matthewsinclair

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by matthewsinclair 7mo ago
I have dreams, but they're almost always non-visual, at least in the traditional sense, or when compared to other people I know who recount their dreams to me, and I very rarely "remember" (if that's the right word) them
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by matthewsinclair 7mo ago
Hello from the other side! I was about 45 before I realised that when people said “in my mind’s eye” it was substantially more than a metaphor. And it wasn’t until about a year later that I realised that I also didn’t have what ordinary peo
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes(bbc.com)
1 points by matthewsinclair 7mo ago|0 comments
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by matthewsinclair 8mo ago
I agree! “Why LLM-Powered Programming is More Mech Suit Than Artificial Human” https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-progra...
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Slop Cannons and Turbo Brains(thealgorithmicbridge.com)
1 points by matthewsinclair 8mo ago|0 comments
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Iocaine: The deadliest poison known to AI(iocaine.madhouse-project.org)
1 points by matthewsinclair 8mo ago|1 comments
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by matthewsinclair 8mo ago
I agree [0]. Well, taxed rather than banned. But we’re in the same postcode. [0]: https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver...
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by matthewsinclair 8mo ago
Here’s a counterpoint that attempts to argue an alternative view: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/markdownlang/
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by matthewsinclair 8mo ago
Indeed. There’s definitely a bit of that in there, no doubt. But I think, after reading it, that it’s one of those articles that might off on some details but is in the ballpark in terms of trajectory.
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by matthewsinclair 8mo ago
Here’s a link to the original blog post (to avoid Xitter): https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
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by matthewsinclair 8mo ago
Hyperbole? Hmm.
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Something Big Is Happening(twitter.com)
13 points by matthewsinclair 8mo ago|8 comments
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by matthewsinclair 8mo ago
That article is fantastically well written. What a trip.
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
Yep. Totally. And there was this dreadful wait for a load that could (randomly) fail and you’d need to go thru the whole process again!
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
Parsec! And what about “Tunnels of Doom [0]” !? I spent so much time on that thing. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_of_Doom
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
Ah, the TI-99/4A. My first computer. What a mercurial beast of thing that was. I desperately wanted a C64 for Xmas but my Dad was somehow convinced to buy one of these. It had about 4 games (including “Hunt the Wumpus”) and so instead
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Bank of England 'must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens'(msn.com)
15 points by matthewsinclair 9mo ago|10 comments
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
I know this is bonkers, but the headline is something I'd _never_ imagined I'd read. Amazing.
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
Is “software startup” the right term? I understand that you might want to “use software” in the startup but surely, in the most successful startups, the thing that makes them successful is that they solve a real problem, that real people&#x
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
Personal site: https://matthewsinclair.com A couple of other sites that I maintain for side projects: https://quantumfaxmachine.com https://whatnext.dev https://playprolix.com And my "o
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
Magic link email has a localhost URL. :(
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Lies Screenwriters Tell Themselves About AI(elliotgrove.substack.com)
3 points by matthewsinclair 9mo ago|1 comments
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AI Didn't Make Engineering Teams Faster. It Forced Them to Grow Up(medium.com)
4 points by matthewsinclair 9mo ago|0 comments
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by matthewsinclair 9mo ago
I've often wondered what would happen if we _taxed_ advertising [0]. The same rationale applies: it'll never work, and it'll never even be tested, but I agree, it was fun to think about. [0]: https://matthewsinclai
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Building Internal Agents(lethain.com)
3 points by matthewsinclair 9mo ago|0 comments
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iPhone Fold Will Be Creaseless and Cost $2,400, Report Says(cnet.com)
6 points by matthewsinclair 10mo ago|4 comments
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by matthewsinclair 10mo ago
Mandatory reference to Gall’s Law [0]: > “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You
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Ben redesigned the BoM website at a fraction of its $96.5M cost(smh.com.au)
5 points by matthewsinclair 10mo ago|1 comments
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C100 Developer Terminal(caligra.com)
137 points by matthewsinclair 10mo ago|130 comments
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Andrej Karpathy's amusing interaction with Gemini 3(twitter.com)
4 points by matthewsinclair 11mo ago|0 comments

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