nlawalker

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by nlawalker 5mo ago
It’s hilarious to me, seeing that one of the most fundamental challenges and frustrations of the profession of software development is the inability of management to meaningfully measure productivity and resorting to proxy measures, that a
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
>Interesting that this is posed as the American left disregarding the social contract. Yeah no kidding, where's the commentary on the "right-wing corners" that are rolling coal, "owning the libs", storming the
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
You have to call it out when you see it, politely and charitably. "Hey, thanks! This is a great overview, and I actually asked ChatGPT before asking here and got a lot of the same information, but what I'm really looking for is...
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
"Working" here means "operating according to specification or intent", not just "operating". Natural systems have no specification or intent.
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Identifying as a rabid consumer is not a requirement of appreciating Costco. The end result of that gimmick is that it feels like they're looking out for their customers and offering them a valuable service as opposed to trying to suck
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
>People who cannot write code are building software. People who have never designed a data system are designing data systems. Most of it is not shipped; it is built, often for many hours, possibly shown internally with great vigor, used
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
It's not awful on its own, but the alternative could be double-tapping the power button and having them immediately available on screen in a nice scroll UX along with everything else you consider to be in your "wallet". As so
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How Everest has changed since Into Thin Air(theatlantic.com)
6 points by nlawalker 5mo ago|2 comments
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/whats-changed-sinc...
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
>"We spent billions to create systems used to perform a simulacrum of work." >Have you even tried using these systems to produce valuable work? How could this possibly be your conclusion after having tried them? The operat
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
I'm also waiting with bated breath for "How Affirm Retooled its C-Level for Agentic Decision Making and Execution in One Week", and the follow-up headlines from that. Any time now.
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
> a fairly simple shape Bike frames are very hard to draw unless you've already consciously internalized the basic shape, see https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on...
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
> And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: 1. people aren't talking to people 2. people aren't listening I don't think this is right; I think the reason is - to use the metaphor from the
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
Typing as a service is a whole cottage industry on Etsy.
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
This is the aspect of AI I ponder the most. I wonder if we’ll get to the point where it prompts a real hard think about what “accountability” really is, and what value it provides (and to whom), particularly in the standard employment situa
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
VR will go mainstream when gaming and the internet did - when it fits in your pocket, can turn on and off instantly, and allows you to split your attention between it and something else. The last one seems like a contradiction but maybe som
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by nlawalker 6mo ago
I actually was just thinking about doing something very similar for this but for "agent," specifically in the Microsoft ecosystem. There are a zillion different proper nouns (products, services, frameworks, toolkits and tools, SDK
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Relative to making docs accessible to AI via filesystem tools, I've been looking around to see what kinds of patterns SDK authors are using to get AI coding agents to use the freshest documentation, and Vercel is doing something intere
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Agent-Friendly Documentation Spec(agentdocsspec.com)
2 points by nlawalker 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
>House of Leaves And then from there back to another game: MyHouse.wad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyHouse.wad
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Relevant article from The Atlantic a couple weeks ago, "Friendship, On Demand": https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/03/ai-friendship-cha... (gift link) >The way that generative AI tends to b
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Make sure to see channels too, just shared here last week - Push events into a running session with channels: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448524
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
What's even more interesting is when you consider that A) it doesn't have to be one person taking out a large position, it can be multiple people, over time, and B) the assassin doesn't have to be known or confirmed ahead of
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Ah, you beat me to it. I learned about assassination markets in a previous post about the overall gambling/prediction markets topic a few weeks ago; the concept is so coherent that it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.w
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
For a while, Costco had a reputation as the place where you could buy a TV and be confident that it was usable as a "dumb" TV. The rumor (unconfirmed as far as I know) was that, among the customizations that manufacturers would ma
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
If you designed around it, it would fit where existing kitchens have drawers, and the space typically reserved for a vertical fridge would be occupied by shelving. Kind of a neat idea. Microwave drawers are a thing.
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Best insight I’ve seen today, thanks for this!
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
It’s going to be fascinating to see what kinds of malicious execution and exfiltration this enables.
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Is it really prompt injection if you task an agent with doing something that implicitly requires it to follow instructions that it gets from somewhere else, like CONTRIBUTING.md? This is the AI equivalent of curl | bash.

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