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by wxw 6mo ago
I think feedback cycles and compounding effort are important. Feedback meaning you have definitive endings (post it, journal it, etc) to your period of “doing stuff”. Cycles meaning you repeat this over time. Compounding effort meaning that
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Has_not_been_viewed_much(iamwillwang.com)
20 points by wxw 6mo ago|3 comments
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by wxw 6mo ago
Wow, surprised this isn't blowing up more. Leaking form 1040s is egregious, let alone getting them indexed by Google...
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by wxw 6mo ago
> We tested three frontier models: GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.6 In what kind of harness/any at all? A model API call versus an agent would perform quite differently. People aren't thinking about regular-old Chat
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by wxw 6mo ago
Wonderful article, thanks for sharing. These complexity definitions and the connection to linguistic complexity are useful. Also enjoyed this line: > The cognitive complexity of a function can only be determined by the reader, and only c
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by wxw 6mo ago
Agreed. The premise is interesting but reading content like this is grating.
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April Cools Club(aprilcools.club)
1 points by wxw 6mo ago|0 comments
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by wxw 7mo ago
I wasn’t aware there was a beta. For those familiar, what were its issues?
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by wxw 7mo ago
> In 1832, President Andrew Jackson had replaced soldiers’ daily spirit rations with coffee beans and sugar. This created a heavy logistical burden for the army, with a 20-day supply for 100,000 troops weighing 250 tons, all needing tran
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by wxw 7mo ago
Awesome. People take concrete for granted. Even at small scales (e.g. your patio) with formulas provided on the cement bag, concrete can go wrong (crazing, scaling, cracks). There's a lot of unappreciated craft in the work, not only in
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by wxw 7mo ago
> Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk. > We don’t own Your Content, but we may use Your Content to
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by wxw 7mo ago
Nice to see Firefox experimenting with browser features, even small stuff. I don’t think this solves the user problem they mention though. > This work is inspired by user research that we conducted last year, which explored how people re
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by wxw 7mo ago
Neat product expansion. Isn’t this what store employees are already doing though? Maybe it’s more for building datasets.
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by wxw 7mo ago
Agreed. Simple things also tend to compound.
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by wxw 7mo ago
Interesting, besides MCP how well adopted are any of these protocols?
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by wxw 7mo ago
Why do personal things feel like a waste of time?
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by wxw 7mo ago
Don’t think this article should frame consolidation as a failure of the individual bets. The reality is likely that shipping these separately was (1) faster given org structure at the time and (2) made sense in the environment (e.g. if Perp
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by wxw 7mo ago
Strongly agree. Personal software is also personal responsibility. It’s fun to dream up features, much less fun to be responsible for their implementation and maintenance.
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by wxw 7mo ago
I grew up on Windows, switched to Mac (college and beyond), and over time, have come to hate Windows. It feels like it doesn’t have a user’s best interest in mind. I’m just there to have Copilot or XYZ service shoved down my throat. I’m not
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Smoother Signatures (2012)(developer.squareup.com)
3 points by wxw 7mo ago|0 comments
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Build More Slop(iamwillwang.com)
2 points by wxw 7mo ago|0 comments
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by wxw 8mo ago
> The Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway buys up the land around new station sites before they start building them. This rail-plus-property model makes them one of the few profitable transit services in the world. I really enjoyed this video
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by wxw 8mo ago
Great stuff. People are getting used to agents as the interface for everything, even work as simple as "change label X to label Y". More speed on that front is welcome. The Codex "blended mode" they refer to will be usef
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by wxw 8mo ago
> Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model sustaining == maintanence mode
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by wxw 8mo ago
This reads like AI generated slop, though the point about simplicity is valid.
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LLM-Isms(iamwillwang.com)
2 points by wxw 9mo ago|0 comments
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Mamdani Report(iamwillwang.com)
1 points by wxw 9mo ago|0 comments
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by wxw 9mo ago
Transitions take time. 0 -> 1 replacement of existing interfaces is (1) not easy and (2) not a practical approach to market adoption. "slapping on a chatbot" is a v0 attempt at re-imagining what software looks like. It's n
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by wxw 9mo ago
Awesome work!
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by wxw 10mo ago
This year I quite enjoyed: - The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman Modern take on King Arthur, very fun, wild ride. - The Courage to Be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi Philosophy as a dialogue between teacher and student, lots to think about.

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