Most of this hype appears to be coming from grifters who aren't actually connected to the project. So, it's there, but not the fault of the people doing the work.

This has come up in a few recent statements by the project lead, including scammy memecoins and name-sniping. One source:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/clawdbot_moltbot_secu...

Gas Town has a very clear "mad scientist/performance art" sort of thing going on, and I love that. It's taking a premise way past its logical conclusion, and I think that's fun to watch.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that Yegge is proposing it as a serious tool for serious work, so why all the hate?

It’s doesn’t matter what Yegge means by it. Other folks are taking it seriously.

First time hearing about this tool and person. Just looked for a youtube video about it and he was recently interviewed and sounds very serious / bullish on this agentic stuff. I mean he's saying stuff like if you're still using IDEs you're a bad engineer. Basically you're 10x slower than people good at agenic coding. HR going to be looking for reasons for fire these dinosaurs. I'm paraphrasing, but not exaggerating. I mean it's shilling FOMO and his book. Whatever. I don't really care. I'm more concerned where things are headed.

Still a compelling value. I keep eyeing it to see if I should switch from 1Password, but I also worry about the complexity of transitioning the whole family over.

I enjoy reading this the same way I enjoy reading "Boatmurdered" - https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Bloodline:Boatmurder...

I think I'll hold off before jumping in, but it's fun to watch from the sidelines.

I had plenty of oral exams throughout my education and training. It's interesting to see their resurgence, and easy to understand the appeal. If they can be done rigorously and fairly (no easy thing), then they go much further than multiple can in demonstrating understanding of concepts. But, they are inherently more stressful. I agree with the article that the increased pressure is a feature, not a bug. It's much more real-world for many kinds of knowledge.

I tried a number of distros and settled on Omarchy because it has a coherent design and nice aesthetics, but it has some weird quirks about messing with my dotfiles on updates. It's so new I suspect this will be ironed out soon.

The recent direction of MacOS has been a good excuse to try out a few new linux distros. As someone who was away from linux for a while, the degree of UI customization continues to be both amazing and a little overwhelming, but it feels more polished than before. Taking a look at Niri and hyperland, it's hard to feel satisfied with the UI of MacOS.

Heads up - there are a couple of screenshots in this repo, but no code. This is not an open source project. Cool idea, though.

Thanks! Yes, Nimbalyst is closed source. It is a free download.

Thanks for sharing, and am always interested in more Nigerian culture since reading Rosewater.

The analogy I have used is “AI as sous chef.”