Scott Klein

Summarization code starting to do its thing when a repo doesn’t have a description.

MUCH WAS DECIDED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN

I once had it write a recursive delete command procedure for OpenVMS and it deleted every file in my SYS$LOGIN. That was a few model generations ago, to be fair. And other than that its DCL isn’t half bad.

My repo auto-summarizer looks like it’s working.

Claude Code showing some old school unix sass.

The answer was Spider-Man, right? Action is his reward.

I’ve noticed this as well. Bursts of insanely high productivity that need to be padded by rest, rather than hours of medium-productivity. It helps if I can context switch and alternate to personal projects or even just talking through small, random ideas with Claude.

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$4 is a good deal. Need to find one of those carts.

My old newsroom coming in hot...

If this means we’re getting a four-hour Heart of Glass episode please let me know so I can get time off of work.

Neat! And thanks for working on this. Do let us know if there are newsrooms we’re missing!

I already did this: @openjournalism.bsky.social

Claude Code is damn good at troubleshooting weird Linux problems. Self-healing servers are only a few steps down the road — and most of those steps involve building user confidence and trust.

It me.

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Peep that UX.

Oh.

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Just catching up on my former colleague @jeremybmerrill.com's terrific coverage of the TikTok algorithm. You should stop doomscrolling and check it out. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

So I told it to try again without stealing.

I wouldn't publish it, but it's too dull to be mad about. No shame in not doing as well as Minard did with the same data but this feels like a unintentionally sad powerpoint presentation.

It simply redrew the Minard map, but with some six-finger-esque AI touches like mangled text. Pretty good to figure out what the data was, but bad form to just pick-pocket old Charles-Joseph.

In fairness, Nano Banana Pro was onto me almost immediately...

OK let's see what you got, Nano Banana Pro.

I don’t work there any more. I get what you mean. But a position in a union contract negotiation is not the same as management saying they want to publish AI slop. There are other explanations.

I worked there for 15 years. You will never find a group of people less likely to fake a byline, or who sweat accuracy more than they do. You don’t mean to say otherwise, I suspect.

It literally says their names.

Why on earth would you think this was written by AI? It literally has a byline (it’s at the bottom — in my day we put those at the top).

🚨 New news app drop from some fine journalists at ProPublica.

No shame in a little manifesting.

Following up on my Nieman Lab prediction that news will return to its open-source ways, I’ve revived my old bot that posts new repos from newsrooms.

@openjournalism.bsky.social