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We should have called it smog .

It’s #3, it’s a disclaimer, you’re helpful if it’s right and not to blame if it’s wrong. When I see it, it always makes me want to respond “weird, I asked Claude too and it said ”.…

Please post some kind of visible change notification (and something here) when you do!

Reasoning, external context, compaction, subagents, etc. are all things that these service providers don't really want you to know about, care about or have any insight into, they …

This is what Windows Explorer does when you cut a file, except it does also place it on the clipboard. >pressing ctrl+x fades the selected text and makes it inert [...] Nothing is …

Yes, this right here. Generated content that's based on sources that readers already have access to has no value beyond what they can ask an LLM to generate themselves. Now, if you…

My problem with passkeys is that "don't have to" is actually "don't have to, and couldn't if I wanted to ".

> handwriting docs adds less value than writing high quality instructions to your agent Are the instructions not docs?

And that’s a net win for a lot of people in a lot of situations; that’s the part that needs acknowledgment and study, sociologically. You can’t say it didn’t warn us, it’s on the t…

Software engineering has always been kind of a game for the people who love it; it turns out that making it a game-as-a-service with lootboxes is just as effective for driving enga…

Humans working on documentation who are not set up for success and not incentivized to do the right thing exhibit exactly the same behavior.

Proving care still leaves the audience to determine if the care is in the message or in attracting attention.

The premise of understanding a codebase distracts from the actual issue in the debate about AI in software engineering, which is how well you have to understand the problems you're…

> Each individual digression from our core competency like this can probably be measured positively on ROI when considered locally. But I believe they collectively add up negativel…

I prefer adding the detail; if it's going to turn into a phone call anyway I might as well have a script ready to go.

The LinkedIn feed was Moltbook before anyone had the idea for Moltbook.

I’ve always wondered what the major industry players’ theoretical price would be for offering transferable licenses, and how many people who say they want to be able to resell woul…

Honest question, what are the advantages of an integrated system? These three things are kind of the whole game for me, but I also don't have a very sophisticated taste when it com…

>grades have long been inflated to a point we might as well just give everyone an A and let companies figure out how to select people. Between this and a decline in junior hiring, …

> no one else seems to find this to be quite damning for the AI services being offered, preferring instanced to be wowed by the convenience and speed at which they can be delivered…

What if you label standing still as 0 mph and start moving 10 mph, gaining x energy, then call that zero and start moving 10 mph from there? It's just as intuitive to say that you …

> We know intuitively that a ball atop a 20ft ladder has twice the potential energy of a ball atop a 10ft ladder. What makes this intuitive? The foundation of the asker’s question …

> common sense, discernment, good judgement I feel like the whole point of all the experimentation with AI right now is determining whether any of these things actually matter to t…

This isn’t sufficient, it needs to be “if you are asking for assumption of accountability , demonstrate human effort.” In my experience, people who make requests like this don’t ca…

Not a better publicist, but: A) a newly-receptive audience - engineers who have discovered that they very much enjoy and appreciate the tradeoff of proximity to the code for amplif…