I just can’t get excited about any of these meta-frameworks. Doesn’t everyone get by now that any advance just gets rolled in to Claude and Codex a few months later, then the downstream competitors a few months after…
I completely agree, but I think it’s just a convenient narrative for Big AI to push for regulation and salt the earth against competitors. “Local AI isn’t freedom, it’s an extinction event”
> Reading a stop sign and deciding whether to stop is a City-Streets function, and that’s FSD. Basic Autopilot is built as a highway lane-keeping system, and it does not respond to stop signs. So a driver-assist car…
This has been my hunch for a while about all the discourse of "OpenAI/Anthropic subscription pricing is unsustainable!!" We understand theoretically they're taking our data, but yeah, that data is vital to the entire…
> As you can see, on average, SLMs are as good if not better than LLMs in 81.2% of the cases, with the LLMs having a significant advantage only in areas like engineering, life sciences, transportation and computer…
Games industry is a special case, more adjacent to the design industry. I worked at a few Fortune 500 companies and interviewed a lot of candidates for both simple CRUD and harder systems programming work. Side…
From many years of first hand experience: - QA is always the first thing companies outsource, with predictable results - Companies either go the route or “separate QA org with separate management chain” or “have QA…
Destination Thailand Visa is comically easy to get if you have ~$20K in savings
Discord culture is the definition of riff raff
The thing is a healthy community, by definition, isn’t going to allow a struggling loner to join them
I used to feel that way but I’m completely over it, especially going through the experience of registering a few domains for side projects recently. There are just too many already squatted. The only other market based…
It makes complete sense and it would be for the best, therefore it will never happen
The participants in the train study were essentially given a "job" to talk to strangers, which completely changes the mental framing. People generally try to follow through on a job they promised to do. They'll try to…
Eh, I got my comp sci degree in the 2000s and for the most part we learned barely enough to pass the exams. Colleges weren't exactly churning out an army of disciplined professionals well versed in low level…
I’ve followed this issue for a long time, the thing is at the end of the day the average American just doesn’t care very much what happens to tech workers. There’s an underlying attitude of “serves those entitled nerds…
Every company I’ve seen that maintains a separate QA org chart, inevitably offshores the entire QA org to India or China, with predictable results. In 2025 I think the only thing that makes sense is having SDETs…
Suburbs and commuter towns desperately need Robotaxi - there’s literally no other option. Public transit isn’t coming, Waymo isn’t coming, Uber and Lyft are shrinking Even a US city of 100,000 people, it can be really…
I’ve been using Tesla FSD since the original beta rollout. Collision avoidance has never been a real problem. Phantom braking has gotten a lot better, though still not 100.0% fixed. Most of the problems I have now are…
Never seen it in the US, but it was fairly common when I was on vacation in Europe
In the English speaking world, the biggest and most important dating app by far is Instagram. Match Group should be considered an adult entertainment business, like the old Craigslist personals. Actually, I just checked…
I’m not sure outsourcing every function of education to SaaS products like we’ve been doing the last 25 years ever made the system more productive
TLDR > It is also revitalizing an unsuccessful experiment the company began in 2016: offering bespoke local activities, or what it calls “experiences.” The next stage, launch date unspecified, involves making your…
Eh, back when I got my first software engineer job at $BIGCORP 20 years ago, I was almost always the only one in the room younger than 40. Not being a web dev was the key, of course.
The Coming Psychological Black Death (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0K0sI5XiP4
The post says they use pandoc for parsing, that’s a very good trade for being able to cut Node completely out of your project
I just can’t get excited about any of these meta-frameworks. Doesn’t everyone get by now that any advance just gets rolled in to Claude and Codex a few months later, then the downstream competitors a few months after…
I completely agree, but I think it’s just a convenient narrative for Big AI to push for regulation and salt the earth against competitors. “Local AI isn’t freedom, it’s an extinction event”
> Reading a stop sign and deciding whether to stop is a City-Streets function, and that’s FSD. Basic Autopilot is built as a highway lane-keeping system, and it does not respond to stop signs. So a driver-assist car…
This has been my hunch for a while about all the discourse of "OpenAI/Anthropic subscription pricing is unsustainable!!" We understand theoretically they're taking our data, but yeah, that data is vital to the entire…
> As you can see, on average, SLMs are as good if not better than LLMs in 81.2% of the cases, with the LLMs having a significant advantage only in areas like engineering, life sciences, transportation and computer…
Games industry is a special case, more adjacent to the design industry. I worked at a few Fortune 500 companies and interviewed a lot of candidates for both simple CRUD and harder systems programming work. Side…
From many years of first hand experience: - QA is always the first thing companies outsource, with predictable results - Companies either go the route or “separate QA org with separate management chain” or “have QA…
Destination Thailand Visa is comically easy to get if you have ~$20K in savings
Discord culture is the definition of riff raff
The thing is a healthy community, by definition, isn’t going to allow a struggling loner to join them
I used to feel that way but I’m completely over it, especially going through the experience of registering a few domains for side projects recently. There are just too many already squatted. The only other market based…
It makes complete sense and it would be for the best, therefore it will never happen
The participants in the train study were essentially given a "job" to talk to strangers, which completely changes the mental framing. People generally try to follow through on a job they promised to do. They'll try to…
Eh, I got my comp sci degree in the 2000s and for the most part we learned barely enough to pass the exams. Colleges weren't exactly churning out an army of disciplined professionals well versed in low level…
I’ve followed this issue for a long time, the thing is at the end of the day the average American just doesn’t care very much what happens to tech workers. There’s an underlying attitude of “serves those entitled nerds…
Every company I’ve seen that maintains a separate QA org chart, inevitably offshores the entire QA org to India or China, with predictable results. In 2025 I think the only thing that makes sense is having SDETs…
Suburbs and commuter towns desperately need Robotaxi - there’s literally no other option. Public transit isn’t coming, Waymo isn’t coming, Uber and Lyft are shrinking Even a US city of 100,000 people, it can be really…
I’ve been using Tesla FSD since the original beta rollout. Collision avoidance has never been a real problem. Phantom braking has gotten a lot better, though still not 100.0% fixed. Most of the problems I have now are…
Never seen it in the US, but it was fairly common when I was on vacation in Europe
In the English speaking world, the biggest and most important dating app by far is Instagram. Match Group should be considered an adult entertainment business, like the old Craigslist personals. Actually, I just checked…
I’m not sure outsourcing every function of education to SaaS products like we’ve been doing the last 25 years ever made the system more productive
TLDR > It is also revitalizing an unsuccessful experiment the company began in 2016: offering bespoke local activities, or what it calls “experiences.” The next stage, launch date unspecified, involves making your…
Eh, back when I got my first software engineer job at $BIGCORP 20 years ago, I was almost always the only one in the room younger than 40. Not being a web dev was the key, of course.
The Coming Psychological Black Death (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0K0sI5XiP4
The post says they use pandoc for parsing, that’s a very good trade for being able to cut Node completely out of your project