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> Very recently, I've started avoiding produce from Taylor Farms Good thing I was paying attention to the news when that mess started. This is very obviously not the type of situat…

> Reality sucks and sometimes you have to do something about it or else you're the problem. But ARE you doing anything about it? Because unless you're actually taking action it's b…

What are you doing to fix the issues though? Has the knowledge of the issues increased your agency in a meaningful way such that you've taken actions to improve things or are you j…

I see researchers, tech people and my friends. This is a problem with how you curate your social media.

I don't think this is really entirely true. Everyone who isn't a FAANG or Frontier Lab seem to be absolutely starving for good talent. It's far more often that I hear "we interview…

> But long-context is a trap, because performance still falls dramatically after 150k-200k context. I often see this repeated, and it is not true task to task. I work on this daily…

It's nice to see a strong long context open weights model that is multi-modal. There are many applications that will benefit from the strength in audio here and until z.ai and co w…

There's a setting that stops fallback to Opus 4.8 if you would like to avoid that behavior. Config -> Switch models when a message is flagged -> false That should stop it entirely …

2025 is such old news that this just isn't relevant. METR already redid the study at a later date and now finds a likely 18% speedup "For the subset of the original developers who …

Most of the best engineers I know leave faang because the work at faang sucks. It is not orthogonal. The majority of faang work is not highly impactful work like trivially because …

> Turns out for most people, there's not much better to do during your 9 to 5 than solving problems for half a million a year. Lol. I don't know I was talking with a guy yesterday …

> I strongly believe that you cannot evaluate how good a system design is if you don't implement it by hand. Fwiw we both agree that LLMs should not design systems. I do the design…

Sorry definitely mis-remembered on my part, its about 3 months https://x.com/yaroslavvb/status/2067367657272422584 https://x.com/voratiq/status/2067667800643268928 https://arena.ai…

We love our open source models. GLM 5.2 came out recently and the timeline for closing the gap to closed source shrank to something like 2 weeks by popular measurements. Edit: Mis …

Idk man my system design game is better than its ever been because I put in the effort to use these tools and recognize they can't do software design better than I can and because …

Tool use typically follows this curve. If you want to preserve a skill you have to actually preserve it. This isn't inherently bad by itself, tools enable us to do much more than w…

As someone who lived in New York for over a decade and grew up in the general area, there is not a single person who would think its normal if you're trying to strike up a conversa…

Most new builds don't even use evaporative cooling afaik, this will probably be closed loop. The implications being you're not risking the local water table and overall consumption…

https://www.usenym.com/ Everyone is working on personal agents but their identity model is wrong. They act as you, risk your reputation, your data and more. Nym is a personal agent…

https://www.usenym.com/ Everyone is working on personal agents but their identity model is wrong. They act as you, risk your reputation, your data and more. Nym is a personal agent…

I'll own it.

I didn't intend it that way, but I guess I can see it now. The point they made had not crossed my mind (as evidenced by my response of how I usually make projects, it wouldn't have…