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by jes5199 1y ago
sounds like uber is ripe for disruption by somebody who doesn’t need the accounts to balance yet
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by jes5199 1y ago
there’s a sweet spot in there, it’s not “as narrow as possible” - the most productive thing is to assign the largest possible tasks that are just short of the limit where the agents become stupid. this is hard to hit, and a moving target!
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by jes5199 1y ago
I guess what I mean is, I found the details sort of “mindless” before. Code that I could write in my sleep. Now I only have to do the thinky parts
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by jes5199 1y ago
I’ve tried a bunch of things but now I’m mostly using Cursor in agent mode with Claude Sonnet 4, doing small-ish pull-request-sized prompts. I don’t have to review code as carefully as I did with Claude 3.7 but I’m finding the bottleneck no
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by jes5199 1y ago
I’ve been using Claude (via Cursor) on a greenfield project for the last couple months and my observation is: 1. I am much more productive/effective 2. It’s way more cognitively demanding than writing code the old-fashioned way 3. Ev
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by jes5199 1y ago
great, let's also record all of the daily interactions of the C-suite and see if we can replicate their job functions in simulation
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by jes5199 1y ago
that’s so alien to me. for me, writing by hand is frustrating to the point of distraction. if I want to think clearly, my best bet is to do it silently, in my head.
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by jes5199 1y ago
“badly broken but doesn’t matter”?
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by jes5199 1y ago
Tony Seba did the maths: https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellaren...
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by jes5199 1y ago
> A device with 96% market share in the developed and developing world honestly that sounds ripe for disruption
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by jes5199 1y ago
I agree that “phone” is over but I think it’s possible that “device” is over as well
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by jes5199 1y ago
this is designed to appeal directly to a certain kind of self-mythologizing Bay Area techie, the kind that was common in the early 2010s. It’s meant to signal continuity, “we’re just like you, we loved Steve Jobs” apparently it worked on so
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by jes5199 1y ago
solar and battery costs are falling so fast that emissions are likely to go down, even with growth in energy use
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by jes5199 1y ago
I think it’s hard to say that any one thing ruined the Hobbit. like, there’s plenty of blame to go around.
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by jes5199 1y ago
new MCP tool: make-curl-request, headers, payload
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by jes5199 1y ago
I had the idea that maybe it was actually a flytrap for large companies! force them to waste cycles chasing a moving target so they don’t even notice they’re being leapfrogged
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by jes5199 1y ago
they already did though. the late-2024 version and the early-2025 version have completely incompatible SSE rube goldberg machines
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by jes5199 1y ago
someone is going to write an MCP adaptor that lets Claude use OpenAPI and then we can forget that MCP was a thing
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by jes5199 1y ago
I recently wrote an MCP server, in node, after trying and failing to get the official javascript SDK to work. I agree with the criticisms — this is a stunningly bad specification, perhaps the worst I have seen in my career. I don’t think th
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by jes5199 1y ago
“as they’re already likely to have written artifacts of decisions and conversations” I wish this matched my experience at all. So much is transmitted only in one-on-one Zoom calls
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by jes5199 1y ago
I use an LLM to brainstorm for a creative writing project. Mostly I ignore its suggestions! but, somehow having the chatter helps me see what I am trying to say
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by jes5199 1y ago
well if the marginal value of labor goes to zero, only those with capital will be able to survive. we may need to think about what kinds of redistribution are socially acceptable.
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by jes5199 1y ago
Ward Cunningham (inventor of the Wiki) spent some time trying to invent a transclusion-first wiki, where everyone had their own wiki-space and used transclusion socially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Wiki it
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by jes5199 1y ago
kinda hope there won’t be and we all retire to leisure
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by jes5199 1y ago
huh. I’m aware of this author for other reasons - he’s popular among some carbon-capture enthusiasts. This… colors my opinion.
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by jes5199 1y ago
the MCP spec as it stands today is pretty half-baked. It’s pretty clear that the first edition was trying to emulate STDIO over HTTP, but that meant holding open a connection indefinitely. The new revision tries to solve this by letting you
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by jes5199 1y ago
we will not
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by jes5199 1y ago
I actually think we’ve passed peak urban density and people will de-densify to have better access to electrification
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by jes5199 1y ago
yes exactly, that is the kind of success that prevents you from believing that the next big thing is going to worse-is-better you out of the market
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by jes5199 1y ago
yes it was smart to keep a landline phone for a few years

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