18 September 2025

35 links · Thursday

Ongoing Agent 3 feedback megathread

To keep this sub cleaner, please keep all Agent 3 / pricing feedback and discussion in here. New threads posted separately will be removed and OP...

KDE is now my favorite desktop — kokada

From my last blog post, I am now using KDE as the desktop environment for my gaming rig. The reason is because I want a reasonably easy to use Linux desktop for when my wife needs to use the PC for something other than gaming, and this was the reason why my "t…

A postmortem of three recent issues

This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.

Why is my kitchen so clean? - Byte Tank

If you had a video call with me, if you happened to see my videos, or if you visited my flat, odds are that a question came up to your mind.

Login with PDF

Yesterday I saw this satire video on on Reddit showcasing a web application that offers an extensive list of sign in connectors. Among them there is an option that allows you to login with a pdf.

How do LLMs work?

What actually goes on inside an LLM to make it calculate probabilities for the next token?

Upgrading By Downgrading

Article written by <br>I've started to notice a sort of trend in today's society. It's becoming a sort of counter-culture in a way. We are choosing to regre...

Leveling up hurts

I quit the startup before Figma after just 3 months. It’s not on my LinkedIn so you can’t look it up. It wasn’t the right role for me but I went for it, partly due to the higher pay. They offered way more than I made previously, which turned out to be pretty u…

Don't Optimize Everything - mr-stingy

Optimization takes the magic out of life (when taken too far). Don't optimize everything. Make space to live.

Take Home Interviews in the Era of Claude

Back in 2023 I came up with our first take-home interview assignment: build a full-stack Secret Santa app that supports multiple users and groups. It proved to be an effective engineering screen. It tested SQL and denormalization, authentication, React, backen…