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That's just it: This is not happening with the Chinese models, because western corporations are the primary drivers of AI adoption globally and western corporations are not signing up for a DeepSeek API key. If they're working w
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Unfortunately, the market doesn't generally let you buy Blackwells with "we got half a percent of Google's marketshare with a model we're literally giving away for free [1]". You need that thing we call Capital. But
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Hot take: The reason this is happening is because the market for Chinese AI models hosted by Chinese companies is struggling. Even the market for Chinese AI models hosted by western companies is soft: During the week of May 18, OpenRouter p
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Zig has a "Zero AI" policy. Bun has had to maintain an internal fork of Zig with various AI-assisted fixes that have resulted in real performance and stability gains for the runtime. Its, arguably, a decent reason to decouple from
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AI is extremely good at rewriting existing code, and rewriting code is a classic engineering productivity trap. That's a tale as old as time; "we need to rewrite the api in Go" said every new midlevel engineering hire ever. O
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FYI in case you aren't aware, the rewrite was shipped, and then had to be reverted due to issues being discovered. That's "Jarred's high quality bar" you're so confident in.
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Its possible to do that over a period of a few years. Sadly, the Rust rewrite happened in (checks notes) 8 days.
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You may not want to take part in politics, but politics wants to take a part in you.
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IMO the source of the new code is less important than the sheer volume of it. Bun does not need to be entirely rewritten; certainly not over a period of a week, possibly not even over a period of a year. Stability is hard-fought and battle-
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The situation is insane at the company my friend works at. There's no central oversight, because, as I understand it, someone in leadership had the idea that they didn't want to prescribe which AI tools their engineers should use.
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One of the "grown up" moments everyone needs to make their way through is: Realizing that the vast majority of people are not internally consistent, and that by the way includes you. Every single student who boo'd Eric Schmid
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This too shall pass. Among my software engineering friend group bubble: Every single individual (~12 of us) are actively and seriously tokenmaxing. We have middle-managers who have been given an AI mandate, upper-managers saying "u
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For those against this: I'm curious to hear your take on how you'd stop/mitigate scalping.
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Spotify is actively incentivized to mitigate that, because they're forced to pay royalties on every stream. This is, at least, a better situation than with Ticketmaster, who is actively incentivized to get scalpers as many tickets as t
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Short-sighted. There exists substantial evidence we're barreling straight into a period of high-instability, in-part driven by technology and AI. The world in ten years will look very different from the one we live in today, in the wor
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Unpopular opinion: I struggle to get angry at this. These are clearly rip-offs of the Stratocaster design. Sure, Fender makes crappy guitars nowadays and has mostly ruined their brand. Go make a new design. Let Fender die. Cases like this a
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Interesting that it seems to be the case that SynthID has been totally busted open, but OpenAI's new watermark has not yet [1] [1] https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
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There's a pretty decent counter-argument though: Prediction markets are just a market for users to counterparty each-other. Which means, technically, for every trade there is a winner and a loser, and both the winner and the loser are
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The CFTC uses the following argument in their press release: [1] > This Minnesota law turns lawful operators and participants in prediction markets into felons overnight,” said CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig. “Minnesota farmers have reli
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I can't wait for npm/github to do literally anything at all to mitigate these attacks. Literally anything. Have we considered a basic WAF-style block on some postinstall script strings? LLM-assisted code scanning on publish? Is
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I did use the word "software engineer" there, but realistically what they're looking for is exactly the name of the role they wear: Member of Technical Staff. Software Engineer, businessman, product manager, designer, agentic
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Anthropic is at a place where they need the world's best software engineers, and they're willing to comp at insane levels to get them. However: You simply cannot post a Linkedin job for "Really Good Software Engineer, comp $1
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I hate to be "that guy" but there's a reason why most of the industry stopped using mailing lists for things like this. Extremely impressive that Linux lasted this long.
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True! But calculators are already priced in. LLMs now unlock a whole new class of problems that we can automate the solutions to; what we're seeing is the markets trying to figure out how to price that.
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5.5 Pro has been leveraged to solve at least two previously-unsolved Erdos problems [1]. Whether these were unsolved due to being seriously untried by humanity, or because of their difficulty, isn't relevant; no human proved able to an
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I don't know. We invented machines that can answer arbitrary questions and are quickly demonstrating the ability to answer questions no human has been able to answer. We're sending more rockets to space in a week than we have in t
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> There's a huge difference, because postinstall scripts are almost guaranteed to run in your CI pipeline. Compromised code probably won't (maybe it will if your test cases test a compromised package). Different attack profile.
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> There's a huge difference, because postinstall scripts are almost guaranteed to run in your CI pipeline. Compromised code probably won't (maybe it will if your test cases test a compromised package). Different attack profile.
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There's a huge difference, because postinstall scripts are almost guaranteed to run in your CI pipeline. Compromised code probably won't (maybe it will if your test cases test a compromised package). Different attack profile. Wors
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There is no legitimate reason why postinstall scripts need to exist. The npm team needs to grow up and declare "starting with npm version whatever, npm will only run postinstall scripts for versions of packages published before ${today

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