Glen Coates

Claude: this refactor will take 6-8hrs. Me: that sounds insane, you normally do this kind of thing in 5 mins, did you just turn back into a human? Claude: oh, sorry I gave estimates like a human developer, it will take 10 mins.

I know "LLMs making shit up" isn't really a story in 2025 but honestly I would have thought that a frontier reasoning model would do better on basic math like this by now, esp. if we're talking about gold medals in Math Olympiads claude.ai/share/6fd426df…

Context left until auto-compact Rules Everything Around Me

anyone have a keyboard that has a dedicated key for CTRL+R? this two-finger biz is wearing me out man

Try to upgrade to Github Pro. It makes you click "save" three separate times for personal info, payment info, and submitting. The kicker is the "this might suck" reward you get at the end. I realize this is basically 3-step checkout, but I guess it's a visceral reminder of what…

Perk of living in Brooklyn: I’ll be first in line to buy artisan hand-typed code when it first appears, on floppies hand-signed by the author.

Can't talk, driving. I can't seem to beat 1:51, although I blame the synth solo that hits right near the end for distracting me from my A-game. ecomm blah blah blah .. but what a soundtrack :) shopify.com/editions/summe…

When you run OAI Codex for the first time on one of your personal repos, start the "find a bug" task and wait anxiously ... only to be told the most serious bug is a typo in a comment. AW SHUCKS GPT THINKS I CAN STILL CODE PRETTY GOOD

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