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Oh yeah. My son started on one and used to make a game out of barreling down the driveway into the mailbox post across the street.

Re: the article: he picked up riding a bike with pedals in <5 minutes after a summer of his balance bike.

It's a business. The business perspective is what's relevant.

> they also told a senior vice president that he had been saying "you guys" a lot and do you know what happened? He thanked them, apologized, and corrected himself.

And you look back on this as a nostalgic memory? Something useful and productive?

When I hear these sorts of arguments I'm reminded of this XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/808/

If you anonymize applications you don't hire the 'right' ratio.

One of the solutions to the 'POC Pipeline Problem' was to overhire for non-technical roles that could be used to hit diversity goals.

AMD thought the enthusiast side of things was a negligible side of the market.

Whenever I have a chart in Grafana that isn't too dense, I almost always add a line for the 7d offset value. Super useful to tell what's normal and what isn't.

This is an interesting argument for the (definitely common) pattern the author describes in the intro.

A more cynical take (that I'm inclined towards is): the median software developer is simply not very good. X10 was a good developer; the people on TEAM and TEAM++ were not.

> I don't run dodgy software

I was confident I didn't either, but Little Snitch has proven otherwise. The amount of 'instrumentation' in modern JS and Python libraries is insane.

Do you have any useful search terms for them?

You're conflating some sort of heritage cow breed with raw milk. It's being intentionally misleading.

LangChain was the first big attempt at a cohesive LLM application framework. As a result, it's terrible. If someone is seriously suggesting using it, they aren't keeping up.

As someone with more-or-less the full Apple ecosystem in my home: I don't think it expresses any sort of individualism or artistic freedom. It just all works together really well without any nonsense.

I understand that was Apple's marketing a decade ago, but it doesn't really seem to be their pitch anymore.

That's a good strategy, but you have to have the right case. One where OpenAI feels confident they can win and establish favorable precedent. If the facts of the case aren't advantageous, it's probably not worth the risk.

> I can spin up effectively identical dev/ci/stg/prod clusters for a new project in an hour for a medium sized project, with CD in addition to everything GP mentioned.

I can do the same thing with `make local` invoking a few bash commands. If the complexity increases beyond that, a mistake has been made.

None of this is difficult to do or automate, and we've done it for years. Kubernetes simply makes it more complex by adding additional abstractions in the pursuit of pretending hardware doesn't exist.

There are, maybe, a dozen companies in the world with a large enough physical footprint where Kubernetes might make sense. Everyone else is either engaged in resume-driven development, or has gone down some profoundly wrong path with their application architecture to where it is somehow the lesser evil.

3.5 Sonnet, ime, is dramatically better at coding than 4o. o1-preview may be better, but it's too slow.

SBF was the first that popped into my mind.

Every bookstore nowadays, front and center, has a 'banned book' section. It's practically a meme. In the article you linked, no books were removed from the shelves.

It's the definition of an imaginary threat.

The books that are actually banned, the ones that were forced out of print, not available in public libraries and cost hundreds or thousands for a used copy? They are right-leaning politically.

It was definitely changed.

40-50 total.

I agree it seems low, but for my sample size of ~3 companies it’s held.

I've definitely seen the same at other big companies.

I've wondered where the line is; what's the point at which the company grows too much and regresses to this sort of mess of needing to get bureaucratic consensus? Purely experientially, it seems to be at around the 40-50 people person mark.

I used to think it was an active founder/CEO that couldn't direct things anymore, but that happens at maybe 20-30 people, so that's not it.

I can't imagine it's actually illegal. Maybe cost-prohibitive and a bit noisy, but plenty of people have UPS systems for their local devices and backup generators.