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Maintaining intent in large codebases with agents: The Arrow of Intent

https://loki.ws/code/2026/01/25/the-arrow-of-intent.html
1•jszmajda•1h ago

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chrisjj•51m ago
> Modern AI coding agents aren’t really writing bugs anymore. What they do write are intent gaps—places where they assumed I meant something different than I did.

Seriously?

I asked Claude to count matching lines in a text file. When I disputed the nonsensical result, Claude replied "You're right! I'll repeat without splitting at column 72".

Claude didn't assume my meaning. It simply parotted some similarly described but unsuitable code it scraped from the web.

Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-149-million-passwords-exposed-infostealer-database/
1•saikatsg•49s ago•0 comments

Instacalc

https://github.com/kazad/instacalc
1•apitman•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Accurate Password Guessing with AI

https://github.com/Tzohar/PassLLM
1•Plarsy•1m ago•0 comments

Forty years of forest data reveal a changing Amazon

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125081133.htm
1•saikatsg•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A code reviewer that uses RLMs and a REPL to kill "context rot"

https://github.com/AsyncFuncAI/AsyncReview
1•sashimikun•3m ago•0 comments

Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-twisty-shapes-resolve-a-centuries-old-topology-puzzle-20260120/
2•bryanrasmussen•4m ago•0 comments

You Need to Clear Your Coding Agent's Context Window

https://willness.dev/blog/one-session-per-task
1•will__ness•6m ago•0 comments

Alex Honnold free solos Taipei 101 skyscraper in live Netflix climb

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/24/alex-honnold-free-solo-taipei-101-netflix
2•saikatsg•6m ago•0 comments

Richard Stallman critiques AI, connected cars, smartphones, and DRM

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/25/1930244/richard-stallman-critiques-ai-connected-cars-sma...
2•MilnerRoute•7m ago•0 comments

Stealthy Windows remote execution multitool

https://github.com/FalconOpsLLC/goexec
2•bryanmcnulty•9m ago•0 comments

Vibe Server Ops

https://vibeserverops.com/
1•twapi•12m ago•0 comments

I Was Right About ATProto Key Management

https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
1•todsacerdoti•14m ago•0 comments

Bypassing VSCode Copilot's Premium Requests

https://dganev.com/posts/2026-01-24-bypassing-copilot-requests/
3•syl5x•18m ago•0 comments

The Guardian view on Europe's payments problem: sovereignty starts at the till

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/25/the-guardian-view-on-europes-payments-probl...
2•mcc1ane•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I used my book generator to generate a catalog of books it can generate

https://www.ebook-forge.com/Omni
1•lywald•19m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Forward My Inbox – IMAP‑to‑Gmail Forwarding After Gmail Kills POP3

https://forwardmyinbox.com/
1•moshetanzer•21m ago•0 comments

Hypergrowth Isn't Always Easy

https://tailscale.com/blog/hypergrowth-isnt-always-easy
2•tosh•23m ago•0 comments

New study disrupts the narrative that ChatGPT's launch triggered a job decline

https://the-decoder.com/new-study-disrupts-the-narrative-that-chatgpts-launch-triggered-a-job-dec...
2•Vaslo•24m ago•0 comments

Life Map

https://lifemap.mattrighetti.com/
2•akktor•24m ago•0 comments

Survey: Building a "TIOBE Index" for AI Coding Agents (160 more answers needed)

https://agentic-coding-survey.pages.dev/
1•7777777phil•25m ago•1 comments

The behavioral cost of personalized pricing

https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-behavioral-cost-of-personalized-pricing
3•bobbiechen•26m ago•0 comments

Steinway Spirio: The most famous concert pianos got a major tech upgrade (2024)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/28/1088268/steinway-spirio-concert-pianos-performance-up...
1•xeonmc•28m ago•0 comments

The Most Extreme CSS Reset Ever Created: 10k Lines of Failure

https://dustin.boston/css-reset/
3•clairvoyant_cod•29m ago•0 comments

Incidental Complexity

https://blog.kasperhermansen.com/posts/incidental-complexity/
2•kjuulh•32m ago•0 comments

Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m77dmxlvlo
2•Rygian•33m ago•0 comments

The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I'm Ignoring the Prophets of Doom

https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/01/23/the-ai-revolution-in-coding-why-im-ignoring-the...
15•mmphosis•36m ago•7 comments

A Metabolic Workspace

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/a-metabolic-workspace/
1•andsoitis•40m ago•0 comments

First, Make Me Care

https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
2•andsoitis•42m ago•0 comments

National poll: Less than half of parents say swearing is never OK for kids

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/less-half-parents-say-swearing-never-ok-kids
3•PaulHoule•44m ago•0 comments

Frozen Insight in a Moving World

https://jdu.github.io/2026-01-25-frozen-insights-in-a-moving-world.html
1•todsacerdoti•44m ago•0 comments