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Not the angle I'm coming at it from. I mask as a coping mechanism for ADHD and Social Anxiety. This masking causes me harm. I learned it in the way you describe. The most helpful l…

Absolutely agree with this. I still think it's important to (1) notice what's causing the problem, bring it into consciousness (2) understand the behavior (in this case: masking) a…

Eh, this just feels like "software engineering simulator." I don't have autism but a good bit of this feels familiar (am I on the spectrum?) I'm an introvert and have struggled to …

How is that different than how any self-taught programmer learns? Dive into a too-big idea, try to make it work and learn from that experience. Repeat that a few hundred times and …

Hot take: Junior devs are going to be the ones who "know how to build with AI" better than current seniors. They are entering the job market with sensibilities for a higher-level o…

https://www.latent.space/p/o3-pro Have completed around a dozen chats with o3-pro so far. Can't say I'm impressed, output feels qualitatively very similar to regular o3. Tried feed…

Am I right to say: doesn't look better than anything we've seen before?

Useful tip! I'll use this. Not sure how I feel about it, but the the blog post seems very clearly LLM-written to me. Nobody writes like this: > Revolutionary? No. Life-changing? Ab…

I'm curious about the "environmentally friendly" promise. How meaningful/measurable would removing these tags be? I think there's something to be said for efficiency/no wasted byte…

Ran into this earlier today when using Gemini 2.5 Pro. Thought it was a weird bug.

Feels reasonable in the first few paragraphs, then quickly starts reading like science fiction. Would love to read a perspective examining "what is the slowest reasonable pace of d…

> Important Corollary Two. If you show a nonprogrammer a screen which has a user interface which is 100% beautiful, they will think the program is almost done. > People who aren’t …

The blog author didn't think so, but there's good anecdotal + empirical evidence that working with LLMs boosts *overall productivity*. (A recent study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3…

Let's say a decent software engineer gets paid $100k per year (40hr weeks, 50 weeks a year.) $100,000 / (50 weeks * 40 hours) => ~$50 per hour. Extremely conservatively, if this sa…

I regret giving my TV my Wi-Fi password. By default, it has some knock-off Alexa assistant that triggers a couple times a day, even when I'm sitting in silence. It also warns me it…

> Is that really hype? I'm thinking back to various promises self-driving would be widespread by 2016. These set a certain expectation for how our roads would look that I don't thi…

> Using human crash data, Waymo estimated that human drivers on the same roads would get into 78 crashes serious enough to trigger an airbag. By comparison, Waymo’s driverless vehi…

In terms of absolute progress (e.g. towards finishing a feature or MVP) I think it it could have to do with a usual underestimation (optimism) for timelines. I'm using Cursor mostl…

I use Cursor for most of my development these days. This article aligns pretty closely with my experiences. A few additional observations: 1. Anecdotally, AI agents feel stuck some…

Asking questions and unblocking yourself is a required competency for acting independently. Developers should aim to be resourceful and respect others time, but I expect my reports…