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Honestly, GPT 5.6 Luna is worth a look. It’s a reasonably good implementer at a small fraction of the cost. $100 buys a heck of a lot of it at API pricing. Not sure about the OAi P…

At the beginning of the pandemic all the mills cut production anticipating economic collapse that didn’t come. Prices spiked on high demand and low production. Mills did ramp back …

You still pay cache token costs on API calls. Cache cost/token are 90% lower, but you pay it every single turn. I’m not sure if they let you skip the cache write cost on the first …

Claude Code injects a ton of tools into the system prompt, including their “memory system” that’s like 10k+ tokens. Depending on your task shape, this can easily double your task c…

I read the balls as “houses”, though the phallic spire emerging from them dead-center is also very on-brand

Oh, and the memory use! I run a lot of concurrent sessions. 3 gigs for a terminal window is ludicrous.

I have been working all day every day in Claude. I loathe their bug-ridden UI. Every release is a new crop of bugs, sometimes the old ones get fixed, usually not. Any kind of scrol…

I’ve experienced this in Claude Code - it’ll start asking me if we can submit the PR at the end of every turn.

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Google at least is serving AI results on SRPs billions of times a day, and has pre-existing expertise in data center buildouts and custom silicon. They have one of the more compell…

Schumpeter is one of their columns; this is an editorial piece, not one of their news articles. The regular stuff is still well written, IMO.

Meta is straight evil. It undermines the institutions of democracy and it negatively impacts its users mental health, all in service of selling your data to advertisers so they can…

Internally, it’s important to understand that every ask should have a business goal associated with it. The thing being asked for is rarely (never?) the only way to accomplish that…

I have worked at places that have negotiated flat percentage discounts on all AWS spend. This explanation seems plausible to me.

You can hook traditional SAST into your coding tool, and get cheap-ish realtime detection for some classes of vulns while coding. You can optionally layer LLM diff scanning if you …

Before unlimited PTO took off, standard in FAANG-like (US) industry was ~12 corp holidays + 15-25 days annual PTO, depending on seniority. I don’t know anyone who takes the high en…

Two things: 1) Unlimited PTO is a scam. Ask anyone who ever got paid out six weeks salary when they changed jobs. 2) “the craft” is doing some heavy lifting here. I happen to enjoy…

I’m taking it as a given that any sufficiently large social network is a gigantic propaganda machine of interest to domestic and foreign nation-state actors. Entertaining the thoug…

Me? No. My kids? I think they already have. I don’t allow YouTube in our house, but they for sure watch slop with friends.

Oregon decriminalized drugs in 2020 and the experiment is widely viewed as a failure by both sides of the political spectrum. The Democratic legislature rolled it back four years l…

You should probably be more worried about the flame retardants in the rebond carpet pad. Better these days, but older installed stuff had non-trivial PPM.

DropMix was an NFC DJing game that used RFID playing cards. It’s been done/could be done again.

Meta’s bottom line is driven entirely by their ability to uniquely and persistently identify users for the sake of advertising. Anything that makes it harder for a user to escape t…