🔗 erwin knolls law of ai accuracy

The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is similar to Erwin Knoll’s law of media accuracy, which states: “Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.”

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🔗 We’re Not Building AI Features for the Money

Today, most of my time is spent building the fundamentals of DeltaDB. We had some painful false starts: too much agentic coding led to code that smelled correct, but fell apart as soon as you started to build on it.

But I still use an agent heavily. It’s astonishing how many things LLMs can now do. They make excellent rubber-ducks, they’re good at pushing through refactorings, and they can write tests and identify edge cases about as well as I can. I still edit the code manually to ensure the narrative is clear, to keep my mental model of the problem up to date, and to ensure that the code actually does what it purports to do. But, in terms of lines of code written, I suspect it’s now less than half.

I share this because I think a lot of developers are where I was a year ago. If you’re skeptical, I understand; I was too, for good technical reasons. But the tools have gotten meaningfully better, and it’s worth considering how you can evolve your workflow. Please don’t use an LLM to avoid having to understand the problem you’re solving, or how to solve it; but use it as a sparring partner to clarify your understanding, and to fill in the gaps, and to make yourself more productive.

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🔗 Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone.

Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.”

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🔗 Star Fox and Splatoon Raiders

Linked artifact: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ePZeyh5q9R8

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