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Its reasonable to dislike a bad product experience, but its strange to draw a conclusion of AI altogether based on a tool with limited usage (I've never heard of it). That's like s…

This is a good point about quality of life. I focused on money in my original comment, but I've heard a lot of people complain that unions have kept them working with their worst c…

I've been laid off. It was fine because software is literally the most marketable skill in the world. Edit: But also, this was a pre-profit VC-backed company. If those companies ca…

As a California tech worker (where the article is focused), I have zero interest in joining a union and firmly believe that much of what has been possible as a tech employee (high …

AI seems to struggle most when it has to make decisions with lots of trade-offs, especially where the context or implications of various decisions are nested, which is presumably w…

The issue I have with loops is that for truly complex work, where I care about building a generalized solution for a complex problem, the agents frequently reward hack and end up b…

Telemetry tooling for local Claude/Codex usage so I can analyze old sessions and fill tooling gaps, make sure I'm using the right models for various tasks, update my processes, etc…

This looks awesome. I’m the ideal customer for this and am delighted it exists.

Much of the way that people talk about and pitch AI is around agents that work without human prompting. As a programmer, I struggle to find ways where this is useful beyond a tool …

My first thought was my finance professor telling us that companies always raise with equity when they think their equity is overvalued.

The responses to this are wild. I have worked with and built smaller systems like this and it is an incredible speed up. So much reflexive hate against a genuinely transformative t…

The issue of it burning through tokens grepping around should be fixed with language server integration, but that’s broken in Claude Code and the MCP code nav tools seem to use mor…

Haven’t done robotics, but this approach is also much more feasible now with AI, which I appreciate.

Building a woodworking extension for SketchUp! I took a course in using it for woodworking, and just kept thinking “this should all be a single extension”, so I’ve been building th…

I keep thinking about two very different cases wrt existing platforms: 1. My cousin who works for an enterprise real estate SaaS company. He said their main product has iirc 10-20,…

1. I was prepared my to roll my eyes, but I actually think the framing is correct. AI hasn't replaced legacy vendors yet, but companies are now in a position to at least assess whe…

Jonathan Haidt recently made the point on Ezra Klein's podcast that while adults can take a break from phones and reset their attention/hormones in a couple of weeks, we don't know…

Not snack bars, but tiny bars were absolutely one of my favorite things in Japan. The streets of 3-5 seat bars felt incredibly special and distinct from anything I've seen in the U…

I think it's pretty unlikely that they visit bars who don't want the tourists. I often go on food tours in new cities (e.g. Secret Food Tours) and the restaurants they visit seem t…

Yes at some point innovative software and naming are at cross purposes, and if your naming gets too extreme ultimately that will get all of the attention.

I actually love the idea of totally new naming schemes for experimental software. Certain name types are so normalized (agent, worker, etc) that while they serve their role well, t…

Asking here bc others may be in a similar position. Software developer in the data/platform/python space. I have training funds to spend in the next 12 days. There are plenty of pa…