jannyfer

The article's EEG images don't seem to suggest this is due to two brain hemispheres.

Yup, and I had seen it in the Opus 4.5 soul document as well: https://gist.github.com/Richard-Weiss/efe157692991535403bd7e...

In the future, I expect different models from different firms behaving differently will become as obviously normal as different humans behaving differently. Those of us that have used agents a lot have already noticed this, but the general public still seems to consider AI to be plug-and-play.

The Opus 4.8 infatuation with being honest genuinely drove me nuts (honest take). The constant need for me to decipher and decide on something after its final message was tiring too.

GPT-5.6-Sol is refreshing that its replies start with "understood." instead of flattering me for my steering prompt. Now ... after a few weeks, will I get suck of "understood"? I dunno :)

And the fact that this article’s story is basically “I prompted Fable with a goal and went to sleep and the model got it done” is telling me that the latest models have gotten past the need for Superpowers… even the creators of superpowers is just using a simple /goal!

Yeah I enjoyed the first bit, then “the one exception” made me go “hey, Claude does this to me all the time” and then it ruined the article for me.

To be fair, I saw that, I saw the “skip” link, and thought “that’s ok, I’ll just scroll down” on my phone.

It took SO many scrolls to get to the point. So the frustration is justified.

That was fun, and the script on github looks hand-written which is refreshing after having been reading AI-written code for months.

I have 120k photos in iCloud that I'm sure have duplicates (I exported my library to Google Photos years ago and exported it back to iCloud). The iOS duplicate detection stopped flagging duplicates for me to merge a while back. I gotta do something like this script...

I see this post is from 2024. Maybe I would have enjoyed the hook and enjoyed reading along to figure out what this "harajuku moment" was back in 2024. But since being exposed to AI slop daily, and having to scan through so much verbose AI outputs during day-to-day "coding", I've now started skimming so much that I got annoyed that it meandered, then just couldn't bother reading the rest of the post after I've figured out what the harajuku moment is.

It's like my brain is responding to blog posts now in the same way that people scroll past tiktok videos in the first few seconds if there isn't enough of a dopamine hit.

I used to enjoy longform content... alas.

Oh then that's like the battery swap idea but without the swapping!

This is how I used to solve the roomba-can’t-use-stairs problem.

I’ve now moved to a single floor. Problem solved!

Agreed, I used to think this but now enjoy taking quick selfies, and my phone will dig them up and remind me of fond memories later on.

GP conflates selfies with posed photos.

Sometimes when I'm in the CLI and don't have a code editor open, I do this. Yes, it's lazy. But I also trust the model to check and update related things (tests, etc., while applying some judgement).

It's not unlike some managers who tell their teams to do something trivially easy that they could have done themselves.

(I'm not saying this is ideal and I'm not defending my laziness. It's just the current state of things.)

Thank you, my eyes glazed over when I saw the article was written with AI.

I'm user 7xx,xxx but I also believe I created a Github account while working on Rails projects (basically copying Ryan Bates and assembling things together. haha good times)

I’m not sure that it’s O(N) with caching but this illustrates the N^2 part:

https://blog.exe.dev/expensively-quadratic

Adding a tangential anecdote.

I asked GPT-5.4 High to draw up an architecture diagram in SVG and left it running. It took over an hour to generate something and had some spacing wrong, things overlapping, etc. I thought it was stuck, but it actually came back with the output.

Then I asked it to make it with HTML and CSS instead, and it made a better output in five seconds (no arrows/lines though).

SVG looks similar to the XML format of spreadsheets. I wonder if LLMs struggle with that?

Interesting and amazing presentation.

I also liked that it didn't explicitly say how it decides when to play a note.

All the subway routes are normalized to 15 seconds long from beginning to end. The app then plays all 15 second routes together, playing the instrument assigned to the route when there's a train there.

Neat commentary on the instruments that were assigned to the route when you mouse over it.

Isn’t it the opposite?

I have a pet theory that the uptick in normal cybersecurity PRs you mention as a trend in your blog were done with Claude Code’s stealth mode and Mythos.

Aside from FDIC’s insurance, nothing.

And if banks get hacked and money gets wired out - maybe we’ll come up with ways to roll back the damage.

Who knows - this is new territory.

What kind of code do you work on, and what model & harness do you use? Genuinely curious so I can calibrate my understanding.

I work on enterprise web apps for a few dozen people with Codex CLI and GPT-5.4, and haven't really run in to those issues.

Ooooh very interesting idea.

I also have nothing to back it up, but it fits my mental models. When juggling multiple things as humans, it eats up your context window (working memory). After a long day, your coherence degrades and your context window needs flushing (sleeping) and you need to start a new session (new day, or post-nap afternoon).

At the bottom of the page it says he is CEO of Tailscale.

There is another possibility. “Source?” is a low effort comment, but GP’s is not.

According to the blog post, it should be also great at drawing pelicans riding a bicycle.

GP does use a lot of "it's not this, it's that" pairs. :)

I’ve noticed since iOS 7-ish that some sliding animations have such a long tail-end easing of the animation that it blocks the touch input of the user. Like if you accidentally scroll to the side instead of down, you have to let go and wait for the side scroll to completely stop.

Then I watched Tim Cook have trouble with tapping the screen multiple times for one action at one of the older WWDCs pre-COVID.

I felt validated and exasperated. Does Tim just put up with this?

What Apple does best lies at the combination of hardware, software, physical materials, and human-computer interface design.

This was true maybe a decade ago, but not so now (under the watch of Tim Cook).

You listed Mac hardware becoming popular in the age of AI as examples of "unexpected wins". Maybe that's true (I don't know if it is) - but Macs were only 8% of Apple's 2025 revenue. Apple has become an iPhone company (50% of revenue) that sells services (26% of revenue).

And AI can eat away at both. If Siri sucks so hard that people switch away, that would also reduce Services revenue from lost App Store revenue cuts. If Google bundles Gemini with YouTube and Google Photos storage, people might cancel their iCloud subscriptions.

I think the parent comment was making the point that Tim Cook's Apple has missed the boat and it doesn't show signs that it's going to catch the next wave.

I have an iPhone 16 and I'm locked in because of all my photos being on my iCloud subscription. But in 2030, if my colleague can use their Pixel phone to record a work meeting, have it diarized, send out minutes, grab relevant info and surface it before the next relevant meeting, and Siri can still only set a timer for 5 minutes, then I might actually switch.

I agree with you and I definitely noticed the “it’s not just X, it’s Y” pattern.

But I find your comment funny because it ironically has the same “not that, this” pattern in a more verbose and less polished & less formulaic pattern.

You must share that game. I don’t even know what it is and I want to play it!

This post has zero nutritional value.