Mike Lyndon

Maybe I’m projecting but, how have you picked directions in the past? What caused you to dive into react or bsky or write longform (and greatly appreciated) posts recently? I have to imagine there’s an emotional force, a passion/joy that guides some of that. What about that energy?

I’m getting a ton of value from the posts but it’s a slog. Because they’re long I break it up into sessions but the structure and style requires maintaining some context and history of the changes. Sometimes I come back and I’m lost requiring rereading earlier sections.

@simonwillison.net is there a way to combine a geojson with lat/long values in datasette? I want to show a bunch of markers as well as city boundaries. I can view each separately in their respective tables but not sure how to combine them.

GitHub - bhouston/mycoder: Simple to install, powerful command-line based AI agent system for coding. Simple to install, powerful command-line based AI agent system for coding. - bhouston/mycoder

Introducing MyCoder - a very capable AI agent-based coder that just works.

1. npm install -g mycoder
2. export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=[your key]
3. cd myproject
4. mycoder "fix any build errors"

github.com/bhouston/myc...

We live in a world where technology is already helping us achieve tasks faster and easier than ever before. We can order groceries for the week from our laptop in minutes. No agent needed.

I think the issue with consumer facing agents is a mismatch in task scope and ability to articulate the task. I think agents show their value with tasks that take days not minutes. Most people don’t have big enough tasks or struggle to articulate the process/outcome in a meaningful way for agents.

YouTube video by Savannah Brown is the world getting worse

SSX Tricky! In my early 20's I had a PS2 but couldn't afford the games. For months we played the SSX Tricky demo (2 min limit) over and over until the wee hours of the morning. I would dream of flying squirrels. youtu.be/PDFUgsE6odU?...

As an FX artist who used to spend days crafting fluid simulations (fire, water, smoke), the gen AI stuff often falls short. The coke ad always make me cringe. But, this… This, is really good.

I’d argue 90% of the time an ‘agentic’ framework isn’t needed. I had to learn the basics about orchestration and distributed systems to realize that.

The initial appeal was easily constructing/modifying a graph. Define your fn’s, define the flow/relationships.
It took time for me to understand agentic flows, thinking complex systems needed a special framework.

Liebreich: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory | BloombergNEF This year will go down in history as the year the energy sector woke up to AI. This is also the year AI woke up to energy. Is the data center power frenzy just the latest of a long line of energy sect...

“According to EPRI, a single ChatGPT query requires around 2.9 watt-hours, compared to just 0.3 watt-hours for a Google search, driving a potential order of magnitude more power demand.” about.bnef.com/blog/liebrei...

From the article:
Several screenwriters who’ve worked for the streamer told me a common note from company executives is “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.”

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

I really want to enjoy Black Doves on Netflix but I can’t get this article out of my head. It’s embarrassingly obvious in the first couple minutes of the last episode. Ugh.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

I think this is why some agentic workflows produce seemingly novel results - they’re designed to iteratively explore until a condition is met. We don’t necessarily do that when chatting with an llm.

My take on this is that we’re iteratively exploring the latent space. The initial prompt and response puts us in the ball park. By asking “write better code” we’re probing the neighbouring, high dimensional space.

52 Things I Learned in 2024 - Kent Hendricks Here are some of the most interesting things I learned this year.

AI produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions than humans! Humans emit 27g of CO2 in the time it takes to write three hundred words. ChatGPT, however, performs the same task in 4.4 seconds and produces only 2.2g of CO2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From: kenthendricks.com/52-things-i-...

I copied the files into Claude, laid out my steps and had a mostly working refactor in seconds. What would have been a half day or more was done. But that tension still lingers. Anyone else feel this?

I still feel like I’m learning to let go of how I used to interact with code. I had a pretty big refactor I wanted to do and even though I could see the steps there was still an anxiety or resistance to getting stuck in. Then I realized I could hand this over to Claude.

I think htmx and alpinejs are good additions. Lightweight, inline, llm-friendly.

Is there any way we can see some of these experiments? I’d love to get a sense of the the problem statements, how they’re structured, and what makes for a good response. I’m not an academic but I feel like the methodology could be transferable.

At first I wasn’t sure what Command offered over conditional edges but after reading docs it makes sense. BUT, I then discovered interrupt() and that just feels like a minefield of footguns. I’ll likely put it in the wrong place in a node. Or worse, run into issues with tracking multiple interrupts.

Do kids learn about markdown at school?
I picked it up over the years because I like the simplicity. And tools like Obsidian and iaWriter are my favourites.
But AI has kinda made it mainstream and I don’t know if kids know or care about it.

Anthropic > web containers > js
OpenAI > wasm > python

What I’m noticing is that I’m using the same LLM under the hood but switching between apps that offer specific features or interfaces to the LLM.

I wonder what the OpenAI play is with canvas? On the one hand I can see app developers cloning the UI/UX in their own vertical. On the other hand it seems OpenAI wants to be your portal to all knowledge work - writing, code, search.

a poster for disney 's noelle shows a woman wearing red tights and brown boots ALT: a poster for disney 's noelle shows a woman wearing red tights and brown boots

Love Actually will always be a Christmas classic. And Elf WAS top of my list. Until, that is, Noelle was released. Just watch all 3 and enjoy the festive season. Let’s do this.

- cat pics never fail
- stories from the trenches
- highlighting the meaningful people in your life
- past and present game crush
Shit, I should be doing this…

Love me a good voronoi thread.

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1. for *.ipynb in folder: jupyter nbconvert --to markdown $nb
2. import *.md into Claude Projects
3. "How do I use this new (and obtuse) library?"
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