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Employees can quit too. In both scenarios, it really depends on how many alternative options for income you have available.

When you’re paying someone’s bill/salary, it changes the dynamic. Just like someone in customer service might act differently with coworkers vs customers.

Exactly. It’s the concept of a management chart as an inverted pyramid with each layer holding up and supporting the layer above them. If you imagine a promotion as working your wa…

Some hypothesize that flashbacks might be the brain searching for relevant useful memories, or hallucinating if it can’t find any. Or, perhaps emotions or physical issues cause you…

But how do you measure intelligence or problem solving without language? It seems like an unavoidable and non-trivial parameter.

The difference is the point of sale. With VS Code, you purchase your AI compute elsewhere (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.), and then use it through the free VS Code interface. With Warp, …

> On the Build plan, you pay for what you use and credits roll over month to month. Here’s where I got it from, but I see how it’s ambiguous. “You pay for what you use” sounds a bi…

> Pricing model for a terminal. What a time to be alive. You’re really paying for AI compute, not the terminal.

Their old Pro plan at $15/mo (paid annually) had 2,500/mo AI requests per month, use it or lose it. The new Build plan at $20/mo has 1,500 AI requests, but they roll over. (Edit: a…

A few issues: * The casino takes a rake, so you lose money every hand, but you only win when the fish bets and loses. You’re also expected to tip the dealer * Everything is on came…

> Because they would be smart enough to know the societal damage they caused by this revelation and they did it anyways... That seems like a human-centric perspective. Maybe they’r…

Hopefully there’s a similar “don’t make me think” mantra that comes to AI product design. I like the trend where the agent decides what models, tooling and thought process to use. …

For reference, here are the current guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html As a long-time user I’ve seen the most change around “What to Submit”: > Off-Topic:…

Judging by the lack of responses and my own experience: no. Most subagent examples are vague or simplistic.

Fun fact: It would take ~278 hours to take a look at 1M websites for 1s each.

It would be interesting to analyze this dataset in terms of colors, layout, features, fonts, photos, etc. to be able to statistically measure the uniqueness or creativity of a give…

Interesting read and thanks for sharing. Two observations: 1. Natural language appears to be to be the starting point of any endeavor. 2. > It may be illuminating to try to imagine…

Hyper-niche products come with some inherent risk that it’s not always profitable to maintain or develop them long-term. With a mass market product leader you’re sacrificing a bit …

PageRank worked well for Google for a long time. This sounds like an adaptation of that that’s interesting to consider.

Luxury goods and staple goods have distinct optimizations, both viable for generating profits and economic utility. A high end soup and an affordable soup might be serving two diff…

IMO, it depends. I’ve worked with hundreds of startups over the last 20 years. The most significant trend I’ve seen is cultural cohesion. Some startups have a young, energetic cult…

As an engineer, if you’ve had a skilled Project Manager you’ve receive detailed, thoughtful “prompts” on how to complete a project that leads to a shared understanding. But with un…

I’m not debating the potential accuracy of anyone’s interpretation, just commenting on the degree of simplicity of those interpretations. It’s a Razor, not a law, so it isn’t going…