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It's not really about the planets. It's about what other people believe about the planets. You could work for a boss that's a Leo, and he/she believes only Leos deserve to get prom…

The risks are asymmetric in real world terms. For the PE side, the worst-case outcome is bankruptcy of the company they bought via LBO, but because it was an LBO their own exposure…

Ceteris paribus can be stretched to the point of absurdity though. A startup with $4.5b of qualified leads, vs one with zero? Come on now... For the sake of argument, we're imagini…

Agree that this is interesting/impressive, and the demos are nice. But I completely cracked up at the unexpected physical comedy of the woman in the "slouching" demo, haha omg that…

From a software quality or software engineering POV --> this is clearly not building durable value, not scalable, etc. So I'd agree with you there. But from the POV of say, a young…

Well, take any invention you like, and let's break it down. Somebody at some point, "invented" the idea that the earth was round. Before that, the obvious "just look around you" an…

There are often little bits of Neal Stephenson or Andy Weir novels which sound a little like this, describing a technical fault in a plot-driven way (often as a cascade), and I do …

For anyone who doesn't know what you mean, here's an archived copy of Steve Yegge's post about this directive + other musings comparing Amazon vs Google (which is how a lot of us c…

I think you might be over-fixated on a very prediction-market-esque framing of this plot device... if you broaden it slightly, the idea of someone in a fictional world manipulating…

This is why (flawed though the process may be in other ways), a company like Amazon asks "customer obsession" questions in engineering interviews. To gather data about whether the …

I've been on a business trip this week, and sitting on the plane, I was randomly browsing NYT and read this article which really REALLY pissed me off: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

I think it comes down to, having some insight about the customer need and how you would solve it. Having prior experience in the same domain is helpful but is neither a guarantee n…

I'm sure nobody cares, but the data I can check shows a couple interesting observations (won't call them conclusions, that's too strong): - Yes, you can find certain slices of 1.8%…

I got curious and validated your source [1], to pull the exact quote: "The proportion of Connecticut gambling revenue from the 1.8% of people with gambling problems ranges from 12.…

In such scenarios (data engineering / DS / analytics is my personal background), I have learned not to underestimate the value of, explicitly declaring within Team X, that person X…

The most apt way that I've read somewhere, to reason about AI, is to treat it like an extremely foreign, totally alien form of intelligence. Not necessarily that the models of toda…

A purely technology-minded compromise to this question (aka how to support both the "good" and "bad" kinds of recording), is probably something along the lines of expiry and enforc…

I think they just read my first sentence and decided to take offense immediately. Shrug. All I meant was, I didn't want to go down a path of talking about Trump... that's a very ve…

True of course that dollars is the end goal, but frankly it'd be better if they just took the dollars out of my pocket directly, instead of poisoning my brain first so that they ca…

I think you're veering too far into politics on what was originally not a very political OP/thread, but I'll indulge you a tiny bit and also try to bring the thread back to the ori…

As a manager, I am considering to enforce a rule on my team that -- no README in any repo should ever go stale ever again --> it should be near-trivial for every dev to ask Claude …

As a thought-exercise -- assume models continue to improve, whereas "using claude-code daily" is something you choose to do because it's useful, but is not yet at the level of "abs…

To your last point -- I didn't say large number of junior contractors would write good code or whatever. The change that is happening in the startup scene now, as compared to say 1…

I do agree that "unlimited interns who don't improve much" is less practically useful than it might seem at first, but OTOH "never improve much" seems unrealistic, given the insane…

Your comment somehow reminded me of this quote: "In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act." ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9371890-in…