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I would not advocate nationalization of any operations - I think the free market will run the data centers better in general. I'm only suggesting (eventual) negotiations between co…

I don't understand why this got downvotes - simply extrapolating current trends leads to the need to answer all of these questions. My own $0.02 on the economics piece - every coun…

I've often thought that s-expression diff-viewers would be very nice tooling. I've also often wondered how easy it would be to just sling s-expressions across the wire to execute i…

I've often wondered how viable it is to use AI to fill out the ecosystem gaps in awesome but niche languages (still looking at you OCaml...). I've not gone too deep down this train…

A couple of years ago I listened to a Lex Fridman podcast with a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. I don't know the status of it, but the researcher spoke about how people in develo…

I don't hear about them a lot but it looks like arcee.ai is aiming to be just that. Here are some of their current open weight offerings: https://www.arcee.ai/open-source-catalog

That makes sense and had never occurred to me! I just asked and Claude says it's Haiku.

Absolutely the same. Now that Fable is back, the Claude voice interface is... worth dealing with. The app mostly seems to have trouble recovering from networking issues which is ja…

I'm so mad that this might make me re-subscribe to ChatGPT. I wouldn't have believed how much I use the voice feature before LLMs and ChatGPT currently has the best voice interface…

One of the more counter-intuitive parts of management that I've found is that your focus shifts from delivering a technical outcome to care-taking a team that delivers technical ou…

It definitely violates DRY but if you keep passing the JWT down the call chain, you can do redundant permission checking in your business layer. Now the reasonable response to the …

His Blindsight is one of my all time favorite novels (sequel is good to). His short story Malak - about a military drone given a prototype ethical program - is so good.

This feels like this is exploring the reasons for what Doctorow calls "Enshitification" which is really exciting.

Another suggestion for optimizing local inference - the Hermes team talks a lot on X about how much better results are when you use custom parsers tuned to the nuances of each mode…

I propose a claude skill to email glitter bombs where appropriate.

> Treat code design and architecture as the thing that lets your slop canons (90% of engineers even pre-ai) move fast without breaking things I'm currently of the opinion that huma…

That's very interesting and is good evidence against the thesis - thanks for sharing!

Very true - which is why this piece "that translations of others words into 'happy' are somewhat approximate." would be very interesting if accurate.

I've not read Aristotle directly but translating eudaimonia was an example in the book that I mentioned. The argument was that eudaimonia is often translated as happiness but that …

A few years ago I read a claim that the word 'happy' is relatively young - ~500 years old - and that translations of others words into 'happy' are somewhat approximate. My takeaway…

On a related note, this type of reasoning is what made me flip my opinion on microservices. I've generally been skeptical of a many-microservice architecture for the last decade bu…

Now I want my main agent to be modeled after the Adjutant and any subagents to sound like SCVs.

CoinBase sure does - https://www.x402.org/

Adding to your comment, I've found that frequent squashing of commits on the feature branch makes rebasing considerably easier - you only have to deal with conflicts on one commit.…

I think Grok's voice chat is almost there - only things missing for me: * it's slower to start-up by a couple of seconds * it's harder to switch between voice and text and back aga…