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> I'm an SRE and I think it's quite likely the best infra language I've ever seen. I only worked with 4-5 SREs and they all grudgingly tolerated it. What did you like about it, com…

I think the internal web tooling was pretty good compared to anyone but AWS circa 2016 but by 2020 when I left it felt a bit antiquated. Similarly they didn't have linters rolled o…

My only commentary is that I prefer "meat puppet" as it's an existing term, which already means something very similar[1], and is a bit more derisive [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/…

Real, although the speed of the development in the novel is fictionalized [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_(novel)

>And all science fiction is, in one way or another, technological. Even when it’s written by people who don’t know what the word means. I think this goes too far and then everythin…

To be clear my issue is with the reporting, not the policies Starting your article with "We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies" especially when a quick goo…

> Adversarial advocacy is core to most (western?) societies... It's exhausting that _everything_ is litigated. But I still prefer it to authoritarianism. This is definitely an grea…

Thanks for explaining what the lawsuits were about. I'm not sure how I feel about the actual case or even how effective I think black octagons will be. Apparently they were first d…

The article says 80% of the lawsuits were in Mexico and ~3% were in America.

I'm about as hippie with my food as you can get, but this "article" is badly written propaganda that conceals more than it reveals. Half way down the article you learn that ~80% (1…

I try to buy as many shirts as possible from bands I like and this post reminded me to go look again. I listen to a lot of metal and punk and the problem is most the shirts are eit…

I missed that thread when it came out, it's really a wild read. The difference between how people describe her vs how she's normally portrayed in the media is really startling

I like this summary https://www.andymasley.com/writing/the-ai-water-issue-is-fak... And this is a reply to her comment about water usage where it becomes clear she's not arguing in…

I think part of it is she had excellent PR skills and a dedicated fan base. I was at Google when she quit, working in ML, and hadn't heard of her until the story broke. I remember …

It might take a while for people to see how the model is useful to them, or to figure out how to make it useful or the capabilities weren't there ye. My mother tried ChatGPT in '23…

> More than 30 percent of the US working-age population is using AI [meaning about 70% isn’t], an increase of 3 percentage points from the end of 2025 This makes me less bearish on…

> employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA As someone who lived through multiple rounds o…

Thank you for demonstrating my first point while trying to contest my second.

> As I said in another comment, I think it’s important to debate what these companies are doing, how they’re doing it, and whether the United States’ actions are morally and legall…

I was pretty curious as I have a kid who's not very aware about cars. That appears to be an extrapolation from a pretty biased source [1]. It's probably more honest to say "the afo…

> When a good programmer writes a new feature, they are looking for both existing and new abstractions that can be applied. They are considering their mental model of the whole sys…

Agreed. If I'm looking at what it proposes then about 1/2 the time I don't make the changes. If this were fully automated you would need an addendum like "Only make the change if i…

LLMs not being lazy enough definitely feels true. But it's unclear to me if it a permanent issue, one that will be fixed in the next model upgrade or just one your agent framework/…