
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I know there is nothing more you want to read than another tech bro giving their political opinions, so here it is: “Let’s Destroy The European Union!“ lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/9/fi...
Let’s Destroy The European Union!
Addressing the American billionaires’ opinion on Europe in my feed
lucumr.pocoo.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I know there is nothing more you want to read than another tech bro giving their political opinions, so here it is: “Let’s Destroy The European Union!“ lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/9/fi...
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Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
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lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
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Jump in puddles.
Tomorrow that water will be a cloud but now’s your chance to kick it while it’s down.
Tomorrow that water will be a cloud but now’s your chance to kick it while it’s down.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Jump in puddles.
Tomorrow that water will be a cloud but now’s your chance to kick it while it’s down.
Tomorrow that water will be a cloud but now’s your chance to kick it while it’s down.
This could be a slide for the correlation != causation class
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This could be a slide for the correlation != causation class
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Americans Demand New Form Of Media To Bridge Entertainment Gap While Looking From Laptop To Phone https://theonion.com/americans-demand-new-form-of-media-to-bridge-entertainm-1819576756/
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Americans Demand New Form Of Media To Bridge Entertainment Gap While Looking From Laptop To Phone https://theonion.com/americans-demand-new-form-of-media-to-bridge-entertainm-1819576756/
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Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
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The Sleaze Theorem: Any technology that can reshape society will be applied to sleazy ends first.
Examples: credit cards and porn, optical storage and porn, synthetic voice generation and scam calls, email and scams/porn, the internet and ...
This has implications for likely AI x-risk scenarios 1/
Examples: credit cards and porn, optical storage and porn, synthetic voice generation and scam calls, email and scams/porn, the internet and ...
This has implications for likely AI x-risk scenarios 1/
November 21, 2023 at 4:47 PM
The Sleaze Theorem: Any technology that can reshape society will be applied to sleazy ends first.
Examples: credit cards and porn, optical storage and porn, synthetic voice generation and scam calls, email and scams/porn, the internet and ...
This has implications for likely AI x-risk scenarios 1/
Examples: credit cards and porn, optical storage and porn, synthetic voice generation and scam calls, email and scams/porn, the internet and ...
This has implications for likely AI x-risk scenarios 1/
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"A surgeon isn't a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at."
October 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"A surgeon isn't a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at."
Zed is cool and all, but I'm getting real tired of this shit. Wasn't even using the thing, just made the mistake of opening up two instances and leaving them in the background for a couple hours. Now I'm all out of battery 🤦♂️
October 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Zed is cool and all, but I'm getting real tired of this shit. Wasn't even using the thing, just made the mistake of opening up two instances and leaving them in the background for a couple hours. Now I'm all out of battery 🤦♂️
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"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
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Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced
What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?
I propose "vibe engineering"!
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...
What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?
I propose "vibe engineering"!
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...
Vibe engineering
I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …
simonwillison.net
October 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced
What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?
I propose "vibe engineering"!
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...
What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?
I propose "vibe engineering"!
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...
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When you try to predict about the impact of AI tools on software engineering - a great analogy I heard from @simonwillison.net is to look at the impact of smartphones (+ the amazing cameras they have) on filmmaking.
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
When you try to predict about the impact of AI tools on software engineering - a great analogy I heard from @simonwillison.net is to look at the impact of smartphones (+ the amazing cameras they have) on filmmaking.
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
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ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this
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Q: Why did the LLM cross the road?
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Q: Why did the LLM cross the road?
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
iTerm2 has released their AI Chat feature, so I've written a quick guide on how to set it up with Azure AI, which is useful if you want some sort of a safety net against prompt injection + data leakage.
Available here -- vladiliescu.net/iterm2-with-...
Available here -- vladiliescu.net/iterm2-with-...
Using iTerm2's new AI Chat features with Azure OpenAI
Configure iTerm2’s AI Chat to use a private Azure OpenAI deployment with guardrails, minimal permissions, and a few gotchas to avoid.
vladiliescu.net
September 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
iTerm2 has released their AI Chat feature, so I've written a quick guide on how to set it up with Azure AI, which is useful if you want some sort of a safety net against prompt injection + data leakage.
Available here -- vladiliescu.net/iterm2-with-...
Available here -- vladiliescu.net/iterm2-with-...
Interesting postmortem from Anthropic of the issues plaguing Claude this summer. Plus there's a tiny detail, hidden deep within the article, that might explain their sudden 180-degree turn on privacy:
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
A postmortem of three recent issues
This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.
www.anthropic.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Interesting postmortem from Anthropic of the issues plaguing Claude this summer. Plus there's a tiny detail, hidden deep within the article, that might explain their sudden 180-degree turn on privacy:
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
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Roses are red
Our resolve hasn't faltered
Our resolve hasn't faltered
February 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Roses are red
Our resolve hasn't faltered
Our resolve hasn't faltered