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The creation of downstream issues has gotten faster, in my experience. The rate at which shit is thrown against walls has also gotten faster.

> But I'm finding it hard to actually do any of that. Based on experience of someone in my family, I ask: are you and your doctor sure that the mood stabilizers themselves aren’t m…

“Circling this territory for decades.” Try millennia. The world is filled with hungry ghosts. Ask a Buddhist.

Try using spec kit. Codex 5 high for planning; Claude code sonnet 4.5 for implementation; codex 5 high for checking the implementation; back to Claude code for addressing feedback …

Unlikely that working a job leads to making as much money as possible.

All for one and one for all. And I’m for myself.

We should just call it engineering. We got better tools. Big whoop.

Be on their best behavior according to whom? Else what? When will these geezers age out?

How frequently is a technical moat the thing that makes a business successful, relative to other moats?

These guys are pursuing what they believe to be the biggest prize ever in the history of capitalism. Given that, viewing their decisions as a cynic, by default, seems like a ration…

I don’t understand the use of MCP described in the post. Claude code can access pretty much all those third party services in the shell, using curl or gh and so on. And in at least…

> Overall, LLMs aren’t yet at the point where they can replace all engineers. But I don’t doubt they will be soon enough. All engineers? This doesn't match my hands-on experience a…

It doesn’t feel like news, yeah. I would emphasize, though, that getting clearly defined input _that remains stable_ is hard. Often something is discovered during implementation of…

It hasn't homogenized everything. It's further exposed humans for who they are. Humans are the virus.

Yes, maximize cash and use it to acquire a diversified portfolio.

Explained for the layperson in the video cited here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44439593

> the European playbook Reference?

And THAT, Smithers, is why we wear hardhats on the job.

Attachment leads to suffering. Always has, always will.

Those long held assumptions were held by people who aren't professional programmers, right? Because, if you do what we do, it's obvious that language > math for most of this stuff.…

Something related to wealth inequality rather than an absolute number.