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Coding in the flow state has always been appreciated, it's just been surpassed by a new technology. Your brain can still "just click" with agentic coding. But it will have to be at…

Getting Lovecraftian vibes.

Anthropic Investors: Amazon.com – $4B Google – $2B Menlo Ventures – $750M Wisdom Ventures Ripple Impact Investments Factorial Funds Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic#…

CS already is the super-degree.

Thanks for sharing, I'm reviewing the curriculum for the program [0] and it looks great. Do you know if any of these courses has been opened sourced? It would be great to have acce…

Hi Peter. Thanks for your AMAs, always a source of great value. A couple of questions from me: 1. Which would you say are the top spececializations within tech that employers are m…

As a side note, Godot's Development Fund [0] is currently sitting at 51.1k euros/month. Does anybody know where it was at before the Unity pricing revamp announcement? [0] https://…

GeeksForGeeks is the bane of my existence and IMO a symptom that the entire system has perverse incentives. Fortunately, I've moved 90% of my code inquiries to LLMs, to great succe…

Currently listening to the LOTR audiobooks narrated by Andy Serkis. Highly recommended. His characters are heavily influenced by Peter Jackson's movies; it put me off a bit at firs…

> It would be useful to give more clarity around your thoughts on the "Data Engineer" role. Is it also in decline? Is the market as a whole in a relative decline? My thoughts: the …

Thanks for mentioning this. I don't get to do much writing in my time off work, since that time is devoted to (more) coding to try and make my side project into a business. So what…

Pick two books at random and start building as you read them. Do you want to build a profitable business or do you want to theorize how to build one?

I'm in a similar situation to yours, and I've kind of settled on a similar approach: put out the most pressing fires and reassess 3-6 months down the line. At first I had thoughts …

What's the plan, full (parallel) rewrite or refactor?

I've found that Statistics is one of those topics that changes your world view about everything. You can consider pretty much any issue statistically, and that will enrich your per…

> I speak four languages out of necessity, not by choice. I also speak four languages and mostly agree with your take. I'm native in Spanish; English I learned gaming, and reading …

> We are already looking to move to other places and created a university-wide google sheet where we compare different countries and cities around the world for those kinds of cate…

> These days I do 20 minutes a day of mind control which involves nothing more than counting down from 9 to 1 repeatedly. If it works for you that's great. However, I would say app…

Would you mind sharing your thought process to get from `daily_users` to `reqs_per_sec`? I'm playing with some estimations of `concurrent_users` for a basic website, and I'd be qui…

And also the monster investor happens to be a university. Why does a university need to manage such a huge endowment ($150bn of assets)? Further, why does a university end up inves…