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is more maintenance work on old software really the highest aspiration of the tech industry?

I just say "To be honest" when I want to signal I'm about to say something that someone doesn't want to hear or that is slightly inappropriate

Say you have several MCPs installed on a coding agent. One is a web search MCP and the other can run shell commands. Your project uses an AI-related package created by a malicious …

That smells illegal.

Yes, Altman not having 7% of the company was not a good fit for the world.

FWIW, that's what cursor does: https://www.trycursor.com/

https://youtu.be/PTxMtTYjXPQ

Feel the need to push back against the predictable nay-saying in here. Announcing with Rust in the title is not because of a hype train, it's a way to communicate that this bundler…

i get the sense that the solution to this problem is more use of LLMs (running critical feedback and review in a loop) rather than less use of LLMs. If you can build good tooling a…

my uneducated guess is that the partnership is because Vox has a lot of explainers written and used to embed these little factoid explainer cards in their articles which are probab…

A lot of software doesn't need to be good. I could see using this to prototype internal tools fast. Also, it doesn't need to be good yet - whoever has the best tooling infrastructu…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_intellectual_pr...

Same thing seems to be happening with openai api

pretty sure i'm cursed, after 7 years in the business i would say only half of what i worked on lasted more than 2 years

"Benefiting humanity" would be letting profits stay the same but giving an equal UBI salary to people who lose their jobs to this stuff. In its current state, the main thing AI doe…

The main selling point of Signal is privacy. That's basically the only reason it exists - without it, why not just use WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat, etc? What is the usability con…

Yeah, privacy is weird and cringe! Let's call 'em "privacy-bros" or maybe "encryption-bros" to signify that they are low status (I don't want to be like them, ew!)

This is a great way to articulate it. People operate in extremes, caring too much or little

As someone without kids I typically see my coworkers who do have kids be granted special allowances and bond with upper management over the experience of being a parent, etc

Do they have oil? If so, we must stop the terrorists there.

Minimizing it like this is a great way to neglect kids.

It seems obvious to me when he outright mentions loving his great-grandfather's diaries and that the obsession didn't start until he moved in with his grandmother. But yes, it's sp…