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I'm working on Prompter Hawk, which is a dashboard for managing your local coding agents like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini's cli. It's my answer to the problems you encoun…

With a bit of tuning, you can get models like Claude to output Mermaid-style diagrams. I built this as a feature into the tasks, so that you can hit a toggle which adds a prompt as…

I'm thinking all the time about what the "best" way of using local AI agents like Claude / Codex / Gemini is. I'm trying to figure out the best UI/UX. There's so so so much that ha…

It's sad for me to admit this but I find online ordering especially for fast food in my area is a much better experience because it standardizes the presentation of the order detai…

E.g. The fire alarm going off is always a big deal even if there is not always a fire.

Sorry if I made it worse, I really felt like people's opinions were being treated uncharitably, and I was trying to right it.

You're missing the point and willfully characterizing others as solely being concerned with making the AI's say slurs. That's not their concern. But you can win any imaginary argum…

I think multi-currency systems can be used to juice microtransactions pretty hard still. For example League of Legends gives players free "chests" and free "keys" as a slow-drip, a…

He didn't say "if the tech is successful one day". He said it will happen. [0] [0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1380316949087854595?s=20

Musk has said that one of his companies will give paraplegics the ability to walk again. He's overstated and overhyped the autonomous driving capabilities a million times as well.

FWIW the NH mountain (Mt. Washington) is a freak of nature and its experiences don't generalize to New England as a whole.

Matlab's focus on examples really shines. It's how people actually want to use docs: let me copy and paste something that works and then iterate from there.

"9s" are brought up in reliability discussions. They refer to the number of 9's in an uptime metric like 99%, 99.9%, 99.9999%, ... See also "march of the 9s"

Karpathy's videos (and blogs) are excellent. I wonder how history will reflect on his time at Tesla, however.

I wouldn't expect any normal car to behave like this, but the drivers following should have recognized it was a Tesla

If you're selling a motorized vehicle to children, you should probably follow all the laws even if they don't seem that critical to your bottom line

>an establishment made up of thousands of workers, jointly aiming to present information as accurately as possible I don't think that's what media organizations "aim" for, which is…

>How many creative and truly innovative thinking people do you know that will spend hours studying for and partaking in such a ridiculous interview process‽ I may be posting this d…

Calling yourself a tech bro is intentional ironic humor. Guys doing this are likely aware of the negative connotations but also the fact that if you are a young man in tech, other …

We're in all-caps italics territory so I'm not sure how helpful I can be, but I just want to stress the fact that as a modern human we all have to rely on organizations and compani…

Paying someone to take the assignment for you and secure you the job. People are out there doing this already, though I wouldn't recommend it :)

Yeah, you pay someone to take the assignment for you. Which, by the way, there's already a market out there where people are paying others to interview in their place (deceiving th…

I like these and find them wise. Here are some additional fun questions: 1. How has the company changed in the past five years? How do you think it will change in the next five? 2.…

Interviewing is one of the unsolved problems in computer science. I think take-home assignments have their own tradeoffs such as time investment by the engineer or the (I'm assumin…

I don't know if we can assume males and females drive the same amount.