zomia.news

17mar2026

SmallWeb is a greate idea: manually curated collection of the personal projects and blogs. It’s exactly what I’ve been missing. The design and philosophy prioritize people over rigid structure.

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

The result might be slop, but if the slop is 100x cheaper, then it only needs to deliver 1% of the value per unit and it's still a fair trade. And if your value per unit is even a mere 2% of what it used to be, you’ve doubled your returns! Amazing.

There are some pretty dumb assumptions underlying that theory; you can imagine them for yourself. Suffice it to say that this produces what I will call the AI Developer’s Descent Into Madness:

  1. Whoa, I produced this prototype so fast! I have super powers!
  2. This prototype is getting buggy. I’ll tell the AI to fix the bugs.
  3. Hmm, every change now causes as many new bugs as it fixes.
  4. Aha! But if I have an AI agent also review the code, it can find its own bugs!
  5. Wait, why am I personally passing data back and forth between agents
  6. I need an agent framework
  7. I can have my agent write an agent framework!
  8. Return to step 1

It’s actually alarming how many friends and respected peers I’ve lost to this cycle already.

There is so much to say about this.

First of all: but if the slop is 100x cheaper, then it only needs to deliver 1% — the problem is that it is extremely hard to distinguish real slop from good code without additional reviews. And once you introduce those reviews, you largely eliminate the speed advantage the whole argument relies on. Framing the problem as a trade-off between speed and quality is misleading.

In reality, we are not replacing a slow process with a fast one. We are replacing one slow process with another slow process — just with additional layers of AI agents in between, consuming tokens and increasing costs along the way.

2jan2026

Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller. It is a common error, I think, among the Radical idealists of my own party and period to suggest that financiers and business men are a danger to the empire because they are so sordid or so materialistic. The truth is that financiers and business men are a danger to the empire because they can be sentimental about any sentiment, and idealistic about any ideal, any ideal that they find lying about, just as a boy who has not known much of women is apt too easily to take a woman for the woman, so these practical men, unaccustomed to causes, are always inclined to think that if a thing is proved to be an ideal it is proved to be the ideal

G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

28dec2025

Floor796 is an animated scene showing the lives of characters from various works on the 796th floor of a huge space station. The animation is regularly expanded with new blocks (rooms) and characters from movies, TV series, games, anime, memes, etc.

The project is being created by one author as a hobby starting in 2018.

18aug2025

Traps to Deveoplers. It is the problems for the modern LLM-agents too.

OverType is a transparent textarea over rendered markdown. Plain text simplicity, WYSIWYG beauty, zero complexity.

Want to use it for that exact site

7jul2025

Backlog.md simple task tracker for collaborate between people and AI agents. Also looks like a good idea to have your backlog tasks in the source