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I applaud Kimi and the open weight models - for the simple reason that they provide a price ceiling for AI.

I've found minimax to be quite good

Location: SF Bay Area (commutable from Berkeley) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but I'll travel Technologies: Java, Python, Relational Databases, Microservices, Queues, Tempo…

@book{Kuhn1962, author = {Kuhn, Thomas S.}, title = {The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, year = {1962}, address = {Chicago}, note =…

I was screwing around with gemini-cli and vibe-coded (or vibe-engineered?) a git extension to turn commit history into a pandas dataframe. Curious if anyone would find this useful:…

Sharpe ratio is just the start: it gives you a metric on your portfolio. If it gave an interpretation of what that means, or give guidance on how certain actions would adjust the S…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox If AI is roughly where IT is in the 60's, we might see actually decreased productivity for a while until people (yes people) figu…

I love SICP, but in industrial software I'd point to "The Mythical Man Month".

There's a couple uses cases (beyond the obvious) that I like with the chatbots 1. Brainstorming building something. Tell it what you're working on, add a paragraph or two of how yo…

Fundamentally a dev owns the code they write - it doesn't matter if it's copy/pasted from search results or filled in via an LLM.

The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed..

I'm on a 6 year old XS. When I upgrade, I get 5G and USB-C, and a chip that's now ahead of the OS.

I had a GSD who remembered everyone who threw a tennis ball for her. To the point that I had to warn people that if they tossed it once, she'd be dropping a tennis ball in their la…

There needs to be a pattern for including AI-generated code, recording all the context which led to the generation.

EVs are the clear choice if you've got an ICE car as a backup. I mostly do commuting, grocery runs, etc. EVs are great for that. But then I do road trips about once a year, and an …

I'm sort of dreading the next year or so at big corps, in which engineers will hear from their management: "We've made a big investment in AI, and need you to make this work".

I had an A1000 - even worked in high school at a Commodore/Amiga dealer. What they really didn't understand is that software sells hardware: The OS was so far ahead, but in terms o…

The awesome cube, which apparently didn't look good when faxed...

I played with SGI machines in college and they felt like.. the future. I really hoped they would hire me when I graduated. Incredible, though, how the relatively cheaper Windows NT…

Location: San Francisco / Berkeley / Oakland Remote: Yes, will travel within 30-45 minutes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Java, Spring Boot, Relational Databases, Ku…

We use this at my ginormous employer in order to give devs limited access to production data.

PDF of GEB: https://archive.org/details/GEBen_201404

Jason Lemkin's advice for startup SaaS businesses is to heavily invest in customer success: you need to give a shit. Otherwise your customer churn numbers are going to be high, and…

Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome