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No days off for the agents.

He talks about TI-83 programming in the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast interview.

Right! I am very open about the sleep challenges I face with my children, but I also believe that the problem is due to lack of a rigid schedule. Routine is key not only for sleep,…

Cry? Scream? Many kids can climb out of cribs earlier than 24m.

> kept trying to design a contraption I could wear on my shoulders that worked like a laptop desk Nathan Fielder wears something like this in The Rehearsal . Google tells me it is …

Of course git is great! Check out Mitchell Hashimoto’s podcast episode on the pragmatic engineer. He starts talking about AI at 1:16:41. At some point after that he discusses git s…

+1. If we’re at an early stage in the agentic curve where we think reading commit messages is going to matter, I don’t want those cluttered with meaningless boilerplate (“co-author…

Hm, no, in F1 they don’t have the same car. Each season, each team builds their own (adhering to the Formula) and put massive amounts of efforts to gaining efficiency through engin…

Link to Friedman's piece on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-tariffs-chi... Also he talks about this on The Ezra Klein Show.

Sorry to cause fatigue. The US government absolutely does not do what China does in this case. But the reason for my paranthesis and question mark was that I was not sure what call…

Good point about the supply chain; and it seems like most responses mistakenly disagree with you. Thomas Friedman talks about this after his most recent visit to China. Where China…

Is that what happened? In Nexus , Harari looks at this exact same situation: the invention of the printing press, and shows how clergy used it to stoke witch hunts (ahem, misinform…

I think they meant the result— not the content—would be the same.

The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann covers exactly the topics you are asking about and references many blog posts.

https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code is a great find from that list. Thanks!

Woah, what an unexpected surprise!

Yeah how would you know? j/k Love ghostty!

I frequently manage to do this writing bash scripts.

I have a bad habit of not fully drying my hands when retrieving pods. The pods all clump together if they get wet. This is one of the many reasons I prefer powder.

Software developers don’t arrive fully formed. Rob Pike benefitted from reading a book or two.

If you confine agency to something only humans can have, which is “human agency,” then yes of course LLMs don’t have it. But there is a large body of philosophical work studying no…

I agree with your larger point, but I don't understand what you mean the LLM doesn’t do anything? LLMs do do things and they can absolutely have agency (hence all the agents being …

Where? In the U.S.? Whenever I have paid for gas with cash or from the cashier, I pay for it in advance, “Give me $10 of regular unleaded!”

Looks right to me. Are you referring to the capitalization?

The other half of the title is significant; it puts the article into the context of criticizing business leaders for how they think about AI given its current capabilities, which i…