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Pro models won gold at the international math olympiads?

Is $130k a year 'scraps'? If you're making the average dev salary you're richer than %99.9 of people across the world [1].

The only reason we make this much is because of sustained productivity growth.

[1] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

European countries with labor regs that make firing more expensive tend to have higher unemployment rates (specially youth unemployment) because hiring becomes more risky.

It's true, and yet there are real market failures that even a very ineffective government can improve on dramatically, like innovation & research output via basic science.

I would like all these things too but I wouldn't like the downstream side effects:

a) Fewer companies taking a chance on people because the cost of firing has risen.

b) Lower productivity growth leading to lower wages in the long run because adversarial union restrictions lead to less dynamic companies.

On a mobile device I can't interact with the game, consider detecting mobile screen sizes and loading some gifs :)

Yes, outsized gains are shifting to capital, but cheaper software development means more software & more competition which benefits people across the world.

Claude 4.6 got it first try:

"You’ll want to drive — you need the car at the car wash for them to wash it!

Even though it’s just 50 meters, the car has to be there. Enjoy the fresh clean car on the short drive back! "

I think Opus 4.5 & 4.6 are an impressive step up in capabilities but I'm really skeptical that this model is replacing the output of 9/10 skilled front end engineers as a project grows beyond the early stages.

Even as a software developer affected by it, I don't think it should be banned. Productivity improvements are how we get richer in aggregate over the long term, even if those impacted (like you & me) might feel the brunt of transitional pain.

Hey, is JJ compatibility in the cards? Considering the blog article hints at a goal of a developerless agent-to-agent automation platform I'm guessing developer conveniences are a side quest rn?

Then you'll need interoperability of development artifacts to work with teams.

This has had tremendous real world consequences. The European austerity wave of the early 2010s was largely downstream of an excel spreadsheet errors that changed the result of a major study on the impact of debt/gdp.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23448-how-to-stop-exc...

What constitutes life-changing and what constitutes intensive dexterity will subjectively vary by person based on their skills and tastes.

I didn't find the game to require much dexterity, but I did find it to have interest world design and ideas that have stuck with me for years.

I don't think the taxes are a big factor. The most entrepreneurial tech-oriented startup hubs in the US are the highest taxed states.

The regulatory environment does make a difference.

The %55 budget cut is proposed, it fortunately hasn't happened yet and it might not survive congress.

I don't think this describes all or most AI hype, but it definitely describes Marc Andreessen when he said VCs would be the last ones automated.

It might be gambling for some, but prediction markets are impressively accurate, in a way that I think merits OPs comment that the information they produce can improve lives. (Other lives will surely be destroyed by gambling...)

There's quite a bit of interesting research done on the accuracy, here's a great resource:

https://calibration.city/introduction

It is, but it's a well known systemic error that has to do with the rate of return from certain accuracy improving predictions falling below the rate of return of anything else.

You can learn a lot more about whether these markets are accurate at this great resource:

https://calibration.city/introduction

Amazon is particularly wild because you can use the site without realizing %70 of your results are ads.

Great catch, that absolutely looks like purposeful ambiguity.

New reddit is a travesty. It feels a satirical mockery of modern webdev

I would personally avoid voices that skew too close to common tiktok TTS ai. Currently the heavy robots with the lower bassier voices sell that clunky robot voice vibe much better, but some of the more generic voices immediately take me out.

Fish is just excellent out of the box. It's a little tragic how path dependent we are on flawed terminal experiences designed 40 years ago.

Partially because prop 13 is a radioactive dumpster fire of a policy.

Taxes on land or property are impervious to capital flight and are much more effective, but they're neutered in California.

I agree, it's a great silly name that immediately jumped out at me because it felt so distant from the focus tested names out of marketing that have become the standard today.

We were not fine before Tailwind, we aren't fine now, and we won't be fine after it until the day we finally recognize that CSS is a terrible foundational standard that deserves to be replaced.

Millions of people want to live in NYC and would productively contribute to the city if it were more affordable.

The government should not criminalize development that would make housing more affordable over your preference on shadows!

It's a negative externality, yes, but it's a trivial one next to the upside of cheaper housing for more people!

Property taxes do not directly translate into rent, the % of the tax that is on the land value of the property can't be passed on, because the supply of land is inelastic.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-part-2-c...

SWE jobs are in fact, not safe, if vaguely defined specifications can be translated into functioning applications. I don't think agents are good enough to do that in larger applications yet, but it is something to consider.