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Flex work time is awesome. Other than flights I haven't set an alarm since before covid.

1.5 years of basically no irl social life and going to bed at 22 every day has really hammered home my rhythm. I still wake up around 06-07 every day.


I've tried getting started with this but my first attempt a habanero/mango sauce was _horrible_, must've used a slop recipe or something. Do you have a good base to recommend?


I read a bunch of comments agreeing with this anecdote so I'll offer my own counter anecdote.

I don't know if it's what kind of information I'm searching for or something else but adding a !g has never helped for me. If ddg results is shit google has also been shit but with loads of ads. I barely bother trying anymore.


Hm. I don't think I follow "isn't translating to user numbers", could you elaborate?

Here's my thinking: There's 100 users getting updates. There's 40 users sending telemetry with AI enabled There's 10 users sending telemetry with AI disabled

So we have 50 people not sending telemetry and using or not using AI. If we assume more likely but not overwhelmingly more it's 30 people.

So we end up with 40+20 with AI, and 10+30 without?


This correlation may be ilegal to do in large parts of the world.

When you disable telemetry you are declaring you don't want to be tracked.


If you attach tracking to get exact set numbers it'd be illegal, but taking an aggregate and doing statistics shouldn't be since it can't be traced to individuals.


This is quite close to what I've arrived at, but with two modifications

1) anything larger I work on in layers of docs. Architecture and requirements -> design -> implementation plan -> code. Partly it helps me think and nail the larger things first, and partly helps claude. Iterate on each level until I'm satisfied.

2) when doing reviews of each doc I sometimes restart the session and clear context, it often finds new issues and things to clear up before starting the next phase.


When I use other models review plans (eg opus 4.x with Gemini3 or codex5.x), they often surface different issues than the model that wrote the plan.


This is just my own anecdotal experience but I usually get tired around 2130-22 but a few times I've turned off the red filter for various reasons (photo editing etc) and suddenly I'm still there at 0030-01.

I'm not saying it's like this for everyone, but it seems to work very well for me at least.


Very similar for me. I have a plans folder in my root where I store the plans while they're either under improvement or under implementation. Once they're done they're moved into the plans/old folder. So far it's worked great. It's a couple of manual steps extra but very helpful record.


I think there was a rash of this kind of this kind of wrench cryptocurrency robberies in the Netherlands a few years ago.

Break in, bash owner about with a wrench, get coins. <Insert xkcd>


Yep, the meme in crypto community is that you can have all the digital security possible but it'll lose to the $5 wrench attack.


This isn’t just a problem in the Netherlands or a thing of the past. 2025 actually saw the highest number of attacks ever recorded [0].

There are ways to prevent this. Like using multi-sig with geographical separation (so you can't move funds alone) or setting up forced time-delays. Ultimately, being your own bank is a massive responsibility, and I think too many people take that reality too lightly.

0: https://stats.glok.me/


xkcd 538, that is


From my view a lot of the problems of current AI is that people assume others will review and catch any issues. The manual work is getting pushed around like a hot potato.

"AI for me, not for thee" kind of thing.


The divergence of being many smaller countries with different regulations, primary languages, currencies etc have been a blocker, but progress is being made[1] and it seems like people are aware of the problem. It just takes a while when every plan needs to be approved by all countries.

1. https://tech.eu/2026/01/20/the-european-commission-launches-...


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