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dcchamberson Goodbye to Sora

Generative video is insanely expensive and OpenAI is burning through money. They need to use the compute on things that they actually might make money on - like enterprise Codex usage.

OpenAI is bleeding money faster than they can afford to and they are literally running out of people that they can go to for more. They need to stop the bleeding.

dcchamberson Malus – Clean Room as a Service

For now...

dcchamberson Global warming has accelerated significantly

Here's the thing: NOTHING we do in the US matters when various Southeast Asian countries are rapidly industrializing. And in the rapid growth phase sustainability and clean energy is not a priority.

Then there's a billion and a half people in Africa, also rapidly growing, that may be next.

dcchamberson Global warming has accelerated significantly

There's literally nothing that can be done about it. The people with actual ability to make a change don't care.

We're going to have to figure out how to adapt to it. Expect many of the things you love now (seafood, coffee, etc) to be gone within your lifetime.

dcchamberson Good software knows when to stop

I agree with this basically 100%.

> Say no by default — every feature has a hidden cost: complexity, maintenance, edge cases

AI-assisted development is blowing up this long-standing axiom in the software development world, and I am afraid it's a terrible thing.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

dcchamberson Nobody gets promoted for simplicity

We all know this, but no one is willing to fix it.

Be the change you want to see in the world. If you are in management, promote those that see the value in simplicity.

dcchamberson MacBook Neo

It's an incredible value but a world of resource-hungry vibe-coded webapps and 8GB of RAM just does not feel compatible.

If you primarily use native Apple apps though this thing is awesome. $499 with student discount? This thing is going to do NUMBERS.

dcchamberson Glaze by Raycast

I love Raycast. I would probably be called a "power user" - I use it all day long and have a fairly sophisticated and customized configuration and set of workflows. Raycast is actually one of the primary things keeping me on MacOS these days (please release a Linux version!).

I am worried this is the start of them trying to diversify their product offering because revenue has stalled in the core Raycast product and VC demands more returns. I don't want to be jaded, but history teaches me to be. Here's hoping that Raycast itself is still a focus for the company.

dcchamberson Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

A $1600 60hz display in 2026 just feels extortionate.

The Studio Display XDR seems nice, but I wish they would have kept a 32" option.

dcchamberson Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Looking forward to it! Just wanted to say thanks for helping to build Obsidian. It's a great piece of software.

dcchamberson Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Mobile app is pretty good, my biggest complaint is it won't sync in the background. It only syncs when you open it up. But it's well designed and fully functional.

dcchamberson Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

Discord is a cancer on the open internet anyway.

Real time chat? Great. But entire communities, forums, and wikis moving behind the locked walled of Discord has been a disaster for information discovery.

Don't replace Discord with a similar alternative. Return to open forums and wikis!

dcchamberson Why is Claude an Electron app?

Actual reason: there's far more training data available for electron apps than native apps.

And despite what Anthropic and OpenAI want you to think, these LLMs are not AGI. They cannot invent something new. They are only as good as the training data.

dcchamberson An AI agent published a hit piece on me

Per GitHub's TOS, you must be 13 years old to use the service. Since this agent is only two weeks old, it must close the account as it's in violation of the TOS. :)

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

In all seriousness though, this represents a bigger issue: Can autonomous agents enter into legal contracts? By signing up for a GitHub account you agreed to the terms of service - a legal contract. Can an agent do that?

dcchamberson Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines

From a legal standpoint: do these people need valid drivers licenses?

dcchamberson Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

This is not an alternative to GitHub though. The code for this tool itself lives on GitHub!

https://github.com/entireio

dcchamberson Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

Really struggling to figure out what this is at a glance. Buried in the text is this line which I think is the tl;dr:

"As a result, every change can now be traced back not only to a diff, but to the reasoning that produced it."

This is a good idea, but I just don't see how you build an entire platform around this. This feels like a feature that should be added to GitHub. Something to see in the existing PR workflow. Why do I want to go to a separate developer platform to look at this information?

dcchamberson MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake

To be honest it's pretty embarrassing how he got sucked into the Moltbook hype.

dcchamberson Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

As an adult that interacts only with other adults in good faith, it's easy to look at this and feel outraged.

But there is a very real and dangerous situation where children and adolescents are using Discord with zero guardrails, constantly interacting with adults - many of whom are predators. This is happening every day. Millions of children around the world "meet people" playing games online, take the conversation to Discord, and then get brought into a very dark world online that their brains are simply not ready for.[^1]

I don't like the idea of blanket face scans/ID scans with that data stored in perpetuity - but age verification of some kind is a must IMO.

[1]: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/its-not-just-a-game-anymore

dcchamberson xAI joins SpaceX

This is how Musk is going to make good on his promise to pay back the original people that funded his Twitter purchase and offload that debt.

Twitter (X) was folded into xAI. Now xAI is folded into SpaceX. SpaceX will IPO (or be merged with Tesla) and those investors will be able to sell their shares - the debt is "gone", his benefactors make money, and retail investors pick up the short end of the stick.

dcchamberson Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

This is an art piece that's horrifying to look at, but I can't look away.

dcchamberson Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

This is one of those things that's an amazing idea in a perfect world with no fraud or bad actors.

dcchamberson Our approach to advertising

So much for building AGI, lol.

The whole company is built on lies and deception.

dcchamberson The truth Elon left out

Altman and OpenAI just really like airing their dirty laundry in public with all of this stuff.

To me it feels like an attempt to appear non-corporate.

It's very off-putting.

dcchamberson X (Twitter) Is Down

Let's say this is a DOS causing the outage - if the DOS is bad enough that the service is out for enough users then that is effectively an outage, regardless of the cause.

Saying this post is part of a coordinated campaign to damage the X brand is just ridiculous though - it's clear that X IS down for a large number of users.

dcchamberson X (Twitter) Is Down

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

Not everything is a conspiracy.

dcchamberson Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales

I don't think that's the only thing holding the technology back.

The only EV pickups in the US are like $60-$120K. Price is a huge barrier to entry.

Average sale price, per Gemini:

   - GMC Hummer EV: $105,600
   - Rivian R1T: $91,500
   - Tesla Cybertruck: $88,300
   - GMC Sierra EV: $82,500
   - Chevrolet Silverado EV: $78,200
   - Ford F-150 Lightning: $65,400

There needs to be a sub $40K EV pickup for it to be a real option for many.

dcchamberson Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage

The real loser in all of this is consumers. Pricing on software and hardware is going to continue to rise and rise.

dcchamberson Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

Best defense is to basically stay small/niche enough that the big guys don't think your work is worth consuming/competing with directly.

There will always be a market for dedicated tools that do really specific things REALLY well.

dcchamberson Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

> The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me".

Does the security team at your company know you're doing this?

Security as a whole is inconvenient. That doesn't mean we should ignore it.