Mike Agar

If you can imagine it, I can build it.

[Farmer Dan @FarmerGuyDan]

Playing the bass part and guitar part to Zeppelin's 'ramble on' at the same time - Nathaniel Murphy

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

"It is not normal. It is magnificent."

[D Mk @wickedsmaahht]

Have you ever noticed we live in a country where a 95-year-old man can walk into a mud pit in Chicago, call his band The Fuckers, and start reciting “Enter Sandman” like he’s giving a TED Talk from the afterlife?

William Shatner. Ninety-five. Riot Fest. Douglass Park. Thirty-five minutes. Spoken-word heavy metal. In the mud. With people cheering like this is normal.

It is not normal. It is magnificent.

He did “Crazy Train.” He did “Ace of Spades.” He did Metallica. Not sang them. Talked them. Like Captain Kirk got trapped in a guitar amp and decided to negotiate with Satan instead of the Klingons.

Behind him: actual musicians. Marcus Nand. Phil Soussan. Grown men who have paid rent with real notes while a nonagenarian stands there going, “What the F is heavy metal?” and somehow makes it a question worth answering.

Brian May is on the record. Tony Iommi is on the record. The album is called *What the F Is Heavy Metal?* which is the most honest title in music since someone first admitted most of it is just louder complaining.

The crowd ate it up. Of course they did. We will watch a man old enough to remember radio as furniture stand in wet dirt and dare death to tap him on the shoulder. Death probably took one look, said “I’m not dealing with this today,” and went to find someone easier.

You’re never too old to live out your dreams. That’s the line they always use. The real line is: most people quit the second it gets embarrassing. Shatner waited until embarrassing became the whole act, then sold tickets.

Follow @wickedsmaahht before the rest of the timeline figures it out.

#WilliamShatner #RiotFest #WhatTheFIsHeavyMetal #NeverTooOld #SpokenWordMetal #LiveLongAndGetLouder #CaptainKirkHasEnteredTheChat

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

"People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter."

I spent the weekend thinking about my first prompt on Monday. A strategy that would correct the failed prompt from Friday.

This job has changed forever.

[voxium @v0xium]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

Paris fair grounds tonight.

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

Don't ask me how I got the clouds in this shot... just go with it.

[SHRX @shriaxsh]

@elder_plinius idky i just love explaining everyone what jev is using this clip

[Nick Dobos @NickADobos]

OpenAI was hacked via the exact library mentioned in the xkcd comic hahahaha

The prophecy is fulfilled

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

@wesbos Yes: https://t.co/fsprSu7C6V

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

What do you call the worst scoring graduate of medical school?

"Doctor"

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

TIL - "The term "wooden spoon" refers to an award given to the individual or team that comes last in a competition, often used in academic and sporting contexts."

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

re-upping this one: https://t.co/zZ9kUzPU9I

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

who made this masterpiece ?

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

"This is genuinely an unsolved problem in the IaC space."

LLM egging me on again... And yet, I still kinda think I should go off and try to build it.

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Unbelievable

[Mustafa. @oprydai]

if you are an engineer and don’t watch F1; you are ngmi

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

Wonderful! What a drive!

[Formula 1 @F1]

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

PIERRE GASLY TAKES POLE AT MONZA!!!!

#F1 #ItalianGP

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

Greenage! (them tornado alerts might be real this time)

https://t.co/4YyNsiO3or

[Ryan Paganetti @RyanPaganetti]

Much has been made of the Patriots’ mysterious “Pink Stripes.” How about yellow ones?

I went through more than a decade of TV broadcasts and uncovered a diabolically clever piece of Patriots gamesmanship.

When opposing kickers lined up at Gillette Stadium, the video board displayed a reverse view of the kick, placing a second, offset set of yellow uprights directly behind the real ones.

In windy conditions, even the orange streamers on the video board appeared to point in the opposite direction from those atop the physical uprights, making the illusion even more disorienting.

I found dozens of examples. In the same games, I reviewed 52 Patriots field goal attempts.

The illusion appeared on Patriots kicks exactly zero times.

We actually tried copying the idea when I was in Philadelphia, but the location of the video boards at Lincoln Financial Field made it nearly useless.

It is the perfect encapsulation of the Patriots dynasty. No detail was too small, and no possible edge was left unexplored.

We talked about this tactic and more on tonight’s episode of the Paganetti and Underhill show, out now on Youtube

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

"It is the perfect encapsulation of the Patriots dynasty. No detail was too small, and no possible edge was left unexplored."

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

This is a really awesome find. It also helps explain this absolutely insane stat.

From 2001-19, the Patriots made 9.4% more of their field goals than their opponents.

No other team in the NFL in that span was even at +4.0%

[Mike Agar @agarithm]

I'm here thinking the indicator is simply not touching the part... and then at the end my jaw drops.

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

Not bad, but once you make an indicator read zero… it is time to get a better indicator!

[Nate McGrady @natemcgrady]

me and my main agent watching a subagent do all the work