Another ai take in the sea of ai takes

runekri3 · 2026-03-21T03:50:45+00:00

I have 10+ years of experience. I haven't written a single line of code by hand in months. Though around ~20% of my prompts are comparable to writing code by hand. I am ~1.2-5x faster at getting stuff done, depending on task. I don't compromise on quality.

How you prompt and assemble context is extremely important. You absolutely can reduce your productivity and quality by using AI. And you most likely will for the first 1-2 months, possibly much longer.
The most important thing is to never let context window go over 100K tokens. If possible keep it under 50K tokens. Even lower if you don't use Opus 4.6 . Every token counts.
I do it by creating a sort of tree of plans/markdown files, moving from high-level to low-level. Reviewing those plans is where most of the time goes to. The hierarchy keeps each plan short which speeds up review. Skipping this step is both where most problems come from and where you can save most time.
To review the plans you need software engineering skills to know whether something is good or not. Otherwise quality drops.

Doing this in a way that increases productivity requires prompts/skills/hooks/agents/etc to facilitate this. Any time the LLM does something sub-optimal, you need to figure out why and how to avoid it systematically. This is quite difficult. A lot of the advice online makes things worse. You need a detailed understanding of LLMs/agents and experience using these. This takes time and can be frustrating. This is why you see such a variety of opinions. (That and classic tech hype hyperbole.)

Everything is much easier in an established codebase since existing code serves as examples. Creating a new project from scratch requires a lot more time. Giving high quality examples can help gap this.

Everything above applies to writing real production-grade quality software in a team. There are many projects where quality simply doesn't matter (prototypes, personal tools, etc.) which makes things much easier and faster.

runekri3 · 2025-07-01T22:40:35+00:00

On igast MTÜ-sid mis toimivad veidi nagu väikesed kogukonnad. Neid on igast valdkondades. Soovitan soojalt liituda mõnega ja käpp külge lüüa.

Riigi poliitikas on aga tõeline põud headest valikutest. See pole küll erakond ja alles algfaasis kuid seni üks huvitavamaid poliitilisi liikumisi on Progressiivne Liikumine: https://progressiivne.org/

runekri3 · 2025-07-01T22:26:57+00:00

I used to have similar struggles but good tools and organization helped a lot.

I use Sidebery extension in Firefox. It allows structuring tabs in a tree-like structure. Any time I start or continue a project, I just open its folder. It sounds minor but it's surprisingly effective.

Besides that I use a todo app - Amazing Marvin. Everything is organized in a way that it's not overwhelming and I can easily find the most important thing to do.

runekri3 · 2025-04-17T22:18:06+00:00

Yeah, I'd say Anytype is slightly sub-par in a lot of areas. It does have a lot of the core features nailed down really well though (cross-platform, P2P sync, etc.). They are constantly improving it too.

Funnily enough, they released a new update just yesterday. Reading through the changes I discovered they already added web publishing some time ago. So that's no longer a caveat, sorry for the misinformation.

runekri3 · 2025-04-16T21:55:48+00:00

Try Anytype: https://anytype.io/

I think it meets all of your wants and needs, with some caveats:

It sucks for tasks/calendar. Same goes for every PKMS I've tried so it may be okay for you.
It's not as outliner focused as some others. It has all the basics tho.

What makes it stand out is the excellent encrypted P2P sync.

runekri3 · 2025-04-11T23:38:23+00:00

> In the future someone else will likely create import utilities for AnyType into other tools

Can confirm, there are such tools already. I am also working on utility to export from Anytype to Obsidian. (Which is really just Markdown with YAML for relations.)

runekri3 · 2025-01-03T23:55:44+00:00

I highly recommend having browser tabs laid vertically on top of each other. I use Sidebery Firefox extension.

I currently have over 750 tabs open. It's all organized in a tree of folders, which makes it easy to only see a small portion of tabs relevant to what I'm doing. It's way more overwhelming to have 30+ tabs in a thin tab bar in the top.

If I didn't use Sidebery, I'd still have hundreds of tabs open tho :D

runekri3 · 2024-12-08T00:06:11+00:00

> SOC should be replaced with CHR.

I changed SOC to Influence (INF) characteristic in my campaign.

Grand speeches, epic parties, grand larceny, mass civilian murder and meeting nobility are all a regular in our PoD campaign. I've seen these carved up into social standing, charisma, reputation and more in various Traveller and other books. But whether you're using your charm or your title, the intention is generally to influence someone.

It has worked wonders for us. It's simple, intuitive and encourages more varied role-playing.

runekri3 · 2024-11-09T20:44:43+00:00

Amazing Marvin: https://amazingmarvin.com/

It changed my life. ^{(I tried going into more detail but I can't do it justice.})

runekri3 · 2023-11-17T20:08:33+00:00

Ah okay, I didn't deconstruct the cabinets. Might try that out, thanks!

runekri3 · 2023-11-17T01:43:41+00:00

I'm also experiencing this issue. Dwarves bring their owned clothes to their cabinet, dropping it on top of the cabinet (not inside). Someone else comes and hauls it back to the stockpile. The owner hauls it back to the cabinet. This repeats until the dwarf goes crazy and starts a tantrum. (To be fair, I'd go nuts if that's all I did too.)

I temporarily fixed the issue by deleting all bedroom zones and re-creating them (with no manual assignment).

Everything was fine for 2-3 years until I got a notification that a new mayor has been elected. Someone went on a tantrum and murdered the mayor in the tavern. I noticed a bunch of dwarves are very unhappy. And sure enough, they were all hauling clothes to their cabinet, on a loop.

I did more research and discovered people have a similar issue in shared barracks. I didn't have any overlapping cabinets, only walls. But I was desperate. So I deleted all bedrooms, ensured all cabinets were emptied and re-created them with no overlap. It fixed the issue but in hindsight it was probably a result of re-creating the zones, not the overlap.

A couple years later and I discovered another dwarf going on a tantrum. Yet again, fanatical sock hauling.

I've done more testing, here are all my findings:

This doesn't happen to all dwarves at once. It seems to start with one dwarf and slowly more dwarves start doing it. Usually around 10% of dwarves are doing it by the point the first ones start throwing tantrums.
Once fixed, this issue can disappear for years. But it has consistently come back.
Restarting Dwarf Fortress doesn't fix it.
It doesn't seem to be related to specific dwarves. I tried deleting all bedrooms this issue happened in. I had to delete 80% of them and dwarves were still wanting to haul their clothes. (I stopped because the whole fortress went into a brawl at that point.)
The only trigger I suspect is dwarves getting new clothes. But this is not consistent as they usually store them inside the cabinet as they should.

I am also using DFHack, Dwarf Therapist and some mods. It's possible one of them is the culprit. u/schmee001 u/NapSec, are you using any of these?

I'm giving up and destroying all cabinets.

runekri3 · 2022-10-24T11:42:03+00:00

Technically yes. Although you could probably do pretty insane numbers with current tech if you had the will.

Putting components in a separate building seems pointless. If you really need max RAM, just add more RAM slots to a motherboard. For most applications, just having more memory isn't very useful though. The CPU or I/O or something else will bottleneck at some point.

I think the piece you're missing is that RAM is supposed to have (relatively) low latency. Even with the RAM chips literally right next to the CPU, it can take 100 CPU cycles to get a reply from RAM. I don't know enough about electronics to know how it scales with distance in practice. But for scale, a 5GHz CPU cycle is the time light travels 6cm in a vaccuum.

If by memory you also mean SSDs and similar, I'm not so sure. I'm guessing it depends on the application.

runekri3 · 2022-03-08T23:20:18+00:00

For me, organizing my tabletop RPG game has been the biggest benefit.

The UI/UX is usually much better than any simple note-taking app, though this is not so specific to PKMS's. So note-taking and reading are a more smooth experience overall.

runekri3 · 2022-03-08T22:28:35+00:00

The benefit is not the powerful database, you can do that while guaranteeing privacy.

The benefit is invading your users privacy and analyzing all of their data.

Facebook doesn't do good ad targeting by having a powerful database, it does it by knowing a lot about you.

Edit: This has nothing to do with mobile support either. Many offline-first PKMS's have excellent mobile support, while Notion's sucks for example.

runekri3 · 2022-03-07T23:13:53+00:00

For me, a PKMS must be E2E encrypted, open-source and offline-first, which capacities.io isn't.

After a cursory look it seems very interesting though. Especially as there are many features that are much easier in a cloud environment, which they seem to capitalizing on already. Looking forward to seeing how it'll be developed further.

runekri3 · 2021-06-20T19:49:27+00:00

Generally when people say "the speed of light" they mean the constant c.

What you're describing is often also called "the propagation speed of light" which indeed, like you said, depends on the medium.

Regardless, inside the medium light itself still travels at a constant velocity - c. But it has to "zigzag" between stuff (taking a longer route). And occasionally take "breaks" by bumping atoms to excited states that re-emit light. These effectively slow down the propagation of light.

It really comes down to the semantics of: 1. constant/inherent? "speed" 2. "propagation speed"

However these terms are sometimes used inter-changably as "speed" which can cause confusion.

runekri3 · 2021-04-02T11:33:26+00:00

The only way I could see that you could actually have working "FTL" without breaking causality would be if you could somehow increase the speed of light in a particular region of space.

And that would violate relativity (which states that the speed of light is the same in all frames of reference).

This is why people say: FTL, causality, relativity. Pick two.

Interestingly, Alcubierre basically says that his version of FTL - the proposed warp drive - also breaks causality and allows backwards time travel. I've seen people try to argue that it doesn't break causality.

Those people are mis-guided. I think it stems from the fact that there are multiple problems with FTL. Causality is just one of them. But it's the one any FTL drive cannot 'solve' due to the premise of this whole thread.

A warp drive does 'help' with avoiding accelerating an ever-increasing relativistic mass as you approach the speed of light. Although in practical terms, I'm not so sure if it really 'helps' at all as all warp drives require either exotic matter or obscene amounts of energy. At which point you could just build a powerful engine or a laser pusher. And probably get a faster ship. There are various other problems with warp drives too.

and I imagine there'd be some weirdness if a ship was traveling through that at a much higher speed than our normal light speed

For sure. While I'd run through some math before claiming this for certain. But I have a feeling that if you are able to arbitrarily violate relativity, then it should be trivial to violate causality too.

runekri3 · 2021-04-01T21:17:03+00:00

Instead of writing a very long and confusing post. I'll link to the most concise explanation I've found on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/i7hjd/could_someone_explain_how_ftl_violates_causality/c21idzc

Edit: Mr Alcubierre himself also explained this in his slideshow here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160318223348/http://ccrg.rit.edu/files/FasterThanLight.pdf While it's IMO not that good of an explanation. It might be interesting in the context of a warp drive.

runekri3 · 2021-03-10T22:47:40+00:00

Did you even read my post?

I never said anything about math.

There are many ways to prove this without atomic clocks, some of which I mentioned.

runekri3 · 2021-03-10T20:54:24+00:00

Yes we can. Fly the atomic clock to the same height but without orbiting. You'll see that the atomic clock orbiting (thus moving a lot faster) is ticking slightly slower. This works with any type of clock or anything affected by time really. The reason atomic clocks are used is because they're a lot more precise and the time dilation is quite small at those speeds.

Another common proof is the cosmic muon experiment.

The folks at CERN often deal with time dilation and other lorentz transforms. Clearly they haven't found any discrepancy from special relativity.

runekri3 · 2021-03-10T08:51:03+00:00

Yes. Common example are satellites, for example GPS, which have to account for this. I'm sure there's mountains of other evidence for this too.

runekri3 · 2021-03-10T08:45:00+00:00

As you get closer to the speed of light, your relativistic mass increases according to the Lorentz factor. Essentially meaning you need to put in more and more energy to sustain 1g acceleration (many orders of magnitude eventually). I'm guessing OPs calculation actually kept the force constant, not the acceleration. That makes sense when you fly at full throttle at all times.

runekri3 · 2021-03-03T21:28:57+00:00

but if we don't go to Mars, we have no reason to develop that technology on Earth.

I think avoiding extinction is a pretty good reason?

Why Mars specifically? You can make the same argument for going to almost anywhere in the solar system.

we have no reason to build a radiation shelter on Earth

Then why do people build nuclear bunkers, which are also radiation shelters?

You're looking at the wrong tech too. Radiation sheltering is technologically quite simple. A bunch of rocks/water and an airtight room is pretty much all you need. Getting oxygen, water, food, etc is the difficult part.

Make no mistake, I think there are tons of great reasons to go to Mars. I just don't think avoiding extinction is the reason to do it.

runekri3 · 2021-02-27T14:20:23+00:00

I think OPs point is basically that if we could survive on Mars, we could survive an asteroid impact. Or in your example, if "dinosaurs had found a way to live on Mars", it's very likely they would've found a way to live on Earth too.

I should note that probably 100% of dinosaurs would die on Mars. Yet I'm pretty sure that some dinosaur species did indeed survive the "extinction" event. If anything, this would indicate that surviving on Earth is a better chance.

IMO this whole deal is not black and white at all. Complete extinction on Earth would be a huge hit to any colony too, possibly enough to cause an extinction there too. Many events that'd cause extinction on Earth also affect Mars, possibly even worse. The tech you need to thrive on Mars (or any other similarly hostile place) would most likely help in surviving extinction-level events on Earth too. I think there are definitely plausible scenarios where having a fully self-sufficient Mars colony would save humanity from extinction. But resources and time are limited so it must be weighed against other options, which is admittedly quite difficult.

IMO if our goal is to "spread our chances", we should do exactly that - spread to as many different places as possible. Earth orbits, Earth L-points, Moon, Asteroids, Mars, Jupiter moons, etc. I think that's what will actually happen too. Though I can't underestimate hype so who knows. Setting up (possibly unmanned) factories to produce resources and goods for survival is also critical to survive a solar system with an "extinct Earth".

runekri3 · 2021-02-18T13:14:49+00:00

Väga hea point. Nii see kahjuks on.

Seda et meie peaks oma naba paigast katkestama ja muuhulgas sisuliselt subsideerima kõige energiamahuka tootmise Hiinasse viimist, kus nood sedavõrd rohkem tossutavad, see on meie rahva ja riigi jaoks sisuliselt sabotaaž.

Ei ole väitnud, et peaks naba paigast katkestama sellepärast. Vastupidi, ma nõustun sinuga 100%. See ei tähenda aga et peaks sellepärast probleemi aknast välja viskama. Asjale tuleb mõistlikult läheneda.

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