HN is great, especially compared to reddit (unless i'm missing the best subreddits?), but even here there's comments from people who don't know how to ride a bike pontificating about how useless/dangerous/etc bikes are and telling me how important it is not to forget how to run. where's the forum for bicycle enthusiasts?

there's undoubtedly a lot of good harnesses and tooling squirreled away on self-hosted git repos, and that's the crowd i want to chew the fat with

examples of the type of perspective i'm looking for in a social network to parasocially stalk,

https://www.thoughtfultechnologist.com

https://simonwillison.net

honestly, doom scrolling + surrounding myself with people intensely interested in the topic. I basically just info overload myself on an hourly basis and since I find it interesting enough it tends to make its way into the sticky part of my memory.

to give you an idea of what I mean, I'm checking bluesky, reddot, HN, youtube, instagram, tiktok, discord basically every hour. every morning, lunch, and evening I'm checking my email where I receive about a dozen or so newsletters either weekly or daily. a few times a week (usually weekends) I'm browsing github and arxiv for the whatever random thought or interest is the flavor of the week (lately its been on EOE techniques and classifiers). This has lead me to collect the names of a good number of authors I trust and that appear to be thought leaders in the space.

I don't think this approach is good at all, in fact, it feels neurotic and I think its an unhealthy obsession borne from my adhd, but its kept me going for the last 3ish years and I don't feel the slightest bit burnt out. personally I find the whole field of AI/ML to be immensely exciting so I think that part of it is a huge driver for how I personally stay up-to-date.

ideally I would offload a lot of these activities to a research agent and tbh I "plan" to eventually, same way I plan to gut short form videos and social media from my life and get 8hrs of sleep. Eventually.

i don't even try. the good stuff will be absorbed by the corps and harness providers (claude code, etc). the less useful stuff will fall away naturally. current harnesses (claude code) suit my needs very well.

i haven't yet seen tooling that makes me think, "wow, this is the missing link, i need this" -- not since claude code started working very well with sub-agents.