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Muted Buck Turgidson vibe from Mike (Security and Infrastructure)

Related: A few days ago, Jira opted everyone in by default to "Contribute in-app data to improve Atlassian apps for everyone"

Contrast that interactive, misspelled prompting, which I can relate to, against the clear, but intimidating, prompting they published with that theorem proof the other day.

probably no number you come up with will be adequate for very long. [edit] it's a reference to this possibly apocryphal prediction https://www.computerworld.com/article/1563853/the…

communists really say "social ownership of the means of production"

A Fable 5 model running at 9,000 tokens/s on an ASIC rather than 150 tokens/s on electricity chugging Nvidia GPUs, or even giant SRAM Cerebras or Groq chips could be good enough to…

Was hoping it was a political act in favor of land reform or against owning property.

This presentation is painful to read. It's an LLM's idea of a CTO presentation. I'm overwhelmed by charts, only slightly connected to the text around them. But no matter, it looks …

Is the CTO a bot?

So good at style, so weak on substance

I guess it uses `claude -p`? Am I correct that uses API billing not subscription?

User nashashmi [1]: So this kid uses his home computer at his home, and they trace him down with the IP address, and the IP address also makes a request for Windows Updates. And th…

> If the software can execute arbitrary code/binary, and you place a malicious binary, that's up to you to secure/sandbox the workspace, not the software. What do you think PATH va…

iirc Christenson's chief example was IBM not deigning to cannibalize their high-end disk drive business by competing on the new, less capable low-end devices.

I've found that the less real estate my eyes need to scan, the faster I understand the code, even if its more tersely expressed and requires a little decoding. Relatedly, I've come…

I feel this too but it's very hard to argue myself out of adding features like mad. Features, features, features. Tech debt may be an illusion, if the LLM can keep maintaining it a…

CFPB once played that role for financial services. Ah well.

If it's not dangerous enough to be classified as WMD by USG, who's interested.

Sure man, knock yourself out.

I wonder though if, as long as you have LLMs to maintain the extra code, it's worth it to gain the new feature. Less tech debt than your intuition expects.

For the older among us, that's .ne.

I've been wrestling for days with a recalcitrant Opus 4.8 unable to close the circle on an algorithm I'm sure, based on the three previous days' experience, Fable 5 will cut right …

Sure but in the intervening 2 years there's money to be made.