2026-05-07 Thu
- ran across jj-vcs again. need to read these
- let’s talk about slop(, baby)
- https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/4/content-for-contents-sake/
- Person/Armin Ronacher, who was an esteemed software engineer way before LLMs, and who since has really gone quite deep with AI agents, building his own agentic coding harness. In particular, I was struck by Armin's point that the rise of AI is imposing significant externalities upon the quality of communication by making it harder to really listen to others:
I recently talked with my friend Ben who said he forced someone to call him to continue a conversation because he was no longer convinced he was talking to a human.
Given the resulting ambiguity, we need to become more aware of how easily we can turn into energy vampires when we use agents to back us up in interactions with others. Consider that every time someone reads text coming from you, they will increasingly have to make a judgment call if it was you, an LLM, or you and an LLM that produced the interaction. Transparency in either direction, when there is ambiguity, can help great lengths.
- https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/05/01/dont-outsource-your-understanding/
- in Person/Han Lee's post Don't Outsource your Understanding, I found the concept of "Cognitive Surrender" vs "Cognitive Offloading" to be useful.
- Cognitive Surrender comes from Wharton research.
- https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/4/content-for-contents-sake/
Gard/Diff
Filed
- markdown ADR spec
- save tokensk
- DevContainer/GitHub/spec/Process
- looks promising
- dotfiles inspo
- Person/Masaki Ishiyama
- Person/Masaki Ishiyama/GitHub/dotfiles
- Person/Shunsuke KITADA
- Person/Shunsuke KITADA/GitHub/dotfiles
- influential author of rust book's review of JJ and dotfiles
- Person/lv416e
- mise, tmux, brew in chezmoi, also available in github codespaces dotfiles through devcontainer
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