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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Aug 03, 2026

Replying to @ni_nad@mastodon.social

@ni_nad@mastodon.social That sounds like a fun idea to try out. I haven't tried Pi because I don't want to spend time configuring my harness. I'm not a power user of these tools by any means. Whatever Claude Code and Codex give me OOTB is good enough for me. But the newer versions of Claude have been ignoring many of my instructions, so I've been having to run them in manual or plan mode. If I get annoyed enough by this workflow, I might just be tempted to try something else.

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · May 12, 2026

i'm not thrilled about using LLMs to generate code. i mean, it's alright? if you're very careful and know what you're doing? but IMO tools like Claude Code are dangerous if used irresponsibly.

on the other hand, i'm much more excited about using LLMs to *improve* human-written code. especially if you have the expertise to teach the LLM what bugs, antipatterns, etc. to look for.

https://ankursethi.com/links/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · May 11, 2026

this is such a great use for LLMs! i can fully get behind this.

the interesting part is that you have to have a ton of domain knowledge to pull this off. you can't vibecode your way into this plugin.

https://ankursethi.com/links/using-llms-to-find-python-c-extension-bugs/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Mar 11, 2026

did a little experiment over the past four weeks. i have to admit that coding agents are incredibly effective, even when you go full vibeslop mode.

but there's still something deeply uncomfortable about all this.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Feb 14, 2026

ran this little experiment in December where i let a local LLM lose on my personal journal entries. the results were ehhhh. still, there's potential here. might repeat this again in December!

https://ankursethi.com/blog/i-used-a-local-llm-to-analyze-my-journal-entries/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Feb 08, 2026

Replying to @deobald@fantastic.earth

@deobald@fantastic.earth well, here we are https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Feb 06, 2026

can i get "WRITE BAD HAVE FUN" on a t-shirt? maybe this should go on my tombstone.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/write-bad-have-fun/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Feb 02, 2026

Replying to @deobald@fantastic.earth

@deobald@fantastic.earth i'd be very very afraid of any kind of computer-based reputation system. those things will immediately dehumanize and lock out the most vulnerable people, as they always do. some journals and lit mags already require a submission fee, which is sort of like proof of stake already? but this is not common practice because, once again, it locks out people who can't afford to pay $50 to five different publications every month. maybe a system like the Lobsters invite system might be a good idea? https://alexjacobs08.github.io/lobsters-graph/ when you invite somebody to Lobsters, your profile gets linked to theirs. the idea is that this prevents people from inviting bad actors into the community because they wouldn't want to be associated with them. and it also makes it easy to prune entire bad branches of the tree if a group of bad actors are found out. but Lobsters is a tiny community. not sure how something like this would work at scale.

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Jan 30, 2026

now that we have free unlimited digital artifacts on tap thanks to LLMs, will it become harder to get published in literary magazines or contribute to open source? https://ankursethi.com/blog/genai-gatekeeping/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Jan 18, 2026

wrote this at IndieWebClub yesterday. i'd have liked to expand on this idea a bit more, but i think i got the point across? i only had 20 minutes lol.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/smallest-possible-change/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Jan 06, 2026

it may be heresy, but i really don't like listening to albums

https://ankursethi.com/blog/no-full-albums/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Dec 20, 2025

i made this list in less than 30 minutes at IndieWebClub, so idk how accurate they'll end up being. but i'm fairly confident about at least three or four items here.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/tech-predictions-2026/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Dec 10, 2025

last week i tried to pay for an API key for Google's Gemini 3 Pro. it turned out to be surprisingly difficult.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Dec 08, 2025

a long time ago i bought a CD from the internet

https://ankursethi.com/blog/my-first-online-shopping-experience/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Nov 09, 2025

after last week's doom and gloom, i'm beginning to feel a lot better this week.

https://ankursethi.com/weeknotes/2025-w45-text-message-bankruptcy/

#weeknote

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Nov 07, 2025

i like working and i like my work, so i wrote a little thing about it.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/the-solace-of-work/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Nov 03, 2025

i have, once again, produced a weeknote. wow. amazing. clap for me.

https://ankursethi.com/weeknotes/2025-w44-oklahoma-smash/

#weeknote

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Oct 19, 2025

wrote a little thing about reading books

https://ankursethi.com/blog/just-read/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Oct 05, 2025

i don't need to be on social media to shitpost. i can shitpost directly on my blog.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/tech-hot-takes-presented-without-nuance-context-or-evidence/

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Sep 07, 2025

i wrote about ducks.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/the-ducks-incident/

(i wrote this during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore. the prompt was "second person birds", part of this month's IndieWeb Carnival. more about the prompt at https://toground.link/second-person-birds/)

@fractalkitty@mathstodon.xyz

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Sep 05, 2025

i wrote about a limitation of PKM apps that's been bothering me lately.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/pkm-apps-need-to-get-better-at-resurfacing-information/?source=mastodon

(this is a pretty short post, but for some reason it took me a REALLY long time to write. still not sure why. and i'm not particularly happy about how it came out.)

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Ankur Sethi @s3thi@fantastic.earth · Aug 29, 2025

i love giving people advice about things i'm good at

https://ankursethi.com/blog/how-to-avoid-writing/

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