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Funny story: I made this because despite having the global no-attribution setting turned on, Claude still regularly tags itself. I'm sure it's a context thing — but boy is it annoy…

Thanks for the mobile heads up! The manifesto is me. The website is not — and I'd like to argue that's very non-ironic! Here's the making of, linked at the bottom. https://no-ai-co…

I'm the author ('author'?), and I'll push back: it's solidly non-ironic! Here's a link from the bottom of the page. https://no-ai-coauthors.dev/making-of.html

AI Co-authors are impressive marketing, but deleterious to dev work. This manifesto website includes a git commit-msg hook for your favorite hook manager, and a GitHub Action for p…

And they bought three new drones!

This is already here and embedded inside Adobe products.

If you write your library in typescript, not JS, do you still have any of these problems? If not, it sounds like one core issue is 'adding types to an existing untyped codebase is …

(And of course FRP setups have to iterate! They're refining the model to declaratively represent 20 years worth of UI convention!)

> since all our languages are essentially procedural (functional, OO) that means expressing the UI as a procedure (function/method). I understand 'functional' to be used as the dir…

I spent a while trying to approach this post with an open mind. In the end I was disappointed. rel/to title: yes. (just say scroll position. fine.) But also I think this is pretty …

> It's totally out of place with the rest of the Swift programming language. They had to add new crap to the language to accommodate its declarative style, when Swift is (was) unap…

There’s a pretty good argument for functional monopolies facilitating innovation! We like our transistors and all that.

The argument’s about societal wastefulness, not FB’s business acumen. I.e. It’s nontrivial to be more wasteful than it would be to have multiple teams duplicating the same product.…

FWIW State granted monopolies are a common pattern for infrastructure. Strong +1 on the ensuing twisted incentives.

> Where's the advantage of instagram, whatsapp and Facebook belonging to one company? Common-ish arguments for monopolies, as applied to this situation: * potentially the interoper…

I'd love any pointers to precedent for how this plays out from here. 1. The acquisition was >1 year ago. (And there's some question of whether FB followed the correct process.) 2. …

> I want this to be the start of a forced breakup of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. okay > There’s zero benefit to consumers, and a lot of harm. There's a ton of potential socie…

This is the newly-normal software subscription package or a stipend to bootstrap a project. Both feel pretty normal! Even if it is the former, updates & improvements take work. And…

I could never set up my own radio station :). The point of spotify moving into podcasts is to make a netflix-like channel that 1) attracts user and so 2) attracts more publishers. …

Just like how the blog-web died with walled gardens. TV shows were always centrally distributed.

...and this is how podcasting dies.

This is a lovely essay. Wonderful layers-of-reality analogy to quantum mechanics.

"Airbnb announced today that Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners will invest $1 billion in Airbnb in a combination of debt and equity securities." What does this mean relative to…