12 August 2025

12 links · Tuesday

Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk

There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going on.

Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke Kawaguchi is a prominent software engineer, best known as the creator of Jenkins, an open-source automation server that is widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). He is currently the Co-Head of AI at leading DevOps provi…

I Migrated 40 Projects to Central Package Management in Minutes

Get the source code here: https://www.patreon.com/milanjovanovic Want to master Clean Architecture? Go here: https://bit.ly/3PupkOJ Want to unlock Modular Monoliths? Go here: https://bit.ly/3SXlzSt Keeping NuGet package versions in sync across a large .NET so…

LLMs aren’t world models

I believe that language models aren’t world models. It’s a weak claim — I’m not saying they’re useless, or that we’re done milking them. It’s also a fuzzy-sounding claim — with its trillion weights, who can prove that there’s something an LLM isn't a model of?…