Thomas Ptacek
Full of passionate intensity.
- I like LLMs and AI and am genuinely optimistic about using them for software development, but do not be this guy. seylaw.blogspot.com/2025/05/when...
- A whole NYT piece about The Chicken Technique. You could just buy a copy of Bertolli's "Cooking By Hand", though. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/d...
- Reposted by Thomas PtacekThe adult converts are furious, never listen to adult converts
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- Current status:
- @simonwillison.net Proposition: it's vibe coding if you could reasonably expect to use the resulting code for any material amount of time without having read it.
- Something I don't have my head fully around with things like OpenAI Codex (extensive system prompting and agent structure overlayed on GPT models): how much does 4o vs o3 matter here? Like: it's doing a facsimile of reasoning regardless just b/c it's an agent, right?
- Taking the rest of today off to read Save The Cat and write my Bloodborne spec script.
- Here lemme tune that up for you
- Reposted by Thomas PtacekNumber of genetic differences between random pairs of African individuals (black points) and a corresponding random European (blue points). 20 random samples. One instance: a person from Russia has fewer differences to a Kenyan than that same Kenyan to a Namibian.
- Maybe the last non-pickled ramp dish of the year: used up all my ramp greens in a porchetta (celery leaves; the normie porchetta spices, some celery seed, lots of lemon zest; mostly ramp green by volume).
- Seasons don't fear the pager Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain (We can be like they are) Come on baby
- I am a lifelong Emacs user and have never been tempted by any other browser but just a couple days of hitting `F2` to rename symbols across my Go codebase has me questioning everything.
- Absolutely need to buy one of these for my home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHB_...
- oh shit a tipping thread on the orange site i am again going to become the joker
- Annie's MCP video is one of her best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=74c1...
- RAMPS ARE IN. Inaugurating the season: a smoked turkey and ramp salad with a ramponnaise blended with sauteed ramp bottoms and made green with ramp tops.
- OK, I'm an LLM-appreciater, but a markup language that generates English prose that asks an LLM to generate another markup language is maybe a bridge too far even for me. github.com/boundaryml/b...
- Security nerds meeting up again tomorrow evening at Twisted Spoke; if we get lucky with the weather, we might even get the roof deck. Have a drink, complain about certificate lifetime changes. Thursday, 7-ish, Ogden/Grand.
- Buy un-roasted almonds. Roast them on a tray in the toaster with a very light dusting of Flavacol, the weird popcorn salt they use at movie theaters. You're welcome.
- Vance : CFP trophy :: Walter Donovan : false Grail.
- This is the most Jane Coaston thing that has ever happened.
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- "Pann Grackenheit is the best incel character I have ever read." is the best sentence in the English language I have ever read, so I take it back; keep 'em coming, Michael.
- It's been a decade and he's still doing this. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337...
- It's been a decade and he's still doing this. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337...
- Current status
- At 10 years old my dog is now like Baron Vladimir Harkonnen; he has a team of people who periodically remove fluids from him. All he needs is an oil bath.
- This is really top-quality demystification; try to get 1/3rd of the way through it without wanting to write an LKM. www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/tx...
- This shit is getting spooky. This is how far Kurt got without even writing tool prompts to tip Claude off on how best to use `flyctl`. fly.io/blog/30-minu...
- I have been assuming GPT 4o talks to everybody this way but according to Kurt that's not the case?
