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Speaking as the author of the original article, I wholeheartedly agree! :D

You can't trust anything Dario tells you: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are particularly sneaky about reporting numbers, but there's good reason to believe it is: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

You're right. I did a fair amount of hand-waving, and I'm leaning pretty heavily on Ed Zitron's investigative reporting to make the case instead: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_do…

Sorry, I realize the headline perhaps implies something with more rigour than it actually delivers. I'm pretty new to writing blog posts! But if you want some actual factual data, …

You're right about that. It's something I should have addressed in the original article, but I don't really have a solution for those who aren't self-employed. Maybe just use up a …

I once worked at a company like that without meaning to. It seemed great at first; seemingly limitless private funding and no expectations meant we could basically dither about on …

One time I actually came in on the Saturday after my last day to put the finishing touches on my final deliverable. I don't think you should follow my example to that extreme, but …

As a developer that has worked almost exclusively in startups for the past 16 years, I have not once had to create or even look at a Gantt chart. Most organizations I encounter fol…

I've been using Fastmail for my side business for a year now and am happy with it. Pretty straightforward to set up with your own domain. Trivial to set up a number of aliases for …

The sanctions don't directly threaten the lives of Russian citizens and soldiers (arguably they may indirectly threaten lives in some cases, though); whereas a no-fly zone that is …

Having used Heroku extensively at my previous job I became aware of what I perceived to be a major drawback of database add-ons in Heroku's marketplace: they all seem to allow conn…