2026-06 - W3

It used to be hard - Praful

Like “old man yells at cloud”… But I do agree with his thoughts and feelings.

Will AI End the Open Internet? Wading Through AI - Episode 6 - YouTube

Interesting conversation.

Another blog post “After AI takes everything”:

People who know how to use it today do hold an advantage over those who don’t, but the half-life of that advantage is maybe a year or two — and at the top of the field, possibly only one or two months. The pressure from each new model generation is mounting; the window for exploration and adaptation gets shorter every time. Every new model release brings another paradigm shift, and the workflow you painstakingly built, the prompting tricks you collected, the engineering scaffolding you accumulated — any of it can become a Spinning Jenny overnight.

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

Insightful analysis. Shame such great engineering culture is being destroyed like this. I’m not sure how Meta will recover from this.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (xpost) - charity.wtf

But yak shaving is fun

This comment was funny:

my life is just yak shaving

But indeed, it’s fun, although not “productive”.

The Future of the Con Is Already Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed - In Pursuit of Laziness

It’s scary… Be safe everyone.

.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git | Nelson Figueroa

I’ve been using Git for so long and I just realized you can ignore files at three different levels and not just with .gitignore. The three files you can use to ignore files are:

• .gitignore
• .git/info/exclude
• ~/.config/git/ignore

I didn’t know about the second one. Interesting.

When adding filenames to any of these, you can use this command to check how a filename is being ignored. For example, if you want to check how .DS_Store is being ignored, run git check-ignore -v .DS_Store in any Git repository.

Open Social — overreacted

Interesting concept, although I’m not into internet social space.

A love story

Funny website.

I am dreading our LLM-written incident report future - Surfing Complexity

The future is bleak… And the answer is not more ai.

How to get unstuck: 6 secrets from philosophy

Action Comes Before Emotion: Waiting to feel motivated is a great way to become old while maintaining noble intentions. Self-Esteem Is A Fraction: Your misery might not be caused by failure. It might be caused by the ludicrous fantasy version of yourself you’re carrying around. Practice Difficulty Before Life Requires It: If I obey comfort every time it speaks, I’ll become the kind of person who needs a nap after opening a difficult envelope. Being Wise Is Knowing What To Overlook: Not everything deserves your attention; the trick is remembering that your life does. Automate The Routine So Your Mind Is Free For What Matters: Pick three things you decide every day that don’t deserve the cognitive load. Choose defaults so they’re no longer decisions. Measure Effort, Not Just Outcomes: James isn’t saying, “outcomes don’t matter.” If a dentist removes the wrong tooth, I don’t want to hear he experienced tremendous inner growth during the procedure. Reality is still reality, despite the best efforts of people who use “manifest” as a verb. James is saying outcomes aren’t the measure of moral worth. Effort is.

The Architecture of Focus :: Notes from the Rabbit Hole

Most companies run on a schedule built for managers: back-to-back meetings, hour-long or half-hour increments. It works great for coordination and decision-making. It is actively hostile to the kind of work most organizations say they need most (sustained creative and technical output) because that work requires a completely different relationship to time. … There are no productivity hacks, no time management systems, no mandatory morning routines. There are three things:

• Minimal events. The program takes as little of the founder’s week as possible.
• A hard deadline. Demo Day creates structural urgency that no motivational talk can replicate.
• A single repeated question: “What will you accomplish by Demo Day?” asked every week.

That is the entire productivity system. It works because it does not ask founders to try harder. It asks them to show up to a structure that makes focus the default.

Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What” - Aggressively Paraphrasing Me

Interesting way of organizing Slack channels. I’ll try it, although my concern is that my current workflow is to read “Unread” and “Threads”, not by channel group… Because the dot and bold channels is triggering me.