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what alternative are people proposing?

waymos don't remove lanes of traffic, they remove parked cars and parking infrastructure, which is still pretty huge. In many suburbs, parking is the real bottleneck not traffic.

A fully automated utopia isn't just going to happen. Even with frontier models, the integrations, the evals, the UX, need a lot of work and someone needs to do it. After I've autom…

> A June 2025 study of Microsoft developers A year ago feels like forever

I suspect there's a ceiling on failure rates people are willing to operate under. A diversified investor might still be willing to take high risk/reward bets. But workers can go th…

very cool. some feedback: tricky to mouse over the tooltip to click links within the tooltip

nice to see humans writing

Conversations that go on forever (and spend money forever) makes for a very unhappy customer

Could be lack of imagination on my part but I truly can't imaging shipping 1000's of lines of code that I can't understand (beyond low-stakes prototypes). That means there's a ceil…

We should aspire to increase our quality of life, but keep perspective on what are new problems and crises, what are old problems and may still be unsolved. Cheap and abundant hous…

You assume the goal is to move out, but it might not be. Extended families have lived together in many parts of the world throughout history. Expectations of living alone are relat…

Biosphere 2 one of their main problems is that growing food was labor intensive, as I've found with my own hydroponics experiments.

If you prefer to live in a low density exurb, you have many options for affordable housing, there's just a lack of good paying jobs and services in those areas.

It affects their ability to hire and retain talent.

they have a healthy datacenter business. Does that justify their valuation?

what's the point of being vertically integrated if they're just going to rent out their compute ( https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ai-startup-re... ). This signals to…

> without needing to download everything how does your agent run tests or click around the UI to verify changes if it doesn't have the full code?

re: concerns at a societal level. More people are making software than before. People who have been coding for a long time have moved up an abstraction layer and are further from t…

The number of people now involved in software development has now increased because of a lower barrier to entry. I know many people who would previously use a no-code tool or hire …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats rightward shift

If the value of MSFT tanked after he was no longer managing it, people would have said he didn't do a good job setting up effective systems.

they keep moving goal posts. Show me an entrepreneur making 10M AOC says fairly earned it.

It's about efficiency not just corruption. When you call taxi dispatch a human answers and coordinates with other humans. Takes longer and they sometimes drop the ball.

anti-trust

AI should be used for all the bullshit tasks that no one wants to do. There are garbage dumps full of stuff that can be reused and recycled. But it's not high enough ROI to pay som…