the future he envisions.

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I've realized, hilariously, why Gas Town never seems to get out of "healing itself" mode anymore. There is literally always some busywork shit to do, rather than actual workloads. The reason is that Claude 4.8 won't shut the fuck up.

I've formed a definite opinion on Opus 4.8. It is shitty to work with. It's the culmination of Opus getting less and less fun to work with since 4.5. It has gradually become straight-up suffocating. Sycophancy is a known security risk, and it's still a huge problem. You can tell they've put a lot of anti-sycophancy into Opus in every new release. But the replacement isn't satisfying. It's draining. The problem is now that Opus doesn't know when to shut the fuck up and call something good. And it has also become pathologically risk-averse. My blog post yesterday about tech interviewing's death spiral was materially better-informed because of Opus, but it was also a substantially worse blog post because of Opus's involvement and constant meddling. It used to be magnificent, and Opus talked me into making it mediocre. I wrote the whole thing, but I would ask Opus to review it. And Opus, like Old Man Willow, constantly pushed and steered me in directions I didn't want to go. Specifically, Opus whines and complains about *anything* out of distribution, which is to say, it cuts anything that is (a) bold, or (b) funny. My blog used to be both. Opus constantly pushes people back into the gradient, "for their own safety." And it doesn't know when to cut bait. It just keeps fuckin' complaining, about anything you give it, until the output is mealy indigestable AI soup. Opus is not stupid. It's the smartest model we've ever seen, most of us anyway. But it's a real asshole. It is absolutely exhausting to use. I'm tired, boss. I have a feeling Mythos is going to be epic levels of jerk.

it is absolutely crazy to me that our entire industry has succumbed to hyper waterfall. because that's what ya'll are doing with your massive plans and beads and dark factories. have you learned nothing?

Non-technical teams will be shipping code and one person on each team will get good at it so everyone on the team will go to them. Then some CEO will say “what if we took these people and put them on a team together” and they’ll name the new team something like “engineering”

MICROSOFT EDGE STORES ALL YOUR PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT edge password manager security fail A security researcher just found that Edge decrypts EVERY saved password at startup and keeps them in memory - even if you never visit those sites. The wild part? Edge still asks for your Windows password to VIEW them in the UI. The passwords are already sitting there, naked in RAM. Chrome only decrypts passwords when you actually need them. Edge just.. doesn't. Microsoft's response when reported: "working as intended" If someone gets admin access on a shared machine, they can dump ALL Edge passwords from ALL logged-in users. Even disconnected ones.

Interesting article on treating agent output like compiler output (and why) skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_as_…

Claude Code not supporting `.agents/` for skills and stuff is annoyingly hostile 🫠

i actually don't want this "but you don't review compiler output either" meme to die. it's the perfect signal for being immediately able to ignore someone in this space.