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I’ve done this in pure Python for a long time. Single file prototype that can mostly function from the command line. The process helps me understand all the sub problems and how th…

Until AI is used to generate new revenue streams (i.e. acquire new customers), I don’t think the economic impact is going to impress. My two cents.

Next evolution: UX should allow end users to build the prompt, and then the tool is generated and deployed at a random URL. Tool also keeps original prompt, so any user can customi…

Cheap depends on how we define the cost. In relative terms, food is more expensive than ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Invest in making food/shelter cheaper?

If you start exercising in your 20s, and never stop, it will be so much easier to maintain fitness in 40s 50s etc. The challenge is that the benefits are not yet visible in your 20…

Research focuses on trends. You are a sample of 1, however, so anything is possible. Create your own path!

As fascinating as these tools can be - are we (the industry) once again finding something other than our “customer” to focus our brains on (see Paul Graham’s “Top idea in your mind…

This definitely has that “toy” feel to it that a lot of eventually mainstream ideas have. It can’t work! But… could it?

If I am understanding things correctly, OpenAI could leave in the future - but CA can’t retroactively block the conversion in that case.

Functions can have complexity or side effects, but not both.

If you don’t have one, try an Instant Pot which can pressure cook (in addition to rice cooker features). Dry beans can be ready to eat in an hour.

Isn’t programming the clearest form of writing? Perhaps it’s the non programmers that need to “catch up”.

LLMs are good at creating single use documents, like a pitch deck used for one prospective customer (never to be used again). But for long lived documents, on which future work bui…

Businesses fall into 2 categories: B2C (sell to people) B2B (sell to B2C companies) If the “C” is broke, it seems like there won’t by any rich people. In other words, if the masses…

Humans are good at sifting valid feedback from bad feedback. But we are bad at spotting subtle bugs in PRs.

Have you tried non-running (indoor) cardio as a regular replacement? Jumping jacks, squats, jump squats, mountain climbers, even jogging in place. I do cardio everyday but running …

I see 100x used quite a bit related to LLM productivity. It seems extreme because it implies one could generate a year’s worth of value in a few days. I would think delivering feat…

Well, the most likely single random sample would be a “representative” one :)

Societal norms are the problem. We’ve normalized unhealthy food. Big business has figured hit that if they make processed/refined foods easily accessible, you will buy them. Nobody…

You’ll also want to familiarize with “git apply -3 ”, for when a diff can’t be applied cleanly. It will try “harder” to merge (three way method) and if it still fails it invokes th…

Once I discovered how git apply can take diff files (or patch files) as input, I stopped using git stash in favor of plain old files. Easier to list and browse the contents of prio…

Great article from The New Yorker about this, also from 2015: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

I’m not sure it’s possible to have the full reasoning in your head without authoring the code yourself - or, spending a comparable amount of effort to mentally rewrite it.

Interesting that if people took their health more seriously, the food companies mentioned here would struggle to survive regardless of pricing power. Total addressable market would…