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19 September
18 September
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NEON has nothing like it; on x64, the closest thing is the SSE4.2 string-comparison instructions (pcmpistrm), which are slow.
17 September
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Ordinary users do not vibe-code or interact with code; their AI chat apps simply perform tasks for them.Their words
Normies don't vibe code, they just ask something like "do my bookkeeping" or "file my tax" or "organize a movie night and send invites" or "generate a flyer for movie night" or "edit my video" They don't ever see code, vibe code, or do anything with code, their AI chat app just does it for them
8 September
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Marco Rubio is struggling to hire talented staff and is settling for loyalists who follow his instructions instead.Their words
This suggests that Rubio is having some difficulties hiring anyone with talent and is settling for a putz who will do what Rubio tells him to do on Latin America.
The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com
7 September
4 September
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Well, spatial intelligence eventually must enable us to both generate what the space is, reason within it, and being able to edit and interact within it.
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31 August
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Human initiative to experiment without waiting for instructions is increasingly important for getting value from AI.Their words
Human agency, the willingness to push, experiment and act without waiting for instructions, seems increasingly important to getting value out of AI
26 August
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it was actually being damaged by overly prescriptive humans. And any programmer who's had a pointy-haired boss knows exactly what that is like. When the boss walks into the room, doesn't know anything, starts telling you how to program, how to code. What do you do? You sulk. You write shittier code if you're mandated to do things that are against your better judgment. Why would an agent not be the same?
21 August
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As the context grows, a model starts paying less attention to instructions in the middle of the context in favor of what is at the beginning and the end.
My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code qualityfabiensanglard.net
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27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And you don't want to guess what's the instruction that the model needs because you might not predict it correctly. The thing that you want to do is you want to run it.
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the model does not seem to be prompt injectable anymore.
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for people that aren't building agentic products, but you're using Claude code, every 6 months delete your Claude MD. Delete your skills. Delete your hooks.
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15 July
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But it's also your instruction budget is like if you give the model too many instructions and especially too many conflicting instructions and that's in your initial prompt and also like if you have a conversation you start going down a path and then you change your mind and you start going down a different you actually I don't want to do any of that I want to do this. It's like a it's a lot of computation the model has to do to notice that it has to ignore that whole thing.
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28 June
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But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK
15 June
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Giving LLMs explicit instructions, rather than assuming alignment, prevents emergent problems in multi-model systems.Their words
the best way with LLMs usually is to be explicit, since otherwise even if they're aligned they cause emergent problems.
2 June
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So often with new software paradigms, what looks like inevitability turns out to be just design failure that can be solved with the right guardrails or affordances or system instructions.
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That was always the idea, and that that goes back even to the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, this idea that it's not just a compiler. It's an experience, right? I mean, you don't just compile your programs. You also edit them. You also run them. You also debug them. You also have a runtime library. It all has to like fit together.
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19 March
From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, I think the most important thing is sandboxing. You want your coding agent running in an environment where if something goes completely wrong, if somebody gets malicious instructions to it, that the damage is greatly limited.
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Problem is, you can solve SQL injection by parameterizing your queries. You can't do that with LLMs.
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12 February
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So, so the latest generation of models has a lot of post-training to detect those approaches, and it's not as simple as ignore all previous instructions and do this and this. That was years ago. You have to work much harder to do that now. Still possible.
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Programming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.Their words
It's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.
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25 December 2025
1 December 2025
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Sublime TextTheir words
After many years, Sublime Text remains one of my favourite code editors. I still often use it to edit huge files or to make heavy edits through its powerful find and replace feature.
6 November 2025
12 October 2025
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For listeners, shorter pieces are usually more enjoyable than long, unedited improvisationsTheir words
Improvisers can be prolix and reluctant to edit themselves, but for listeners shorter is usually better.
First explorations in Indian classical musicandrewbatson.com
18 September 2025
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I write much better emails since I became a good context engineer. I just like I now realize how much is unsaid in instructions. Why is so many things so much of what people describe in companies as politics is actually bad context engineering.
15 June 2025
7 March 2025
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Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
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19 June 2024
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So most people, when they advertise new context window increase, they talk a lot about finding the needle in the haystack sort of evaluation metrics and less about whether there’s any degradation in the instruction following performance. So I think that’s where you need to make sure that throwing more information at a model doesn’t actually make it more confused.
16 January 2024
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I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.
10 January 2024
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Advice on how hard to work should only be taken from someone who has burned out before.Their words
My rule is never to take instructions on how hard I should work from someone who hasn’t burned out before.
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The collapse postulate cannot simply be discarded without replacement instructions for measurements.Their words
As we just saw, one cannot just discard the Collapse Postulate. For this reason, if one does calculations in any Many Worlds approach, one must effectively replace the Collapse Postulate by other assumptions, notably about what happens to observers and/or measurement devices when worlds branch.
15 September 2023
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
ChatGPT Custom InstructionsTheir words
Using Custom Instructions properly can completely transform your experience with ChatGPT.
30 August 2023
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Usesrcmnd.app
Affinity Photo 2Their words
Affinity Photo 2, edit the photos I've taken with my camera.
29 June 2023
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It is actually all their nuances and quirks and slight annoyances that make this relationship worthwhile. I don’t think we’re going to realize that until it’s too late.
25 May 2022
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Pure discovery learning, where students are never shown instructions or examples, fails miserably.
4 March 2022
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The next-token language modeling objective is misaligned with following user instructions helpfully and safely.Their words
This is because the language modeling objective used for many recent large LMs-predicting the next token on a webpage from the internet-is different from the objective "follow the user's instructions helpfully and safely" (Radford et al.,, 2019; Brown et al.,, 2020; Fedus et al.,, 2021; Rae et al.,, 2021; Thoppilan et al.,, 2022). Thus, we say that the language modeling objective is misaligned.
2 March 2022
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Plain text is the only format guaranteed to be readable on devices that do not exist yet.Their words
Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text.
16 November 2021
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24 January 2021
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Usesrcmnd.app
Logic ProTheir words
I edit podcasts on the Mac in Logic Pro, edit video in Final Cut Pro, and remove noise from audio tracks using iZotope RX 8.
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Ferrite Recording StudioTheir words
On the iPad, I write using 1Writer or Drafts, and edit podcasts using the Apple Pencil and Ferrite Recording Studio, which is the best podcast editing app I've found on any platform.
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iZotope RX 8Their words
I edit podcasts on the Mac in Logic Pro, edit video in Final Cut Pro, and remove noise from audio tracks using iZotope RX 8. I record all my podcasts using Audio Hijack.
28 May 2020
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By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions - something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do.
15 October 2019
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HP OfficeJetTheir words
I prefer to edit my writing on paper than on a screen, so I do print out longer essays and chapters and make changes by hand. I have an HP OfficeJet printer.
26 April 2019
13 April 2017
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darktableTheir words
I edit photos in darktable and The GIMP, and do my vector work in Inkscape.
22 December 2016
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ScreenFlowTheir words
ScreenFlow - I believe the future of my business is in video + video courses. I'm in ScreenFlow almost every day. Sometimes I use it to "hijack audio" during interviews. Sometimes I use it to edit video. It's getting a lot of use.
19 December 2016
26 November 2015
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OBS StudioTheir words
I livestream using OBS Studio, capture game footage with Fraps, and edit video with Sony Vegas Pro (for which I have to boot to 64-bit Windows).
22 September 2015
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ExposureTheir words
I edit my photos in Photos, because I don't know any better, and show them off on Exposure.
23 January 2014
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