Anticheat is indeed a huge blocker, and given how invasive shady kernel anticheat software is on Windows I kinda hope it stays that way

I think even Microsoft is getting ready to be done with kernel level anticheat. After crowdstrike they've been planning to kick everyone out of Ring0, making new user mode APIs. They're focused on EDRs right now but have publicly said eventually everyone is going to be kicked out of the kernel.

In my own experience this is 180 degrees from reality. As a generalist, feeling out the depths of a single domain (something I've been forced to do at least 50 times in my career, to the point that I'm probably a global expert in at least 2-3 things I don't actually care about, but are poorly documented and not especially lucrative on their own) is something that's basically a bunch of Google searches, reading source code, and writing/running tests manually, none of which I really care about short of getting to "the right solution."

Meanwhile, as a generalist who has a basic understanding of general things, everything from how to design efficient network protocols, to how cache lines affect the performance of sorting algorithms, without being a real expert in any of those things, I act as a constant course correction for AI agents doing work on my behalf, in a way that LLM context windows simply cannot replicate.

To give a concrete example, I recently used agents to build a specialized sync protocol that broadly resembles Dropbox. It's nowhere near as efficient in terms of how blocks are synced (because it entirely happens on a LAN and the cost difference is minimal), but I constantly had to make objectively more valuable course corrections on how the sync actually traversed the participating nodes. If I'd just let the LLM drive, it would have come up with a reasonably efficient algorithm (better than I probably would have done on my first try in the same timeframe) that would have had an obvious (to me) single bottleneck.

Making a billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Blowing up billions of dollars.

I have a relatively large "vibe coded" project that I let Claude 4.5-4.7 drive over the past few months, and my read on it is:

1. It's much more verbose about how it perceives the current state of things, i.e. "this is a large, well-documented project"

2. It's much more willing to trust its own judgement, e.g. fewer prompts to approve decisions

3. In terms of how long it takes to solve isolated problems, and the quality of solutions it proposes, it isn't meaningfully different from 4.7

YMMV, and maybe my view will change as I work with it more, but it feels like system prompt tweaks more than a real step forward

The 80s and 90s were pretty much the golden age of music production in terms of breadth and sheer volume.

This is the distilled essence of a “first world problem.”

As someone who built a custom serial cable (not my idea, greetz to the original designer) to load assembly programs on TI-85s for all my friends, the “approved for exams” shit is so funny

The article is clearly not "about" ICE. One paragraph talks about the ICE deployment

Personally, I make a lot more "out of hour" commits than I used to because I'll batch up low priority tasks throughout the day and let the computer chug on them at night when I'm elsewhere. Commits are coming in at all hours, but I'm not actually looking at them until the next morning.

As insane as American politics is "I can blast robots on my property" has exactly the right amount of crank appeal to be possibly the final 90/10 issue

As a security conscious dev that has worked in various highly regulated spaces I want to say we really appreciate people like you, because they’re super rare