Joined a new AI-native company this week and it’s kind of wild how different it feels already.
The laptop arrived, I logged in, and an agent basically took over from there. It set up my dev env, pulled repos, fixed dependency issues, got permissions approved, pointed me at the backlog, linked the architecture docs, and surfaced the Slack debates I actually needed to read before touching production.
When I needed context on something, I asked the agent and it found the exact thread from months ago explaining why a decision was made, who owned it, the related Linear issues, and the PRs connected to it.
I’ve only been here 3 days but it honestly feels like I’ve worked here for a year because the usual friction and scavenger hunt for context just isn’t there anymore.
We should probably stop calling this “onboarding” and rename it to “mounting” because this feels a lot more like mounting a distributed filesystem called “institutional memory” than slowly getting drip-fed context over 6 months.
People of https://t.co/TgG5bkXUdV. Update to the latest pi now (0.73.1), which is the last version coming from the `@mariozechner` namespace on NPM.
Next release in 10 minutes (0.74.0) will be in the `@earendil-works` namespcae on NPM. Update your extension imports from mariozechner of earendil-works.
They will continue to work for a while. They will no longer work after the big refactor is done (2 weeks i hope)
gpt-5.5 prompt for codex seems to have a duplicated line trying to get it to not talk about creatures?
Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.
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Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query
gh link:
https://t.co/1LF8FkRaVf
I was in a BillG review were a PM from Excel was proposing to track mouse moves and clicks in Excel to improve the product. Bill exploded, and argued that
Mouse movement ≠ intent
Click frequency ≠ usability
Heatmaps ≠ understanding
Of course the Meta experiment has a different goal that improving than usability, it wants to replace humans with tokens. And for that scenario it might work.
In the hacker spirit of Meta of the past, I would immediately install a mouse wiggler [0] to poison the well. But I am not sure that is a smart idea anymore in today's ruthless corporate Meta.
Coding agents are the Bitter Lesson applied to programming: all your (so-called) human ingenuity replaced by brute force.
Bitter truth for some, sweet liberation for others.
NotebookLM: Do a deep research report and make a video telling me exactly how to take over Rome if I time travelled to 66 BC with a single backpack.
Actually pretty fun to watch and gets a lot of historical details in as well.
This clip illustrates what a 10x engineer actually looks like, aside from his raw technical ability another important point
He seeks knowledge based on his end goal, guided search is far more efficient than reading random resources
Learn by doing
Excited to share our latest work: "Semi-Autonomous Mathematics Discovery with Gemini." We used Gemini to systematically evaluate 700 "open" conjectures in the Erdős Problems database.
The result? We addressed 13 problems marked as open—finding 5 novel autonomous solutions and identifying 8 existing solutions missed by previous literature.
Read the full case study here: https://t.co/y4WhkP4ETO