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by madrox 4mo ago
They tried with OpenAI and that deal fell apart. My hunch is that they're considering their own device play given they brought Jony Ive on board. Anthropic doesn't have the spare compute laying around to do this deal. Even they&#x
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by madrox 4mo ago
I don't think this was author-submitted. The last github commit was 10 months ago. It's ancient by AI standards.
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by madrox 4mo ago
Thanks. At this point, I believe it's what I will look back on as my legacy. Software is ephemeral, but the people you build it with are what shape how you reflect on it.
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by madrox 4mo ago
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by madrox 4mo ago
Shoutout to the author. I don't think I've met you, but I'm proud of you. What you've done is not easy. Neither is talking about it. I've not had nearly the adversity of the author, but I do know a little bit about
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by madrox 4mo ago
I think my favorite early story was when OpenAI launched deep research. I was going to an event that I was headlining, and I gave it a CSV of the attendees and asked it to give me a small background on each company they represented. When pe
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by madrox 4mo ago
My issue with saying socializing is one of the primary goals is that schools leave kids to figure it out on their own. Hard to know how schools are performing at that goal when it is going unmeasured.
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by madrox 4mo ago
I was a horrible student as a child, and in my 20s I strongly held the belief that education was broken. Now that I'm a few decades older I wonder if my problem was not education but life. I did not fit in at most schools, and that had
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by madrox 4mo ago
I'm with you. I don't think we talk enough about careerism and how toxic it can be.
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by madrox 4mo ago
Over a weekend about a decade ago, I toyed with making a Final Fantasy Tactics-like game in the browser using CSS for the renderer. I could not get it to work in the time I gave it. I realized too late I needed to make some abstractions and
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by madrox 4mo ago
I worked at a fully remote company that did the best job hiring juniors in my 20 year career. The talent and enthusiasm in that pool was great and really injected something into teams. What changed was ZIRP ending. The layoffs from that wer
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by madrox 5mo ago
> When did designers become the gatekeepers in what a page should look like and how it should behave? Since...forever? You may not like the waterfall model, but unless you're at a small startup this is how most software gets made. E
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by madrox 5mo ago
While I tend to agree, if that email were about arranging a D&D session, I don't think I would care. Especially if the alternative is we never find a time to play D&D.
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by madrox 5mo ago
Humans are valuable, but I think we've been putting human output on a pedestal lately. There's a lot of human slop (as the author put it) on the internet. Slop businesses. Slop social media accounts. While there's very little
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by madrox 5mo ago
MCP is still great if you're running AI in an environment that precludes a shell while needing dynamic tool discovery, but that's a narrow set. People are learning how useful it is to give AI access to a shell. If you're givi
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by madrox 5mo ago
Calling that an argument from assumption is fair. I am basing this on where I think the puck is going, but I don't think I'm wrong. The issues you mention are not unsolvable problems, and AI is very good at independently iterating
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by madrox 5mo ago
Frontend web development has always been particularly vulnerable to changes in technology. The role has mostly been responsible for translating the vision of the designer into code. You could say FEs dive into things like TTFP metrics, but
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by madrox 5mo ago
I tend to agree. I believe most of these arguments, whether consciously or not, are rooted in sour grapes. If AI were already the norm, and someone came along and said, "hey! I've got a great idea! Instead of AI building all this
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by madrox 5mo ago
This has been me as well. While I don't think my time is quite up, I have heard the call of the sea. Grey ships are waiting. There have been times in the last decade where I wished I had chosen a profession that lets me stay offline mo
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by madrox 5mo ago
yeah
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by madrox 5mo ago
If crypto was a bunch of autodidacts speed running the history of finance, then AI is speed running the history of religion. This whole "permanent underclass" thing seems like it's just the Rapture in secular clothing. It&#x2
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by madrox 5mo ago
I think you're choosing to ignore what I said about the implication of durable workflows, because you seem to be inventing some stories about my comment. I find that well documented plans do pretty well at aligning AI to what I want it
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by madrox 5mo ago
I've long held the current agent permission model is like playing a game of "Papers, Please" and most permission models engineers implement in their own AI products is more a measure of how trusting the user is with AI than a
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by madrox 5mo ago
I was in a park today, and I watched a man play a saxaphone. Other people had stopped to listen to him play. It occurred to me that we appreciate this kind of public performance, but we get annoyed if someone plays their boombox too loud in
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by madrox 5mo ago
I personally believe in rolling company shutdowns. Give engineering a week off every quarter. Give product the following week off.
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by madrox 5mo ago
I love silly stuff like this and can only hope that with AI we see more of it. Enjoyed dropping in and the beats were fire.
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by madrox 5mo ago
You have my vote. Clearly anyone can do it.
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by madrox 5mo ago
Pretty much everywhere outside the US has stronger employee protections on this (with a few obvious notable exceptions). France is a great place to be an employee.
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by madrox 5mo ago
This is true, and there is usually a tradeoff you make for it. To your point, it's a negotiation. You usually give something up to get something or be so good you simply cannot be replaced. Such people do not represent the bulk of the
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by madrox 5mo ago
I think you are right. It is practically baked into the American Dream.

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