People who produce large documents with LLMs seem to frequently be under the impression that the recipient would like to receive a large document

They are pretty much always wrong

the main thing that's good about the web as a medium, imo, is that you can just chuck something into a directory and then it will appear in web browsers around the world. you can edit the file and hit save and refresh. the magic that you feel is the core of the entire thing. and as far as i've seen, Web Development, as a discipline, has focused for the last few decades on systematically destroying that magic

As someone who is enthusiastic about documentation, I have a little hack for you:

1. Write an extensive AGENTS.md. Explain all the quirks about setting up and developing your software. You wouldn't want your agent stumbling on the same thing over and over again and wasting precious tokens.

2. Copy everything from your AGENTS.md into your README.md for visibility. Humans can use it too!

3. Delete AGENTS.md. Remember to keep your repository DRY.

4. Delete your coding agent. Now you have extensive instructions for working on the project yourself and with a community!

5. Donate the $200 per month you save to charity!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/117491556761912910

Flock ignoring the cancellation of the contract is a red flag everyone should be paying very close attention to.

Something else is going on.

Fuck Google

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/wolves-roam-into-finnish-villages-after-google-destroys-1-300-acres-of-forest-for-ai-data-centers-forest-where-wolf-packs-used-to-live-are-now-an-expanse-of-mud

I was thinking that some programmers and hardware designers should probably see this

why do people call LLM training on public website data “AI Copyright Infringement” when “six finger discount” is right there

@mathowie

someone should invent a search engine where if you put in two keywords it finds pages that have both the keywords

@xssfox The ability to return a page that matches even one word seems to have been lost to the ages, so asking for it to match 2 seems a big ask right now.

Control: Resonant continues the weird computer choice of the FBC: HP-85's with a white-phosphor IBM-5151 monitor on top.

Bad bird for Streetfur

I got hauled into a data center today because Claude was used to spec it and screwed up badly. At least 2,500 GPUs were in an impossible upside down and backwards plan.

😱

I had to pause the call because I couldn't stop laughing. AI had sabotaged the AI datacenter spec for building more AI.

Personally I think the Internet is extremely good, and it is television that is bad. The Internet only got bad when people from The Television moved in and started using it.

https://tenforward.social/@nivex/117486661160031283

Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish?

Expert: No, software is constantly evolving.

Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years?

Expert: No, different projects.

Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another?

Expert: That's not how software development works.

Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic.

Expert: Right.

Philomena: Is PHP like that?

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#eMudhra #four

Personalized mRNA cancer vaccine cut melanoma death, recurrence by 42%

Markers released top-line results today after previously reporting trial succeeded.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurrence-by-42/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Reflecting on a rare underappreciated software positive: Let's Encrypt and certbot made SSL verification extremely widespread and easy to the point that literally anyone can do it from home with minimal training. The benefits of that are huge. The people behind it made the world a better place.