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FWIW I did a day of German-language software design with Claude and it was great, a bit strenuous of course but I also wonder if it might have found some bugs it would have overloo…

I read it as asserting that unlike in Asia, people do this work willingly. Which I don't actually believe: if you couldn't find qualified people for this work in Cambodia, how are …

That's a great idea. I've been thinking about how to avoid having AI-isms creep into my own voice, because I see that way too much in my tech-world friends. It's natural enough: if…

While it could of course be produced in Xinjiang without using "slave labor," the US government banned those tomatoes in 2021 because of that risk: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat…

"Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" https://indieweb.org/POSSE (There were a dozen other, unrelated things ranking higher on Google.)

If you put a layer between the customer and the LLM, a la ChatGPT/Claude, are you a Model-as-a-Service business? I think you are not. But then how thick does that layer need to be?…

That's a fun idea! I wonder if it'd work if you just used something like an e-Ink screen and had it generate random license plates? I suppose "blocking the view of surveillance cam…

Haven’t read it yet but here it is: https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/

In this new age of AI, all the devs are Daves.

That's a great blog/website! I always forget where it is because of the weird domain, but now I'm adding it to my RSS aggregator.

Marginal Revolution is nominally about economics, and it's not entirely not about AI, but AI is a fairly small part of what they cover: https://marginalrevolution.com/ I follow a f…

Thanks for the explanation. Safari on iPad lines these up almost perfectly - the second line is a tiny bit wider, I didn’t even notice it at first. That example had a tone mark but…

Interesting. Thai characters can also blow it out, I imagine because of the difficulty mapping glyphs to width: https://biztos.com/hey/thai-mermaid-chart.png To my surprise, Sublim…

There is a quite popular poster on Twitter/X that I was following, and really enjoying his content. He did what you might call shallow dives into pretty interesting topics, several…

Here in rural USA, we were paying $150 for very slow DSL, and now we're paying about $50 for quite fast Starlink. In Asia I was paying $50 for very fast fiber, but that was in a ma…

I just went to Apple.com and specced out the top of the line 14" Macbook Pro, and the price is $9,849.00. Well over 10K with California sales tax. I could absolutely justify having…

Hey, that's awesome! Very nice work and a really good portfolio site. How did you find the festival-booth experience?

For my own projects, I'm very happy with an outcome that is "not faster, but better" as a result of my use of generative AI. I still hope this will be a shared goal in at least som…

Totally doable and I would buy one. Only problem is that most of the time when I'm doing "SWE" stuff I'm around other people and can't have the conversation out loud.

This is a problem that banks deal with all the time. It truly is a pain in the butt. But if access to (US banking | Fable) is worth it, you do the annoying work, and the customers …

> but in practice, even if you are That part is up to Anthropic. KYC[0] is not exotic, it's just a pain in the butt: if Fable is that good, they can do the KYC. I don't think this …

> Early retirement? Your manager will look at your token usage and the number of Jira tickets you closed, and if you have not increased both 10x in the past year then you will be l…

They might also ask why a bunch of static CSS inside a bunch of JavaScript is hiding inside __init__.py[0] - hopefully before trying to fix some detail of the CSS. (I'm surprised t…

So you can take down any especially glowing reviews of your competitors for only 50€ a shot? Nice!