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This is such a great point and raises existential career questions for everyone who got into a programming career because they love the craft. Either find your niche where craft wi…

> I'm having a blast "writing" software without touching a line of code. And that’s totally fine, enjoy your hobby however you enjoy it best. Most people programming by hand for fu…

Because people that enjoy programming for programming's sake don't want an LLM to do the programming for them - isn't it obvious? It's just like with any other hobby, people who li…

If distillation leads to a model that is much cheaper to run yet provides similar intelligence then why doesn’t Anthropic distill their own models?

It is much harder to refute bullshit than to make up bullshit. As harsh or unfair as it might seem, this makes sense.

He was very visible, giving interviews to the mainstream press and presenting games on stage at E3 as early as 2010. I'd also argue that while he wasn't the top dog of all things X…

> I never understood the esteem Phil Spencer was held in He headed things during the Xbox 360 era, which was a golden era of gaming, one of the best console generations and also pe…

This is super common with startups and is usually called an orderly shutdown. You don’t want to wait until you are insolvent, but stop when there is enough money left to pay all ou…

Please look up what fatalistic means. It doesn’t mean that one believes things are going badly. It means one believes that events are already predetermined and as a result it doesn…

The lost+found folder saved our backs once way back when. We had a 1TB NAS running Linux, an enormous amount of storage back then. It was shut down unexpectedly and disorderly and …

How is this different from something like the AMD Ryzen AI Max that can already be purchased and supports 128GB unified memory? Seriously curious.

You can be in a fatalistic mood and buy.

These companies do PIPs for software engineers, which is what Steve is talking about. He isn’t talking about a warehouse or fast food job interview. I am not insulated, I am merely…

Domain expertise has always been the path to advancement in most SWE jobs. You’ve always had to understand the domain and have judgment to not be stuck as a “code monkey” in almost…

In practice, at any larger corporation with an HR department, despite the law saying so, you can absolutely not fire anyone for any reason. As a manager you’ll have to go through a…

But what problem does this actually introduce? If you are applying a patch you must already trust the source anyways and this isn’t harder to spot than a rogue file anywhere else i…

So router prices in the US will go up a lot, great!

Except on the go, I don’t see the point for Bluetooth headphones. Due to the built in batteries that are uneconomical to replace they are essentially consumables, even high end one…

The root of the issue is that Tailwind was selling something that people can now recreate a bespoke version of in mere minutes using a coding agent. The other day I vibe coded a be…

Assuming you are a capitalist that is in it to maximize shareholder value then yes, that is the direction you will push the world in. Why sell me a car once if you can charge me a …

I wonder what technical detail makes this so hard to enable for other locales.

I really wonder what the technical detail is that makes it so much harder for this feature to work when your phone is outside the EU, does anyone know?

GitHub isn’t even good, it’s just the mediocre default everybody uses. PRs were fantastic and the best thing ever - 15 years ago!

It’s very simple. In the US your pharmacy has a contract with the drug supplier that prevents the pharmacist from telling you that you could buy the drug without insurance for $10 …

Anywhere where the correct Java version is installed correctly, important caveat