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Yes, writing code that (appears to) work was not the hard part. Even before LLMs you could find very cheap contractors on Upwork or through offshoring companies to write "code". We…

There are people rich enough to do that in our current world. They don't because either they have a moral compass or because they fear the law.

> but my dad kept saying it wouldn’t hurt to really make it clear I wanted to get into the school. My mother convinced me to do the same after I was also wait-listed at my top choi…

This looks awesome. I'm very excited about how learning will evolve harnessing AI. I'm also a huge fan of Andrew Ng. I wish they hadn't raised so much money. I'm not sure "large fu…

This is how it has always been throughout history (and still is in most parts of the world). Individual is part of nuclear family, nuclear family is part of extended family, extend…

I wonder whether this applies more to coding agents, or whether it'll apply as well to other types of agents. It feels like coding agents get better at a faster rate and are easier…

I would personally love to see an end to the universally existing bait-and-switch of brokers listing unavailable units just to get you on the phone, then when you contact them, say…

AI can make individuals 2x or 5x or 10x (?) faster. Lack of trust, alignment, and ownership can make _teams_ 2x or 5x or 10x slower.

Decisions are special things. One of the golden rules of life is that a person (or entity) making decisions is somehow impacted or otherwise getting feedback on the repercussions o…

One thing that changed reading for me was Readwise. One of my favorite products. Super simple concept, I just highlight quotes I like, then I get a daily email of random things I'v…

This is really cool. Can it play nice with gdrive or Dropbox? For better or worse, that's just where my data lives now but I'd love this layer.

Anecdotal and more for unskilled than skilled workers, but having traveled to Germany a bunch, I found that taxi drivers and delivery drivers seem pretty unhappy there. They mentio…

"writers who wrote the most in history" Proceeds to ignore Eastern writers (Arab, Chinese, Persian) who wrote just as much or more.

An org that big doesn't "see". A triager with very little context and authority is probably the one making this call and my guess is the process is failing to direct or escalate it…

AI has caused a lot of leaders to overreact. Great leaders find a balance between overreacting and waffling. It's often wise to dampen your response a little bit, without dragging …

100% this. This is why it's so hard to trust AI on code reviews, at least for now.

The main thing is the old forums were sorted by recency (how new a post was or how recently it was replied to) rather than some AI-driven engagement mechanism. They were structured…

Notable is that this in Fureidis, which while in modern Israel now, was part of British Mandate Palestine, and was one of the only Arab towns left in tact (and is still primarily A…

There's a quote from an old Mos Def song that does it for me: "More, and more, and more, and more, More of less than ever before, Just too much more for your mind to absorb."

I mean yes, for a single DB it's large, but if you're thinking about sharding you're probably in the tens of TBs, and if you're a company offering sharding you've prob sharded larg…

I like the mix of management/leadership/structure. I do think leadership is an important aspect, and leaders who are uncompromising can have a big impact. It's funny we both land o…

Just dropping in to thank you for writing this book and raising awareness around it. A lot of builders are really disillusioned by how "corruptible" the tech industry has been. I w…

We sharded over 20 TB that we know about. This is probably a typo, right? 20TB isn't that big. I would imagine they've sharded a lot more than that