Jan

@jnv
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I work with computers.
Homepagehttps://jan.vlnas.cz/
Bloghttps://www.bitoff.org/
Jan4d ago
jonny (nonvenomous)4d ago

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116757991915568453

I dont even read the code anymore, I just let the whole internet prompt inject an agent loop that writes and merges everything itself, and label every issue good-first-issue let the haunted hum of unmonitored metricsmaxxing compute sort it out.

https://github.com/charles-openclaw/charles-microbounties/issues/2220

https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode/pull/68/

JanJun 8
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsJun 7

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should

🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason

JanJun 8
Honza JavorekJun 8
„The chaos is resolved when the Sorcerer reappears and asserts control over the situation, glaring at the apprentice for his foolishness. This seems like an apt metaphor for the AI era: you want to be a sorcerer and not an apprentice. And a sorcerer has to understand the code.“ https://htmx.org/essays/code-is-cheap/ #links
</> htmx ~ Code is Cheap(er)

In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the complexity that LLM code can generate and proposes the subtractive, constraining engineer as the discipline needed to keep systems comprehensible & stable.

JanMay 25
Mike ElganMay 24

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

JanMay 22
Firefox NightlyMay 22
The new JPEG XL image format support was activated today in Firefox Nightly
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/2040074
2040074 - enable image.jxl.enabled pref on nightly channel only

RESOLVED (tnikkel) in Core - Graphics: ImageLib. Last updated 2026-05-22.

JanMay 20
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉May 19
This is tragic, the fall of Bitwarden: https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes

Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake...

JanMay 12
NikiMay 12

So many good points! “The State of Design”

https://medium.com/@chopeh/the-state-of-design-ff5142fb806

The State of Design

Bla bla bla bla blaaa blaaa bla blaa blaaaaaa bla bla bla blaaa bla bla blaa bla? Bla bla. Bla bla blaaa bla bla blaa — blaa blaaa bla bla…

Medium
JanMay 11
Jeremiah LeeMay 11

🙄 @lobsters removed my submission of Killed by Apple as being off-topic even though I checked beforehand and it permitted Killed by Google 6 years ago. Both are interesting computer history.

https://killedbyapple.theden.sh/?ref=activitypub

https://lobste.rs/s/8yumgi/killed_by_google

#computerHistory

Killed by Apple

A graveyard of the products, services, and features Apple left behind.

Killed by Apple
JanMay 8
Unnamed TNG skant beefcakeMay 8

> The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees: Nvidia exec

https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/

If your AI use costs less than what it would take to pay a human to do it, then you're what's called a "mark" in the "pre rug-pull" phase of the grift

When they start passing those costs on to you, you will graduate to being the "bag holder"

So think hard about whether you want any "load bearing" tasks to be handled by an AI

JanMay 7
Jim SalterMay 7

In related news, Microsoft is offering thousands of its most senior employees an early buyout plan to get them off the payroll.

... only a few months after announcing to everyone how their new focus is QA and making sure everything works the right way, every time, reliably.

I'm sure there won't be any downsides to THAT.