@dr_a

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Maker of sculptures, software, hardware, altar goods, and messes. Hammer aficionado. Skull fairy.

Not particularly nice, working hard to be kind.

Feel free to follow me if you want pretty pictures, snark, rage, and a bias towards being kind.

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AlignmentNeutral Good veering towards Chaotic Good
PithThe difference between a security engagement and a felony is the signed contract.
Bespoke Byteshttps://bespokebytes.com
The main thing I learned from the Claude Code leak is that they plan to go out of business before anyone has to maintain it

I was thinking about the where causes of my distaste for agentic ai come from. A non-trivial amount of my youthful reading was Heinlein’s competence porn. I dodged the military worship, but caught the desire to be good at what I do, and to be able to do a lot.

Agentic AI appears to reward not being competent in a lot of cases, and that is galling.

also, the mountain was out this afternoon.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dr_a/116315968169883962

perhaps unsurprising to people who know me, i found the skull blowing along by the side of the road.

more sinus hatred (and pretty cherry blossoms) on UW’s campus
First coat is complete.
i worry that i was excited to print out some tax forms for a project...
Starting on the big skull since the little one seemed to give the right look.
If you agree, PLEASE REPOST
We’ve entered the season in Seattle that i think of as “f**k your sinuses “.