half the posts I read about claude code lately are like "if you spend 90 minutes crafting the perfect prompt, claude.md file, generate the right subagents, then you can magically save yourself 20 minutes of work!"

I am so skeptical of this narrative because every company I’ve worked for had 20x the amount of stuff they wanted to build than they had staff for If you magically 5x’d engineer productivity any self interested company wouldn’t fire 90% of engineers, they’d hire way more of them

People refreshing MLB Trade Rumors is the other half

Suppose this is worth bringing back up again.

as someone who's grown their first garden this year, one of my bigger takeaways is that anytime someone tells you energy usage in units of gallons of water, they're being intentionally deceptive.

LLM providers should just all release on the same day and let the best model win, I cannot keep updating my workflow this frequently

“Write me a calculator app” “Make the code more verbose” “More verbose” “As verbose as you can possibly be”

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 LLM Subscriptions $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

1 day into sports other than baseball existing and I’m already over it.

Stay cool, friends! ☀️🍦💚

it's kind of wild how many billions of dollars are affected by XGBoost models, and yet somehow the current version is 3.0.4 and CRAN is still on 1.7.11.1

Super secret software engineering tip they don't want you to know: Pushing directly to prod is totally acceptable as long as you start the commit message with "HOTFIX:"

Coca-Cola, $KO, warns soda drinkers to stop drinking Pepsi, $PEP, per Forbes

Elmo, you're canonically three and a half years old. This is not appropriate music for you to be listening to.

I am a one-trick pony, and it just so happens that trick is quoting Shrek in technical presentations.

One of the best parts of working in baseball is that this is encouraged behavior.

the thing that everyone forgets is that COMPUTERS ARE FAST waiting SECONDS for things to load is NOT NORMAL

Someone tell me how I can get a full nights sleep while also getting stuff done in my prime work hours of 9 pm - 1 am and also having to wake up to “parent a toddler?”

help I got food poisoning over the weekend and now coffee has a weird soapy-type feeling in my mouth and this is ruining my life