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athrowaway3z commented on AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It   hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt... · Posted by u/swolpers
kibwen · 2 hours ago
Talking about "productivity" is a red herring.

Are the people leveraging LLMs making more money while working the same number of hours?

Are the people leveraging LLMs working fewer hours while making the same amount of money?

If neither of these are true, then LLMs have not made your life better as a working programmer.

athrowaway3z · 2 hours ago
Lines of code are not a good metric for productivity.

Neither are the hours worked.

Nor is the money.

Just think of the security guard on site walking around, or someone who has a dozen monitors.

athrowaway3z commented on OpenClaw is changing my life   reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx
chickensong · 18 hours ago
Would you describe your Claude workflow?
athrowaway3z · 12 hours ago
My agents get auto-injected with the core spec via pi-extention.

I have an idea, agent turns it into a draft, depending on idea vagueness/complexity combination of: Looking for alternative, plan the change, look for alternative, split up into smaller drafts to drive separately, execute change (spec, code, tests), review change.

Usually its just: Draft, plan, exec, commit. The steps are flexible enough. Usually each step is a different agent, sometimes not. On complex builds or big changes, a planning agent itself might spawn subagents to avoid bloating its own context.

The progress is stored in: ./dev/{draft/<n>.md , wip/<n>/, fin/<n>/ }.

My `lead` pi has a separate AGENTS.md with how to organize the above sequence, and some notes on how to prompt, keep things small, etc. Note that its skill `tmux-coding-agrents` calls other pi instances (optionally set to codex). I've moved off the claude cli entirely.

I used to spend time telling claude not to forget updating the specs or building its tests because context bloat made them forget AGENTS.md, or to read certain files before it should execute a plan. The lead agent does this just fine now, and every time i see it make a mistake i say: "Next time do X" and it automatically updates its own or the worker agents AGENTS.md.

Because my lead agent context is all about managing this process it doesn't forget steps while its off chasing some bug.

Also, I build (but did not publish) a pi plugin that attempts to use other accounts on usage limits.

Most surprising moment I had, was my lead spawning a subagent, spawning a subagent, which spawned a tmux-bash build with very little prompting, and it was the right thing to do to prevent each agent from context bloat.

athrowaway3z commented on OpenClaw is changing my life   reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx
dmvdoug · a day ago
Yeah, i’ve gone to the point where I will just stop reading AI posts after a paragraph or two if there are no specifics. The “it works!” / “no it doesn’t” genre is saturated with generality. Show, don’t tell, or I will default to believing you don’t have anything to show at all.
athrowaway3z · a day ago
That was very vague, but I kinda get where they're coming from.

I'm now using pi (the thing openclaw is built on) and within a few days i build a tmux plugin and semaphore plugin^1, and it has automated the way _I_ used to use Claude.

The things I disagree with OP is: The usefulness of persistent memory beyond a single line in AGENTS.md "If the user says 'next time' update your AGENTS.md", the use of long-running loops, or the idea that everything can be resolved via chat - might be true for simple projects, but any original work needs me to design the 'right' approach ~5% of the time.

That's not a lot, but AI lets you create load-bearing tech-debt within hours, at which point you're stuck with a lot of shit and you dont know how far it got smeared.

[1]: https://github.com/offline-ant

athrowaway3z commented on Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox   github.com/jingkaihe/matc... · Posted by u/jingkai_he
CuriouslyC · a day ago
Would you let a pro blackhat loose on your system with just a different user account?
athrowaway3z · a day ago
You'd let the pro blackhat loose in your VM on your own system?

No because it's a dumb question and you don't want any stranger inside your home network regardless of firewall.

The comparison you get to make is in terms of the _extra_ security this project buys you.

Might I remind you of two things:

- You're advocating for installing random (?kernel) level software from the internet. That by itself is a real and larger treat than any potentially insecure things my `llm` user _might_ do in the future.

- User accounts security was the goto method for security for a long time. Further isolation was developed to accommodate: 'root' access for tenants, and finer resource limits controls. Neither I care to give an LLM.

So we only have build in firewall and sandbox duplication as the real feature. For the latter, my experience is that it's useless on a personal device, and slows down building or requires too much cache config. I'm not installing random crap, so i can live with the risk of lan exposure.

I'm happy with the maintenance/complexity/threat matrix of useradd.

athrowaway3z commented on Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox   github.com/jingkaihe/matc... · Posted by u/jingkai_he
athrowaway3z · a day ago
Have I told you about our lord and savior: `useradd`
athrowaway3z commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used   blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk
dasil003 · 2 days ago
I agree with both you and the GP. Yes, coding is being totally revolutionized by AI, and we don't really know where the ceiling will be (though I'm skeptical we'll reach true AGI any time soon), but I believe there still an essential element of understanding how computer systems work that is required to leverage AI in a sustainable way.

There is some combination of curiosity of inner workings and precision of thought that has always been essential in becoming a successful engineer. In my very first CS 101 class I remember the professor alluding to two hurdles (pointers and recursion) which a significant portion of the class would not be able to surpass and they would change majors. Throughout the subsequent decades I saw this pattern again and again with junior engineers, bootcamp grads, etc. There are some people no matter how hard they work, they can't grok abstraction and unlock a general understanding of computing possibility.

With AI you don't need to know syntax anymore, but to write the write prompts to maintain a system and (crucially) the integrity of its data over time, you still need this understanding. I'm not sure how the AI-native generation of software engineers will develop this without writing code hands-on, but I am confident they will figure it out because I believe it to be an innate, often pedantic, thirst for understanding that some people have and some don't. This is the essential quality to succeed in software both in the past and in the future. Although vibe coding lowers the barrier to entry dramatically, there is a brick wall looming just beyond the toy app/prototype phase for anyone without a technical mindset.

athrowaway3z · 2 days ago
I can see why people are skeptical devs can be 10x as productive.

But something I'd bet money on is that devs are 10x more productive at using these tools.

athrowaway3z commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used   blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk
athrowaway3z · 2 days ago
Yes, that was one of the first aha moments for me; put simply:

It's now cheaper to try diving into a system to change it, opposed to the 'safe' path to built on-top-off and adapt to it.

athrowaway3z commented on Claude Opus 4.6   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy
simonw · 4 days ago
The bicycle frame is a bit wonky but the pelican itself is great: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a6806ce41b4c721e240a4548ecdbe...
athrowaway3z · 4 days ago
This benchmark inspired me to have codex/claude build a DnD battlemap tool with svg's.

They got surprisingly far, but i did need to iterate a few times to have it build tools that would check for things like; dont put walls on roads or water.

What I think might be the next obstacle is self-knowledge. The new agents seem to have picked up ever more vocabulary about their context and compaction, etc.

As a next benchmark you could try having 1 agent and tell it to use a coding agent (via tmux) to build you a pelican.

athrowaway3z commented on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok   bbc.com/news/articles/ce3... · Posted by u/vikaveri
athrowaway3z · 5 days ago
You're defending X/Grok as if it's a public social platform.

It is a privately controlled public-facing group chat. Being a chat-medium does not grant you the same rights as being a person. France isn't America.

If a company operates to the detriment and against the values of a nation, e.g. not paying their taxes or littering in the environment, the nation will ask them to change their behavior.

If there is a conspiracy of contempt, at some point things escalate.

athrowaway3z commented on Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux   blog.senko.net/sandboxing... · Posted by u/speckx
tasuki · 6 days ago
Well done. It took me all the way up to `useradd`...

Edit: too bad about your edit. The comment was just fine without it.

athrowaway3z · 6 days ago
I wrote my comment to vent my disdain for all the circus projects filled with marketing blurbs and features lists for their overengineered vibeslop.

OP is just sharing the cool utility he found, and how it solved a problem for him.

It felt bad to leave them with the message they shouldn't have, or that he's a big part of the problem.

u/athrowaway3z

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