I like my doctor but his office is always full of sick people.

PSA: iPhone Air's microphone is located on the left side of the bottom edge of the device, AKA where a right-handed person's pinky would naturally rest when gripping the phone with one hand.

Anyway, that's why all your videos sound like shit. You're holding it wrong.

Added a /prove skill to my prove_it library. It pushes Claude Code to go beyond merely analyzing source and running tests to demonstrate the code is working.

Example: it spun up a complete example project and ACTUALLY proved my cached test runner works github.com/searlsco/prove_it

Free idea: hyperbolic_links.

Let users create symbolic links mapped to HTTP resources. Since you can't literally link a file to a URL without changing the actual file system, hyperbolic would centrally handle journaling, cache/etag, updates.

My prove_it CLI is already proving valuable. Just watched Opus 4.6 complete an hourlong rewrite without me… ONLY because 6 times prove_it's own script & agent hooks blocked Claude from prematurely declaring victory. It's letting me focus on WHAT, not HOW github.com/searlsco/prove_it

"3 things: reusable rockets, AI via satellite; and a real-time free speech platform. Rockets, space-based AI, and free speech. Rockets, AI…are you getting it? These are not three separate companies, this is one company, and we're calling it SpaceXXX" spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex

I do not miss thinking hard jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard

A recurring theme in coverage on the effect AI will have on wealth/income inequality suggests there's a strong case to be made that AI is going to be bad for poor people.

I have nothing useful to add to that discussion, so here's a word I just invented: Agentrification

Two new searlsbrew projects today:

• prove_it: verification-oriented baseline rules and hooks for Claude Code github.com/searlsco/prove_it
• scrapple: scrapes and indexes Apple's SDK docs/videos/sample code github.com/searlsco/scrapple

Early in my career, I met a few COBOL developers who came out of retirement in the run-up to January 2000, getting paid $300+ per hour to remediate Y2K bugs when nobody else was left who knew COBOL.

Suspect a similar trajectory for highly-skilled, well-rounded "pre-AI" engineers

Coding agents are a TON of fun if you are (1) extremely ambitious and (2) have middling standards.

They are still fun if you are (1) extremely ambitious and (2) ruthlessly exacting standards, but markedly less so.

Hey America, I'm back. What the hell happened.

Over the last 20 years, my time in Japan felt like Season 1 of Pluribus. A nation acting in harmony, going from happy to see me everywhere I went to constantly signaling they "need some space"

In cities, it's thanks to over-tourism. In the country, it's anti-immigrant populism.