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It’s Trump, not the USA, and he seems to be ruled by passions rather than logic. Mostly, his goals seem to be to seek wealth and adoration by any means necessary. Now that he’s in …

This is mostly recapitulating the article “AI Mania is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making” that was posted here a week or two ago. https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscer…

It doesn’t matter. You’re saving nanoseconds when a db access costs milliseconds. Better to focus on making the code easy to understand and change and focus your effort on optimizi…

I’ve had people tell me, with a completely straight face, that they expected 10-100x productivity improvements. This is at the executive and VC level. The mania is extreme.

There was an article a while back that talked about their simulated world model. It has the ability to do things like floods, elephants on the road, etc.

Screens are mandated by law in the US, I believe, for the backup camera.

> The AI Visibility Evidence Model is a reference model that orders the publisher-side factors behind AI visibility by strength of evidence. What the F is this thing going on about…

It’s an easy mistake to make, given the name of the website, but Fowler frequently hosts guest authors. This article was written by Giles Edwards-Alexander, ThoughtWorks CTO for EM…

2x is 100% increase.

I don’t think you can judge a programming language based on its “Hello World.” AppleSoft BASIC has this: 10 PRINT “Hello World” Beautifully simple and readable. But it’s not a good…

I use Fastmail. It’s excellent, and only $114 for two years. (Just processed my renewal today.)

I suspect we do. In my view, people using free software take the gift they were given as-is, and if they don’t like it, they either contribute in a way the giver appreciates, or mo…

That early 2025 METR study was particularly interesting because participants self-evaluated themselves as 20% faster, but the measurements showed they were actually 19% slower. All…

If you care that much, you can donate money to Arch to buy a commercial license, or inform your sales rep that you find their conduct unprofessional. Or, yes, you can take the pres…

Hmm, I don’t think I agree. The author is claiming that Anubis is meant to stop individuals using LLMs, but I don’t think that’s its purpose. I believe its purpose is to reduce mas…

A “propaganda campaign” implies intent. I’ve seen a lot of dissatisfaction about capitalism, too, particularly among Gen Z, but to me it looks like an expression of the loss of fai…

All of the above, but mostly the latter, IMO.

I think it’s because maintainability is a factor of software design, and good design is squishy and hard to articulate. There’s no good metrics for design. All the tools that purpo…

You’re getting a lot of pushback, but I’m genuinely interested in your experiences. What differences have you seen between average and top leaders? Not in results, but in terms of …

Default payout is 50/50 author/publisher. If the author and publisher have a contract that states otherwise, then their contract overrides the default. Source: I’m an author and si…

To be clear, the issue is not that the books were used to train Claude, but that they were pirated.

There’s two types of quality: external quality, which is how well something works, and internal quality, which is how well something is built.

Nonetheless, some people have decided that the risk isn’t worth it, and have decided to geo-block the EU. You can choose differently, of course, and I’m not making value judgments …

It’s a letter to the editor.