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Reminds me of this quote from Tonya Riley's _The Staff Engineer's Path_: > In The Art of Travel (Vintage), Alain de Botton talks about the frustration of learning new information t…

Why is that?

AI bills are already trivial compared to human time. I pay for claude max, all I need to do is save an hour a month and I will be breaking even.

> most people agree that the output is trite and unpleasant to consume This is likely a selection bias: you only notice the obviously bad outputs. I have created plenty of outputs …

Anywhere I can follow your takes on LLM-assisted coding?

ChatGPT is $20 / month?

Under what circumstances would that cost be high? Is OpenAI going to rip off your app? Why would they waste a second on that when there are better models to be built?

The exact same logic applies to any deductible expense, and yet people think they can buy a business vehicle "for free" because it is deductible. IDK why this is so hard to underst…

By building a good reputation and contact list doing salaried work. Usually you do a good job there, make a bunch of stakeholders happy, and then you have a chance at spinning off …

Best part is that they probably have data to show that all that patience costs the typical passenger mere seconds to a minute on 99% of rides. This has always bothered me about agg…

Curious what you are expecting when you say "bottom falls out". Are you expecting significant failures of large-scale systems? Or more a point where people recognize some flaw that…

While this unfortunate, I am sure I also have single lines in production with greater cost and equivalent value (close to none) -- and I've only worked at small companies. I am sur…

Any of the leading LLMs could answer this, they just need the right context. So paste in the model cards for the various models you care about, or ask a model with search or "deep …

That definitely seems to be the play. Keep funneling in users from Lovable/bolt.new and keep building revenue or hope to be acquired if one of those vibe coding tools gets huge.

I agree: the incentives to use more and more AI are too strong. We're all stuck in some form of the prisoner's dilemma and the odds that nobody will defect are much too low. So it …

This is a bit of a strawman. There are certainly people who claim that you can ask AIs anything but I don't think the parent commenter ever made that claim. "AI is making incredibl…

That is a sub-token task, something I'd expect current models to struggle with given how they view the world in word / word fragment tokens rather than single characters.

Great breakdown, appreciate it. I think most of the hype around MCP is just excitement that tool use can actually work and seeing lots of little examples where it does. Watching Cl…

Not trying to be smug or blithe, but this is one of the main things I love about living in the suburbs or the country: neighbors can only bother me outside (and they rarely do).

It seems like the possible outcomes are: (a) nobody uses the language, so a package manager doesn't matter OR (b) people use the language, they will want to share packages, then a …

Attack? Is there any other indication of an attack? There are many possible root causes which could explain what you observed.

Going from an X1 Carbon to a MBP felt like stepping 10 years into the future. The seamless lid close, battery life, operating temp, build quality and performance were all _huge_ up…

Let’s be honest though: there has been an immense amount of propaganda on both sides. How many times has Ukraine reportedly embarrassed Russia, knocked them back on their heels, be…

Right, I just don't know where the dividing line would be. What % of a book is acceptable?

Idk, it is pretty good a generating synthetic data and recognizing the different logic branches to exercise. Not perfect, but very helpful.