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People say “agents not RAG”, but one framing is that this describes RAG where the database is a file system and bash is the query language (with other cli tools installed it can us…

If you like Claude Code or Codex try Warp. It makes both look like a pale shadow of it. And way way cheaper monthly bill.

Remember that for the vent majority of human history, most people have not felt like they were truly in control of their lives. If it was not God, it was the king. Remember that ne…

The article suggests a possible model where the schizophrenia is an extreme linear progression. But the inability to find a culprit genes suggests something more complex. It is pos…

The odd thing is that among identical twins when one has it the other has it roughly 50% of the time. Which suggests that having the generic basis still requires something external…

If Slack wants me to use their AI to mine my company’s conversations, they need to provide a higher quality product at a better price. Not forcibly take ownership of my conversatio…

Currently most websites have a snip of code that posts to Google when a visitor arrives. The cookie there is linked to an identity and later used to push ads, and metrics for the s…

Reads like a Disney lens on nature. Whether or not wolves have a single alpha in a pack, nature is built around selfishness and violence with certainty, cooperation selectively. An…

Repeating a note by others, having advice on navigating a large transaction is comforting. Even though I ultimately found the house I bought myself the guidance of my buyer’s agent…

A similar topic explored in the 2009 small movie Moon w/ Sam Rockwell (and Kevin Spacey as the robot voice). The main character doing labor on the moon figures out he is one of doz…

Same

> Convincing mimicry is good enough. For what? I ask questions and get wrong but “convincing” answers …that is way worse than wrong answers that are obviously wrong. The functional…

It makes $20M a year. That sounds like great code. I would: 1. Get it in source control without “fixing anything”. 2. Get a clone of the prod server up and running, vs a clown of t…

The gorgeous thing about these was that, the thing that sold a game was clever playability. Even the games that tried to create an immersive world had to span 4-6 floppy disks, and…

There are a lot of projects that want to serve an under-served space, but lack a novel idea about how to do it. In many ways, even companies like Theranos fell into this trap. They…

Very dad. Hope his family is as well as can be.

It's not impossible to say "Positions vary from $20k to $600k, DOE." for these cases, if you really are hiring your new CTO and also a janitor. The nice thing about having to put _…

Regarding interest rates, they are already up. I got a house 4 months ago at 2.85%, and now they are 4.2%. I can't speak to whether investment in tech will drop. Lately, there is s…

Fred Brooks' classic "No Silver Bullet" outlines this fundamental principle of software engineering physics. Written in 1986, the paper has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikip…

"Wouldn't it just be grand if we could write a spec for some piece of code, then let the machines do the rest?" This is quite possible, if you write the "spec" in a programming lan…

It is sad that, given that the company likely doesn't have a case unless some explicit IP was violated, that threats of court allow money to decide the outcome. But more sad than t…

There is a balancing factor. People tend to overestimate their skill and ability when risks are low, but underestimate them when they are high. An average person is pretty sure he/…