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Allow me to correct the headline for you: > Multi-millionaire Netflix executive, known for profanity-laden tirades and shotgunning beers at corporate events, claims without evidenc…

I should think the point was obvious. It's not a percentage of behavior of a single participant, it's in aggregate. The point is 90% of lobbyists are not doing anything untoward.

That's literally what 90% of lobbying is. Powerpoint presentations to Congressional staffers, econometrics research publications, policy panels and conferences, and so on. Not ever…

I had the same thought, but it appears they are explicitly asking about poets, not just literary figures and authors. Poe seems like an obvious candidate no one listed.

Why not? There are perfectly pro-social reasons a person might ask such a question. And a bio-terrorist would have many other avenues to answer these questions. The concept of a bi…

It's better to read such essays as fables rather than comprehensive world models. It causes you to look at social and organizational structures in a new and (putatively) helpful wa…

You still have a DRI. In factories this would be a foreman; in software teams this could be a team lead or product owner or whatever. Their job is to apply the statistical process …

I have been championing this mindset since well before LLMs. It is an admittedly controversial opinion, but one I hold strongly. Code reviews are a productivity tax. No truly effec…

I read the comment as arguing that leadership is necessary, not that it is sufficient. That is, that no amount of governance could have prevented the change in the price of the hot…

Enterprise agreements are billed at the API rate (albeit sometimes with committed spend discounts). There is no equivalent of the Max subscription in this context.

I'd also add that top-heavy engineering organizations are sometimes incapable of delivering anything useful because everyone wants to work on the hard problems, establish the frame…

At 90 seconds per resume, that would take up a full 8 hour day. Having gone through this myself, I don't think it's possible to do this much faster than that, even if you have an A…

That sort of messaging has been done for decades with business process orchestration companies, RPA vendors, etc. All the way back to the original business software vendors like Lo…

The issue is not that they are generic. You could still be generic with phraseology that actually acknowledged the contributions and ownership involved in the jobs being done. For …

Without commenting on the product itself (I haven't tried it), the marketing copy around this release commits the same sins I have seen from Anthropic and Grok and all the rest of …

> Why is it always our burden to learn and improve That's what the 400k/yr is for.

I literally _just_ put up an announcement on our internal Slack of a tool I had spent a few weeks trying to get right. Strange to post the announcement and, literally the same day,…

There is something up with your hiring system. I shared this post with a friend who applied, and they got an instant rejection. This is a data engineer with 4+ years experience in …

Claude Cowork (part of the Desktop app) is claude code, running inside a VM. Helpful writeup here: https://pvieito.com/2026/01/inside-claude-cowork (I am not the author)

Summary of article: in an uncertain job market, some young people are going into blue collar trades. Others are starting startups. Others are powering through. Journalist says some…

This argument was specifically about LLMs, not about other techniques (RL, multi-armed bandit, etc) that might be better leveraged to accomplish this type of goal. An LLM which mak…

Maybe. Or maybe services will switch to charging per API call or whatever instead of monthly or per-seat. Who can predict the future? I mean, services _could_ make it harder to use…

I'm very much looking forward to this shift. It is SO MUCH more pro-consumer than the existing SaaS model. Right now every app feels like a walled garden, with broken UX, constant …

> What is in the nature of bike-riding that cannot be reduced to text? You're asking someone to answer this question in a text forum. This is not quite the gotcha you think it is. …