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Vibe-coding my way to public accountability.

You know, you could always just read the review.

We have different definitions of "vision." My version implies some level of internal coherence.

This is quite literally already explained in the review but I'll repeat it here. I used Andreessen's essay as a microcosm for the problem with Abundance: at the level of fuzzy, non…

Right. So then what is he offering?

What does his podcast have to do with anything? I'm reviewing his book, not his entire bibliography. As I stated already, the vision is incoherent. It's fine to cherrypick specific…

It takes no effort at all to see that CA HSR is an unmitigated disaster. It takes much more effort to figure out a coherent policy common denominator that shames CA for outsourcing…

I think you'd get near-universal agreement that some regulations somewhere are ineffective and/or counterproductive. If that's all the book is attempting to achieve, it's an extrem…

This is a weird response - that's not what the review says at all. (I should know. I wrote it.) I'm also a YIMBY - although, as a renter, it doesn't exactly take any moral courage.…

Are they though? https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1700092765798048093

My early (late?) thoughts on the enormous promise of AI, and whether some solutions are still in search of a problem.

I once read an explanation of the Fourier transformation as akin to looking at a fully blended smoothie and being able to calculate exactly how much of each ingredient went into it…

Are we there yet?

This might be a weird analogy but this product feels like it recreates the NFT problem -- meaning that it's inherently self-referential and doesn't actually solve the problem it pu…

Spent weeks investigating the mania around web3 and regret to say it does not live up to the hype.