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the main concern here is what is needed to create and sustain that growth rate. here are three potential issues: 1. there is a short term incentive for lying -- tricking people can…

if they are selling to a business, the biz will pay if it solves their problem. if the solution doesn't solve their problem, or something else solves their problem that is easier /…

their number one priority is solving their problem so they can realize their organization's mission, and that's how it should be. if the translation is good enough to solve their p…

the version of this skillset that stays employed is "now I translate 10000x more than i could before by managing a fleet of agents. by encoding my experienced taste and judgement i…

head in the sand

if it was valuable, people would pay for it

unfortunately this person will soon be unemployed. not because their skills are no longer relevant, but because they are taking a principled stance defending now irrelevant skills.…

unfortunately this person will soon be unemployed.

this is like telling a student driver they have to push their car by hand instead of putting their foot on the pedal.

fair point, but it is not a tesla-style “giant iPad” primary inputs while driving are buttons and knobs

you are correct, I amend my claim. the interiors are nice, but overall imo the car is a design failure.

imo the exterior looks like a cartoon BYD and should be killed with fire. however while folks are negative on Ive for the car shape, he only designed the interiors not the car body…

I built an agentic simulator for marketing email a/b testing using a fleet of "digital twin" customers. why build this? because email marketing a/b tests come at a big cost -- ever…

> Every software developer knows that you can’t make projects go faster just by typing faster. If that were the case we would all be taking typing lessons. ^ this statement is fals…

interesting visualization of 51 real engineering tasks completed by openclaw ai engineers during March 2026 I was having a hard time explaining how my OpenClaw ai engineering orche…

just made an ai graphic designer for marketing emails learns about your brand and creates custom email graphics for headers etc pretty cool what gpt-image-1 can do if curious, can …

what’s an example of a code search problem that vscode’s native search fails to solve?

illustrated with midjourney: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertnowell/p/ai-a-means-to-o...

Vision pro + AI allows me to create a decent looking, functional user interface just by talking about it. While feeling like I'm on a mountaintop, immersed in nature.

midjourney magazine is "soulless and embodying the threat AI poses to journalism", merely "pages upon pages of large images of varying quality in varying genres... captioned with t…

I was debating with a friend about the benefits of no-code versus code tools. We're both devs, and we were arguing about the best, fastest way to build a good web app. There are cl…