#202 — Thu 19 March 2026 by Evan Chen

Are people really so slow at reading emails that having an LLM summarize the email for them is useful? I can't imagine not preferring to just read the original.

#201 — Wed 18 March 2026 by Evan Chen

we learned that apparently the actual purpose of MOP was to mine OTIS diamonds buried deep within the earth

that has got to be one of the quotes of all time

#200 — Tue 17 March 2026 by Evan Chen

all i want for christmas is django support for ty

#199 — Mon 16 March 2026 by Evan Chen

Appreciated this paragraph from gasche:

The policy that I proposed has been described to me as:

• disturbingly anti-AI by people who are very positive about AI usage for programming
• disturbingly pro-AI by people who are very negative about AI usage for programming

My immodest take-away from these conflicting sentiments is that the proposed policy is in fact reasonably balanced.

#198 — Mon 16 March 2026 by Evan Chen

I think I would have liked to have a teacher like Dijkstra.