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Claude, please write a paper proving Dunning-Kruger is false. I'm not an expert, but you'll have no difficulty finding sources as it's clearly 100% false.

I'm not arguing that it's great. I'm arguing that the future of human work in this area will be limited to dealing with the cases when it isn't great, i.e. the pile on your desk. C…

Is there any indication that it was a mini/fast/older model, or on a low effort level? My read of the reactions above is "ugh AI", not "ugh AI on the cheap". Not a single poster me…

That's my point, we won't bother reading it. We'll let agents read it. People will eventually stop getting ticked off at this stuff. One exception: if the model is poor or on 'low'…

Until ~2000, "cellphone user in public" equated with "smug asshole." We're at that icky rejection stage with AI. Two years ago, that writeup would have been viewed as a generous gi…

The Wikipedia version is simplified, but it bears mentioning that as written, it's going to be slower than the trivial version for most N's on 1983 compilers and systems. Fixed: re…

Me mechanic not speak English. But he know what me mean when me say "car no go", and we best friends. So me think: why waste time, say lot word when few word do trick?

Not surprising to see the WSJ skipping the surveillance angle entirely. Aside from classic sport cars and to a lesser extent manual transmissions, I've never even heard about someo…

California has self-driving vehicle fleets which, once municipally-owned like the older transport infrastructure eventually became, work way better than trains for almost all trip …

Yep. It's like rooting for a team or a rock star. Alice is a football stats wiz. Alice is a WR Jones fan because he has an incredible 40-yd dash time and leads the league in YAC. B…

Test-drive it with an individual Pro account (5x or 20x) for a month. Download the Codex CLI client from https://github.com/openai/codex and auth it in the browser via the URL it p…

Waymo has a lead. Tesla's lead is about the same as a Roomba's. Seriously though, if you're considering an EV, please give the traditional US/EU/JP/KR automakers a chance. Don't tr…

Resource leaks, crossing non-exception-safe library/system code, CPU-specific quirks like accidentally unrestored FP/vector/control state, etc. Granted it's always been highly syst…

No complaints about this in particular, but code that uses setjmp/longjmp often has a risk profile that's way bigger than memory safety alone. If you're stuck with them then by all…

Thought experiment: what if you used AI in the sort of situation where you would consider adding an external dependency? The differences between the two are obvious, but the level …

Chip fab locations have traditionally had more political than economic importance. Matrix multiplication chips and RAM have been the recent exception, while TSMC has long been the …

I agree with everything you wrote. I'd like to add the pyramid angle. Fancy mansions have always been overpriced. For property prices to grow faster than inflation, the pyramid nee…

It's more like being regulars at the same bar. It cuts through demos. It's easier here since almost everyone is from elsewhere.

There's strange kinship and signaling in proximity. It's similar to college degrees. Working in SF - either in person or locally remote - puts people in a separate bin. It's not ju…

Look at it this way: while the upfront cost to scale up production is huge, prices are now high enough to justify it even if demand is expected to drop abruptly later on. So if you…

This is obviously going to happen. But sub-par and sloppy doctors are a thing too. Medicine has been using semi -intelligent systems for years that were nevertheless found to impro…

I'll happily train them for you but I charge by the hour, not by the token. BTW, while we're on the topic. I don't do social media. I occasionally type up a text or post on a techn…

Are we positively sure that WASM will prove to be more future-proof than 640K MS-DOS or WinXP, or SNES cartridge files for that matter? On 6/23/26 there are a lot of emulators that…