Daniel Grant

Excited to see innovation in the civil space. Although, using GDS design system for non-gov uk projects is something I think we should actively discourage (even with the banner present!)

yes, for example! cut out the middleman. i'm sure the crypto bros are already planning a blockchain escrow 😅

but probably lots of other things too including political action

thinking about why openclaw blew up

1. people love talking to agents with a persistent personality
2. perhaps the first maintstream example of a self-improving software environment

the personal assistant part wasn't new

if everyone has a personal agent, collective action becomes a much less tractable problem. people already have aligned goals; it's the coordination that's tricky. agents can probably help here.

that could have consequences.

amazing how fast we transitioned from "everything should be rewritten in rust for memory safety" to "I ship code I will never read"

it's so tempting with ai to build the superficially functional version first. build the hard bit first. the facade will emerge naturally.

Oliver Burkeman (@oliverburkeman) This is a good point. Personally, I think that viral AI hype essay was overwhelmingly bollocks. But even taking it on its own terms: if AI is going to get better and better, faster and faster, at elim...

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The predicted revolution must always be imminent; the reason to hand over money immediate.

Claude Code should have a team of 5-10 engineers. Instead they're hiring dozens of operators to manage LLMs. Absolutely bonkers.

GitHub - djgrant/mdz: A langauge for LLMs A langauge for LLMs. Contribute to djgrant/mdz development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is great - thanks for sharing. Interesting you touched on agent languages. I've been exploring this with github.com/djgrant/mdz. Was anyone at the retreat working on novel agent languages?

Fully agree! OLTP = transactional processing as opposed to analytical processing. e.g. if you know your query patterns up front you can relinquish the relational overhead.

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do you need postgres? i love postgres with all my heart; just wondering if this scales nicely into OLTP

GitHub - jart/cosmopolitan: build-once run-anywhere c library build-once run-anywhere c library. Contribute to jart/cosmopolitan development by creating an account on GitHub.

til there's a cross-platform compiler that runs on bare metal – it's like java but with no interpreter or vm github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

well now that programming is over I guess we just spend all day writing instructions for the computer to execute

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A time machine to the 90s web by the looks of it

The two-year long narrative that software engineers didn't adopt AI coding because they were in denial is now obvious horseshit.

Once the models got good enough the industry pivoted on a dime. No-one in their right mind would write code with sonnet 3.7.

I'm not vibe coding, I'm navigating agents through vector space

act.cool The online coaching and community platform for students applying to UK drama schools

My partner is also in the arts. Because of AI she was able to prototype act.cool (I took it to production)

eeesh that’s a bit personal for public discourse

screenshot from the clearsky webapp showing that I am on 2 separate lists, added to 3 days apart: "Anti-AI" by @rcpinto.bsky.social, 8 days ago and: "AI, Tech, & Ratcult Shitheads" by @adrienneleigh.bsky.social 11 days ago

i love that i am on both of these lists, and they're next to each other in order of me being added

this perfectly sums up bsky users lol

🙋‍♂️ so ... for reasons:

I would love to know people's frustrations with:

- the current npmjs.com
- admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally)

🙏

These are opencode configs, but I'm sure you can do something similar with claude code.

I have a global env var to make the-scientist an overlay config (not sure if CC supports that), and symlink the other one to my home directory.

In repos. I have a couple:

github.com/djgrant/the-...
github.com/djgrant/dans...

Gut instinct – do you think this is on the way to being shippable, or more in the category of "superficially functional"?

How impressive is this milestone given the foundation of OSS projects it is built on? (Not saying it shouldn’t be built on OSS, just curious how hard the remaining problem is)

The AI Trade Trolley Problem

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Daniel’s Word for 2026

As per tradition, a new word for the year.

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Here's a good post from the creator of Redis on navigating this tension:

antirez.com/news/158