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LLM-driven writing's been a big part of this trend, unfortunately.

That's correct. What I meant was that if my bot writes defective code for whatever reason, I am responsible for that (though conversely, if I get more done because of the bot, anth…

I think this is a logical extension of the workplace rule of "you own what your bot writes;" it's hypocritical not to hold corporations to the same standards as individuals (I say,…

Fun related fact, many dates -- for example, birth dates on headstones -- of people born in countries observing Eastern Orthodox Christianity will have the prefix O.S. (old style) …

It's also a false equivalence fallacy to compare people to stocks. Historical precedent is a strong predictor of human behaviour. The wealthy have been using their wealth to consol…

Historical precedent (both recent and not) shows that concentrating wealth and then giving those wealthy few an inordinate amount of political power does not end well for those dis…

I really wish mitchellh wouldn't take funding from some of these people. Tobias Lutke in particular has chronically been on the wrong side of fundamental issues, and has most recen…

You're technically right on your first point, but I think this is missing a broader issue... this entire technology incentivises its users to put as little effort (and cognitive ef…

10-20% efficiency is enormous considering fuel is by far the dominant lifetime cost of operating an aircraft. New fuels (SAF) and the technology to use them have been developed for…

I think this is missing my implied point. Is this desire for AI integration actually coming from most people? Or is it a handful of decision makers who aren't thinking about the te…

Why is it Slack's responsibility to help agents flourish? I ask about Slack here because it's pertinent, but I've both seen and experienced firsthand this inversion across the indu…

Last time I read about this, this was due to the well-known pitfall of UID mapping across container boundaries. It's a common misconfiguration and one of the footguns available thr…

Generally, I agree! But it doesn't matter how good a best practice is if the industry doesn't adopt them wholesale; and even then, if your container or VM is configured with inappr…

ACLs, nothing, we've known about in-band signalling since forever and still this whole segment of the industry seems to either not know about it, or forgets about it at a cadence s…

I will keep banging this drum until people listen: Trying to use markdown files to limit access should never be treated as a security guarantee at all. This is a form of in-band si…

I know public opinion polling supports that, but the parts of my social circle which are outside of tech seem to be, at worst, apathetic (and at best enthusiastic, though that's no…

I'm perfectly happy with Apple not becoming an "everything we do is AI-centric" business. I'm fatigued by it all at this point. It's streamlining the interesting and fun parts out …

At some point you end up hitting the law of diminishing returns. I think this is a case of that.

> 150M at 5B revenue is not great Considered as a raw percentage in a vacuum, sure, I guess, but we're talking about... - A company which has undertaken a concerted, long-term effo…

But why?

I imagine it's not the first time, It must've at least been proofread at the time of writing :) But really impressive stuff! Between this and (a particularly optimistic outlook on)…

I'm still trying to figure that out. Something diplomacy-adjacent would be interesting to me; maybe conflict studies, or international relations. Based on word from my friends who …

> I am contemplating whether I want to stay inside this rat race. I'm in the same boat. I'm hoping to go back to school in 2027 and be out of work that revolves around programming …

My issue with this is that it's a form of "soft" reproducibility, where it'll work for many (maybe even most!) people, but that depends on the way the original prompt was formulate…

All things aside, I think this misses the forest for the trees on the halting problem. It's not about being able to throw claude or codex at a loop and having it evaluate it for ha…