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Great comment... and I feel after reading it, you're probably a pretty great person to work with. Acknowledging the pain / difficulty of a task, but inspiring folks, and giving the…

> Yes, starting with tests without market fit can also be fatal. But calling anything done without tests is just a slower poison. I think we are pretty close to agreement here. I'd…

I think maybe - this conversation is more about giving some more acknowledgement to the other side of this issue. It's not that I disagree with you essentially - or particularly wi…

> I did not actually call the author insane... If you think this distinction really matters wrt the point I'm trying to make, then it's time for you and I to bug out conversational…

Did anyone here actually look at the product they were actually building? It's an AI agent bug discovery product. Their whole culture is probably driven at a fundamental philosophi…

Hard disagree. It's both. Choosing one way or the other comes with potential risks and rewards to the business and it's up to business leadership to choose what risks they want to …

>He did not edit He edited his reply to me multiple times... which is what made me suspect an edit to the original comment. But whatever, I'm happy to acknowledge his original inte…

Again - that's a business decision that needs to be made in the context of that business. The fact that testing was forbidden isn't in itself good or bad. It depends on that busine…

Did you edit the wording of your original comment slightly to emphasise the "actively disallowing them" in every situation? Anyway... if that is what you meant, then ok. It's less …

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What corner is there left to be backed into when the the US is trying to assassinate you?

I've heard analysis that a significant proportion of middle east water and food supply - in the form of desalination plants, and cargo through the Strait of Hormuz - is within reac…

The prediction that there will be greater demand for specialist frontend and backend engineers is the one that surprises me. How do folks think about it? I've been assuming the opp…

But it's a loss if it's forced into risky investments that aren't productive.

Maybe a societal foundation of: magic man in the sky - wasn't so great a foundation after all?

That's interesting - but I guess we need to understand better what innovation counts as a good example of Chinese incipient superiority. If China is leap frogging the west technolo…

I think the west is in for a rude shock when it finally realises how fast China is developing technologically. I was there a few months ago in Guangzhou, it was stunning to see how…

I bought the book - looks good! Would be keen to know which magazines they were originally published in. I feel you should include those references in the book (forgive me if I've …

I don't even understand why it's everyone elses problem to opt-out. Eventually - for how many of these AI companies would a person have to track down their opt-out processes just t…

How does an average joe evaluate the claim that their content moderation was bad? Cause folks on the left seem very upset that it's being replaced by notes, and folks on the right …

I too would like to hear some examples. On the one hand you have gurus claiming that AI agents are going to all make all SaaS redundant, on the other claiming that AI isn't going t…

Pro tip - shrink your window to a tiny box and the dvds really bounce like crazy.

The whole world seems dedicated to the goal of extracting value rather than creating it.

Our men are running from the battlefield! Shameful display! --- Good times...

> If you think there are others, please exhibit one. If everyone like you attempts to rail road the imaginative process at the beginning of hypothesis formation, then we'll never g…