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I recently switched from VS Code to Cursor as my main editor. Been a software engineer for 15+ years, worked at big tech and early-stage startups. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of…

This has been down for multiple hours now. During this time we have migrated off of fly to coolify/digitalocean. This is the second time this happened in recent months. The last st…

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Pretty handy collection of prompts to do basic things with LLMs. I’ve had good results with using Claude to explain code, tag sentiment and extract emails or other specific content…

I don’t trust anecdotes on twitter because every time I’ve tried an agent that’s been hyped up it’s been more expensive and time consuming than just using GitHub co pilot with Clau…

AI software engineers like Devin and SWE-agent are frequently compared to human software engineers. However SWE-bench, the benchmark upon which this comparison is made, only applie…

This article is about Cognition Labs Devin and what’s in the benchmarks used to assess it and AI on coding tasks.

To summarize what I think the author is trying to say with this article: 1) The stock market is in a bubble due to a decade of low interest rates and tax slashing by “right wing” g…

Personally I don’t believe theirs a conspiracy regarding this but just to play devils advocate. Clearly, the heads of HR and other people who define corporate compensation talk to …

Yeah, on point observation. I worked at both companies. I left Apple to work at Facebook because I wanted to be able to participate in open source projects and talk about my work w…

I disagree, I don’t think this is just about adoption curves and hype cycles. I think fundamentally the infrastructure required to build decentralized applications is hard and has …

I don’t think comparing the timelines of vastly different technologies like this is helpful. Prior to the web, in the 1960s/1970s we had packet-switching networks, such as ARPANET …

After Microsoft swapped out the CEO. New guys better than Balmer.

“You're inside a bubble though. The 100 MAU is certainly totally misleading, maybe 1/10 of that in reality, and something that's only out for a few months can easily rollercoaster …

I disagree. ChatGPT reached 100 million MAUs 2 months after launch. It’s one of the fastest-growing consumer applications in history. Anecdotally, lots of my non technical friends …

Coinbase is fully remote, i.e no local talent pool dependency, with no expectation of coming into the office, can hire from anywhere in the USA and still it mainly hires people in …

The Bay Area usually commands a premium because a) quality of talent b) the ability to scale out a team. Quality of talent means not only intelligence and skill but also people who…