What are some better options? I honestly can't think of any way of proving someone's age other than electronic ID provided by a well trusted institution like a government. The only alternative would be removing anything…
Trump agreed to the MoU saying it's allies would stop attacks, including in Lebanon. Israel continues to bomb it. It's up to Trump to put pressure on Israel to stop in order to make good on his deal. It's no surprise…
Funny how quickly "won't someone think of the children" turns into mandatory government ID for private services, banning necessary and secure (and encrypted) communications systems, and locking children out of access to…
Two of my co-workers have the last names Dyck and Cox. I've seen others whose last name is literally Dick. And let's not forget the famous actor Dick Van Dyke who strikes out twice on most filters. I've heard several…
I don't care for his vision. I'm basing that on his words and actions, not based on anybody else's propaganda.
I quite liked Cursor. I even tried Claude Code and found myself wanting to go back to Cursor. Unfortunately, this completely kills it for me. I will not support Elon Musk or any of his shenanigans. He is already far…
That prospectus didn't make anything clear. It was pictures of rockets and rubbish about "the light of consciousness". The only real information was buried deep in the middle and it showed a company with poor finances…
You pay a 3x markup to rent a server through AWS than managing your own. You pay for convenience. At shall annals that's fine, but for large companies with their own datacenters, you generally do things in house.
That's a strange one. I had to use POA for my mother in law last summer and it was straight forward.
I usually agree with Simon but I think he is overlooking an important factor. There is a lot of AI usage happening not because it shows benefits, but because the business has mandated its ubiquitous use. Companies…
I strongly disagree. I'm an engineer - I'm all about the fastest, cheapest thing that meets the requirements. I don't need Opus 4.7, even for my complex programming tasks. It costs over 10x other models available that…
I use composer-2 daily for complex programming tasks. It's a fine tuned Kimi 2.5 - nothing groundbreaking. I've even had reasonable success using Qwen 3.5 on my desktop GPU. Opus might be better, but it's certainly not…
Every meeting, every memo, and every prototype is output in terms of the employees doing that work. Whether it's directly saleable is irrelevant. The investors base the value of their investment on the expected future…
Cursor with its tab completion. Iterate with the agent part to research, design, and plan. Let it generate boilerplate and scaffolding, perhaps with placeholders for you to fill in. Then fill in as you normally would,…
I think we can do both. Ask the AI to summarize it, but to show examples and point out where things happen. Let it make you a Coles Notes. You still need to look at the code yourself and understand it, but an initial…
I'm always hesitant of these claims. Sure, it's possible that AI really did help them achieve the same level of quality at 100x the pace. It's also possible it generated a huge tech debt that only passes the tests but…
Great point! This is along the same lines as a low fidelity prototype. It doesn't have to be production quality - hell, it barely needs to work so long as it's good enough to get feedback. Now I can have higher fidelity…
I treat it like other triage tasks: things could always be better, but how much effort does it take and how much better could it be? There's a common saying that the enemy of good is perfect. It's easy to get stuck in…
Huh, good point! When a colleague asks me to review their design or otherwise discuss it, I'm always looking for things they might have missed, assumptions they silently made, or corner cases that could come up. I start…
I do the same thing as an expert with 20 years of experience. You can always benefit from a second set of eyes and a second opinion. What's important is that you consider that input and then make your own decisions,…
This is why I don't use agent-first platforms like Claude Code. I want to write software with an AI to assist me, not an AI to write my software for me. I don't want an environment whose main mode of operation is…
I do something similar. Design reviews are an extremely valuable part of the process but they take a long time and people are busy and who really has enough expertise to provide meaningful feedback? Well, the AI is…
A lawsuit will cost you at least thousands of dollars if you can even serve the person. The FBI doesn't care about even thousands of dollars of fraud; they are busy chasing million dollar crime rings. Try reporting to…
After a couple of turns the system prompt is a small part of the context. Not changing the system prompt at all is key so that the rest of the history is itself part of the prefix.
My employer doesn't specifically block this stuff, but does put up a warning when you visit it to review our AI usage policy. There isn't detection for using things in ways we shouldn't, but they have an audit trail and…
What are some better options? I honestly can't think of any way of proving someone's age other than electronic ID provided by a well trusted institution like a government. The only alternative would be removing anything…
Trump agreed to the MoU saying it's allies would stop attacks, including in Lebanon. Israel continues to bomb it. It's up to Trump to put pressure on Israel to stop in order to make good on his deal. It's no surprise…
Funny how quickly "won't someone think of the children" turns into mandatory government ID for private services, banning necessary and secure (and encrypted) communications systems, and locking children out of access to…
Two of my co-workers have the last names Dyck and Cox. I've seen others whose last name is literally Dick. And let's not forget the famous actor Dick Van Dyke who strikes out twice on most filters. I've heard several…
I don't care for his vision. I'm basing that on his words and actions, not based on anybody else's propaganda.
I quite liked Cursor. I even tried Claude Code and found myself wanting to go back to Cursor. Unfortunately, this completely kills it for me. I will not support Elon Musk or any of his shenanigans. He is already far…
That prospectus didn't make anything clear. It was pictures of rockets and rubbish about "the light of consciousness". The only real information was buried deep in the middle and it showed a company with poor finances…
You pay a 3x markup to rent a server through AWS than managing your own. You pay for convenience. At shall annals that's fine, but for large companies with their own datacenters, you generally do things in house.
That's a strange one. I had to use POA for my mother in law last summer and it was straight forward.
I usually agree with Simon but I think he is overlooking an important factor. There is a lot of AI usage happening not because it shows benefits, but because the business has mandated its ubiquitous use. Companies…
I strongly disagree. I'm an engineer - I'm all about the fastest, cheapest thing that meets the requirements. I don't need Opus 4.7, even for my complex programming tasks. It costs over 10x other models available that…
I use composer-2 daily for complex programming tasks. It's a fine tuned Kimi 2.5 - nothing groundbreaking. I've even had reasonable success using Qwen 3.5 on my desktop GPU. Opus might be better, but it's certainly not…
Every meeting, every memo, and every prototype is output in terms of the employees doing that work. Whether it's directly saleable is irrelevant. The investors base the value of their investment on the expected future…
Cursor with its tab completion. Iterate with the agent part to research, design, and plan. Let it generate boilerplate and scaffolding, perhaps with placeholders for you to fill in. Then fill in as you normally would,…
I think we can do both. Ask the AI to summarize it, but to show examples and point out where things happen. Let it make you a Coles Notes. You still need to look at the code yourself and understand it, but an initial…
I'm always hesitant of these claims. Sure, it's possible that AI really did help them achieve the same level of quality at 100x the pace. It's also possible it generated a huge tech debt that only passes the tests but…
Great point! This is along the same lines as a low fidelity prototype. It doesn't have to be production quality - hell, it barely needs to work so long as it's good enough to get feedback. Now I can have higher fidelity…
I treat it like other triage tasks: things could always be better, but how much effort does it take and how much better could it be? There's a common saying that the enemy of good is perfect. It's easy to get stuck in…
Huh, good point! When a colleague asks me to review their design or otherwise discuss it, I'm always looking for things they might have missed, assumptions they silently made, or corner cases that could come up. I start…
I do the same thing as an expert with 20 years of experience. You can always benefit from a second set of eyes and a second opinion. What's important is that you consider that input and then make your own decisions,…
This is why I don't use agent-first platforms like Claude Code. I want to write software with an AI to assist me, not an AI to write my software for me. I don't want an environment whose main mode of operation is…
I do something similar. Design reviews are an extremely valuable part of the process but they take a long time and people are busy and who really has enough expertise to provide meaningful feedback? Well, the AI is…
A lawsuit will cost you at least thousands of dollars if you can even serve the person. The FBI doesn't care about even thousands of dollars of fraud; they are busy chasing million dollar crime rings. Try reporting to…
After a couple of turns the system prompt is a small part of the context. Not changing the system prompt at all is key so that the rest of the history is itself part of the prefix.
My employer doesn't specifically block this stuff, but does put up a warning when you visit it to review our AI usage policy. There isn't detection for using things in ways we shouldn't, but they have an audit trail and…