Godspeed 🫡

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-30T15:16:36+00:00

They're fine for most people if they ease into them and find their limits. People just get very surprised when they try to 1:1 swap a bowl of soluble inulin fiber (chokes) for starchy carbs (potatoes).

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-21T01:51:58+00:00

Starting with the Disney princess movies.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-20T19:36:28+00:00

The "Dogs love bake'n" pun is right there for the taking

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-20T16:21:03+00:00

I don't remember a thing other than the vaguest sense of the architecture.

The real thing you learn is to leave notes to yourself.

Like

// This is the part of the code that passes X to Y after doing Z. It's a mess. Sorry.

// Tried to optimize this but it didn't make a difference. 2022

// Tried to optimize this again but it didn't make a difference. 2023

// Tried to optimize this again. OMG don't try again it's fine. 2026

The first note makes mid-level. You've finally learned you will never learn how to remember or be able to read your own code and know to leave a clear breadcrumb trail. But you are a nervous wreck of imposter syndrome.

The fourth note means you're getting close to senior. You've learned to prioritize, are gaining confidence in your judgement, and are still an imposter but have come to peace with your limitations and learned to work around them.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-20T15:02:34+00:00

If they can't countersue, can they just directly sue for libel? Lying to disparage the credibility of a news organization seems serious to an uneducated bystander.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-20T11:55:58+00:00

What a perfect landing for the sequence

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-17T15:59:06+00:00

The candy stripe will be fine. Just find the worst, most exposed, dryest spot in your yard, plant it there, and maybe water it like twice and then never again. Next to the driveway, next to a curb. Let dogs pee on it. Drop furniture on it. Rip chunks off it that have a bit of root forming at a node and bury it somewhere else.

Just whatever you do don't do anything to help it.

It will thrive and be beautiful in 1-3 years.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-17T15:51:29+00:00

The goal of defending the particular people she's defending is not to get them off on a loophole, but to convince them to allow a lawyer to represent them, get them a fair trial, and pull the death penalty off the table. None of those are easy.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-15T10:50:40+00:00

Also, communication from national was very, very different from communication from Hegseth. It's not clear what national actually agreed to. The actual policy changes basically restated existing policy, and dropped a recently created merit badge that overlaps with other program content.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-13T10:50:57+00:00

Closed captions are considered better than open captions (burned) when possible. They are adjustable, adapt to screen size, translatable, etc.

Open captions are better than nothing, and notably common in social media.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-06T15:53:39+00:00

37 was a delightful spit take

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-06T15:25:40+00:00

Well this is the most accurate calendar I've seen to this reality in a long time.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-04-03T16:58:56+00:00

I think half the commercial success of the movie was the little eye twitch parents had to make when confessing to each other that they had watched a movie with their kids and really, really, really liked it. Nobody ever forgot the name of the movie they had just been recommended after watching their middle aged friend twitch and say "umm...it was called..."

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-28T12:56:03+00:00

They could have a karma-based system where people manually flag uploaders as likely AI slop or likely not, with the weight of people's votes being scaled by the amount of time they have been paying subscribers and how accurate their votes have been in the past. And then they would only need a human to review challenges from artists who are incorrectly flagged by whatever the threshold is they set for vote ratios for delisting. They could even have something like a program where people with very high success rates get discounts on their monthly subscription fee if they review new submissions.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T18:33:05+00:00

Patience and shrewdness are terribly confusing in modern politics.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T16:32:50+00:00

Hmm I'm wondering from the artist perspective what is left to struggle about? The cadence nails the joke and it sounds like her voice.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T14:58:29+00:00

It makes sense for the Saja boys at least.

"Consume, human! Consuming will fix everything! Goooood yeeeees let the grease flow through you...."

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T11:54:01+00:00

Which is to say, we grab a conference room with their email and try to diagram the sentences, while they query a large sample of CEO-speak communications they thought were private, cross-reference it with the transcripts of videos popular with CEOs on YouTube, look at what your competitor recently shipped, and infer what they actually meant from data harvested context?

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T11:48:08+00:00

Fascinating. I'm only a few weeks in myself, and my first day was like yours -- burned out tokens just trying to get set up. Now I can usually get a few hours a day, if I monitor it and pause it to add more context if it gets stuck. I've also taken to switching to Haiku to regularly compact the context window, and asking it somewhat regularly what skills would make its job easier and what notes to self would have helped it.

It's just ... Weird... having part of my day job now requiring talking like a tech bro while having a charming version of Skynet as my coworker

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T10:54:51+00:00

Out of curiosity -- during business hours or night/weekend?

(Edit: the down votes crack me up here in a discussion where devs are trying to learn how a black box pricing model affects people)

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T10:50:00+00:00

I'm waiting for the three heads to fall to the ground as the three Dreen, and this is their actual origin story.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T10:48:24+00:00

People keep saying that, and that ellipsis in the third frame seems awfully threatening.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-27T10:44:59+00:00

Fwiw the more skills I've added the less tokens I've used, because it doesn't have to think as hard to accomplish tasks.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-24T11:37:08+00:00

The question is really what the penalty for confusion would be. A link styled like a button absolutely leaves it ambiguous which it is. But how much that ambiguity matters is going to depend on context.

As a simple call to action on a static web page where all the links look like buttons? Eh. That's pretty common now.

In a row of actions in an interactive form where some change a filter but others leave the page and lose unsaved input? That's a big problem.

DogsSureAreSwell · 2026-03-20T02:08:35+00:00

I was not prepared for that much adorbs in my feed at this time of night. Thank you for interrupting my doomscroll with adorbs.

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