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Eric S. Raymond posts on X about ai, if you, in the, this is the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence technology brands 12.04% celebrities 4.63% countries 3.7% finance 1.85% stocks 1.85% cryptocurrencies 0.93%

Social topic influence ai 8.33%, if you 7.41%, in the 5.56%, this is 5.56%, how to 2.78%, to the 2.78%, code #1130, have the 1.85%, maga 1.85%, strong 1.85%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @novulturezone @aflickerofdoubt @jaymaynard @khompewter @rivernj @itechnologynet @ddgulledge @notsorryyuppie @radcentrism @agentorangemann @gfodor @unclebobmartin @vulcanignis @tipton @grok @edawrellek21693 @beardenburner @ishitatwts @machinahill @techpdm

Top assets mentioned CVS Health Corp (CVS) OORT (OORT)

Top Social Posts

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"Programming with AI assistance is very revealing. It turns out I'm not quite who I thought I was. There are a lot of programmers out there who have a tremendous amount of ego and identity invested in the craft of coding. In knowing how to beat useful and correct behavior out of one language and system environment or better yet many. If you asked me a week ago I might have said I was one of those people. But a curious thing has occurred. LLMs are so good now that I can validate and generate a tremendous amount of code while doing hardly any hand-coding at all. And it's dawning on me that I"
X Link 2026-02-05T04:45Z 47.1K followers, 143.1K engagements

"In [----] Yggdrasil - one of the very first Linux distributions - sent me a CD-ROM distribution of Linux out of the blue because they had noticed I was one of the major contributors to the software on it. We had not yet entered the span of years during which CD-ROM drives were routinely installed on PCs at the factory. I have to buy and install one myself in order to read the distribution. This had some consequences you might be aware of"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:19Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis" now hear this because I've been coding for [--] years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver. Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust and this one's going to be too. The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM. Systems are still complicated. This"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:25Z 47.1K followers, 1.6M engagements

"Announcing comit release [---] Interpreter for the COMIT II programming language. COMIT dating from [----] was the first programming language designed specifically for string manipulation. It was directly ancestral to SNOBOL and through SNOBOL to sed(1) perl(1) and all other languages built around regular expressions. A Retrocomputing Museum project. New in this release: Code hardening with ChatGPT [---]. Add guards to prevent buffer overruns and UB in edge cases. Documentation is fully spellchecked. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020842779455168810"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:50Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"To understand if you're a good software developer ask yourself whether you have the wisdom not to do this. Yes I could write a TCP server in C by hand. But what would the point be exactly There are plenty of good ones available for reuse and at this point eschewing the use of AI is approximately as silly as restricting yourself to assembler in a world that has plenty of good compilers. Laziness is one of the virtues of great programmers. Or to put it exoterically not doing work you don't have to do so you can concentrate your limited think time on the work only you can do. To understand if"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:05Z 47.1K followers, 143.5K engagements

"@DrClownPhD Only if she's teaching biology"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:36Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I was writing some code the new-school way yesterday prompting gpt-4.1 through aider and for whatever reason my mind flashed back [--] years and the utter freaking enormity of it all crashed in on me like a tidal wave. And now I want to make you feel that too. In [----] I ran programs by feeding punched cards into a programmable calculator. Actual computers were still giant creatures that lived in glass-walled rooms though there were rumors from afar of a thing called an Altair. Unix and C had not yet broken containment from Bell Lab; DOS and the first IBM PC were six years away. The aggregated"
X Link 2025-12-27T08:17Z 46.7K followers, 106.2K engagements

"We're in the Singularity now and it's screwing up the business planning of everybody in tech. How do you do product design when the pace of change in AI is so rapid that you can be pretty sure your concept will be obsolete before it ships Vernor Vinge first articulated the concept of the Singularity in [----] describing it as the point at which technological change accelerates to a speed where what comes after the Singularity is incomprehensible in terms of what was before it. And that's right where we are in early [----]. Nobody knows what to build that will still have value in [--] months. Which"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:44Z 46.9K followers, 184.4K engagements

"Let me make it simple for you. I am always and everywhere in favor of the killing of Communists whether they are American citizens or not and whether or not it is the US government doing it. Also Nazis and all other totalitarians who want me dead or broken under their boot. I consider these creatures to be hostis humanae generis like pirates and slavers. They are self-exiled from the community of trust and law and deserve only the bullet or the noose. The only relevant moral question is whether one has identified them correctly. Once one has exterminating them becomes a duty. Thank you for"
X Link 2026-01-28T00:22Z 46.5K followers, 92.2K engagements

"43 years ago I wrote a little binary-file dumper for Unix because I liked the CP/M three-column hex-and-ascii format better than what the Unix od(1) utility produced. It's still in common enough use today to be packaged in several Linux distributions. Can anybody on X beat that longevity record (I've maintained it ever since [----] because I still think the od(1) format is ugly. Also it can dump SNA EBCDIC.) https://repology.org/project/hexd-esr/versions https://repology.org/project/hexd-esr/versions"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:38Z 46.5K followers, 32K engagements

"List ASCII idiomatic names and octal/decimal codepoint forms. Provides easy conversion between various byte representations and theAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character table. It knows about a wide variety of hex binary octal Teletype mnemonic ISO/ECMA code point slang names XML entity names and other representations. Given any one on the command line it will try to display all others. Called with no arguments it displays a handy small ASCII chart. This version [----] has been hardened and validated with ChatGPT [---] https://gitlab.com/esr/ascii"
X Link 2026-02-01T07:06Z 47K followers, [----] engagements

"@harryjsisson I'm not MAGA but the fact that Trump and ICE got "called out" by that collection of hacks ciphers degenerates and hollow androids would be a pretty strong incentive to sign up if I were the joining kind"
X Link 2026-02-02T10:39Z 47K followers, 15.4K engagements

"That should have read "Never ask an engineer a question unless you actually want an answer." There I fixed it for you. Like an engineer. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018504199760142641 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018504199760142641"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:57Z 47.1K followers, 36.2K engagements

"This is good advice. I don't know who Gracia is but she thinks like an experienced systems programmer. https://t.co/5TlthZjCZD https://t.co/5TlthZjCZD"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:48Z 47.1K followers, 87.8K engagements

"@Braxtonbrew96 Right we get it. "White supremacy" is any speech or action that opposes gay race communism. You're going to turn a lot of people into white supremacists talking like that"
X Link 2026-02-04T02:24Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Announcing autodafe release [---] Tools for converting an autotools recipe to a plain Makefile. The main tool makemake reduces a generated Makefile to an equivalent form more suitable for human modification and with internal automake cruft removed. New in this release: Code hardening with ChatGPT [---]. Repair processing of var=val arguments in configure. Fix inversion in CHECK_PROGRAM generation Documentation is fully spell-checked. Improve detection of C++ compilers in deconfig. Handle 4-part GNU host identification triples. https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe"
X Link 2026-02-04T10:22Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"True story: how I once made a Nobel-prize-winning cosmologist almost lose it. Back in the 1990s I was an invited speaker at the Institute for Advanced Study. No not as Mr Famous Open Source Guy this was a few years before that. I was there because I was an Emacs expert and at IAS then even the secretaries used Emacs. For whatever reason they treated me like a visiting academic from another institution took me around introducing me to people and I got to listen to them talk about their work. So I'm listening to a cosmologist talk about quantized red shift and dark matter comes up and I said"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:59Z 47.1K followers, 40K engagements

"Chuck rewrote it. I cleaned up the code added a few features (notably color in the UI) and kept it maintained for pushing [--] years. Not as big a deal as it sounds the code has been pretty stable. One of the hats I have chosen to wear is "open-source maintainer of heritage games from ancient days". ADVENT. Hunt the Wumpus. UT Star Trek the really elaborate mainframe version that verges on being a text adventure game. Battleship. Greed. And of course. VMS Empire. Sometime in the next couple days I'm going to do a rigorous code audit on vms-empire with an LLM. I'm doing that to Super Star Trek"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:57Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I went from entirely hand-coding to getting high volumes of useful AI generated code in less than a month with only extremely rare and manageable hallucinations though just one change to my programming practice. Which I will now describe. [--]. Write and maintain a context file Before you write a line of code dump your thoughts about what you want to do into a text file. As you have more thoughts about it add them. It should be designer's notes. It could be a to-do list. It should be where you sketch things like file formats and protocols and module organization. Eventually pieces of this file"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:44Z 47.1K followers, 69.7K engagements

"@dvdeijk Currently using ChatGPT [---] but not attached to it. Have you used others before and I'm sure a better one will come along in a month or three"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:09Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@RalstonReports I'm not taking a scintilla of pleasure at this. I'm scarfing down huge dripping blobs of pleasure. Cry harder useless Communist tools"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:41Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"All the smartest people I know are like this. That I almost certainly still believe things that are wrong and that I should be happy and receptive to discovering that some of my beliefs are wrong so as to make my thinking even clearer not be upset at people who offer rational arguments and evidence showing how I am wrong. That I almost certainly still believe things that are wrong and that I should be happy and receptive to discovering that some of my beliefs are wrong so as to make my thinking even clearer not be upset at people who offer rational arguments and evidence showing how I am wrong"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:19Z 47.1K followers, 12.3K engagements

"@Arizona_LP I'm a libertarian. And you are why the LP has rendered itself irrelevant and toxic fighting the wrong battles for the wrong reasons"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:10Z 47.1K followers, 10.5K engagements

"Comes the news that Anthropic has vibecoded an entire C compiler. It's an impressive stunt but even as bullish as I am on AI-assisted coding I wouldn't want to use it for production. The reason is auditability. I don't actually know not having seen the source code but so far what usually happens when you vibecode something this size is you get a gigantic hairball. Functional maybe but not something that a human can practically speaking comprehend or modify. So what happens when it breaks How can I know that when it's driven into a odd region of its behavioral space it won't do something alien"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:04Z 47.1K followers, 27.7K engagements

"@tomdale I'm doing fine"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:05Z 46.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@DefiantLs A mere hanging would not inflict the pain this creature deserves. Bring back the impalement stake"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:47Z 47K followers, 22.6K engagements

"I'm just barely old enough to remember the collapse of the hype that "compilers" (and in particular COBOL) would make programming obsolete risible is that seems today. Then there was at least one more round of this sort of nonsense about CASE tools in the 1980s. There were probably a couple more that I missed by having bullshit filters"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:37Z 47.1K followers, 14.1K engagements

"@gfodor @gabrielayuso I understand that. I'm saying that I think you're just as wrong as all the other people I've been hearing say "this time is different" for the last [--] years"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:21Z 46.5K followers, [----] engagements

"This is the face of evil. Smiling modern technocratic evil talking biological warfare all wrapped up in green/therapeutic language. Recognize it. Hate it as it deserves to be hated. Destroy it. WEF World Economic Forum Matthew Liao: We can induce 'meat allergy' by using Lone Star Ticks to stop the consumption of meat and help the planet https://t.co/C2qmYq0WGb WEF World Economic Forum Matthew Liao: We can induce 'meat allergy' by using Lone Star Ticks to stop the consumption of meat and help the planet https://t.co/C2qmYq0WGb"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:25Z 47.1K followers, 57.2K engagements

"@morganlinton Codex can probably write better code than me at the microlevel once it has a specification. But it can't design or decide what to code anywhere near as well as I can"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:54Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@TexasTamieK Born in Boston all those years ago and now I find out. I'm a Southerner"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:18Z 46.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I've never watched a Super Bowl in my entire life. I guess that makes me so cool I'm positively cryogenic. Or you know a giant nerd. Or both. Yeah I'm going with "both". Can everyone please save their uhh I dont watch the Super Bowl because Im too cool tweets in their drafts please We get it. But its the Super Bowl. Im going watch it. Can everyone please save their uhh I dont watch the Super Bowl because Im too cool tweets in their drafts please We get it. But its the Super Bowl. Im going watch it"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:50Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@Math_files I would give Gauss the top spot myself but your joke is still good"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:00Z 47K followers, [----] engagements

"@rikarends Yes. I'm actually thinking this may be the way that I become a competent Rust programmer - by using AI to yeet myself over the borrow-checker barrier"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:09Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@aflickerofdoubt To demonstrate actual skill solve a new problem"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:15Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@jetpen @aflickerofdoubt Exactly. Almost any fool can write code. Takes judgment to know what code to write"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:34Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@CDoombeard Sunlight dude. Go outside where you can get unfiltered sunlight on your retinas. The reset doesn't take long and if you still your mind you will be able to feel it happening. Walk around the block exercise helps for a reset too"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:01Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I don't think this is true. You can still post a project that demonstrates that you were capable of originating an interesting design idea or recognizing a gap in the available toolkit and then realizing it. Compilers didn't destroy the signaling value of posting projects just because that got a lot easier when it wasn't necessary to code in assembler. I don't see why this is different"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:13Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@DittiePE We don't know what Trump knew when. We can guess but we don't know. We also have reason to suspect that keeping Epstein as a guest might have been keeping him close enough to monitor him for the Feds"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:04Z 47.1K followers, 24.8K engagements

"@Ishitatwts Nice keyboards. The rest of that gear is too old-school for me but those look like vintage mechanical keyboards that mog the rubber-dome crap usually shipped nowadays"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:46Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"A possibly interesting report of a current experience with ChatGPT [---]. TL;DR: it makes translation of complex C code into Golang practical. I maintain a program called cvs-fast-export that does what it says on the tin - generates a Git fast import stream capturing the state of a CVS repository. Internally it's pretty horrible. About [--] KLOC full of malloc/free fuckery and algorithms that are kind of like the old joke about the Schleswig-Holstein controversy: Keith Packard who wrote them in order to lift the X repositories back in [----] no longer understands them and I have spent significant"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:35Z 47.1K followers, 16.2K engagements

"@JayMaynard @StarborneKing Look up the history of Lucid Emacs aka XEmacs. It's a rather depressing saga. JWZ was probably right to think he had a better approach to mating Emacs with X but the fork ultimately failed"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:24Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@MachinaHill @Ishitatwts My condolences on your lack of taste"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:35Z 47.1K followers, [--] engagements

"My setup: Three big flatscreens left and right in landscape mode middle in portrait mode - that's the one where my editor lives permanently. Logitech m575 optical trackball. Unicomp New Model M keyboard because buckling springs still rule. I'm from the Stone Age too but I got the job done. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021612613415641239 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021612613415641239"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:49Z 47.1K followers, [--] engagements

"@jorge_codes What can I say The marketroid I said it to was being a smug asshole which annoyed me"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:55Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I'm uncomfortable with it too but it's not a situation I expect to last very long. Open-source models are already a thing and it's already possible to run some of them on home hardware. The eligible ones aren't very good yet but.that will change and we'll be able to cut the cord from proprietary subscription services. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021668355015311503 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021668355015311503"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:31Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Of course you didn't hear about the shooting. Because it was impossible. They have strict gun control in Canada therefore mass shootings can't happen so it wasn't in the news. All the smartest best morally superior people have explained this to me repeatedly. How could I fail to believe them https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021677921060983149 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021677921060983149"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:09Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Because people I trust to evaluate such things tell me that ChatGPT [---] is better at being a programming assistant - especially that it follows directions more closely which is a good fit for my prompting style. I have seen nothing to contradict these reports. When I hear reliable reports of a better model I will switch"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:53Z 47.1K followers, [--] engagements

"@CMArchibald Tell me are these "suburban moms" more Communist agitators who went looking for a confrontation like Renee Good"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:34Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@BabaYaga2397 Yes she's still a smokeshow. The "backlash" talk must be coming from jealous ugly women and gays"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:53Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@TechPdM That's not bad. I'd use that term"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:28Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@KhomPewter @Devon_Eriksen_ You truly have no idea how dimwitted and ignorant you sound do you Go read the link I gave you. The "hackers" you fear aren't the real article. You've been misled by shoddy journalism. To be fair you have a lot of company in that"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:09Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@ashbert Single model single session no shims I walked the LLM through the architecture I wanted"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:18Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@VasiliyZukanov I can certify from an experience I just had translating old nasty C code to Go that ChatGPT [---] generates high-quality Go code and the performance is more than acceptable. 10/10 would choose this implementation path again. And probably will"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:52Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The port process also smashed some obscure bugs that I've been unable to get a handle on in a decade of trying. One example: there was a mystery failure indicated by a message saying "branch cycle warning" but my test cases that used to trigger that don't anymore. Also there are no longer any limits on the length of revision numbers or the number of branches the program can process https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022437679166545956 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022437679166545956"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:28Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@LibOrNormal So like what are they going to do Pass the single brain cell back and forth"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:38Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@dschulzg @BuzzPatterson That one track rocked harder in 2:58 than most bands do in their entire careers. Can you imagine Layne Staley's unearthly wailing and the earthquake guitar riff coming out of that wall of doom"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:29Z 47.1K followers, [--] engagements

"@SandyofCthulhu Checking Irenaeus against the primary Gnostic sources at Nag Hamadi and elsewhere it's pretty clear that the Cainites never existed outside the mind of Christian heresiologists. The Aztecs on the other hand.brrrrrr"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:51Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Sensurround I'm usually on your side against yahoos like this guy. But that response was not worthy of you. You know perfectly well that what he means by "no African DNA" is no recent genetic trace from sub-Saharan Africans with all of that implies the range of traits including skull morphology skin color and distribution of fast-twitch muscle. It's not responsive to say "we all have African DNA" because it's only trivially true. We are not all sub-Saharan Africans genetically or behaviorally. I enjoy watching you skewer dumbshits. But do it honestly eh"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:15Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"No I wrote this one pre-AI. But this release is happening because I used AI to find and fix bugs in the code"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:21Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@Anthony_Etherin JRR Tolkien has Sam Gamgee exclaim "Attercop" when he first sees Shelob. I think this is strong circumstantial evidence that the word survived in British rural dialects into the late 19th century"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:22Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I'm about to do something I think I've never done before which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and idiocy lots of people other than me are now willing to say in public that "Codes of Conduct" have been a disaster - a kind of infectious social insanity producing lots of drama and politics and backbiting and negative useful work. Here is my advice about codes of conduct: [--]. Refuse to have one. If your project has one delete it. The only actual function they have is as a tool in the"
X Link 2025-09-27T02:46Z 47.1K followers, 309.5K engagements

"I have a terrific premise for a science fiction story that I haven't figured out what to do with because I don't know how to make a plot or drama around it. I thought this one up when I was reminded that the diffuse Oort cloud of our solar system is so large that it probably overlaps with the Oort cloud of Alpha Centauri. Premise: there is life in Oort clouds. Cryogenic life adapted to temperatures not much above [--] Kelvin. To that life the galaxy looks not so much like vacuum but like a continuous field of overlapping cold Oort shells. Hell is downwards in the direction of the nearest star."
X Link 2026-01-26T22:27Z 47.1K followers, 76.6K engagements

"@okieokc What's a Ralph loop"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:48Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"This is absolutely fucking false. I'm a top 20% SWE and AI assistance gives me both a tremendous speed boost and better precision (ability to home inaccurately on techniques that achieve the desired goal). AI doesn't seem to work nearly as well for programmers that are closer to the average as it does for me. I think you have this backwards"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:41Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@BuzzPatterson Alice In Chains "Them Bones""
X Link 2026-02-15T00:44Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@NatureUnedited Dang. I want to scratch a cheetah behind the ears too"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:18Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"I feel stupid now. I need to stop underestimating Trump dammit. So Trump threatens to turn Gaza into a resort and casino. Lindsey Graham and Mark Kelly lose their minds. [--] hours later and Egypt and Jordan are falling all over themselves to rebuild it. And thats how its done kids. So Trump threatens to turn Gaza into a resort and casino. Lindsey Graham and Mark Kelly lose their minds. [--] hours later and Egypt and Jordan are falling all over themselves to rebuild it. And thats how its done kids"
X Link 2025-02-07T18:16Z 47.1K followers, 610K engagements

"Add "Open Range" as Robert Duvall's best (and sadly last) performance. Kevin Costner might have been the marquee star but Duvall carried that movie on his shoulders. I've thought about Open Range a lot in the last couple of days during the recent X debate about westerns. I've decided it's my favorite. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019246746933584334 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019246746933584334"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:08Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I might just spend the next year laughing so hard that I'm in danger of rupturing my abdomen. Yes. The evidence that Donald Trump was a Federal informant in the Epstein case has been trickling out for a couple of years now. I am too libertarian to be MAGA and by no means Donald Trump's biggest fan but I noticed this. What are the Trump-hating media and the Left (but I repeat myself) going to do now that these court documents are going public They've backed themselves into a corner by incessantly screaming "Trump is a pedo" despite the fact that he never went to Little St James and cut times"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:33Z 47.1K followers, 1.5M engagements

"@bzogrammer Any "rationalist" that tries to deny this is being irrational. Rationalism isn't about limiting yourself to some kind of hypothetical emotionless mode of cognition it's about using the mind you have as effectively as possible and living not by lies"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:53Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@IamR0galD0rn Yeah no. I tried goat once in Mexico. It tasted like mud. Never again"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:53Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I'm getting spectacular results. Real solid shipping code not unicorn farts"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:41Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I've been going through all my personal projects - like [--] of them - cleaning up all the technical debt and clearing bug lists. Most recently I ported 7KLOC of really old nasty C code to Golang with significant functional improvements. This is how I've been shipping a project release a day for the last couple of weeks. If you follow me you'll see the announcements here on X. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023129749321568475 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023129749321568475"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:18Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Announcing coverity-submit release [----] Submit scan requests to the Coverity demo server. If you are a registered user of Coverity's self-build server and have the cov-build tools installed locally this script automates the process of running the tools shipping and submitting the results with an analysis request to Coverity. It can be configured to store build passwords local build commands and other required information for multiple projects so you don't have to remember it - just call the tool and let it manage the details. New in this release: Code hardening with ChatGPT [---]. Improve"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:06Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Accurate. I'm a bastard-sword guy in case anyone is wondering. It's dangerous to go alone. Take this https://t.co/fBMyr7rmWJ It's dangerous to go alone. Take this https://t.co/fBMyr7rmWJ"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:46Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"We only have one term for the evolving mode of writing software cooperatively with an AI - "vibecoding". I think we need at least one more term because there's a spectrum of techniques being explored and "vibecoding" can describe at most one end of it. At one end of the spectrum is what I think of as YOLO coding and I'm tempted to compound-word it as "yolocoding". That's where you describe an application that you want and just tell the computer to grind on your informal description until it thinks it's done. I never do this. I hear stories about people doing this ("I wrote an entire videogame"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:38Z 47.1K followers, 18.4K engagements

"@KhomPewter @Devon_Eriksen_ You know not of what you speak. http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:18Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Announcing cstrings release [---] A quick-and-dirty internationalization tool for C/C++ code because sometimes gettext is too heavyweight. Extracts strings from a program and turns them into #defines in a prepended code section. Has good features for incremental use. Handy for people who find gettext too heavyweight. New in this release: Code-hardening changes by ChatGPT [---] Full spellchecking of the manual page. I don't know that anyone but me has ever used this but hey; I write a tool I publish the tool this is the Way. https://gitlab.com/esr/cstrings https://gitlab.com/esr/cstrings"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:23Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"My Go port of cvs-fast-export has reached total victory. All the existing regression tests pass even the most wacky pathological ones. This has significance even if you don't care about repository converters. I'll explain why below. I have a day or two of clean up to do mostly writing regression tests for obscure CLI features (alternate reporting modes like dumping a DOT graph of the repo) that didn't have them before so I can verify compatible operation across the C and Go versions. But the hard part is done. I think this is kind of a big deal not only because of cvs-fast-export's own"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:49Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Announcing ctopy release [---] Your system package manager probably knows this as 'ctopy' Simpleminded but effective C to Python source-code translator. This tool automates the parts of translating C source code to Python source code that are difficult for a human but easy for a machine. This allows a human programmer to concentrate on the nontrivial parts of the translation. New in this release: Python [--] porting changes and code hardening by ChatGPT [---]. Documentation fully spellchecked. It's possible that LLMs have formally made this tool obsolete - they're pretty good at language"
X Link 2026-02-14T11:31Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Briefly after some recent positive experiences with Chat-GPT [---] I was bemusedly telling friends that at the micro-level it writes better code than I do. After a bit more experience I've realized that that's not true. It doesn't write better code than I do; what it does do is get to similarly good code much faster and with less debugging along the way. What it really excels at is not making mistakes in the fiddly bits. This morning I was able to tell it to parallelize two for-loops doing moderately tricky bashing of data structures and it wrote all the required mutex locking correctly Could I"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:34Z 47.1K followers, 59.6K engagements

"@FreemyerGreg I left out the bit where I journal all my prompts into a file that becomes part of the repository"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:50Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Announcing cupl release [----] A faithful implementation of the ancient CUPL and CORC languages. CUPL was an early (1966) teaching language implemented as a batch compiler on the IBM/360 at Cornell University. It was descended from an earlier (1962) experimental language called CORC (CORnell Compiler) which was in turn derived loosely from Algol-58. This project implements both. New in this release: Supplied missing SIN implementation. Fix FOR increment to use the BY expression node. Correct SGM to sum elements not their absoolute values. Adjusted TIMES to stop when n = [--] Terminate execution on"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:12Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@unpleasantscifi Um . because they can"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:48Z 47.1K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Announcing deal release [---] Calculator for nonreplacement probabilities. This program computes odd for drawing card sets (e.g. non-replacement probabilities) using the hypergeometric function. It can also be used to compute binomial coefficients and the gamma function. New in this release: Documentation fully spellchecked. Removed obsolete -c option. Code hardening patches by ChatGPT 5.2"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:25Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Robert Duvall died today. There are not many actors whose death could sadden me; he's on that short list. That's despite the fact that I don't know that I've ever seen more than one of his movies. But the one was enough. It was "Open Range" which is my favorite Western of all time. A movie that Duvall carried on his shoulders despite the fact that Kevin Costner was the marquee star. I loved Boss Spearman. His toughness his honesty his courage his refusal to bend to threats and how gentle he was with those who needed it. The best fictional characters are paragons; they show us what we could be"
X Link 2026-02-16T20:11Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@TMLutas @JudgeJeanine Marbury versus Madison. If Judge Jeanine does not understand that it is her duty to actively refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws we have a bigger problem than just violated gun rights"
X Link 2026-02-04T04:32Z 43.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@SandyofCthulhu I had the same reaction and gave up for the same reason. It ain't just you"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:36Z 44.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@unclebobmartin @RepNancyMace I've been maintaining this version of it since [----]. https://gitlab.com/esr/vms-empire https://gitlab.com/esr/vms-empire"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:55Z 45.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Old friend meet new friend. Sara would make a devastating assassin. She's beautiful enough to distract her targets just like in the movies. She's competent with weapons (firearms at least - I might have to teach her blades). She can even do nigh-impossible mid-air stunts All she needs is the leather catsuit really"
X Link 2026-02-05T04:56Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@mdv19591 @_ryancole @JoshuaSteinman Create reusable components and then instruct the LLM to use them. Yes that's what I do. I sometimes describe it as coding "from the middle out""
X Link 2026-02-05T06:04Z 45.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@VulcanIgnis Presently using ChatGPT [---]. Keeping an ear to the ground for better and expecting that better will happen soon"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:06Z 46.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@TrueAmPatriot86 That's a whole different level of problem sorry"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:33Z 45.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@OneBadDude_ Nope. A civil war means I get to shoot Communists. I mean it's a bonus if they work for the government but it's not required. Possibly this should worry you"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:38Z 45.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@Trent_STEMpunk @unclebobmartin It's just Emacs and Codex CLI and the prompt is "Audit this code for bugs and suggest improvements.""
X Link 2026-02-05T14:37Z 45.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@GodPlaysCards It's not complicated. The people who are opposed to voter ID want to be able to commit electoral fraud on a massive scale. They pretend to have other reasons but they're lying"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:31Z 45.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@0x49fa98 I'm not catching the reference here"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:20Z 46.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Heh. I remember an afternoon at a sword school where the instructors wanted us to do sparring with epees. We had enough face masks but we were short of the cloth armor that's usually required for safety when you're using that kind of thrusting sword. Then I realized: Wait. I came here wearing an A2 jacket Which for those of you in the cheap seats is an aviator jacket made of rather high-quality leather. I zipped it all the way up turned up the color to protect my neck and the chief instructor grinned and said "Not only is that better protection than the school armor you look quite dashing" At"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:14Z 45.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@miehrmantraut Of course I know about comprehensive test suites. But even those rely on certain assumptions about smoothness of behavior that can become doubtful when the compiler's internal rules are sufficiently opaque to human comprehension"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:19Z 46.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@ShamashAran @DataRepublican This is not exactly breaking news"
X Link 2026-02-07T03:20Z 46.4K followers, [---] engagements

"An observation I left out of my earlier thread on the xz back door: Autotools. Must. Die. The complexity and obscurity of autotools build recipes was essential to the way the malicious code was concealed and inserted in the release tarball"
X Link 2024-03-30T13:50Z 47.1K followers, 1.4M engagements

"DEC was indeed genius with instruction-set design but genius relative to a set of cost gradients that changed drastically in the 1980s and made their design philosophy obsolete. Yes I miss those machines too. The instruction sets were designed to make writing assembler pleasant and efficient for human programmers. As pleasant as it could get anyway. But it turns out that's not actually what you want. DEC was overtaken by the rise of compilers especially the rise of C. It turns out to be better economics to design your instruction set so that it's friendly to compiler back-ends because most of"
X Link 2025-04-28T11:58Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Almost the entire media academia and overclass establishment desperately wants Democrats not to be in the files so yes. Apparently you forgot the part where Trump's decades of public history with Epstein includes cutting all ties with him after he hit on an underage Mar-a-Lago employee. If there were anything in the Epstein files that incriminated Trump the Biden administration had four years to leak it but didn't; this is why I'm pretty sure no such smoking gun exists. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003789523377913873 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003789523377913873"
X Link 2025-12-24T11:27Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements

"I hate to break it to you but being opposed to non-white immigration is pretty rational. It's a proxy for "no we don't want to lower the mean IQ and raise the mean time-preference level". Of course the really smart thing to do would be not to let anybody in unless they can already speak English amd pass a test for IQ over [---]. Then we could ignore skin color entirely"
X Link 2025-12-27T05:48Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"National Kiss a Ginger Day Memo: must seriously smooch my wife. Nala Mae looks a whole lot like the Maine Coon tom my wife and I had before the current pair of excellent fuzzballs. Sadly he died young of a congenital heart condition; I hope yours has a much longer and happier life. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011073047340486784 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011073047340486784"
X Link 2026-01-13T13:49Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements

"There are a lot of trolls posing as Second Amendment advocates out and about on X today. It's an obvious demoralization operation and I'm going to do what I can to counter it. Consider the following propositions: Q. This Alex Pieri character was well within his rights to be carrying a firearm at a demonstration. A. Gun rights folks say "Yes absolutely" The fact that he was carrying a weapon was not grounds to shoot him. The fact that some government officials have made remarks that could be interpreted that way is immaterial; that's on them not on us. Q. If while at a demonstration you"
X Link 2026-01-25T21:03Z 47.1K followers, 17.3K engagements

"This is an extremely important point that I've been thinking about ever since we got an unexpected audit of Venezuela's air defenses. Russian SAM-300s and BUKs Chinese anti-air radar all proved completely worthless against U.S. gear and operators. I guarantee you that if you are a Chinese military planner contemplating how to get an invasion army across [---] miles of the Straits of Taiwan you are shitting your pants right about now. Because you have just learned that if you had tried to bust that move yesterday your nice shiny new invasion fleet would have gotten absolutely gacked by U.S."
X Link 2026-01-06T19:07Z 47.1K followers, 1.2M engagements

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