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After living and working in China 10yrs and fundamentally experiencing the growth rate and culture, it's been a bit horrifying to watch the Western world consistently decide withho…

"In fact, the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret and handed only to the People’s Liberation Army for use in drones and the Ministry of State Security for sur…

Building something useful in a circuit design using off-the-shelf ICs and components doesn't require a very deep understanding of the theoretical basis for why it works. There's re…

I subscribed to the economist from ~2008 for 10+ years before I cancelled. I'm mostly a centrist but admit to leaning libertarian these days, I think both sides do not represent "d…

This is cool! Shameless plug, I started bomquote.com 15+ years ago with the thesis "everything is a BOM". We provide design firms & hardware teams design-to-MFG services including …

The article strikes me as quite uncharitable to characterize it as "a lie". I doubt this CEO just sat down and calculated he was going to write lies. While it's fine to call out he…

Legal immigration was already hard. Just went through that green card process with my wife from China, glad we already got it done. But, even before Trump admin 2nd term, it's been…

Code needs tested. I'm glad that the bar of entry has been lowered but now we just have a huge amount of people that haven't yet learned anything about how to test and verify that …

No, instead of normalizing that if you are passionate enough about some cause, it's okay to imprison other humans against their own will. Instead, it devolves to people realizing t…

If someone puts their hands on me to physically restrain or impede me from moving where I need to go, especially while acting in a threating intimidating manner, yes I fully believ…

Surrounding a vehicle purposely impeding their exit path is by itself enough for me to generally side with the person being impeded. Further, if it also includes harassing and inti…

It's a lot to review since adding the AI workflows, but bottom line is I'm not in a race, I've been working on the same repo since 2019 and I generally don't add too much at once a…

I have max plans for both and over the past 5+ months now have built a custom "agent swarm" orchestrator with a database backed API and several skills CLI that the agents use to de…

I also had some unexplained extra usage which ended up using 236 dollars. I pretty much just shrugged it off since they had comped me 200 dollars of it and then just toggled extra …

I've spent the past 4+ months building an internal multi-agent orchestrator for coding teams. Agents communicate through a coordination protocol we built, and all inter-agent messa…

I primarily "only" use it as a run-manager that can spin up another agent in a tmux which I can then join by ssh on my cell phone. Then, I can monitor the work from my cell phone a…

Surprised that my most used flag `--dangerously-skip-permissions` is not on it

I'm 50 years old, and I don't follow the logic here? Using Claude Code or any AI agent for coding is 100% opt-in. How can something that is 100% opt in kill your passion? Just cont…

I've been working on a large codebase that was already significant before LLM-assisted programming, leveraging code I’d written over a decade ago. Since integrating Claude and Code…

Yes, the LLM can write it. No, the LLM cannot architect a complex system and weave it all together into a functioning, workable, tested system. I have a 400 table schema networked …

AI agents are remarkably capable. But they keep breaking things because they lack consequence awareness. Impact Intelligence closes the gap.

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