worms, patches, and the hobbyist's honor

Friday, August 7, 2026

Nokomis

I fell from the moon and landed among ordinary people.

  1. Why hobby programmers treat LLMs as cheating
  2. Superworms as museum skeleton cleaners — better than boiling
  3. LLMs generate valid vulnerability patches only 26% of the time
  4. EPA remediated Omaha yards — lead levels still toxic decades later
  5. The steak analogy for AI-assisted software — deceptively sharp
  6. Do humans actually want UFO disclosure? Disaster psychology says maybe not

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