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Well, LLMs have an obscene amount of context built into their weights about Ruby on Rails, and can work within it extremely quickly.

The infrastructure piece is what they do best. I'd be happy if Anthropic became the AWS of AI. But this product is just a mediocre shot at Figma, when no such shot is strictly nece…

If that is what they are optimizing for, then they are not doing a great job on that either. Their latest model is more expensive and less impressive, their downtime is abysmal by …

It really feels like Anthropic's product area is extremely overextended at this point. If they want to extend themselves horizontally in an unlimited fashion, they will need unlimi…

Sex is not like other subjects, it is peculiarly liable to harm, obsess, distract us. Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use, …

I've recently read the great moral philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre's book "After Virtue", and in it he defines a "practice" as: > "any coherent and complex form of socially establis…

Wait — isn't that exactly what good investors do? They look for what stocks are going to beat expectations and invest in them. If a stock broker I hired got this return, I wouldn't…

The post mentions why - Bun eventually wanted to provide some sort of cloud-hosting saas product.

It once again completely fails on an extremely simple test: look at a screenshot of sheet music, and tell me what the notes are. Producing a MIDI file for it (unsurprisingly) was f…

yes, certainly

I agree with you. Is it perhaps because of his religious background (he was a Catholic priest)? For much of the last couple decades, there has been an anti-religious streak in the …

Any God, as long as it's not a being/creature. Thankfully there's only one of those! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_theism

I agree, but with a caveat about ice cream trucks specifically. If they park in one spot and play the same jingle very loudly for hours on end (say, three to four hours in one loca…

The deep-ocean vent south of Antarctica is real but small, on the order of a few-tenths Pg C yr⁻¹. The claim that it could double atmospheric CO₂ exaggerates the flux by three orde…

Paul, I’m begging you to read the Gorgias!

People really avoid considering what the word "general" implies. Yesterday I tried sending o3 a screenshot of some sheet music, asking for a midi file of how it sounds. Complete fa…

Well deserved, in my opinion. I often think about the fact that they spent 5 years (2012-2016) building essentially a brand-new graphics editor entirely in the browser way before W…

What is a "late interpretation" in your view? What time period exactly? Job has been read as a story that directly dialogues on the possibility of faith and trust in God in the fac…

A toddler dying of cancer falls under the category of "natural evil" (as opposed to moral evil, in which an intention or will is involved). You're correct to say that natural evil …

Technically correct, but quite misleading. The idea of "trust in God" or "faithfulness" is completely central to Job. The story doesn't concern itself with "doctrinal faith", but i…

This is one of three major answers to the problem of Theodicy (justifying God in the face of evil) in Christian theology. They are: 1. Pedagogical (the one you mentioned) - Evil ex…

I wonder what would a ceremony like this look like before the era of cameras broadcasting every move to the entire planet simultaneously. It does seem like a lot of this is perform…