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Wednesday June 17th, 2026

But I said ... Dan Lyke / comment 0

Bwahahaha: anthropics / claude-code — [CRITICAL] Subagent spawning and subagent pattern bugs trigger infinite recursion, infinite token usage, grossly inefficient token usage, and lost accumulated subagent work. #68619

Multiple regressions compound into a catastrophic token burn scenario. Subagents recursively spawn child agents 50+ levels deep, ignoring CLAUDE_CODE_FORK_SUBAGENT=0. Permission denials trigger further agent spawning instead of stopping. Agents fetch individual files from GitHub repos via HTTP (one WebFetch or curl per file, each with a full prompt and context payload) instead of cloning locally. Subagent permissions do not propagate to the user for approval. And if the user interrupts any of this, all intermediate work from every agent in the tree is lost. The entire token spend goes in the garbage.

In the observed case: 1.2M+ tokens consumed in ~30 minutes on a task that should have been git clone + find . -name '*.sol'. The recursive agent tree was still growing when observed.

From Reddit, by way of jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny@neuromatch.social quoting Peter @peter@thepit.social.

each instrument interprets the notation Dan Lyke / comment 0

Reading through a document on implementing A2UI:

To see why a format matters here, think about how a composer ships their work. They don't hand musicians a recording: they hand them sheet music. The same score plays on a piano, an orchestra, or a synthesizer; each instrument interprets the notation through its own voice.

"each instrument interprets the notation..." 👀

Fuckwits in charge Dan Lyke / comment 0

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

Same story at Yahoo.

Tuesday June 16th, 2026

Peter Thiel's Dialog service leaks member list Dan Lyke / comment 0

‪maia arson crimew 🏴‬ ‪@crimew.gay‬

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members?

I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Via ‪Chester Christmas‬ ‪@imemptyplshalp.bsky.social‬

Oh of fucking course Larry Summers, Sam Harris, and Stephen Pinker are on here. The unholy Trinity of people considered smart despite being wrong about literally everything they've ever written.

But, yeah, it's got strong overlap with the Epstein files list, and has all the hallmarks of being a vibe-coded React thing. Of course the list of names hardcoded in source could be a red herring of some sort...

only amateurs "pay for tokens" Dan Lyke / comment 0

jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny@neuromatch.social

only amateurs "pay for tokens," i'm out here using the free models, aka putting a prompt in any issue in any github repository and labeling it with "good first issue" and waiting for the people with full-auto openclaw agents to randomly open pull requests against it

Commodore Callback Dan Lyke / comment 0

Commodore Callback flip phone: Welcome to the Internot. A Sailfish based flip-phone that doesn't run social media apps, by design.

Via so many places, but 1, 2, 3, 4.

Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast Dan Lyke / comment 0

Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast (YouTube video). From the comments:

You know that FFMPEG supports h265 hardware accelerated encoding with Radeon cards on Linux? I mean I couldn't get it to work but FFMPEG supports it.

Very dry, very droll. Via.

Every AI writes with an accent Dan Lyke / comment 0

I kinda hate "accent", because it's anthropomorphizing, but Model Tell: Every AI writes with an accent is interesting, as is the ensuing MeFi thread. Especially the model generation similarities.

population density bar graphs Dan Lyke / comment 0

aeva @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

you ever think about how buildings also kinda function as population density bar graphs


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