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931.
by brookst 7mo ago
As someone who had a brand new M1 MBP stolen from a San Jose coworking space. I am 100% in favor of the this having at best some parts and not a working computer.
932.
by brookst 7mo ago
Not coincidentally, that was around when Microsoft really internalized that they are an enterprise company, not a consumer company. In enterprises, the local user IS hostile, or at least some percentage of them are. The ethos of “we can’t t
933.
by brookst 7mo ago
Exactly this. Also global sales and marketing and support.
934.
by brookst 7mo ago
I find it amusing and, IDK, charming how “rent-seeking” has become a general purpose pejorative, like “bourgeoisie” was at one time.
935.
by brookst 7mo ago
Yep. Opportunity cost is the importantly thing. Though a well-managed org will scale capacity against some ROI threshold. If you’re skipping 8 $300k projects a year that could be done by one fully-burdened $400k developer, something is wron
936.
by brookst 7mo ago
You don’t thino Anthropic has any kind of resiliency, so net new compute reduces downtime? Any docs on that view?
937.
by brookst 7mo ago
Why are they entitled to have a mechanism to force a private company to deal in weapons and surveillance?
938.
by brookst 7mo ago
Perhaps. But certainly those companies will factor in the risk that this is overturned, or that the government pursues other extrajudicial means to punish those who do business with Anthropic. All things equal, you’d be better off not expos
939.
by brookst 7mo ago
Meh, then filesystems are databases for bytes. Airplanes are buses for flying. I could make that argument, but I wouldn’t believe it.
940.
by brookst 7mo ago
Meaningless is maybe too strong. I have 60-ish repos, vast majority are zero star, one or two with a star or two, one with 25-ish. It’s a signal to me of interest in and usage of that project. Doesn’t mean stars are perfect, or can’t be gam
941.
by brookst 7mo ago
I don’t know how to explain that the difference between barter systems, stored value, and truly communal property has nothing to do with capitalism. People pay for things in all economic models. It’s bizarre to think that means everything i
942.
by brookst 7mo ago
AI is more likely to destroy capitalism than it is to increase inequality. Ten years ago, what would it have cost you to build a Jira clone / competitor? Today one person can do it in a week, at least for the core tech. In a year, only
943.
by brookst 7mo ago
Are you saying 9.999% isn’t four nines?
944.
by brookst 7mo ago
* Projects can focus on code first, and do best-effort on docs for low cost * Most of us get reasonable quality documentation, much better than what some poor developer would turn out in spare moments * You are spared from the outrage of im
945.
by brookst 7mo ago
Agreed, but “protocol” is changing its meaning. MCP is t really a protocol either. They’re both better described as conventions, but whatever.
946.
by brookst 7mo ago
And you think a Pearl Harbor sized attack force could cross oceans undetected and hide behind wind farms? Please tell me you’re just yanking our chains and don’t really believe that?
947.
by brookst 7mo ago
And car companies, who made the classic “holding back the tide” strategic blunder and basically created Tesla, BYD, and others. Turns out the market routes right around slow movers.
948.
by brookst 7mo ago
I can’t make heads or tails of your point. Are you saying that because Sweden has to worry about Russia invading from the east, the US shouldn’t build any wind farms anywhere? That can’t be right. What do you really mean?
949.
by brookst 7mo ago
Yep. Same reason going to the doctor is fatal. A cancer diagnosis is terrifying and correlates to dying of cancer. Why would anyone take the risk?
950.
by brookst 7mo ago
Check out UCP
951.
by brookst 7mo ago
Yes. Their API rates are breakeven to profitable, the subscription that people are arbitraging is a 90% discount or so from API rates. There’s a reason 5% of GitHub commits are from Claude code and no other provider is above 0.1%… it’s qual
952.
by brookst 7mo ago
I’ll try 5.4 again but when I spent a couple of hours with it, I found it much weaker than Claude code + opus 4.6 for working on large projects. Are you delegating substantial work like planning and executing refactors, or more at single-li
953.
by brookst 7mo ago
I’m not seeing the open source connection at all? Anthropic sells a service that bundles server and client. They are not wild about people taking their server part and using their own clients because the business model relies on both client
954.
by brookst 7mo ago
Cool, so just ignore documentation then. Problem solved for everyone.
955.
by brookst 7mo ago
Classic perfect/good. The choice is not usually “have humans write amazing top notch documentation, or use an LLM”. The choice is usually “have sparse, incomplete, out-of-date documentation… or use an LLM”.
956.
by brookst 7mo ago
Do we care about words or thoughts? Many folks are more interested in semantic meaning than character sequences. To each their own of course.
957.
by brookst 7mo ago
Also elitist attitudes towards people for whom English isn’t a native language, elitist attitudes towards people with dyslexia and other conditions that make writing difficult, and elitist attitudes towards people with lower education level
958.
by brookst 7mo ago
"They" being others, but definitely not you right? Those people...
959.
by brookst 7mo ago
Not a fan of conflating personal enjoyment of a vice with promoting hatred.
960.
by brookst 7mo ago
Same, stopped there. One of those odd pieces where the author is completely full of themselves and hostile, yet somehow decries other people’s attitudes (“as attitudes have degenerated, I found the ability to blind people driving behind me

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