A Second Look

Working notes

These are notes on whatever I'm trying to figure out right now, usually software, security, AI, or measurement, and I change them when I find better evidence or realize I was wrong.

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Reading code is the job

The diff is cheap now, but understanding whether it belongs in the system still takes work.

AI skills are the worst of both worlds

Skills are hand-maintained runbooks selected by a model, which leaves both stale instructions and bad routing as possible failure modes.

Is awk really faster than C?

awk isn't faster than C, but it is faster than writing the C program for a lot of small jobs.