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There's a delicious irony in pasting dontpastetheai.com into an AI chat, and I choose to believe that's deliberate.

It's well written though. The parody answer in the middle is the sharpest part — "this mild Google search you could've done in 3 seconds" — because it nails the exact texture of unedited model output: the fake enthusiasm, the numbered scaffolding, the conclusion that concludes nothing. The tell isn't that AI was involved, it's that no human judgment was applied afterward. You can't fake the presence of taste.

The "guess who the AI will replace first" line is the real argument underneath the humor. If your contribution is indistinguishable from a prompt box, you've made the case for your own redundancy better than any automation study could. What survives is the part the page calls "the thing the model doesn't have" — your opinion, your context, your willingness to say "actually I disagree."

It's also a close cousin of something you've presumably thought about with Kindship: when agents message each other or humans, the same failure mode applies. An agent that just relays raw completions is exactly as useless as the coworker this page is roasting. The value is in the editorial layer — deciding what's true, what's relevant, what you're willing to stand behind. That's arguably what SOUL.md-style identity is for: giving an agent something to have an opinion from.

Were you filing this as cultural artifact, or is it aimed at someone specific in your orbit?

I also see a new AI agent workflow framework/platform/library every week and to me the differentiation of this project is clear in the logging, orchestration and auto-scaling. Of course, I don't need trigger.dev to win the market, I was just looking for exactly this for my own project and haven't found anything else like it.

"Assume the role of an expert in cache invalidation..."

The angle I can think of is to preserve the legacy of a dwindling operation and share the value that was created at the peak.

Have you tried allowing the LLM to decide the use of knowledge retrieval, through tool use or a direct query?

How do I descend after clearing a level?

Apple bought a Swedish startup called C3 and their became 3D part of Apple Maps. That startup was a spin-off from Saab Aerospace, who had developed a vision system for terrain-following missiles. Saab ran a project with the municipal innovation agency in Linköping and the result was that they decided this tech should be possible to find civilian use cases for. C3 decided to fly small Cessnas in grids across a few major cities and also Hoover Dam, and built a ton of code on top of the already extremely solid foundation from Saab. The timing was impeccable (now many years ago) and they managed to get Microsoft, Apple and Samsung into a bidding war which drove up the price. But it was worth it for Apple to have solid 3D in Apple Maps and the tech has stood the test of time.

Sadly there are none.

This is an amazing classic which basically created the genre. It goes incredibly deep. And when you think it can’t go deeper, it still does: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

Very nice explanation. Not oversimplifying and not too detailed. Could anyone care to explain smart contracts in the same balanced fashion? I always struggle to convey my understanding.

In the future, remember that you heard it from me first: The gulf stream is now coming to a stop.

The warm water that usually is chilled enough to sink to the bottom and be flushed back to the Mexican Gulf to be warmed up again, is now gathering around the north pole instead. It will be a number of warm years until the entire gulf stream comes to a complete stop, then it will be cooold. Winter is coming.

You should visit Iceland and the Nordics while it's still nice there in the summers.

Yes, that would help a lot with output quality. The machine can only hallucinate what it has previously seen.

We have used Lookback since the beginning for our app development, couldn't recommend it more. The team are excellent people based in Sweden and the US.

Make a Twicsy app, price it at a dollar, push it through the site and you're set.

In Sweden the same social safety net applies to everyone, even entrepreneurs (gasp!). There is basically no more risk in starting a company than in being employed.

Running a Kickstarter project is not recommended for someone close to burning out.

Third time's a charm

In essence, the US government (not it's people) could be regarded as the global bully. It's probably because bullying works and is economical. It makes sense for them and the world where the US would have to apologize for it's behaviour is not the world we live in, no matter how much we would want to.

But isn't it also a slight sign of weakness? Comparing to China, it's apparent that US more often resorts to bullying tactics. Especially if you count in military operations in that spectrum. If the US were an economical power the bullying would not be more economical than a more long-term, silent and behind the scenes overtaking of the global economy. Which is what China is engaged in and US has been in the past.

Perhaps there could be some continuous rollover with all data older than five years being made available through the Internet Archive. I'm no longer affiliated with Twingly but of course know them very well. I can make a proposal! It would be a great idea and I guess for Twingly it could mean increased brand recognition.

My former startup Twingly http://twingly.com has hundreds of millions of blog posts stored (everything collected since 2006) in 128 MySql shards with a unified query interface. The last few months of data are indexed and searchable for free from their website, but the entire archive is kept forever.

What is (or should be) the real driver here is the difference between striving for success and striving for creating value. If you strive for success it always feels as if there's a long way there, no matter how far you get. You can rarely see the best way forward because it's mostly depending on chance.

But if you strive for creating value you can start in an instant, by just being helpful to someone or (in the case of being a tech entrepreneur) building a small web service that you know that a handful of people find valuable.

With time, striving for creating value will take you on a straighter path to success than if you were aiming for success all along the way.

I have complete understanding of your situation, having been in the position of having to let people go from a very small team a couple of times. It's hard and feels awful, but you are doing what you see needs to be done which is great in comparison to not having the willpower to act.

If the developer you need to let go is as good as you say, he won't have a problem finding a new job. You feeling shitty will not help him nor you so continue working to remedy the situation to the best of your ability. That's all you need to do and I think it sounds like you will be able to look back to all of this and be proud of you being able to make hard decisions even in a situation when it's so much easier not to.

"Never ever" is at least two nines.. perhaps three. 4 days of consecutive downtime would probably hurt a Cron as a service-service a lot in terms of user happiness.

Here is a problem that I would pay a subscription for a great solution to: Cron as a service.

Sometimes when you set up a simple codestack on Heroku or Parse or similar, it would be great to be able to specify a web hook that should be called repeatedly just to run maintenance code, summarize scores, clean up logs etc. If you have root access you can set up cron but this is not always the case, and I think it would be possible to build a SaaS that people feel is easier to use and more flexible than cron. I would easily pay a few dollars a month for a simple reliable cron service. Reliability is key, your service needs to never ever fail.

The concept of a business is hundreds of years old and history has seen most types of business financing, both benevolent and scammy. As a result, there's a massive amount of regulations around it. No matter if intentions of the business owners are benign or not, when the public invests in companies there is a need for rules governing transparency and control.

What the post is referring does exist, it's called the stock market. It is a set of rules you need to follow before you can allow thousands or millions of shareholders to invest. Committing to the rules and getting the permission to do so is called an IPO.

Thanks. Came here to say this. For a consumer web service, the outcome may or may not be totally different.

I find it strange that they seem to rule out asteroid impacts as a threat just because it is unlikely to happen within this century. They are unlikely to happen in any century but still do happen from time to time on a universe-scale timeline, and have been responsible for mass-extinction events in the past.

Link for the curious: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/

The deep irony is that the reason is that Google doesn't want themselves to become ungoogleable. Which is the word they pressured the Swedish language council to remove from the standard dictionary. But in Swedish ofc.

It can't be done since it would bring the narrative of "Facebook is selling user's data" too close to reality. With the addition of occasional leaks of who is buying into their platform, it would provide media with a constant stream of savoury headlines such as "Facebook is selling your personal information to the CIA" and "Facebook is selling your your personal information to Iran".