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> adding friction back into development I'm really trying to do this too. The problem is it's *so easy* to let your standards slip, even for just a moment, and that piece of code s…

Yeah I can understand that, and sure this is part of it, just not all of it. There is also broader societal issues (ie. inequality), personal questions around meaning and purpose, …

I feel this way too. Wish I could fully understand the 'why'. I know all of the usual arguments, but nothing seems to fully capture it for me - maybe it' all of them, maybe it's si…

You know, there aren’t many people whose communication style, approach, and contribution history earn my confidence so completely. I can probably count on two hands the people I ho…

Wrt simonw, I think that is unfair. I get the hype is frustrating, and this project made everything worse (I also feel it and it drives me nuts too), but Simon seemed to choose the…

There's something eerily recursive about Opus 4.5’s sensible take calming the anxiety about Opus 4.5’s capabilities and impact. It's probably the right take, but I feel weird the m…

This is so relatable it's painful: many many hours of work, overly ambitious project, now feeling discouraged (but hopefully not willing to give up). It's some small consolation to…

This happened to me too in an experimental project where I was testing how far the model could go on its own. Despite making progress, I can't bare to look at the thing now. I don'…

> I've always conducted my thoughts in an "uncompressed format" and then eternally struggled to confine it all into words. Only then for people to misinterpret and question it. Thi…

I only read the headline and got enough from it. It was a good reminder that romanticising entrepreneurship is exciting and fun but the reality is much different, and to appreciate…

I have found working with DSPy to be a nice middle ground. The python script contains functions that call different DSPy optimizers (the optimized prompt packaged as a function; te…