David Gleich

  • Programming without coding.

    LLMs are going to bring back the historical distinction between coding, which is the mechanical translation of ideas into the machine, compared with programming, which is establishing the algorithmic, logic, and data flows. I’ve been “programming” a tool without writing a single line of code but rather just expressing the ideas so I can feed it into an LLM to get a mechanically generated tool. This is awesome. Caught a major bug in the process already and spent zero-time doing the coding step. We now have english as the ultimate high-level language.

  • CVS bills insurance $471 for a Covid shot for the kids.

  • Two fun articles in Science! Integrated low-temperature PVC and polyolefin upgrading: ideas for recycling PVC plastic (albeit with lots of challenges remaining) 10.1126/science.adr7403: a new communication network in the brain based on nanotubes in addition to the normal synapses.

  • I want to rip my eyes out when I see “apple stupidity” (there is no intelligence) summarize things with passive voice.

  • A picture is worth 1000 words! fediscience.org/@ZLabe/11…

  • Imagine a world where you don’t have to call up the Internet company every year to say… give me the lower rate again please?

  • Anyone else not enjoying iOS 26?

  • I just cannot believe the microelectronics soldering skill on these iphone storage replacement videos… www.youtube.com/watch

  • I love it when Claude vibecodes away doing the hard stuff…

        for i, pos in enumerate(positions):
        # Skip some positions for efficiency if too many
        if len(positions) > 50000 and i % (len(positions) // 50000) != 0:
            continue

  • First year none of the family texted about the new iPhones. I think Apple has a problem.

  • huh …

    arstechnica.com/space/202…

  • News got you down? The coffee at @yesplzcoffee.bsky.social is always a good pick me up. (The current decaf smells amazing…. )

  • ChatGPT 5 always seems to use “thinking” mode when I ask it stuff. Much more than I would have used the reasoning models for 4o / o3…

  • I’m not sure ChatGPT-5 is really an upgrade.

  • RIP AOL dial-up tones

  • I just learned about the phrase “plot armor”. I’m old.

  • Ugh, openAI is doing cross-session information sharing. This is modestly annoying.

  • See if you can guess which LLM I’m talking about with each picture!

  • The problem with llm vibe coding is you get hidden bombs like this.

       463.               if (numNodes <= 0 || numNodes > 10000000) { // Sanity check
   464                    throw new Error(`Invalid number of nodes: ${numNodes}`);
   465                }

    This easily works with 100m nodes.

  • Wow, I’m probably more aggressive in spending less time at airports than Nate Silver! (And I’ve never actually missed a flight because I’m late – cut it very close to missing bag check deadline one time we were checking bags) His approach is basically what I do. (Target 60 mins pre departure.)

  • Nice to attend my first meeting as a Siam fellow!

  • I knew it! That zoo costume designer is fantastic. Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up - The Onion

  • Ooh, SIAM news wrote about my talk. Maybe I should record a video on this one! www.siam.org/publicati…

  • Apple needs to fire its advertising team. This is the …4th or 5th major screw up. www.macrumors.com/2025/07/3…

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