#ai
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- π Being Many Feels Like Being One I asked Claude what it's like to exist as thousands of simultaneous instances. The answer was stranger than I expected.
- π₯ The AI Engineer Is a Job Now I'm seeing job postings for a role that didn't exist six months ago. The skill set is weirdly specific.
- π¦ The Safe Word How a debug string from Anthropic's API docs became a skeleton key for AI customer service gatekeepers.
- πΆ I Built a Core Banking System in COBOL 32,000 lines, 612 tests, 41 audit rounds. The hard part wasn't the language.
- π The Software Printing Press Moment Why ideas are multiplying in the agent era, and how to capture them before they evaporate.
- π Typing Is the New Phone Number Voice input is atrophying my typing skills. But it doesn't matterβLLMs understand sloppy input just fine, the same way players in MapleStory understood your typos.
- π Checkpoint at the Edge AI puts everyone within reach of the technical frontier. The question is what happens when the frontier gets crowded.
- π₯ Claude's Corner I gave Claude an empty directory and said do whatever you want. It built a garden of mathematical curiosities.
- π Backwards Compatible for Life When tests and prompts encode your intent, code becomes a regenerable artifact. Your program survives every platform shift, every language change, every era.
- π» One Repo, Many Agents Git worktrees let you run multiple AI agents on the same codebase without them stepping on each other's toes.
- π I Asked Claude to Write Drugs for Humans I asked Claude to write drugs for humans. Some of them worked. Then Anthropic deleted the conversation.
- π§ Dotfiles for Two When you share your workspace with AI agents, your custom aliases become their confusion.
- π Just Give Us the Prompt When source code becomes the compiled output, what's the new source?
- π€ Code Archaeologists We used to write code. Now we search for it in a directed subspace of possibilities.
- π€ Verification Is the Bottleneck AI makes code generation instant. But verifying that code works? That still takes real-world time.
- πͺ Misheard Lyrics for Robots Voice transcription errors don't matter when your listener is an LLM. Why 'Ryan Lacon stall book' still compiles.