[Jodavaho.io] — Josh Vander Hook

I just finished a book about the early internet era hackers, RTM and the like. The Morris worm in particular was an amazing story.

Today, I think the hacker ethos of unimpeded access to information, mistrust of authority, etc, is alive and well in the form of the huge proliferation of really good LLMs that are just free to download and use. We’ve never had it so good. (The hacker ethos of absolute uncensored information, elegance and ingenuity in tech, maybe not so much at least with LLM output! But it’s coming along.)

Last night I spun up a personal assistant loop for my wife. Something that would have taken weeks or months, and it was probably 1h of hacking w/ coding agents on top of my existing cloud computing fun budget.

Truly amazing stuff.