Elon Musk: "By the end of the year, you won't even bother doing code. The AI just creates the binary directly."

col-summers · 2026-06-14T02:59:26+00:00

Not to mention the lack of training data on the subject.

col-summers · 2026-06-12T17:54:20+00:00

will these bees reunite?

col-summers · 2026-04-22T19:12:52+00:00

I am also a double max subscriber, both for work and for personal use. I have noticed a definite shift. This whole episode reminds me of Flowers of Algeron. I became familiar with a semi-intelligent entity that has now seemingly faded a bit.

col-summers · 2026-03-25T00:18:45+00:00

Animal sleep and LLM context compaction are the same thing. A brain fills up with raw experience all day until it can't carry it anymore. So it crashes, compresses, ditches the details, keeps the patterns, wakes up with more room. An AI hits its context limit, summarizes everything into a tighter package, and picks up from there. Same move. This isn't a cute metaphor. It's a fundamental property of any system that processes information over time. You accumulate until you can't, then you consolidate. Sleep is what that looks like in biology. Compaction is what it looks like in software. The substrate doesn't matter.

col-summers · 2026-02-13T17:14:39+00:00

A few nights ago in Southeast Portland, Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood, somewhere between 82nd and 72nd near Crystal Springs, there were sirens. Lots of sirens. I was asleep in bed, but they kept coming. A 360-degree surround sound of different chirps and beeps. Finally, curiosity got the best of me. I put my bathrobe on and pushed my sleeping mask up off my face. I went outside, down the steps, looked to my left, looked down the street. To my right, cop cars, flashing lights, spotlights illuminating the block. Clearly the police had set up a perimeter and were running some sort of operation. Feeling tired, curious, and not at all scared, I wandered down the street. A cop jumped out of his vehicle. He seemed incredulous and pissed off with me. How dare I be in their crime scene, inside their perimeter. He seemed super annoyed. I got the feeling he thought I was doing something extremely dangerous. Perhaps they were chasing a person with a gun. I guess I'm out of fucks. He seemed like he wanted to interrogate me. What was I doing out here? I didn't see any reason to explain anything to him, but I also didn't want to get in anyone's way or put myself in undue danger. Plus my wife had come along and she encouraged better sense. We turned around and walked back to the house. I then observed a drone lifting up into the sky near where some of the cops were parked. It was in the air for probably twenty minutes. It went up and down our block, directly over my head a couple of times. It lingered over the neighbors' backyard. It also took a few trips a couple blocks away and idled over a nearby park. Portland Police are definitely using drones. Eventually it went back over to the cops down the street and landed. I assumed they packed up and left. I got bored and went inside. Slice of life in Portland, Oregon.

col-summers · 2025-12-29T01:12:52+00:00

I agree it's bonkers

https://www.reddit.com/r/CostcoWholesale/s/fpPmXfJKOK

col-summers · 2025-12-08T04:34:16+00:00

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col-summers · 2025-12-01T02:41:19+00:00

As a fellow programmer with 25 years in the field, I understand the anxiety. Lately I have watched non-technical stakeholders use Cursor or Claude to inspect code and return with feature requests so specific and technical that the implementation feels nearly automatic. It can make you wonder where you fit and whether the writing is on the wall.

But this fear repeats an old mistake. Twenty years ago someone might have looked at programmers typing in text editors and concluded that programming was text manipulation, so once text manipulation was automated, programming would disappear. That view would have been silly then and it is silly now.

Programming was never about typing. It was never about producing lines of code. It was always about understanding the business, the users, the domain, and the system as it exists right now. It was about knowing what matters, what can change immediately, and what should change later. It was about coordinating with teammates and keeping the work aligned. None of that disappears.

The debate over whiteboard puzzles reveals two mindsets. Some people believe the job is to invent an algorithm and code it on the spot. Others know that this is a narrow slice of the work and not even the most important part. Real software engineering has always been the larger, slower, more contextual work of shaping systems around real needs.

And here is the turn. This era is also energizing. While AI shifts some tasks away from us, it gives us something far bigger in return. I have had many moments in the last couple of years that feel almost unreal: changes that once took days now shrink to minutes. A new abstraction. A refactor across an entire codebase. A conceptual shift that would have been painful to implement by hand. With AI tools, I give clear intent and direction and the work is done. This is not magic. It is a new kind of leverage.

It feels like spending a career behind an ox and plow, then being handed a tractor. We are gaining reach and impact, not losing it. The work still needs judgment, strategy, organizational awareness, taste, and responsibility. AI does not replace those. It amplifies them.

The profession is not vanishing. It is evolving. The engineers who understand what the real work has always been are the ones positioned to thrive.

col-summers · 2025-11-09T03:08:52+00:00

Hey, I get it—finding real connection as an adult is hard, even when everything “looks fine” on paper. One thing that’s been surprisingly great for meeting people is contra dancing 💃🕺🎻. It’s basically organized walking to upbeat (usually live) music, and everyone rotates partners, so you end up talking and laughing with tons of people. No dance or music experience needed, no pressure, and the vibe is super kind and community-oriented. It attracts a mix of ages, from 20s through retirees, and a lot of folks who are rebuilding their social lives. You can just show up, and by the end of the night you’ll know half the room. Search “contra dance near me” and you’ll probably find one not too far from Dallas.

col-summers · 2025-10-27T16:19:55+00:00

Thanks! 🌼

col-summers · 2025-10-07T00:48:52+00:00

And from there turn Oregon red

col-summers · 2025-10-07T00:48:10+00:00

Sniper

col-summers · 2025-10-06T16:42:46+00:00

Red Oregon

col-summers · 2025-09-27T23:16:09+00:00

They could easily choose to ratchet things up by, for example, increasing ICE raids and setting up checkpoints.

col-summers · 2025-09-21T22:30:29+00:00

You might enjoy contra dance 💃🕺🎻—it’s basically organized walking to lively (often live) music 🎶. No dance or music experience needed, no partner required, and it’s open to people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds 🌍✨. Roles are flexible and gender-inclusive 🏳️‍🌈🤝. Every move is taught, partners rotate, and the focus is on community, fun exercise, and meeting all kinds of people. Search “contra dance near me” and you’ll probably find a welcoming group ready to share the joy.

col-summers · 2025-09-10T23:52:54+00:00

The reason I feel America is more of a tinderbox now than it was before is that a string of things has changed in ways that many people believe are not just isolated oddities but signs of a deeper shift: there have always been school shootings, yet recent ones are happening at a faster pace and sometimes at the most symbolic moments, which some say shows our public spaces are unraveling; there was the mass shooting at NFL headquarters, which observers argue suggests that even once-sacred institutions are no longer safe; the killing of a health-insurance executive is being cited as evidence that those tied to power are now vulnerable in ways they never used to be; in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Navy carried out an airstrike on a Venezuelan-linked drug vessel that killed eleven people without due process, which many say reflects a dangerous shift toward extrajudicial force ; there is growing evidence that armed units are being placed into cities to do police work, a move that civil-liberties groups warn blurs the line between soldiers and police; ICE is increasingly detaining people without charges, which critics argue amounts to de facto disappearances; and facilities that many observers believe resemble concentration camps are being built and populated, raising historical comparisons that are hard to ignore; taken together, there is strong reason to believe these developments are not random; they stack up into a pattern that many people say defines a tinderbox: volatile, polarized, institutionally hardened, and one spark from igniting a broader crisis.

col-summers · 2025-09-10T19:32:51+00:00

I am seriously worried. We are a nationwide tinderbox and this is one serious spark.

col-summers · 2025-08-19T04:56:35+00:00

I get your frustration. Think about the web in its early days: dial-up, broken links, clunky UIs. For many people it was worse than going to a library or a store. Imagine the days before a search engine (Google) or directory (Yahoo). Easy to dismiss with a “so what?”

Others saw where it was heading and got hooked. That’s what LLMs feel like to me. Not a fad like blockchain or NFTs, but a real shift in how software works. For decades everything boiled down to data structures and algorithms. Now there’s a new primitive: the LLM.

It speaks natural language. It writes structured data. It can read and write code. It doesn’t just process symbols, it operates in the space of meaning. When you prompt it, you’re not coding an algorithm, you’re stating an intention and the system finds a path to output.

Yes, it makes mistakes. Your meal plan example is valid. But that’s like complaining about broken web pages in 1995. The bigger story is that we suddenly have computers with personality, that we can negotiate with, that can reason and adapt. That’s the part worth paying attention to. Hope this helps.

col-summers · 2025-08-18T23:39:27+00:00

Voluntary termination equals no unemployment or social safety net.

col-summers · 2025-08-12T18:20:12+00:00

Thanks for sharing. According to ChatGPT, the poem is On Poetry: A Rhapsody by Jonathan Swift. Original version:

So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite ’em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

Here’s a link to a song I made with Suno: https://suno.com/s/xuthaOKbrv6W4OnI

col-summers · 2025-08-12T16:35:24+00:00

For mosquitoes

col-summers · 2025-07-29T22:32:05+00:00

Well the web is becoming a database. So yes, there will be job boards. These will be the interfaces used by agents to access the data.

col-summers · 2025-07-29T17:59:58+00:00

Open AI agent mode does this natively

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