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On the bet that layoffs will result in programmers ending up at 40% of the staffing level they are now, I will take the over.

Generally speaking, the pattern is that people are overestimating how much "work replacement" will happen, and underestimating how much "work shifting" will happen. What is fascina…

All of our developers are now using agents. We're not hand-writing code at all anymore. And yet, some of our developers deliver stories in an hour, others deliver similar complexit…

"talking about your mental health" does not mean re-parroting your trauma. there's understanding, re-framing, forgiving, all kind of other things that go beyond the limited belief …

and if you have a lot of bet opportunities.

Honestly I'd like to run it on a novel I've written and haven't released yet. I've been having conversations with Codex about how to write a story "compiler" that tracks static "st…

I like the idea of using something like this as a writing aid, as if to "compile" a story to shake out what contradictions or open plot lines or implications are yet to resolve.

I use it for lilypond for notation. I always considered it superior to Finale and Sibelius anyway. Not sure how it stacks up against the more modern commercial notation apps. But I…

I just had Sol Ultra read the proof and create a graph of it using Concludia (my side project) so you can explore it visually/graphically. I certainly don't understand it though so…

I think it doesn't prove much that it hasn't happened yet. Companies might just be moving slower than you think, and are still planning on doing it. And, in many corners, "don't ma…

How do you mean OpenAI lets you use your own harness? I'm under the impression that a custom harness requires the OpenAI SDK, which requires api tokens rather than plus/pro account…

Wow, didn't know this existed until today. Thanks!

It's interesting to think about how difficult it is to define "fair" with the current system. If a state's population is 60/40 and there are ten districts, do you want them each to…

I experience the same with OpenAI, on the $100/month plan. GPT-5.4 is something I still have to challenge: it can bullshit me with bad implementation and add a lot of cruft that co…

I'm building a website that allows friends to write branching fiction novels together, and another website that allows people to argue and conclude together using first-principles …

I feel like I must have plateued and don't know what to do next to level up. I'm currently on the $100/month codex plan and it seems fine using 5.5-xhigh all the time. I think of w…

I went through the dotcom crisis and never heard of GFC until today. I've always seen it as the finsys crash.

compared to almond farms ? You phrase that as if almond farms use a reasonable amount of water.

as opposed to what, though? You don't get a 3% discount for using cash.

It was the "honest" stuff that hit my radar, but maybe Claude is just ruining that word for "honest" usage.

That's not what OP was saying, they were saying they experienced multiple instances of LLM handling some tricky problem. But just because it can solve Tuesday's problem doesn't mea…

In practice, it's more like companies want to spend money on AI because they believe it will save money somewhere else. If instead they see extra cost, then they get all confused. …

I think there's something else psychological going on. What you describe is a rational approach based off of bad values. But I think I'm also seeing something weirdly irrational. I…

> I've had multiple instances now where AI left to it's own devices has solved a tricky problem that I honestly didn't think it was capable of. Who cares that you've had multiple i…