Waylon Walker's Thoughts

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  Today

  Hybrid theory is the greatest album of our ge ...

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4BwsqMbruJA

  Jaime's title hooked me in here, what guitar riff from Linkin Park had the greatest riff of our generation. Theres something about Linkin Park unlike Killswitch Engage, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, bands I would listen to at this time that I cant remember a single riff, I can think of Chesters vocals, or the unique scratching they did, but mostly the songs were a whole piece. What riff is he talking about.

  The very first note of "One Step Closer" plays and I'm immediately transported back to 2003 sitting in my garage watching HuevosIII on repeat. I can still remember the timing that Wes Miller did on the edit. I can see the riders I looked up to for so long riding in formation.

  Turns out this riff is so recognizable it takes me exactly where I was when I listened to it hundreds of times.

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  Yesterday

  Super Slow-Moto: The

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhzDT37b158

  The most iconic shots of a scrub ever caught on camera.

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  12 days ago

  "Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3 ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp1EmFRDquA

  Casey had an interesting point here. I think demitri came back with some sense of sanity that its just not how corporations look at employee cost, but I still thought it was a head scratcher.

  Roughly translated not quoted

  If the sellers of ai are telling you that your developers are going to be 10x productive, why are they only spending half their salary in tokens? Why not 9x?

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  13 days ago

  A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbXNWkpPMY

  I hate how he called out terminal user interfaces as shit... then proved web interfaces to be superior. Damn him. I love working from my terminal, but having ai prove itself through html reports including video, image, metrics, charts, and text is goated. Rethinking yourself has the bottleneck not the orchestrator feels real. Validating the work is hard, theres a shift right now and everyone is trying to figure it out. Lucas's technique is a little bit of be lazy and tell it to prove itself to you, so as you juggle your 15 agents you have a nice report to read.

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  13 days ago

  How Claude Code’s Creator Starts EVERY Projec ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWrsLqnB6vA

  This is a really good guide, with quite a few good nuggets. I need to try deleting my AGENTS.md and rebuilding it from scratch more often. I liked how he talked about having agents prove their work and tell them up front how they will be judged. What I didn't care for so much was the feeling that a lot of the rules go in markdown, thats not a rule, thats a suggestion. Rules should be deterministic. They should be tests and linters that ensure they are followed. Suggestions are good, but dont trust the agents to always follow them. And don't trust that they wont change your rules, keep them honest.

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  13 days ago

  POV: Growing up as a Millennial be like 🤣 AC: ...

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qH3KH-q_tGE

  Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard.

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  14 days ago

  Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth R ...

  https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_ ...

  Interesting take by Kenneth Reitz. Not quite sure how I feel about it anymore. It kinda hurts, but I'm not sure if code aesthetics matter as much as the product anymore. I cared when I was the one editing, but at this point I'm not doing a lot of edits by hand. Do these aesthetics affect the final products that users use, Not sure. AI makes me sad.

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  14 days ago

  I am slowly coming around to AI assisted prog ...

  https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2043861800819761382

  If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?

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  14 days ago

  AIs aren’t good rule followers

  https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2044065822067282396

  I've gotta agree with bob on this one, the first thing I did to my biggest brownfield project I wanted to use agents on BEFORE they did work was a hardened pre-commit.yaml, ci, hardened type checking and linting. SECOND get rid of bad inconsistent patterns, let them replicate consistency, force them to pass checks. Agents will follow all of your markdown suggestions most of the time, enough for you to become complacent if you let it. They are goal seeking, if you put them to a task you thought was possible that is not given your constraints, they will try to find a way given enough tokens. I dont see this ever changing, its one thing that makes them great, it just needs to be kept in check.

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  15 days ago

  A quote from Steve Yegge

  https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/steve-yegge/#atom-everything

  behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making trends in what looks like longevity in the race that is not subsidising to simply get users, but to get by until they figure out how to 100x reduce the cost to a reasonable level. They feel like the guy sitting in the back with nothing big or flashy to say that is going to drop the hammer on their competition that overstretched itself taking on too much debt because it was necessary to change the game. There might be something to having a mix of hipsters, boomers, and luddites all trying to balance each other out.