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Antitrust is the zeitgeist, but it seems that among tech companies, OpenAI is the least interested in competing on the merits. First they said it was in everyone's interest for the…

And yet the systems built at these places far exceed what an indie dev can do

I was wondering if there was something particular about AI, but that's just the standard reason people give to use JS for anything.

Why is JS particularly good for agents?

Many of the curious ones will be adversely affected. When you're a college student, the stakes feel so high. You have to pass this class or else you'll have to delay graduation and…

Is it natural, or have we just adapted to it? Maybe if we had always had 10-day weeks, we'd get sick if we switched to 7.

I was being sarcastic there, a bad habit of mine. There are some advantages to being an early adopter (you get to reap some of the benefits now), but it doesn't give you a permanen…

(I deleted a less productive comment.) I do use these tools though! I spent some time with AI. I have coworkers who are more heads-down working on their projects and not tinkering …

This is why devs who started with J2ME are the holy grail of app developers, since they started making apps years before iPhone devs

If the "meta" changes so quickly, then that sets an upper bound as to how far behind you are, no? Unless you are doing low-autonomy, non-specialized work or are applying to fly-by-…

You're making at least a year's worth of pre-LLM progress in 5 weeks? You expect to achieve more than a decade of pre-LLM accomplishments between now and June 2026?

If progress continues at the rate that AI boosters expect, then soon you won't have to use them smartly to get value (all existing workflows will churn and be replaced by newer, sm…

I can't think of many engineering disciplines that do things this way. "This seems to work, I don't know how or why it works, I don't even know if it's possible to know how or why …

I think we agree. Interacting with employees is not an engineering discipline, and neither is prompting. I'm not objecting to the incantations or the vibes per se. I'm happy to use…

This is an interview published in Common Dreams, rehosted at Chomsky's site. Those are the interviewer's words, not Chomsky's.

How do we benchmark these different methodologies? It all seems like vibes-based incantations. "You are an expert at finding vulnerabilities." "Please report only real vulnerabilit…

> If you cannot afford the hundreds of dollars a month Claude costs Employers will buy AI tools for their employees, this isn't a problem. If you're saying that you need to buy and…

Highly recommend this podcast by patio11 explaining that poor people are not funding credit card rewards programs. https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/credit-card-r...

I keep hearing people express dismay that people are financing their lunch, sneakers, or concert tickets. But this has been the norm for a while, no? I can't remember the last time…

Go's performance is in a totally different class than node.

> I get paid to provide technical solutions to business problems. That's true of all SWEs who write HTML and CSS, and it's the reason I don't think there's much downside for devs t…

I actually agree with this. I use LLMs often, and I don't compare them to a calculator. Mainly I meant to push back against the reflexive comparison to a friend or family member or…

Agreed. The nice thing is that I am told by HN and Twitter that agentic workflows makes code tasks very easy, so if it turns out that using these tools multiplies productivity, the…

If it's zero effort, then why do devs need to adapt fast? And wouldn't adapting be incredibly easy? The only disadvantage to not using these tools would be that your current output…