iamwil
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Tech Zine Issue 1: LLM System Eval https://forestfriends.tech
Local-first/Reactive Programming ⁙ LLM system evals ⁙ Startup lessons ⁙ Game design quips.
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Local-first/Reactive Programming ⁙ LLM system evals ⁙ Startup lessons ⁙ Game design quips.
Longform: https://interjectedfuture.com
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@techniumpod
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iamwil
@interjectedfuture.com
· Mar 22
This isn't too hard to understand, if you just view the TV as the left branch and the painting as the right branch of a binary tree.
Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
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Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This isn't too hard to understand, if you just view the TV as the left branch and the painting as the right branch of a binary tree.
Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
x.com/goodside/st...
Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
x.com/goodside/st...
I often want to set the model after I've typed out the question in CLI agents. Choosing a model before asking the question feels like choosing a project before typing out a note.
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I often want to set the model after I've typed out the question in CLI agents. Choosing a model before asking the question feels like choosing a project before typing out a note.
I suppose one indicator of wealth is the ability to overpay to live in the future. Where it’s valuable is for the explicit purpose of gaining intuition about *that thing* in the future where no other method would suffice.
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I suppose one indicator of wealth is the ability to overpay to live in the future. Where it’s valuable is for the explicit purpose of gaining intuition about *that thing* in the future where no other method would suffice.
The WASM for Automerge is 4 times as large as the WASM for Sqlite. 🫤
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The WASM for Automerge is 4 times as large as the WASM for Sqlite. 🫤
Typing text is about one of the most performance sensitive interfaces we use regularly. The only thing more sensitive are twitch-based games.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Typing text is about one of the most performance sensitive interfaces we use regularly. The only thing more sensitive are twitch-based games.
x.com/stewartlync...
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Bitrot happens not because the code has changed, but because you've changed.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Bitrot happens not because the code has changed, but because you've changed.
What affordance does the spatial component afford us more than a screen when making music?
It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
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It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
What affordance does the spatial component afford us more than a screen when making music?
It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
x.com/fun_and_awe...
It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
x.com/fun_and_awe...
Kids nowadays are so lucky. Signal processing class would have been easier if I had explanations like this. I had only a glimmer of what we were doing back then.
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Kids nowadays are so lucky. Signal processing class would have been easier if I had explanations like this. I had only a glimmer of what we were doing back then.
We already have digital necromancy in the form of Tupac holding concerts every few years.
The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
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The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
x.com/vanschneide...
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We already have digital necromancy in the form of Tupac holding concerts every few years.
The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
x.com/vanschneide...
The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
x.com/vanschneide...
Brand guidelines are a prompt.
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Brand guidelines are a prompt.
I wished the hand controllers were also keyboards. Then this could be a work machine.
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Steam Frame
VR and non-VR gaming
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November 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I wished the hand controllers were also keyboards. Then this could be a work machine.
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamf...
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamf...
How often do ya'll rewind an LLM conversation to regenerate a response, as opposed to just plowing forward with corrections and keep the history of mistakes?
I find I go up and regenerate, to have a cleaner context and not confuse the LLM. Are current models not as susceptible?
I find I go up and regenerate, to have a cleaner context and not confuse the LLM. Are current models not as susceptible?
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How often do ya'll rewind an LLM conversation to regenerate a response, as opposed to just plowing forward with corrections and keep the history of mistakes?
I find I go up and regenerate, to have a cleaner context and not confuse the LLM. Are current models not as susceptible?
I find I go up and regenerate, to have a cleaner context and not confuse the LLM. Are current models not as susceptible?
One mental muscle I've noticed atrophying through AI use is the muscle for generating options. Intellectually, I know it's rare for AI to give you out-of-band options. In the moment, it's easy to be mentally lazy in this regard.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One mental muscle I've noticed atrophying through AI use is the muscle for generating options. Intellectually, I know it's rare for AI to give you out-of-band options. In the moment, it's easy to be mentally lazy in this regard.
I currently don't see a bigger unlock than a designer who can get mainstream internet users to get used to owning and managing cryptographic keys.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I currently don't see a bigger unlock than a designer who can get mainstream internet users to get used to owning and managing cryptographic keys.
When making stuff for others, you have to wear two hats: someone behind the interface, and someone in front of the interface. It's hard but necessary to remember to be the latter.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When making stuff for others, you have to wear two hats: someone behind the interface, and someone in front of the interface. It's hard but necessary to remember to be the latter.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
Surprised there aren't more "chain-mail" type of poast for engagement farming, where people propose you ask GPT to tell you something magazine quiz-like, based on everything it knows about you. Like:"Based on everything you know about me, what do you think my porn name would be?"
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Surprised there aren't more "chain-mail" type of poast for engagement farming, where people propose you ask GPT to tell you something magazine quiz-like, based on everything it knows about you. Like:"Based on everything you know about me, what do you think my porn name would be?"
I've started blocking accounts that consistently post obviously dumb opinions who aren't young people. If I find I have the urge to correct the tweet not from a place of sharing, but from a place of anger, it's probably engagement bait. Don't feed the trolls.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I've started blocking accounts that consistently post obviously dumb opinions who aren't young people. If I find I have the urge to correct the tweet not from a place of sharing, but from a place of anger, it's probably engagement bait. Don't feed the trolls.
A new Sarah Paine episode arrived! Dr. Sarah Paine, more than any one else, was my gateway drug into the topic of geopolitics. Can't say I really cared about the topic before, but her lectures are riveting. I recommend them over random short-form videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_...
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Russia—and specifically Stalin—completely derailed China’s rise, slowing them down for over a ce...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A new Sarah Paine episode arrived! Dr. Sarah Paine, more than any one else, was my gateway drug into the topic of geopolitics. Can't say I really cared about the topic before, but her lectures are riveting. I recommend them over random short-form videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_...
Would this be considered the enshittification of ginseng? The economic shape for cultivation doesn't allow ginseng to fully express its wild self. The taste we commonly get is an expression of the unit economics, not the ecology.
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www.perplexity.ai/search/what...
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Would this be considered the enshittification of ginseng? The economic shape for cultivation doesn't allow ginseng to fully express its wild self. The taste we commonly get is an expression of the unit economics, not the ecology.
www.perplexity.ai/search/what...
www.perplexity.ai/search/what...
I hate that it's the prevailing narrative, as it's a betrayal of craft. But this is the market dynamics when making new market categories. Only in mature markets that become infra does the downstream effects of code quality seem to matter to customers.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I hate that it's the prevailing narrative, as it's a betrayal of craft. But this is the market dynamics when making new market categories. Only in mature markets that become infra does the downstream effects of code quality seem to matter to customers.
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It's a missed opportunity by Anthropic where if you click the button, you can't continue the existing conversation someone shared. You might have other questions. Instead of comments on web pages, this might be more helpful.
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's a missed opportunity by Anthropic where if you click the button, you can't continue the existing conversation someone shared. You might have other questions. Instead of comments on web pages, this might be more helpful.
I suspect why devs have wildly different reports on the viability and experience in vibe coding, is because some of us do wildly different things from the mainstream. The more some specific details matter the less AI can help us out without a lot of scaffolding.
October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I suspect why devs have wildly different reports on the viability and experience in vibe coding, is because some of us do wildly different things from the mainstream. The more some specific details matter the less AI can help us out without a lot of scaffolding.
tag functions are nice. I didn't even know this was a thing in javascript. Well applied to writing raw SQL. I think this can do more.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
tag functions are nice. I didn't even know this was a thing in javascript. Well applied to writing raw SQL. I think this can do more.
bsky.app/profile/int...
bsky.app/profile/int...
Vibe coding is for experts. I think the Surgeon analogy is apt. Especially if you think software should be written only if you can't get it off-the-shelf.
Geoffrey Litt just proposed a new analogy for working with AI coding tools that I really like: you are the surgeon, staying in command and doing the most challenging work - the AI tools are your support team and surgical assistants simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/...
A quote from Geoffrey Litt
A lot of people say AI will make us all "managers" or "editors"...but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view! Personally, I'm trying to code like a surgeon. A …
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October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Vibe coding is for experts. I think the Surgeon analogy is apt. Especially if you think software should be written only if you can't get it off-the-shelf.
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM