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My approach is to write a bit of totally AI-free code every day. So after a day of Claude, I'll spend at least 30 mins wrestling with something. The gnarlier the better, e.g.leet c…

Buddha addressed this idea directly. Your instinct that "getting comfortable with nothing" is still doing something turns out to be exactly right, and Buddhism doesn't deny it. Its…

As the Buddhist joke goes 'don't just do something, stand there'.

I'm somewhere in between. I'm excited about building more things faster and extending my capabilities. But I also love thinking about the underlying language, runtime, algorithms, …

I understand he’s making a technical point about efficiency, but language isn't neutral and I think it betrays something deeper. It's such a glib and shallow point too that I think…

This is a profound category error. What Altman reduces to a 20-year 'training' cycle fueled by 'energy' is what we, in the actual world, call life. It is a stunningly hollow perspe…

Well exactly ;)

"In 2025 finally almost everybody stopped saying so." I haven't.

If it moves and connects with you then it's real music. It's fine to have a preference for live musicianship, but the 'real music' argument has been leveled against every new music…

Seeing all the experienced engineers on this thread who feel discouraged is really depressing. Not because I disagree with you, I don't! It's because I fear a gradual brain drain o…

Sure maybe you're right. I'm just so underwhelmed by what I see in my day job that it's hard to map error prone and limited deep learning tools to what is being described here. I d…

A fun read, but wildly implausible. Perhaps there are other frontier technologies out there that get us even a fraction of this. But if we're talking this time horizon, I assume we…

I love his attitude, an example to us all. Woz knows what's important.

Best compromise is a markdown file. You can read with it with Obsidian if you want a better gui, but you can also just treat it like a simple text file if you prefer. No lock-in to…

Less training data for Scala is the issue probably. Imagine how much Python is out there.

Depends what we mean by better. If you prefer rock music to Bach then great. Enjoy! I love popular music and classical for different reasons But if we're talking skill, intellectua…

I think this is a bad take by the way. Sure, coding is changing, but people still need to understand AI code. And it's also getting boring pointing out that coding is only part of …

Impossible without either harming your own wellbeing, the child's or both. And I suspect the quality of your work, even if you somehow manage to somehow pull it off, would be very …

Technically breathtaking, but why do these examples of AI-generated content always have a cheap clipart vibe about them? So naff and uninspired given the, no doubt, endless potenti…

Agreed, it is a bit complex. I've looked into KaiOS, but I read that its future looks murky at best. In principle though, I like this idea. https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/…

Does anyone here use both a dumbphone AND a smartphone? I was thinking I could call forward from my smartphone to my dumbphone when I'm leaving the former at home. Seems like a goo…