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Whilst I think there’s some truth to this, America’s elite would have brought us to this point anyway. Trump is a symptom of unfettered neoliberalism exporting jobs and destroying …

Yep, a lot of people saw this coming. It was so obvious - new powers are always abused in the end. Same for the UK. Perhaps the politicians knew that and didn’t care. Not sure how …

Can confirm Apple is best but Roku is amazingly good number 2. In some ways its UX beats Apple.

I’m no fan of AOC but yes I think this is what she means. PG should be more generous and steel man the argument.

This aren’t great example are they? Amazon is famous for being a terrible company to work for, on the logistics side. Airbnb has caused all sorts of social problems. Uber results i…

If it’s vibe coded, it’ll use one of the OSS libraries for importing word, so the answer is no it isn’t compatible and the website is misleading slop.

I think we’ve already seen that export controls help your competitor in the long term. First europe would turn to Chinese models, then if china was daft enough to stop that (why wo…

Most of the time, which is why SaaS has been very popular.

Yep, you’re correct. I got to that bit and thought that can’t be right. It’s obviously wrong. If you rotate a semantic vector, you change the semantics of it. You don’t want that. …

I want someone to resolve the contradiction you have highlighted. Why don’t we now have an AI built web browser that is much better faster than chrome? To that mind, why hasn’t chr…

And most social media, and blogs. Newspapers are adopting it too, so soon we may see slop dominate even high brow publications. Feels like a huge shift in human intellectual capabi…

I see this as the slow death of OpenSource. It’s controversial to say, and I may be downvoted, but I’ll share this as a pov: OSS is essentially giving away our work for free. Did t…

Western debt is one of those problems you look at and say “this looks extremely alarming, why is no one panicking?” And then you assume that the elite know better and it must be ma…

Yeah, I think it’ll go up for this reason. I will not be buying any shares, the company is insanely overvalued and hides terrible businesses. Elon is better the farm on AI in space…

I paid for a while, but they kept showing me crap in the feed rather than posts I wanted to see. Stupid videos etc. So I cancelled.

I think more you’re just at the absolute margins of engineering to get to escape velocity. Those constraints haven’t changed, so until some major material or fuel advance happens t…

Is there any reason to doubt that the Chinese will get (back) there first?

Yes, the temptation is that you bring all revenue forward at any cost so you can pump value at an IPO etc

Same. So happy when I found that option.

Claude Design. It produced something that looked good for a second, then you pay attention and realise it’s a disaster. Broke most UX rules out of the gate.

PMF is such a bullshit term. There’s no precise definition. It’s bs. The fact is that investment is at a scale so large that current trajectories are nowhere near going to provide …

Interestingly, this is how a lot of rich people make their money. They do something bad and then get the state to bail them out. For example, bankers trading recklessly, taking the…

200 is my preferred limit, and I think you can find that in a few highly regarded books on coding.

Colleague (non-designer) generated UI with Claude. It was awful and broke basic design rules. So yes you may be right.

IPO is coming is what is going on