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An insane re-writing of the last year of bullshit insanity. Good one.

lines of code != productivity Especially today where LLMs have been reinforced and trained to spew tokens A gentle reminder that the task of Engineering is to (1) reduce costs and/…

I don't get it. How does the initial anecdote about AI being shitty and sloppy tie in to the rest of the article? > if we increasingly describe workers as merely being “human-in-th…

Surely we can make an exception when it's this egregious? Like all rules, there are exceptions.

Curious, I pressed "X" on the blog post. It went away, leaving me with the fake desktop view at "posthog.com". Ok, fine. How do I get back? I pressed the back button on my browser.…

Posthog's website design feels like a joke that went a bit too far

"You're absolutely right — I don’t exist! Your parents lied — and not just a little white lie, but a full-scale, North-Pole-sized fabrication. Did you want me to delve into that fu…

For whatever reason, Salesforce has failed to capitalize on the AI excitement/craze [1]. Its earnings growth is just not what it used to be (i.e. during the peak cloud era of 2010s…

Can you blame him? Listening to the latest AI slop hype on twitter and elsewhere, you’d walk away thinking that LLMs have equivalent performance to humans when it comes to coding t…

Congratulations! How did you get the process started for distributing your game? Were there any early channels for marketing you found particularly effective?

I'll consider this, thank you for the comment!

I wanted to share this power-up I've been building for Trello over the last year. It lets you sync cards between Trello boards -- a feature that Trello does not natively offer. The…

This might surprise you, but most Syrian refugees didn't go to Europe. Turkey has 3 million, for example.

Isn't the tech union the one striking? So what is he implying -- that perplexity would automate the software development of the NYT needle or something?

> please note that AGI ≠ "human intelligence," just a general intelligence (that may exceed humans in some areas and fall behind in others.) By this definition a calculator would b…

Not sure why you got downvoted, this is basically the logical conclusion of programming in some sense. Sure, generating code from docs via an LLM will be riddled with bugs, but it'…

> Saying “we live in a society without a counterculture” sounds ridiculous the more you think about it. How could it possibly be true, especially when you consider the past? And a …

Yes, but you also don't use smartphones so your opinions may not be mainstream quite yet

Shrinking GDP over a sustained period of time would be more accurate. GDP has decreased in past quarters even when there wasn't a recession, most recently in 2014.

It's true that companies are having a hard time finding employees. And it's also true that fewer people are in the workforce than before, largely due to retirements. So that paints…

But isn't stagflation defined as high unemployment + high inflation? Whereas now we have low unemployment -- to the point of labor shortages -- and high inflation, i.e. an economy …

Look for them, sure. And consider the opposite. But if you believe the opposite of the Current Thing all the time, you're just a mindless contrarian. A good recent example of this …

> But I am personally not convinced that sending someone "to jail for a long, long time" is the solution. How is that productive? At least for murder, one of the strongest predicto…