What I keep coming back to is McCarthy’s refusal to offer John Grady an easy out. He doesn’t get to be right and win. He doesn’t get to reject modernity and find some pastoral sanctuary where his skills still matter. He just gets to be good at something beautiful while the world moves on without him.There’s a question buried in that: what does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it’s dying?

via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822

AI Policy

A local LLM based search engine that can be used to index local documents, and search them.

Marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering. - coreyhaines31/marketingskills

Robin Sloan’s take on AI training on Everything.

blog about rust and computer stuff

A Swift command-line tool that parses xcodebuild output into token-efficient JSON for coding agents. - ldomaradzki/xcsift

Our mission is to build and democratize artificial general intelligence through open science.

As the title says, a cookbook on working with structured data, by people who created open source OCR and document processing tools

Seems almost too good to be true, but apparently saves about 80% of tokens. To be tested.

Learn how to write effective specifications for AI coding agents to improve clarity, focus, and productivity in your AI-driven development workflows.

via: https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/agi-is-here/