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100%, I thought about writing that out explicitly. I really feel like we are extremely close to reaching that kind of breaking point for most folks LLM use cases.

> Fable is probably at least as good as the average software engineer and costs $50/wk on the max plan vs a software engineer who would cost closer to $4000 a week. That's because …

I think the question is even a bit more nuanced than that. Even if frontier models can maintain a big gap that gap has to actually _matter_. If a local model satisfies my everyday …

Zoom out and you'll see the hidden message

You know sorta feels to me like some new physical tech would be warranted here. Something with a good amount of storage, very quick I/O, and read/writable. More like a fancy thumb …

Xbox makes an enormous amount of money from a few long running properties (the letter in question mentions Mojang and King), but basically every big move and acquisition they have …

I don't really have an opinion on Sharma since she's very green, but Phil Spencer's tenure was an unmitigated disaster. The strategy of rolling up studios and trying to grow throug…

Well it was Phil Spencer, who got fired. They basically cleaned house in management already.

Gleam and Rust are really not alike at all aside from the most superficial ways. A couple bits of syntax, and the use of toml are about all I can come up with.

I'm an American and it definitely seems like we are in a significant and worsening loneliness crisis. I have no idea to what degree any of it is unique to Americans. Social connect…

The Northeast doesn't have a dry season, and I don't think anyone seriously thinks it's going to develop one. It just has occasional dry periods because precipitation is pretty cha…

Local grocery stores have basically been extinct for decades- and realistically that isn't that surprising given they mostly sell commodity products. We don't need to let restauran…

The dependency graph is no different for a monorepo vs a polyrepo. It's just a question of how those dependencies get resolved.

I mean it works for Google. Not saying that's a reason to go monorepo, but it at least suggests that it can work for a very large org with very diverse software. I really don't see…

I still have a cast iron skillet, but I mostly stopped using it once I got some carbon steel pans. In my experience they beat cast iron in nearly every way. I only use my cast iron…

I like OCaml a lot as a language, but the tooling is very, very poor by modern standards. Poor enough that I think it’s a total blocker on wider adoption.

For sure- it's just that YC didn't used to operate like that. They have morphed from an interesting higher-touch incubator whose involvement was a strong positive signal into a sca…

JVM is a hard dealbreaker for a scripting/glue language.

Of course, but I think it's worth seriously evaluating the subset of those activities that have an especially large propensity for harm.

JIRA is a little overbuilt and overconfigurable, and I think that leads to it often being used in confusing ways. I don’t think it’s a bad product or anything, but my experiences o…

I mean starting a component library by building your own from the ground up is an absurd thing to even attempt. IMO the only really sane approach is to start with a facade around a…

I personally can't really imagine anything less inspiring than repeating a feat we managed over 50 years ago.

Honestly I used to feel this way, but ended up using Helix for a few months mostly as an experiment. Now the selection-action version feels just as natural as action-selection used…

My biggest tip would just be to make it abundantly clear in your interview that this is a goal of yours. Some jobs will bounce you for that, but that’s good- you want to filter tho…

Honestly this is such an interesting question. Conventional wisdom would definitely say C#, but I’ve always wondered if that’s because imperative programming is easier than functio…