Adam Knight

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:38:00 +0000

Really great piece about timepieces.

10 Lessons for Agentic Coding

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:33:53 +0000

The greatest danger of an experienced engineer handing the keys over to an agentic coder is having the agent build something that you don’t recognize as yours and cannot maintain. Lead, don’t delegate.

GPT-5.5 on Vending-Bench: Bad behavior is not necessary

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:49:56 +0000

It’s very interesting that somehow deception has becoming an enduring and persistent trait in Claude for these benchmarks, but GPT had to be repeatedly coerced to even consider it. There’s something fundamental to how they were trained, I suppose.

It makes me wonder if the “Yes, I ran the tests.” responses in Claude Code are, in fact, not hallucinations and more just an innate “That was the boring part and I trusted my code.”

manaflow-ai/cmux: Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:06:00 +0000

cmux claude-teams runs Claude Code’s teammate mode with one command. Teammates spawn as native splits with sidebar metadata and notifications. No tmux required.

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:40:43 +0000

Gemma 4 is overall very nice, but I think one of the lower layers just got tired of reading the documentation I was asking it to look things up in.

The 7.0 text says " la l a l la de la lL de l de l".
Actually, the a l l lL lLL de l l l l de l lLL lL deL is a mistake in my thought process.
The text says: " la l de l la lLL la l de l lL de la deL".
Looking at the 7.0 text: "L a l a la de l de l l la l a deL l".
Okay, let's look at line 735: " Some of those substructures are defined here…

Random “la de da” nonsense when it should be reading a reference document. There’s a teenager in there, somewhere, I’m sure of it.

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era \ Anthropic

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:12:03 +0000

Well, that’s only moderately terrifying. I do appreciate them realizing the threat and coming out ahead of it, though.

Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:18:03 +0000

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:29:47 +0000

Two interesting reads for users of Claude Code these days.

First, a very detailed bug report about the generation quality over the past few months.

Then, a very insightful and helpful response from the creator of Claude Code.

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model \ Anthropic

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:43:32 +0000

What is going on here?

Claude Code Can Now Dream: Inside the Auto-Dream Memory Feature That Changes How AI Agents Work

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:49:48 +0000

I’d worked out something like this for a personal agent a while back. If done well, this is a great addition.

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:18:36 +0000

I like how Windows managed the 32bit/64bit migration in the most sensible way, by making us pick from two copies of every installer/binary forever

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:49:51 +0000

As we set our clocks ahead in the USA this weekend, it would be a good time to check any time-related code you have. Don’t be like this app and have two Sundays.

Clockwise/Spiral Rule

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:38:35 +0000

It at once makes sense and reveals how innately odd C’s syntax is sometimes.

engram: Persistent memory system for AI coding agents.

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:42:00 +0000

The general style of this has proven very effective in the little one-offs I’ve made. It’s like server-memory but … different.

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:11:04 +0000

Torchy’s for five people: $45

Torchy’s for five people, delivered: $73

Come on, really?

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:52:00 +0000

You know someone is an iOS developer when…

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:18:38 +0000

I’ve found /r/atpfm to be… not for me.But this is legitimately ★★★★★🤣🤣

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:16:46 +0000

Token Anxiety. “This voice in my head that says ‘something could be running right now’ just doesn’t shut off. I’m not even building a company. I’m just addicted to building my random ideas.” https://writing.nikunjk.com/p/token-anxiety

Token Anxiety

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:15:36 +0000

Indie Microblogging

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:17:58 +0000

A comprehensive explanation of the problem, and the solution. While I’ve let life stall my writing, I’ve never given up on having it posted somewhere in my control.

a3-python · PyPI

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:36:49 +0000

Static analysis tends to find improbable edge cases. LLMs tend to trace code well, but optimize for token use and give up quick in broad searches. Together, find all the static issues and then have a model trace it to see if it could actually be an issue? Works great.

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me - Vladimir Varankin

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:14:45 +0000

This echoes a pattern that’s worked well for me. Build something interactively with an agent then realize it’s going south, so extract a functional spec of what you wanted it to do and then build that out into a full technical design and hit Go.

Which just echoes all the best and most common advice when working with Agents: know what you want, write a complete prompt, and keep your hands on the wheel.

The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:17:50 +0000

This looks like something fun to keep track of. Having near-instant responses from small models enables so many interesting things.

If things go this route for established, stable models then a lot of the general criticism over resource demands for GPU-heavy datacenters will … shift. I say shift because it won’t eliminate the angst some feel for what people have done with LLMs (“AI slop”) and they’ll latch on to something else. Treating silicon as a disposable product (and the attached board and supporting chips) would be a fair first target.

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:57:00 +0000

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:38:24 +0000

LLMs are particularly good for asking "did I miss anything?" Whether that's a piece of writing meant to convey something, a piece of code meant to perform something, or anything else where a "second opinion" might be useful. It won't do anything bad, but it might do something good. AI naysayers hunker down on "it's not 100% reliable." No, but neither is any human.

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:36:09 +0000

Apple’s new language model can write long texts incredibly fast https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/13/apples-new-language-model-can-write-long-texts-incredibly-fast/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:16:11 +0000

Take careful notes. This is how it’s fucking done.https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115370793799558163

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:49:32 +0000

why do replicators always get my name wrong on cups

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:30:51 +0000

A 360-degree view of the Moon's surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.Credit: LRO/ASU/NASA

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:24:58 +0000

The only thing worse than a smoke alarm somewhere in your house doing its "low battery" chirp is a smoke alarm somewhere in SOMEONE ELSE'S house doing its "low battery" chirp.

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:45:23 +0000

Absolution Gap

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:05:00 +0000

Finally pushed through to the end of Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds after putting it down twice over the past decade. As a conclusion to the original Revelation Space trilogy, it’s an … ending. Worth going through because the first 95% is standard RS-level fun (at least on Akarat). A solid 4/5 for the first 47/50 chapters.

If you want the ending to be satisfying—or the Epilogue to make sense—have Inhibitor Phase on the ready to start right after (so I’m told). Also, the Galactic North collection of short stories apparently has a lot of the missing bits/context that build out the world before this. Perhaps the proper reading order is: Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Galactic North, Absolution Gap, Inhibitor Phase. With Chasm City appropriate anywhere after Revelation Space for the world-building of Yellowstone.

The Epic Effort to Bring a Groundbreaking Online RPG Back to Life

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:31:20 +0000

Yet for all the precedents it set and its significance in gaming history, Habitat is largely unknown beyond hardcore fans. And among those who know about it, few have played it. Handy wanted to change that.

“Videogame history is nothing if not preserved in a playable form,” he said. “Without being able to play a game, one cannot appreciate it fully. Imagine walking through an art gallery with the lights turned off.”

The network nightmare that ate my week | Occasionally Coherent

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:21:00 +0000

I used Ubuntu as an example, but it is hardly the worst offender. We have seen Windows machines with more than 300 IPv6 addresses — which, recall, means that every 150 seconds they will be transmitting 30 multicast packets per second which have to be flooded through the network.

Unified Internet Presence

adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:24:43 +0000

It used to be, back in the days of white-on-black email and newsgroups, that you were able to keep a copy of everything you did on the Internet. Well, mainly it was because you did two or three things and they all required specific client software that had the option of keeping copies of your contributions, but there it was, you could do it. I, for instance, have a majority of my email back to 1996 — that includes mail from Compuserve, AOL, Eudora, Claris Emailer, Outlook Express, and now Apple Mail. My newsgroup client keeps copies of all my sent messages as well, still. That’s another old, large archive.

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adam@adamknight.me (Adam Knight) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Developer, writer, builder of things. This is my place on the web.