ericmcer

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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Totally agree, you have to figure it out for yourself. Not only do these diets affect people differently, they also affect each individual differently throughout their life. IF might be great when you are 45 but no good when you are 20. I r
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
There has to be a sweet spot between someone hand spinning wool for 100s of hours and an automated factory spitting 80% polymer based clothing directly into a trash can.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
It would not be a good idea because the goal of companies are not to get you to consume only what you need, they want you to consume more. You should check out "Ascension" (it is on Paramount unfortunately). It gives a pretty clos
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Talking to a chatbot yourself is much different from another person spinning up a (potentially malicious) AI agent and giving it permissions to make PRs and publish blogs. This tracks with the general ethos of self-responsibility that is se
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
I have always been dubious of this because: Someone would have noticed if all the phones on their network started streaming audio whenever a conversation happened. It would be really expensive to send, transcribe and then analyze every sing
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Can anyone explain more how a generic Agentic AI could even perform those steps: Open PR -> Hook into rejection -> Publish personalized blog post about rejector. Even if it had the skills to publish blogs and open PRs, is it really pl
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Won't this kind of shaft their employment prospects as well? Other industries don't move as fast but a 3 year layoff in tech could be a career death sentence.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Great article, super fun. > In 2025, 1.1 million layoffs were announced. Only the sixth time that threshold has been breached since 1993. Over 55,000 explicitly cited AI. But HBR found that companies are cutting based on AI's potent
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
I am 4 months into a planned 6 month break. The plan was learn Spanish and do some traveling. After a month I started a side project and haven't focused on much else. Years of the reward cycle being around shipping code is hard to over
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Seriously and beyond productivity, flow state was what I liked most about the job. A cup of coffee and noise cancelling headphones and a 2 hour locked in session were when I felt most in love with programming.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
It does feel sometimes like you can't escape. I got tired of the nonstop noise and loud cars of a big city and moved to a smaller suburb. Then I learned about Leaf Blowers. If every neighbor has gardeners come at ~7am once every two we
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
> one of them filed a complaint with the California State Bar, saying that I was practicing law without a license. They said because I’m not an attorney (which is true), I was offering “legal analysis,” which only licensed attorneys are
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
That is a good point because your brain interacts with them differently as well. If my C compiler sometimes worked and sometimes didn't I would just mash compile like an ape until it started working.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
How? Other then calling utility functions that C++ doesn't have you can't just like skip understanding what you are coding by using Python. If you are importing libraries that do stuff for you that wouldn't be any different t
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Reminds me of all the parables about kings who "pretend to be a common man" for a day and walk among their subjects and leave with some new enlightenment. The idea that you lose a ton of knowledge when you experience things throug
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
You don't have a strong mental model after agentic coding something in my experience. It isn't an abstraction like assembly -> C. If you code something like: extract the raw audio data from an audio container, it doesn't
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
I don't think it will ever really happen because of ownership. Sure this is awesome now and maybe he shipped it in a week using AI or something, but he now owns a critical part of his wife's business. 5 years from now he is gonna
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
This isn't about capturing the audio, it is about transcribing it. Transcribing whispered/garbled speech in the background is really really really hard.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Psychosis is obviously being used in this context to reference the very well documented "hallucinations" that LLMs experience.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
It might not be in our lifetimes... the frontier models are using terabytes of RAM. In 10 years iPhones went from ~2GB to ~8GB. 2012 Macbook pros had up to 16gb, 2026 maxes out at 64gb. So 4x increase in 16 years. 1996 Mac desktop had 16MB
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
"in the 1920s and 1930s, to be able to drive a car you needed to understand things like spark advance, and you needed to know how to be able to refill the radiator halfway through your trip" A car still feels weirdly grounded in r
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
"Based on patent filings, Q.ai has built machine-learning tech for audio and “silent” voice input, including systems designed to understand to improve communication in noisy or difficult environments." Good? Based on my recent exp
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Same for me with Adderall. I do wonder if being highly functional and feeling capable is normal though, like as a species it seems almost dysfunctional to happily plow through 8 hour workdays and bills and appointments and all the little bu
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
We might just keep making more jobs and coming up with more busy work to keep people grinding away for 40 hours a week. If you look at 1940, women were ~24% of the workforce. Now in 2025 they are ~48%. The numbers are probably similar with
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Seriously as someone who grew up in the Bay Area. I am here for the weather, family and friends. I don't care if billionaires leave and real estate prices normalize at the cost of a bunch of tech jobs. That said I wish we would take a
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
That is interesting because your mental abilities seem to be correlated with orchestrating a bunch of abstractions you have previously mastered. Are these tools making us stupid because we no longer need to master any of these things? Or ar
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
You could argue that Apple would exist without Wozniak, but it would definitely not without Jobs.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
"moved wherever the company needed me and fixed problems that had been sitting untouched because no one else could untangle them." A screenshot later on shows he was a manager who spent his entire career in Houston. So... he didn&
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
My experience is mostly in the Bay Area, but people are extremely excited here to destroy anything that can be tied to a big corporation. Smashing the dumb E-scooters, beating up Waymos or just bricking a banks windows were just like regula
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
In "Remains of The Day" they call just talking about "the thing" an indulgence. Which is really what it is, it feels good, isn't hard, and doesn't achieve anything. The characters in the book are quick to cut n

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