1 day ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments

Something I’ve noticed recently is that I am no longer able to read and parse PR titles and descriptions across the internet. I don’t think I stopped being able to read or understand code, but now that we are automatically generating more and more explanatory artifacts instead of writing them, navigating codebases as a human is becoming an exercise in futility. I’m not the only one: We are already constantly drowning in tech jargon, much of which comes to us presented through breathless news headlines that make us feel bad for not knowing what the term was five seconds ago. Tokens are just groups of characters that make up words and sentences. A fully agentic workflow is just a model working in a loop with external tool calls. A tool is a program the model can call, like bash. Sandboxes are (in theory, not so much in practice lately) just compute environments that provide OS-level isolation and security.Post-training is just the process of taking a raw model trained to predict the…

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