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No idea why this comment is getting downvoted so hard. This was exactly what I thought of too, and it provides a concrete answer to the question. There’s valid concern with these t…

Apologies, I forgot to use the more general term. FOSS projects didn’t always have a standard process for Fagan inspections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagan_inspection

Further to this, the quality problem is affecting the entire industry, not just FOSS. Anyone working on a large enough team has already seen some contributors pushing slop. And whi…

Scanning a few. Some are definitely written by AI but most seem genuinely human (or at least, not claude). Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.

Isn’t this a form of what he labels the “human coefficient”? Some businesses prefer tools built by other businesses for some tasks. The author advocates pretty plainly to identify …

Sounds a bit like man pages. I think you’re onto something.

It’s moving fast. Just today I noticed Claude Code now ends plans with a reference to the entire prior conversation (as a .jsonl file on disk) with instructions to check that for m…

I believe they’re talking about Claude Code’s built-in agents feature which works fine with a Max subscription. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents Are you talking about the…

Someone said it best after one of those AWS outages from a fat-fingered config change: > Automation doesn't just allow you to create/fix things faster. It also allows you to break …

I do like the idea of crowd-sourced collections of resources like skills. It might be more useful if it was an index of skills managed in GitHub. Sort of like GitHub actions which …

It’s telling that Russia stands out in this list. “One of these is not like the others”

> Paying more for programmers or parking machine processors would be a waste of money. The rise of parking apps on mobile adds an interesting angle to this. No doubt, many of us fa…

I’ve wondered about this more generally (ie, simply prompting in different languages). For example, if I ask for a pasta recipe in Italian, will I get a more authentic recipe than …

I think it’s more for Python libraries that depend on JavaScript. Lots of packages rely on other languages and runtimes. For example, tabula-py[1] depends on Java. So if my-package…

Over my 35 years of computer use, most hardware failures (very, very rare) happen during a reboot or power-on. And most of my reboots happen when installing updates. It actually se…

He also seems to talk to a lot of people, and he has access to pretty much anyone given his stature. Imagine being passionate about business and then being able to spend every day …

Always worth remembering that PDFs are basically a graphic design format/editor from the 70s. It was never intended for securely redacting documents and while it can be done, that’…

Honestly, I’d still be surprised to learn feathers in America are produced from American poultry. Far more likely the local ones get burned and everything for sale is shipped acros…

> agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community Note that GTA V is now 12 years old and st…

20% to 33% is not a 10% increase, if that’s what you’re referring to. That’s a 65% increase.