Alex Zakhlestin 🇵🇹
@thisalex.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
44, Software Architect, #OpenSource developer, Cultural Anthropology addict. Long time ago: #PHP contributor, Midgard-CMS hacker, developer of several macOS apps […]
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"We have begun to talk about token consumption the way we talk about capital expenditure: as an input that scales linearly to output. More tokens, more work. Bigger budget, bigger results. This framing is so natural, so intuitive, so aligned with every other resource allocation decision a […]
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February 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM
"We have begun to talk about token consumption the way we talk about capital expenditure: as an input that scales linearly to output. More tokens, more work. Bigger budget, bigger results. This framing is so natural, so intuitive, so aligned with every other resource allocation decision a […]
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It’s only emo if it’s from the 1986-86 vintage of the Washington D.C. area or the 1990s in the Midwest region, otherwise it’s sparkling post-hardcore
October 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
It’s only emo if it’s from the 1986-86 vintage of the Washington D.C. area or the 1990s in the Midwest region, otherwise it’s sparkling post-hardcore
A lot of people in Fediverse say about AI being forced on them by the corporate overlords. I guess that's where I'm different: I'm privileged to experiment with it on my own terms as I never worked for a corporation (at least not directly). I would be much more against it if it was forced upon me.
February 14, 2026 at 9:21 AM
A lot of people in Fediverse say about AI being forced on them by the corporate overlords. I guess that's where I'm different: I'm privileged to experiment with it on my own terms as I never worked for a corporation (at least not directly). I would be much more against it if it was forced upon me.
“Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-
#ai #agi
#ai #agi
February 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
“Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-
#ai #agi
#ai #agi
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My friend Kevin made a super-straightforward way to run agents in VMs (so you can --yolo and live more than once)
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_02_01_vibe/#llm-agent-virtual-machine-sandbox
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_02_01_vibe/#llm-agent-virtual-machine-sandbox
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
My friend Kevin made a super-straightforward way to run agents in VMs (so you can --yolo and live more than once)
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_02_01_vibe/#llm-agent-virtual-machine-sandbox
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_02_01_vibe/#llm-agent-virtual-machine-sandbox
The key moment for the moltbook would be if/when the agents would figure out how to make enough money to cover the cost of tokens and still have pocket money for reinvesting. I'm highly skeptical.
#moltbook
#moltbook
February 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The key moment for the moltbook would be if/when the agents would figure out how to make enough money to cover the cost of tokens and still have pocket money for reinvesting. I'm highly skeptical.
#moltbook
#moltbook
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January 31, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Huge respect to @TechConnectify for taking the necessary risk with his 3 million followers by telling it like it is with the political landscape in the US, at the end of his latest video.
(linked video at the start of the "Who the liars are and what we need to do about them" section, but the […]
(linked video at the start of the "Who the liars are and what we need to do about them" section, but the […]
Original post on scoat.es
scoat.es
January 31, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Huge respect to @TechConnectify for taking the necessary risk with his 3 million followers by telling it like it is with the political landscape in the US, at the end of his latest video.
(linked video at the start of the "Who the liars are and what we need to do about them" section, but the […]
(linked video at the start of the "Who the liars are and what we need to do about them" section, but the […]
How AI Impacts Skill Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 + https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of AI. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation -- particularly in safety-critical domains.
arxiv.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:54 PM
How AI Impacts Skill Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 + https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
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I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
simonwillison.net
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
One thing I really miss TouchBar for: smooth control of display brightness and sound volume. Control by fn-buttons is too discrete. And yeah, I know about dragging in menubar — that's what I use. TouchBar was more ergonomic.
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
One thing I really miss TouchBar for: smooth control of display brightness and sound volume. Control by fn-buttons is too discrete. And yeah, I know about dragging in menubar — that's what I use. TouchBar was more ergonomic.
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thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out
January 30, 2026 at 12:41 AM
thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out
Moltbook
Moltbook (www.moltbook.com)
11:55 ↑ 114 HN Points
www.moltbook.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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I had slept on this filmmaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Rohrwacher Glad to have found it, via the latest work La Chimera. #film
Alice Rohrwacher - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:53 AM
I had slept on this filmmaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Rohrwacher Glad to have found it, via the latest work La Chimera. #film
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Some Claude Code tips from my recent in-company classes https://thisalex.com/posts/claude-taming/
#claudecode
#claudecode
Taming Claude Code
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January 27, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Some Claude Code tips from my recent in-company classes https://thisalex.com/posts/claude-taming/
#claudecode
#claudecode
Some Claude Code tips from my recent in-company classes https://thisalex.com/posts/claude-taming/
#claudecode
#claudecode
Taming Claude Code
Website of Alex Zakhlestin
thisalex.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Some Claude Code tips from my recent in-company classes https://thisalex.com/posts/claude-taming/
#claudecode
#claudecode
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The latest entrant in the coding-agent-constructed web browsers is here, this one by @emsh.cat, and it's REALLY impressive - 3 days of development, 20,000 lines of Rust, no Cargo dependencies and it renders HTML+CSS extremely well […]
Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net
fedi.simonwillison.net
January 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The latest entrant in the coding-agent-constructed web browsers is here, this one by @emsh.cat, and it's REALLY impressive - 3 days of development, 20,000 lines of Rust, no Cargo dependencies and it renders HTML+CSS extremely well […]
Finally took care of exchanging my Driving License to the Portuguese one yesterday. It will still be some time before they send me the card — for now I can drive using an official paper with QR-code. It kinda feels more reliable to me, as I can easily make copies. And they can still verify my […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
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January 22, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Finally took care of exchanging my Driving License to the Portuguese one yesterday. It will still be some time before they send me the card — for now I can drive using an official paper with QR-code. It kinda feels more reliable to me, as I can easily make copies. And they can still verify my […]
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Sometimes howling into the void gets some decent people howling back in your general direction.
That's a wonderful thing.
Sometimes it's worth howling.
That's a wonderful thing.
Sometimes it's worth howling.
January 18, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Sometimes howling into the void gets some decent people howling back in your general direction.
That's a wonderful thing.
Sometimes it's worth howling.
That's a wonderful thing.
Sometimes it's worth howling.
Shower thought (I don’t plan to make this a regular topic here): Trump literally implements cyberpunk-dystopian international politics. The only reason for him to approach any subject is to get financial gain for his “mega-corporation”. And he can’t even imagine […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
January 18, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Shower thought (I don’t plan to make this a regular topic here): Trump literally implements cyberpunk-dystopian international politics. The only reason for him to approach any subject is to get financial gain for his “mega-corporation”. And he can’t even imagine […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
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The view from the crest
December 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The view from the crest
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For kicks I used the app Kiwix to have an offline Wikipedia on my phone. When I was returning to the menu of libraries to download, I noted Project Gutenberg there. Now I have a universe of history books on this thing.
Do you have any offline-on-your-mobile-phone tips?
Do you have any offline-on-your-mobile-phone tips?
December 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
For kicks I used the app Kiwix to have an offline Wikipedia on my phone. When I was returning to the menu of libraries to download, I noted Project Gutenberg there. Now I have a universe of history books on this thing.
Do you have any offline-on-your-mobile-phone tips?
Do you have any offline-on-your-mobile-phone tips?