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There are three things programmers bring: Salience - Agents only know what we bring to their attention Judgment - Agents cannot make decisions in the larger business context Respon…

Extend it to scan papers from pre-2020. That should give you a better baseline accuracy for your detection system.

How did it kill the product? It's still cranking along pretty good.

I've been thinking of it as a "conservation of cognition". there is some fundamental about of cognition that needs to be spent in order to keep things moving. LLMs do not reduce th…

ghostty is a zig project too!

You can't keep people from being stupid via the language you use. People who have the reaction you describe would not magically "get it" if different language is used.

> Absolutely true, however my experience says that the correlation between "good software engineering practices" and "positive business outcomes" is, at best, small. One of the mos…

I can't speak to benchmarks, but I have used Composer 2.5 extensively and it's performed quite well in my real world tasks.

Why does it need to provide guidance about that? It's one step along the way of cultivating wisdom, not the destination.

I don't think you've understood the lesson here. Chesterton's fence is not about keeping systems in place. It is about how you approach changing the system.

yeah he's not a crank, just an asshole. Taking credit for work did by his employees, to the point of suing them. The only significant discovery to come out of his CA work was compl…

I'm using Composer extensively, and it works great for me. Your experiences are not universal.

Lots of people in the US getting left behind too.

That does not match my experience. Composer 2 was fantastic for my uses, and I hit Composer 2.5 with some very difficult things last night, which it handled fast and effectively. I…

I've been using cursor for over a year for my personal projects. At work, I use Claude Code, and so I've been wondering if I'm missing something in the other agents. Over the last …

I didn't imply anything. I just called out the emotional reality. There are a lot of externalized pain in the world today, and little recourse to addressing it. You can try telling…

> There will be suffering during transition and there will be many that don’t fare well Yeah, and the people suffering are not going to like that. If people are afraid of being in …

It sounds like this has a pretty falsifiable claim here - is the revenue attributed to a tax thing? Then it's clearly not attributable to code. I agree that the macro picture would…

You're still talking about compute resources that need to be paid for and maintained for that. Spamming AI PR's is going to cost a lot of money.

Those things cost resources, and now you're introducing a new attack vector: open up a bunch of shit PRs, burn a lot of cash for the target organization.

Libraries also do a lot more than just provide books. $35 per resident per year for everything that libraries do provide is forking cheap, and we would be greatly impoverished if t…

I don't see how we are disagreeing. Emotional self-awareness is an aptitude, one that is fundamentally experiential, and so talking about it is inherently difficult. I agree that m…

I think many men don't even understand what emotional regulation looks like. They tend to spend much of their time disassociated and thinking that it's normal. I tried speaking to …

Yeah, it's not indifference or apathy. It is overwhelm. There are too many things that need attention and not enough attention.

What do you think about the mis-alignment between goals here? For medical research, the goal is to find general practices that will broadly help, and identify risks with the interv…