Zac Spitzer

I think most Vibe coders get stung by the terrible defensive coding styles most LLMs use, fail fast is my moto, LLMs just want to not fail and say it fucking works (when it doesn't)

My maintainer workflow is often research an issue, see what the LLMs regurgitate regarding it, improve the documentation and then check later if they vomit back a better answer

Markdown is the native language for LLMs

I've learnt that the paragraph is dead on arrival for most documentation for humans

I know there's a lot of AI scepticism on this website, but as an open source maintainer, I love that LLMs tend to RTFM more than some developers!!

All the law-abiding criminals are worried about Germany implementing chat laws

Tell your Claude Code to swear like an Aussie, it's fucking awesome

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

Son, that’s still an AfD T-shirt

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

The ending of the H1B visa program is truly a wild fuck you to our techbro overloads who all deep throated the wrong fascist

like on the backend not using the SQL dialect because you might switch databases in the future

That sounds like quite a class action

It's always the last person who spoke with him he lauds

On the other hand, it's still pissing him off with decent responses despite his ongoing vain attempts to bend it to his will

How it started. How it’s going

@edzitron.com I've started using LLMs with coding, I love you but what you claimed about refactoring etc in your last podcast is in my experience somewhat unfounded

Did you hear about the helicopter they sent to Mars and how they kept it going? Amazing tech story

Data shows Albo reducing poverty while welfare sector insists he isn’t Claims from Australia’s welfare peak body appear at odds with reality.

Albanese Govt reducing inequality as weekly min wage has risen 23% from $772.60 in 2022 to $948.00 in 2025. Wages rising more than prices for the last 7 quarters & jobless rate below 4.4% for a record 44 months. Alan Austin gives credit where it’s due #auspol independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.

Just used allowlist and blocklist as variable names

Wok is not dead!

This what you want, this is what you get

Department of War, Department of Death, Department of Debt

DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list.

He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."

Total Game changer, nobody has thought of using AI for recruitment

Also, ID cards are bad but covering every inch of London with CCTV is ok.

It is a bit confusing.

SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?”

RFK JR.: “Absolutely.”

SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.”

RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻‍♂️

Code review, this style ain't great but let me demonstrate.

Knocked out some quick tests and benchmarking showed the improvements reduced GC activity by about 50%

Time for some wine!

Time for the Berlin hyperploop