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And the degree which this is discerned... sometimes wins art contests. Let the people speak, and if they should want the soul inside one work over another, let it be so.

The degree to which you can discern is the degree to which you can meaningfully ask for human vs AI.

I don't think you need total control, just enough so that you're the go-to party for diplomatic and military negotiations in the geopolitical region.

Would they hate them as much if they were in a Chinese neighborhood? Why not build in China? We say there's not much jobs here anyway, and that it's all negative externalities.

Or why not build then in China? Isn't that the better solution? Are you okay with that backyard?

You can see this as an American thing if you want... but you might look at the rest of the world to ask whether you're trying to convince the world to un-invent gunpowder. If China…

These nameless people could very well want to help people. A device that costs as much as a Honda Civic? Yes, that's exactly the kind of stuff that happens as you attempt to mature…

Better doorknobs? Better civil infrastructure? A lot of those companies in that space aren't even tech companies, even if they deal with tech. The companies he talks about have a V…

Back then library and framework authors were also less competitive. Now open source authors do the full court press with very beautiful docs for both humans and agents.

Same! What I tell people is that Cloudflare products can be extra beta, and you have use your nose to smell the future. Truly love hate as their ecosystem of interesting tools can …

Seniors don’t use SO anymore, it virtually died if you look at traffic. The reason the market is so tough for juniors isn’t because seniors are bad at chat or agent workflows, it’s…

Their bets are naturally hedged because a lot of their infra is just nice AWS-lite.

I’m afraid this isn’t surprising anymore.

What company?

This also makes the assumption that frontier math has all the long hanging fruits already taken... also very dubious.

This is actually the biggest reason I don't automatically choose sqlite for small project databases. I've built a lot of toy utilities that crossed a bare threshold of usefulness, …

I might be an asshole, but I don't think clustered thinking entities deserve union protections, because IMO they can already assemble to achieve consensus and can optionally negoti…