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I somewhat agree here, but not entirely. I think that in technical conversations it's much better to say llm, diffusion model, transformer, etc. But overall it's all Latin to the l…

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Yeah it's fairly disheartening that it often comes down to leetcode. We're really failing our entire profession with that trash. There are crafts that have been around for hundreds…

It has been a tough last few years. It's often difficult to explain to people how I got to where I am right now, making minimum wage across two jobs when I was once a boot camp gra…

I wonder what your perspective would have been if you were living in the time of AT&T's monopolistic dominance. Would have that dominance have seemed inevitable and unchangeable? I…

I think what I define as the "trash" in this is all the stuff the attention economy wants to boost. It's never stuff that makes you think or teach you something meaningful. All you…

Seeing civilizational collapse or decline as far fetched is a direct result of your privileged position in the world.

Existing inside a media hype bubble does wonders for traction, but it's not the only way a platform gains users. It also happens when your friends keeps linking you to the posts th…

I think that threads is gonna be more successful than people realize. bluesky and mastodon are both still just novelties because it's neigh impossible to migrate social media audie…

Luckily it's not as useful as people think it is. We will see an AI bubble much to the similarity of the .com crash

I want to preface my point by saying I love LLMs. I am very excited by what's on the horizon and their many useful applications. They are worth investing in and exploring. But it s…

Here's a weird idea, education should be free

It makes sense to me that good web developers would be multifunctual enough to implement a solution based on the complexity of the required design. React is conversely way too comp…

Yeah I think this ties into not only the fact that we are highly paid, but also how unions generally form. When everyone works at a factory and have similar positions, you can stan…

I agree with the conclusions, they will definitely be switching to a more addictive model. But it seemed like there is an implication that the previous model was not 'addictive'. O…