Whatever Compiles #002 — Spamming the Infrastructure
Lobster, 1988 - Richard Tuttle
Welcome to Whatever Compiles, just a collection of media I consumed over the week that I think I would enjoy reading about as a Software Engineer. Ranging from great podcasts to something I am building, and sometimes a story.
Recently saw a post about how Anthropic is rate-limiting / refusing requests with Claude if it reads anything about OpenClaw in its context. It is another PR nightmare for Anthropic, not because they don't allow OpenClaw, that has been clear, but because if you have a markdown file that mentions OpenClaw, it will get rate-limited. The vibe-coded solution some called for was a slap in the face to many users. HackerNews Post
Here's what I read, listened to, and generally let distract me this week.
Why Testing is Hard and How to Fix it with Will Wilson — Great podcast if you want to learn about fuzzing and property-based testing for distributed systems.
· Ghostty is Leaving Github — Mitchell Hashimoto shares about his time with GitHub and his passion for the community it built. It's nearly impossible to be a developer and not have been affected this year by the lack of stability developer-hosted tools are dealing with due to the DDoS of AI agents spamming the infrastructure.
· Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? — A must-listen to understand the lifecycle of GPUs and see Jensen deal with hard questions, from what I saw a version of boxing between Dwarkesh and Jensen.
· Mastering Claude Code in 30 minutes — Great for beginners.
· DHH's new way of writing code (The Pragmatic Engineer) — Great podcast hearing from DHH. Still very important to have the human touch, you still need to understand software engineering, and now you need to use what makes you human to show your value since anyone can ship code.
· Fred again.. Tiny Desk Concert — Might be the first non-technical thing on this blog. I love Fred again.., this might be his most unique and touching work.
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