While moving, dug up this 2019(?!) sketch of Anna O'Brien, the one-legged Appalachian conjure-woman who stars in my historical fantasy collection GHOST DAYS and the forthcoming West Virginia mining wars novel. I like how this little study came out.

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People have challenged me on saying that human authored code bases can decohere the way agent authored code bases can. And I've just realized that the nixpgs repo is the perfect example of a decohered codebase. I'm so sorry Nix fans. You might even be fine with that assessment, idk.

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this is wild because it never would have even occurred to me that someone would argue humans prevent this agents merely accelerate a process that we're already bad at managing

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My hypothesis is that people are generally more predictable than they themselves would like to be, but less predictable than businesses would like them to be, and a lot of modern business is about building guiderails to increase that predictability ("personalisation" a big part of this)

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every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

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