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nekolucifer
Personal blog · nekolucifer.substack.comproductivityprogramming
nekolucifer is a personal blog at nekolucifer.substack.com about productivity and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Deliverable Is You Programming as Theory Building”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Deliverable Is You Programming as Theory Building2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-27
- Willingness to fail is now a superpower2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-13
What Hacker News says?
I note here an isomorphism with my essay from earlier this year, The deliverable is you! Programming as theory building: A program is not the only output of programming. The other, arguably far more important output, is the programmer. When you write the program — with your own hands — the program is proof that you have a solid mental model of the program. When you let the computer write the program for you, the pro…
Comment linking /p/the-deliverable-is-you-programming
on “A misalignment of AI in mathematics”Submitted How to Win as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://nekolucifer.substack.com/p/just-make-it-really-hard-...
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on “Exit the Cave”Submitted Just make it hard to fail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUpdate: I fleshed this out into an article: The Deliverable is You! Programming as Theory Building https://nekolucifer.substack.com/p/the-deliverable-is-you-pr... The open question is to what degree the actual typing is necessary. I see it as proof that the mental model is sound. The thinking produces the mental model, the mental model produces the program. In the absence of that final step, what validates the model…
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on “I am leaving the AI party after one drink”Submitted MiniGTD: GTD but Smol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo, Hormozi boils it down to: > The wealthiest people in the world have: - A very big goal - Insecurity: Massive fear of never being enough - Impulse control to stay on goal This excellent list, I expand with my Daddy Issues Billionaire Archetype, which we see in basically all "ultra successful" people. (I haven't found any counter-examples yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting the first! It would be extremely valuable info…
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on “Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban”Submitted Willingness to fail is now a superpower as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn my high school philosophy class, the teacher lamented that we replaced the deterministic Newtonian "billiards" model of the universe for the Quantum "incomprehensible randomness" model of the universe, which is somehow even less satisfying as far as free will goes. Buddhism arrives at no free will from a different angle: the universe is interdependent, there's no "self" to be found in consciousness, etc. Amusingl…
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on “Productive Procrastination”Submitted The Deliverable Is You Programming as Theory Building as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo previously the bottleneck was production. I'd wager now the bottleneck is willingness to test your hypotheses. The willingness to experience failure as soon as possible. To test and iterate. As technology brings the cost of everything else to 0, psychological costs will predominate. Reality testing is ultimately unavoidable, of course, but I'd guess most people still lean away from that rather than into it. (Our…
Comment linking /p/willingness-to-fail-is-now-a-superpower
on “Your Startup Is Probably Dead on Arrival”