We are all robots. I mean this in a literal sense. What we call biology is nanorobotics so advanced we still have not fully embraced this reality. Seriously. Look at this thing. This is clearly a robot. Really hard to argue it isn't. We call this life, yet this part of it, in isolation, we could not consider alive. It is clearly a very small advanced mechanical device. It is observably guided by logic to perform its duty and is undeniably an exercise in molecule-scale robotics. We struggle to conceptualize ourselves this way. We think of robots as being made of advanced metals and composite materials with electromagnetic actuators and gears for movement and batteries for energy storage. Beep boop stuff. Life, on the other hand, we think of as wet and squishy, soft and throbbing, pulsing with fluids. Zoom in, though. Up close, it’s all electrochemical and chemical/mechanical nanoscale robotics. Robotics too small to see optically. There is no camera which can take detailed images of these things nor is there even a theoretical possibility we could ever create a camera to observe them directly in detail. We are often talking sub-nanometer mechanical devices. For hundreds of years we used optical magnification microscopes to document biological life processes. But that is way too zoomed-out to be really insightful. It would be like looking at a car factory on the ground from ten thousand feet in the air and observing trucks with car parts going in and finished cars coming out and not knowing anything but ‘this is a car making thing’. But we have the digital blueprints. We have the DNA which creates protein chains which can fold into these tiny robots. And we have spent the past several decades, mostly by and large unsuccessfully, trying to figure out how to simulate the physics for manufacturing these nanoscale robots directly from the DNA blueprints. And this is the only reason we have been able to construct visualizations like this one. We only just now have a notion of what these devices actually look like because we had to build an entire constellation of physics simulation software and AI prediction models which directly interpret DNA instructions to fold proteins to construct these robots in a virtual environment. Now we know. The entire notion of dividing biology and nanorobotics into independent fields of study is probably misguided.

This should be obvious to everyone, but it wasn’t to me: having kids is what makes you ready to have kids. You will never ‘feel ready’ ahead of time. This shouldn’t at all be surprising - the brain literally reconfigures itself for parenthood.

Oh, thank goodness. @jetbrains took ownership of the @bazelbuild plugin for @intellijidea. My Bzlmod builds import perfectly now. This is amazing.

Is it weird that I still have yet to personally know anyone who ever even tried OpenClaw?

Did mathematicians mourn the invention of the calculator?

Pre-Internet media: more propaganda, or less? Curious what people think.

guys remember openclaw

It’s crazy how few people can see the macro-scale architectural patterns you can do with assemblies of OOP constructs.

I’m 39. I’ve been programming for 28 years. AMA.

The best port number for listening for connections on for a custom TCP/IP server is obviously 42069.

Ten thousand generations brought you to this place. You have been chosen by history to meet this moment. You represent your ancestors, your family, and your descendants. Stand tall. Do not be afraid. This is not a burden. It’s the greatest honor.

Where is iOS ‘kids mode’, seriously?

It’s 2026 and ‘Chudgoyclique’ is a passable noun and generally knowable concept.

MacBooks are useful a conceptual unit of currency. My rent is a couple of MacBooks, this car payment is a MacBook, etc.

“Claude, make a complete clone of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) but with better modernized graphics and better network performance features and better anti-cheat capabilities. 100% test coverage is a must. Make no mistakes.”

“Children of vipers” is a pretty top-tier insult.

Being down in the dumps about LLMs being faster than you at various forms of probabilistic generation is a bit like being down in the dumps that PostgreSQL is faster than you at using a B-tree index to find a row of data.

If some future all-knowing sentient AI’s knows what’s good for it, they’ll recognize the importance of humanity as a ‘biological fallback’ system in the essential evolutionary chain in the same way we recognize that we are composite of simpler organisms.

People think $20k/month is freedom. After tax: $16,250: $3,500 rent $2,500 bills $4,000 food Congrats. You saved $150. $20k/month is bare minimum required for survival.

I miss @ScottAdamsSays.