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That "big crowd" sounds just like people who want to believe in LLMs rather than think, or at least not think too much.

`C0FFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...`

neat! more info on LFSRs, fyi: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1309.php

>and then had Claude run git status and it fell back to Opus as if I had just broken into the pentagon itself.

Maybe it's more like you asked a lieutenant to check the weather forecast for you, and it went away and sent back a sergeant in its place.

Congratulations! Wow, you got a legendary $2.56 check....

>by implying that situational awareness directly caused losses at JS.

Correlation is not causation.

> Of course you will see it, the same way you saw a lot of Arial in the 1990s, or Calibri today.

Well, that didn't last long; Aptos enters the chat.

Came here to say this too. :-)

Thanks OP for making it so readable.

Ten Little Algorithms, Part 2: The Single-Pole Low-Pass Filter (https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/779.php)

OK so this article is sort of about formal proof automation, but it seems more practically about Zstandard, which I very much enjoyed reading.

Could you please use a more readable variable-width font?

>Von Neumann is an interesting historical character that nobody has ever heard of

huh? He's pretty famous to anyone who has studied either the history of computing or of the development of the atomic bomb.

Are any of ChatGPT's statements erroneous? (how come Terence Tao gets this high quality output but I get hallucinations when I ask simpler math stuff?)

That doesn't mean it's more readable.

This retro-terminal-website trend is so weird. When I was growing up, all the computers had was a fixed-width character set. Then GUI operating systems came out in the early 90s and PDFs and web browsers. Free from the fixed-width tyranny.

It belongs in certain places, but readable prose is not one of them.

Confused here. Are you talking about the execution speed of the compiler's output, or the compilation time itself? Java's compiler is extremely fast, compared to a C compiler. (I haven't used Rust or Zig so I don't have any experience with those.)

TIL about Bun.

I think there is a loose connection. Hofstadter's 1979 masterpiece, Gödel Escher Bach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach --- mentioned in an earlier reply), has a chapter called Contracrostipuntus (https://genius.com/Douglas-hofstadter-contracrostipunctus-an...) which describes an arms-race tension between Crab's "perfect" record player and Tortoise's mischievous records designed to be unplayable on that record player, with titles such as "I Cannot Be Played on Record Player X". Crab's then invents a "Record Player Omega" which includes an ahead-of-time "scanning" step to reconfigure itself based on the record it scans...

All of which reminds me of virus-scanning on computers, and AI efforts for "safety".

Making the connection between GEB and AI isn't new, apparently: https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-08-26-music-to-break-model...

Even crypto isn't that large: 2^4096 is kind of the norm here.

Some mathematical researchers are working in the million, billion, or even trillion-bit range.

I get it, but I don't think we should remain silent within the community. Norms for websites are important to cultivate.

Russian Peasant Multiplication (https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/760.php)

I agree mental health is important and have struggled with similar issues... but it is hard to read prose in fixed-width typefaces. Please consider a more readable serif variable-width typeface.

Someone should update the Lunar Lander page on Wikipedia -- it doesn't mention Thrust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre...

Darn, I meant to link to https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11... which is easier to read because of the typeface.

> there has been a library of information on HN by now about how to use agents effectively

yes, but where?

I want it to commit on my behalf, and I don't pay full attention before commits. But I do review every line at the PR level, just as I would if some other human were to submit a PR, and if I find something off, then I ask it to fix it before I will approve the PR.

re: automatic coauthoring -- you can turn that off, but I prefer to turn that on. Commit ownership is something that I want to make clear was not just a human, but a human + AI. Agentic coding does get special treatment from me, because the volition to make changes doesn't come from me. I want that to be clear in the history. The only time I do my own commits (without the coauthor line) is when I make some change myself, without a coding agent.

Really interesting article but there's one thing I wanted to point out about the reasons for code review:

> If a company were shipping bugs at, say, a hundredth the rate we were at Centaur while relying primarily on review to catch bugs, then I could see their point, but that's not what's happening at the typical software company where people don't want to move away from human review [there might be non quality (as in non bug rate) related reasons to keep human review, such as keeping a high bar for code quality or keeping the codebase human-understandable, which pretty much immediately stops being the case if you let a fleet of agents go wild on a codebase] because of the perceived risk of shipping bugs.

I don't agree that the main point of a code review is quality assurance; there are other reasons that have more to do with team convergence and junior staff learning: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/807.php

Really liked it, and somewhat envious that you were able to create such a well-written, cohesive piece of just about the right length. (I blog on different topics and it's so hard to keep things short and not wandering.)