This is one of the craziest ideas I've ever seen. He converted a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram (PNG -> Soundwave) then played it to a Starling who sung it back reproducing the PNG. Using the birds brain as a hard drive with 2mbps read write speed. youtube.com/watch?si=HMtVd…

Selling a dollar for $0.02 is a bad growth strategy

Terraform docs are AI generated. Other AI gets trained on those docs. It’s hallucinations all the way down

built baby's first eval: I want to find the best LLM for co-writing. What that means for me is I want it to have a great way of thinking in patterns of words, not numbers. so using NYT Connections puzzles seemed to be the perfect subject.

Friendly reminder that none of this matters when 90% of your walltime is awaiting the LLM API response

Oh youre an evals person? Name every question. Ah. Ok well…

This is insane: GPT-5 supports context-free grammars You can define your DSL and constrain the output to it. The alternative was having some model-compatible JSON representation that was converted into your DSL. So many little things adding up here.

We need more 200-lines examples of building an agent loop with tools using the primitive APIs. We need to demystify agent implementations. We don’t need another agentic framework.

I worked for a social app with millions of users. We spent half of eng capacity on bookmark folders. The app was dead within 18 months. Cultural relevance is the only priority.

“data influencer” mental illness has moved to AI

Who’s working on integrating brainrot into my terminal so I can resist the temptation to spin up a 5th parallel Claude while the 4th one is working

People want AI to solve their problems. Math and code are hard, verifiable problems. Labs are laying the groundwork to solve their next frontier of problems.

say sike right now

Bryan Bischof fka Dr. Donut » teej brainrot lite in CodeLayer. too much or should we add more

John Carmaxx

(my gitignore file) we don’t take kindly to you folks around here

Let freedom ring

canadians don’t know you can work in sf, take the ferry, enjoy good weather and get paid more than $90k a year without paying 52% of your income in taxes to write code

If you need to invent new metrics, your OKRs are doomed. Because you’re terrible at inventing metrics.

a seinfeld episode where george is a data engineer for LANDELAY INDUSTRIES