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How long does it take to do a crossword puzzle or play a game of chess?

They are not protecting "ICE the agency". They are protesting "ICE the paramilitary force".

Republican senators?

Yeah, it's crazy. Punishing Europe by increasing American's cost of living.

The M24 was the first computer my family purchased. My dad worked for a bank and in the mid eighties they were modernising that bank and offered employees an option to buy a PC. Since contract went to Olivetti, we got the M24. I remember the evening we picked it up and installed it on the living room table, but I can't clearly remember what year that was, I think it was 1986. My first explorations into programming were on that thing. I must have spent countless of hours with it. An 8086, 640kb of RAM and two floppy drives. Good memories.

> I can imagine a future where it will be possible for a family to host their own essential services

Exactly. Even something as seemingly mundane as hosting your own email is a major challenge.

> Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen.

Should it not be the other way around?

I am starting to believe that this might actually be the objective. There is no other logical reason for the US to act this way (not that anything under Trump is logical anyway). They already have full access to Greenland for defence purposes (or pretty much any other purpose) under NATO. It's no secret that Trump is Russian aligned and that he has a intolerance (hatred?) for Europe.

You need $10M in bank to do that? Sounds like you should just do this. What's holding you back?

If you're into this sort of stuff then I highly recommend Adrian's Digital Basement on YouTube. There is a large back catalogue of videos that go in-depth on this very topic.

https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement

What do we think the future is going to looks like?

"I need a caching component in my stack. Oh, I just let AI create it from scratch, so AI can also run it, maintain it etc."

or

"I need a caching component in my stack. Oh, let me just grab an existing, well maintained and supported cache component and let AI write the glue logic to run it, maintain it etc."

Personally I think it will be the second one. There definitely is a case for generating one off tools but I don't think AI will replace established, well written and maintained software (being it open-source or not).

Not all software is equal. I can get 80% of my new SaaS to be generated by AI as it's mostly considered boilerplate and mostly the same as any other SaaS. It's the 20% that makes it unique OR something that AI can't touch like a special relationship with a supplier or a first to market position etc.

Since Denmark and Greenland are already NATO allies, the US has pretty much full access to Greenland. The Trump admin says they need it for defence purposes, well, there already is a US base in Greenland and I'm sure the other NATO allies would happily allow the US to expand their presence for defence purposes. Re. the minerals and what's not, also here, the US has pretty much full access. However, there is no company that's interested since digging out those minerals is very difficult and not really worth the investment at this point in time. So, the "I need it" argument is really weak as they already pretty much have it for the purposes they say they want it for.

What is really happening here is part of the Monroe Doctrine [1]. Trump is trying to consolidate the Western Hemisphere. Remember Canada being the 51st state?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine

> Tatsuya Takahashi is currently advisor for Korg and holds a full-time position at Yadastar GmbH to work on technology based projects.

It's in the lead in to the article.

Sure. I do that too. However, the article talks about something very different. What you describe is Stage 2 or 3 as listed in the article. I want to see a demonstration of Stage 8 in action.

> First, you should locate yourself on the chart. What stage are you in your AI-assisted coding journey? > Stage 1: Zero or Near-Zero AI: maybe code completions, sometimes ask Chat questions > Stage 2: Coding agent in IDE, permissions turned on. A narrow coding agent in a sidebar asks your permission to run tools. > Stage 3: Agent in IDE, YOLO mode: Trust goes up. You turn off permissions, agent gets wider. > Stage 4: In IDE, wide agent: Your agent gradually grows to fill the screen. Code is just for diffs. > Stage 5: CLI, single agent. YOLO. Diffs scroll by. You may or may not look at them. > Stage 6: CLI, multi-agent, YOLO. You regularly use 3 to 5 parallel instances. You are very fast. > Stage 7: 10+ agents, hand-managed. You are starting to push the limits of hand-management. > Stage 8: Building your own orchestrator. You are on the frontier, automating your workflow. > *If you’re not at least Stage 7, or maybe Stage 6 and very brave, then you will not be able to use Gas Town. You aren’t ready yet.*

So, can anyone point me to a video where someone is doing this to produce something meaningful, real world stuff? I want to see the requirements being decided upfront, followed by the prompting and then "coding" by the agents. Not some, fly by the seat of my pants and we stop when "it kinda looks okay" thing. E.g. an end-to-end SaaS or whatever non-trivial.

The way telecommunications works needs a complete overhaul. IMHO it needs something similar to a domain name system where you register (and own) your phone number and control which provider your eSIM is pointing to (like DNS). But so many industries are rooted in control it would be nearly impossible to make any meaningful change.

Works kinda like "industry awards" where a bunch of companies give awards to each other.

I want to quit my cosy, well paying, job and start building the products I have been wanting to build for quite some years now. I have been starting to use AI about 12 months ago and, as an experienced engineer of 30+ years professionally, I am blown away by how productive it makes me. What I used to be able to do in a week now takes me a day, what I used to be able to do in a month now takes me week, etc.

So, 2026 is going to be the year I'm going to run this experiment on myself and see what I can accomplish with this way of working.

> The combination of coincidences is striking

Why?

Someone decided to walk across the road, was wearing dark clothing, had an eyepatch on so he couldn't see one side of the road well, and was struck by a forklift while the operator was on the phone.

What combination of coincidences is striking? People are careless all the time.

I have always understood "micro" to be referring to "scope", not to "size".

> What you quickly find out is that LLMs are really tuned to like react

Sounds to me like that there is simply more React code to train the model on.

And DIGGER.

> fragmented ecosystem

This sounds a bit like an oxymoron. More diversity will only help the ecosystem IMHO.

They must have hired McKinsey to advice them.

I use LLMs as a sounding board for logical, creative or reasoning tasks all the time as it can provide different points of view that make ME think about a problem differently.

In similar vein, the U2 song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me has similar self-deprecating lyrics on what it is to be a pop star.

  They want you to be Jesus
  They'll go down on one knee
  But they'll want their money back
  If you're alive at thirty-three

https://genius.com/U2-hold-me-thrill-me-kiss-me-kill-me-lyri...

I agree. But it also depends on the role you're hiring.

When I hire grads or juniors onto my team I will focus a lot more on leetcode style problems because a) they don't have much work experience so delving into real-world problems they have solved is typically not useful (exceptions there) and b) leetcode is usually closer to their recent experience which tends to be more academic in nature.

More senior roles typically have very different requirements. I don't need a staff or principal engineer to pass a leetcode test as it typically isn't relevant to that role. I respect their lived experience so I dive into real world problems they have solved, not just software but also people, culture, etc.

In your post you say:

> "Hey, the federal portal says we owe $60,000 in penalties for not filing a tax return."

That doesn't sound like they're asking you to pay tax on your $0 income business. It sounds like you need to pay a fine for not filing a tax return.

What's a "normal" fine anyway? The point of having a fine being a large sum of money is to create incentive so you to do the thing they want you doing, which you didn't do.

So is the JavaScript/TypeScript one. Very steep learning curve, very fragmented but clearly also very powerful once you know how to use it.

Back in the 90s there was a zeitgeist where people in different pockets of the world came up with similar ideas and similar solutions to certain problems. Technology hit a certain threshold that allowed for specific innovation to occur.

It reminds me of that movie "The Billion Dollar Code" [1] where some guys claim that Google stole their Google Maps idea. Whereas in reality, it's more likely that due to certain technological advances, different people came up with the same/similar idea of how to store and display maps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code