Weeknote #107 (20261011-20261017)
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Another week of grinding, trying to get up to speed on the new role at work, and trying to make plans to do some (IMO) really needed cleanup of some shared stuff before I have to head-down on just the product I’m supporting…
did
- Haven’t had to do one of these updates for a minute: this genehack is not me
- I belong to a “Whiskey Club” at a local watering hole, and Tuesday they had a tasting — I haven’t been able to attend as many of these as I’d have liked, so I was happy to be able to get to this one — it was fun
- Wednesday was the monthly makerspace social gathering; it was good to see some folks, and I think I found a speaker for Hack Salem next month!
- Saturday, TheWife and I took a little drive through the country, got some lunch, and visited some breweries, which was also fun, and a good reminder that we can just, like, do stuff like that if we want to
- Hops continues to settle in with us, and we continue to try to explain that there are parts of the house that are kitty-okay and parts that are very much not kitty-okay…
read
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Finished Daggerbound and picked up Killing Floor, aka the first Jack Reacher book
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“Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things”
The findings backed up what anecdotes and surveys have increasingly found in recent years: An overreliance on AI for answers erodes our cognitive fitness. When AI produces answers in seconds, we get used to that speed; anything that takes longer feels inefficient. And relying on AI also removes what the team called “productive struggle,” which can lead people to find their research strengths and passions.
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It does matter, though. It matters because we shouldn’t be using AI to produce Art, and programming is Art.
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“Software developers are not okay”
fucking resonant:
The nature of automation with Large Language Model tools feels substantially different from prior attempts at automation in coding. It’s an abstraction that feels like a delegation, not an automation, and separates you from the output.
That has an effect of making you feel less invested in the output and that takes away much the joy of coding. The flow state is also gone, the sort of focused state of mind that you get into when you’re really deep into solving a problem.
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“An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About ‘Why I’m Going Back to Twitter’”
Lengthy, but every word is super relevant
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Couple three people on this list where I have active subscriptions that I’m considering whether or not I should just drop…
Anyhow, here’s a list · People, I mean, who are there but should really know better and of whom I now think less: Joni. Nicholas Kristoff. Josh Marshall. Jeet Heer. Nate Silver. Aaron Rupar. Corey Quinn. Stephen King. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Miguel de Icaza. Fortunately none of them care what I think of them. I could go on but I’m already blue enough. And I’m not going to even start listing the many featured voices belonging to people whom I already thought of as unsalvageable scumfucks.
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unread bookmark count: 160 — PROGRESS
cooked
- Monday: grilled spatchcocked chicken, grilled fingerling potat
looking forward to
I’m coming up on my one year work anniversary, here in a couple weeks — I’m looking forward to seeing that milestone in the rear view