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My manager said "load-bearing" during a presentation the other day and I almost lost it.

Pretty sure this was LLMs musing about LLMs. A little too slick with the analogies and a lot of the "you don't get x, you get y" mic drops.

Also, find the right manager and the right role. With a manager that expects a highly regimented routine, you probably aren't going to do so well. With a manager that lets you expl…

To be devil's advocate, two things may offer a glimmer of hope: First, math, generally, is useless. I mean, yes there are of course practical uses of basic thru undergrad-level mat…

"We broke our monolith into microservices and wish we hadn't"

Microsoft has their own Durable Task framewor[1] for that kind of stuff, and it supports both running as a self-hosted standalone service like temporal, and running serverless on A…

Google should bring back Google Reader. But make it only for bots. And then drop it again once it gets popular.

For me, besides creatine which has been genuinely transformative at age 50, I've gained a lot more from the stuff I've dropped (dairy milk, ~2/3 of my caffeine (mostly by drinking …

> [CEOs] expressed more extreme concern about the labor market impacts of A.I. in private conversation, but suddenly became optimists once I turned on the mic. At some point once t…

So far there's no moat though. A lot of that kind of stuff is available open source too if you look for it (and was available before claude desktop). And for anything that doesn't …

Reminds me of the old short story "With Folded Hands" from 1947. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands_ ...

Agreed, and assuming local open AI models start catching up, which they seem to be doing, the foundation models' hold on society gets a lot slipperier. If there's a "what to do abo…

One mitigating factor is the increased productivity leads to consolidation, aka layoffs, meaning fewer people to align with. (Leading to further increased productivity, more consol…

That's the trillion dollar question! Not enough, then they're hamstrung before they can start. Too much, and the world ends. Extractable value is inversely proportional to how clos…

No need for insurance. Just start a prediction market, wait for an insider to play their cards, and traverse or not based on that.

Though humans have each other to normalize ourselves. What these things did is probably not that far off from what humans in solitary confinement, forced to DJ 24/7 based on nothin…

> Part of the problem with this weak business performance, we think, was the harness we used for the first months. The DJs were running in a simple tool-call loop: pick a song, que…

Yeah and any detailed design is still likely to skip over "obvious" things like "only admin users can use admin features". Both the PM and the engineering team will understand this…

I don't think there is a protection. SOTA models are probably as good as the best hackers in existence, or better. Once those can run locally, all you need is a prompt: 1. Clone yo…

Yeah I don't even think you'd need to train it. You could probably just explain how SVG works (or just tell it to emit coordinates of lines it wants to draw), and tell it to draw a…

You could create an agent template for each incident you've ever had, with context pre-cached with the postmortem report, full code change, and any other information about the inci…