My phone must have autocorrected. Ty and good joke :)
Normative determinism is the term for that
Agreed, starlink is obviously advantageous from the global (and extra-global) perspective. Running cables is expensive. But so is launching satellites, and it’s hard to see how you reach a tipping point where satellites…
I agree that “inherently political” is usually a thought terminating cliche. What kinds of technologies are conditionally political? The internet is a bad counterexample as it originated from a department of defense…
Autonomous vehicle, yes
Amazon’s AWS and core delivery business are fairly mature, and with consumer sentiment poor and non-AI tech contracting, having a growth vertical like Bedrock is good for shareholders. Without their own core tech,…
Expecting “transparency” out of a government trying to protect national interests seems like a tall order. They have to withhold or obfuscate things to do that job.
I do this several times per week. You can ask Claude to hunt down duplication, brittle scripty code, overly defensive fallbacks, and footguns.
I don’t know about your co but at my job we very much have non SWE shipping their own (mostly garbage) apps
This article is good but it presupposes the norm of democracy and it presupposes (somehow) that the collapse of western democracy will not result in war. Both of these are fundamental misunderstandings, and while I love…
It’s hard to square this with the post 2024 AI-investment economy. Interest rates have stayed higher longer than expected, while many, many companies (Vercel, Cursor, Wave-whatever that got bought out last year,…
I think this is essentially Heidegger’s commentary on technology but reengineered from first principles
I think I might be going through withdrawal because I feel like I rarely get that fun feeling anymore with coding :( It can be gratifying to get shit done but I love the feeling of coming up with a great reusable…
A lot of times the act of specifying test criteria prevents developers from accidentally vibe coding themselves into a bad implementation. You can then read the tests and verify that it does what you want it to. You can…
I think you can understand that line of reasoning, but you can question its feasibility. You might not have any “star coders”, nor need them day-to-day, but I think the cost of not having one true expert, or having a…
Is it that incomprehensible that you might want to limit healthcare offerings to lawful residents only, or that the government might track metadata about how services are doing so, regardless of how they choose to take…
I read the post. I don’t agree with the “people are born to do one thing” mindset. There’s a lot of possibilities out there for everyone. I do identify with this OP fellow somewhat, except that I usually don’t code for…
I don’t think anyone’s true calling is coding. That’s like saying you really like the act of writing, so much that you’d become a stenographer or a typist or something where you do zero higher level thinking and just…
I do literally enjoy working with AI sometimes, other times it is hell. But sometimes coding by hand is hell, too, usually when working on other people’s extremely hacky and procedural code.
This is a great reason not to identify too much with your work. I have enjoyed AI because it has reminded me that my real calling is art, and that I should be doing that at 8 pm, not coding
I used to believe in alert fatigue, because you’re frequently told to repeat the line: if you have too many alerts, eventually everyone will stop paying attention to them. I have tons of alerts at work. They go to…
No idea. I would just assume whatever they’re doing there gets shouted down in short order by the locals who are known for being kind hearted, incredibly naive, and violent.
Why would you believe a tech CEO who has a vested interest in the untruth but can skirt fiduciary duties by speaking cleverly.
In my opinion it seems like a very unprofitable service propped up by investor money trying to capture market share. Or, as I would say if I were Bugs Bunny, “Duck Season”
If Waymo is still operating there by the end 2027 I’ll eat my hat.
My phone must have autocorrected. Ty and good joke :)
Normative determinism is the term for that
Agreed, starlink is obviously advantageous from the global (and extra-global) perspective. Running cables is expensive. But so is launching satellites, and it’s hard to see how you reach a tipping point where satellites…
I agree that “inherently political” is usually a thought terminating cliche. What kinds of technologies are conditionally political? The internet is a bad counterexample as it originated from a department of defense…
Autonomous vehicle, yes
Amazon’s AWS and core delivery business are fairly mature, and with consumer sentiment poor and non-AI tech contracting, having a growth vertical like Bedrock is good for shareholders. Without their own core tech,…
Expecting “transparency” out of a government trying to protect national interests seems like a tall order. They have to withhold or obfuscate things to do that job.
I do this several times per week. You can ask Claude to hunt down duplication, brittle scripty code, overly defensive fallbacks, and footguns.
I don’t know about your co but at my job we very much have non SWE shipping their own (mostly garbage) apps
This article is good but it presupposes the norm of democracy and it presupposes (somehow) that the collapse of western democracy will not result in war. Both of these are fundamental misunderstandings, and while I love…
It’s hard to square this with the post 2024 AI-investment economy. Interest rates have stayed higher longer than expected, while many, many companies (Vercel, Cursor, Wave-whatever that got bought out last year,…
I think this is essentially Heidegger’s commentary on technology but reengineered from first principles
I think I might be going through withdrawal because I feel like I rarely get that fun feeling anymore with coding :( It can be gratifying to get shit done but I love the feeling of coming up with a great reusable…
A lot of times the act of specifying test criteria prevents developers from accidentally vibe coding themselves into a bad implementation. You can then read the tests and verify that it does what you want it to. You can…
I think you can understand that line of reasoning, but you can question its feasibility. You might not have any “star coders”, nor need them day-to-day, but I think the cost of not having one true expert, or having a…
Is it that incomprehensible that you might want to limit healthcare offerings to lawful residents only, or that the government might track metadata about how services are doing so, regardless of how they choose to take…
I read the post. I don’t agree with the “people are born to do one thing” mindset. There’s a lot of possibilities out there for everyone. I do identify with this OP fellow somewhat, except that I usually don’t code for…
I don’t think anyone’s true calling is coding. That’s like saying you really like the act of writing, so much that you’d become a stenographer or a typist or something where you do zero higher level thinking and just…
I do literally enjoy working with AI sometimes, other times it is hell. But sometimes coding by hand is hell, too, usually when working on other people’s extremely hacky and procedural code.
This is a great reason not to identify too much with your work. I have enjoyed AI because it has reminded me that my real calling is art, and that I should be doing that at 8 pm, not coding
I used to believe in alert fatigue, because you’re frequently told to repeat the line: if you have too many alerts, eventually everyone will stop paying attention to them. I have tons of alerts at work. They go to…
No idea. I would just assume whatever they’re doing there gets shouted down in short order by the locals who are known for being kind hearted, incredibly naive, and violent.
Why would you believe a tech CEO who has a vested interest in the untruth but can skirt fiduciary duties by speaking cleverly.
In my opinion it seems like a very unprofitable service propped up by investor money trying to capture market share. Or, as I would say if I were Bugs Bunny, “Duck Season”
If Waymo is still operating there by the end 2027 I’ll eat my hat.