I think about this has having two separate but related concerns; how do we build tools that focus attention on the parts of the problem where human judgement is highest leverage; and how do we build harnesses that enforce invariants such that humans trust the attention focussing part. It's a challenge!

Definitely.

Some of my personal thoughts on path dependence in the world of zero marginal cost code.

Oh man. I used to use xv a lot. RIP, John.

Don't love it. But, I'm glad the Astral folks are getting the bag.

I think it shouldn't be, and the poor affordances in git have hidden this for a long time.

What kinds of things do you use it for? I'm always open to learning about newer and better ways to work.

I keep my agent workflows distinct; we have (for historic reasons) a lot of non-git controlled context that differs between branches, and moving all that around on checkouts is untenable. I use this tool:

https://github.com/tdhopper/wt

with some custom shell aliases to make it easier.

That the product is useful does not mean the supplier of the product has a good business; and of course, vice versa. OpenAI has a terrible business at the moment, and the question is, do they have a plausible path to a good one?

I think 2 is the big one; I also built a tool to maintain these fragments, and it's like, huh, this is just ... developer onboarding documentation?

There are yt-videos embedded on the site. They may be helpful.

Otherwise give https://lobste.rs/s/w3zkxx/lobsters_interview_with_bjorn_sta... a try?

Yes, it's good! And I have a lot of sympathy for what I perceive to be Stahl's goals, and indeed, his methods. But I think I need an intercessor or interpreter to his prose style. This is probably a me problem and not a him problem, to be maximally fair.

Björn's writing style is intentional. He tries to make it understandable for people that have deeper understanding of the subject, but to keep out the people that doesn't know enough. It's primarily to convey what Arcan is to the people that can do something with Arcan, but to avoid attention that will ultimately lead to flame wars.

Ståhl _hates_ attention, both from being a quite private individual to having problem with weirdos showing up at his apartment when some of his videos have gone viral here on HN. (Everyone's home addresses are public here in Sweden)

Oh man, that's awful.

The obsequity loop is fucking maddening. I can't prompt it away in all circumstances. I would also argue that as annoying as some of us find it, it is a big part of the reason for the success of the chat modality of these tools.