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I cannot emphasize enough how horrid Claude Code (and every other LLM) is at systems code

it’s horrid at everything, but when torvalds pretends it’s any good for kernel work he’s trying to talk over a clear pattern of failures

I cannot name a single vibed piece of systems code that actually works with anything approaching basic reliability

torvalds’ proof that any of this shit does anything at all is that:

• it shit out a generic python UI for one of his side projects
• the corporations funding him via the Linux Foundation and keeping him fat in tokens say it works great

that’s it. that’s where all his confidence comes from. that and him being a mediocre little fucker.

“Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”

Amazon canceled the superhero series after just one season last month, days before the first weekend of the Emmy Awards, where it had earned 11 nominations (the most of any Prime Video program this year). The cancellation was a shocker to many in the industry, considering the series amassed 2.6 billion minutes viewed in its first six weeks and earned praise from critics and audiences alike.

when you want to slopify your most popular series so bad you self-immolate when its star tells you fuck no

anyway, good on Nick Cage for being on the right side of AI https://flipboard.com/@variety/variety-h2bfsrg0z/-/a-48NiA-94RauczPGq3XfkEQ%3Aa%3A1819762525-%2F0

• you can’t afford any new tech products, but none of them are for you. the only product categories are revenge porn and surveillance, and of course they overlap.
• none of the corporations doing IQ and neurodivergence tests will make the connection between their products being widely hated and their policy of only hiring people whose brains excel at bullshit tasks
• none of the people cosplaying as psychologists will draw a connection between discriminatory hiring pipelines and bullshit products made by people addicted to imposter machines. the numbers they made up to justify all of this still look fantastic.
• nobody will reflect on anything at all, actually. reflection is obsolete.

ah, there's muffins:

From: Richard Stallman Subject: Re: bytecode tail call optimization Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:56:30 -0500

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I am currently looking into the bytecode compiler. It seems that there's no tail-call optimization, is that intentional? Would it be a welcome change?

Tail call optimization would make programs faster but would make debugging harder. All in all, I think we are better not doing that.

As for implementation, Emacs bytecode is not like machine code. An optimized tail call in machine code can be as simple as adjusting the stack a little and jumping. For Emacs bytecode, several data structures about function call frames would have to be fixed.