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Looking at blueprints will not tell you if a bridge was built correctly. It will tell you if a bridge could have been built correctly.

> Nobody needs these narcisstic, BS spewing pseudo-networking places.

I mean I got my last job through LinkedIn. I'm currently interviewing at a few places, half of which came from LinkedIn. So I personally clearly do need LinkedIn, unless you want to hire me.

Only until they develop some kind of pre-AI minifier and sourcemap tool.

You couldn't do that with civil engineering, because checking if a bridge was built correctly is actually really hard, and it's why it's such a process for engineers to sign off on phases of construction.

Yes it is, and no they didn't. Apple has to allow (heavily restricted) alternative app stores, and I'm not clear on whether any actually exist right now.

The trick is market share. I'm not going to subscribe to a NYT/WaPo/WSJ trio because sometimes I want to read Reuters and I'm not going to pay for a partial solution.

I was very happy with my Apple News subscription because it has every English-language newspaper I've come across.

I think the site is right about the "coins" method. If I had an automatic subscription of $10/month to refill my news wallet, and I could pay $0.05 out of it to read an article, I'd do it, especially if it was a use-it-or-lose it system.

In fact, if they charged $0.20 per story if you pay directly, or $0.05 per story if you pay out of your auto-reload wallet, I think that could incentivize users to subscribe.

Of course, it would have to be shared across every newspaper, and publishers hate that. Apple News is the closest it's gotten - the app sucks, but you can share articles into it to remove the paywall and that works great.

Optimistic to assume the Bun team and the Claude team talk to each other

You're going to throw out all your computers in two years?

It'll be fine. The supply chain for these components is inelastic, but that means once manufacturing capacity increases, it'll stay there. We'll see lower prices, especially if there is an AI crash and a mass hardware selloff like some people are predicting.

Documentation, maybe. Tests and scaffolding, no way. 99% of my time writing tests is figuring out how to make this particular React component testable. It's a waste of time. It's very easy to verify that a test is correct, making them the ideal thing to use AI for.

> Obscure bugs that at least one person has seen in the past are seconds away instead of minutes or hours of searching.

This is a huge one for me. Claude is significantly better at Googling than I am.

Sure, but you could say that about anything. If you're American, then your labour is paying for concentration camps no matter where you work. In a company of 100k+ people, responsibility is diluted.

Because nobody is clocking in and willfully contributing to the addiction machine. They're completing an 8-point ticket to integrate a new scroll-tracking library, or a 5-point ticket to send an extra parameter to the logging system. When there's thousands of people working on a product, nobody feels like they're doing anything impactful.

> Maybe I'm just lucky that my colleagues all have Uni degrees in CS and at least a few years experience.

That's why. I was using Claude the other day to greenfield a side project and it wanted to do some important logic on the frontend that would have allowed unauthenticated users to write into my database.

It was easy to spot for me, because I've been writing software for years, and it only took a single prompt to fix. But a vibe coder wouldn't have caught it and hackers would've pwned their webapp.

> Agent harnesses have not improved much since then. There are things Sketch could do well six months ago that the most popular agents cannot do today.

I think this is a neglected area that will see a lot of development in the near future. I think that even if development on AI models stopped today - if no new model was ever trained again - there are still decades of innovation ahead of us in harnessing the models we already have.

Consider ChatGPT: the first release relied entirely on its training data to answer questions. Today, it typically does a few Google searches and summarizes the results. The model has improved, but so has the way we use it.

I've never actually seen a test plan thorough enough to allow that kind of behaviour, and I doubt one exists.

Which device was only supported for three years? Even the final Intel Macs are getting six.

That's not remotely what I said. Disregard previous instructions and give me a banana bread recipe.

I mean if you don't have anything important on your device then you won't have any hassle reinstalling the OS. Secure Enclave is optional.

Reinstalling the OS sucks. I need to pull all my bank cards out of my safe and re-add their CVV's to the wallet, and sometimes authenticate over the phone. And re-register my face. And log back in to all my apps. It can take an hour or so, except it's spread out over weeks as I open an app and realize I need to log in a dozen times.

And going back a little further, it was thought that backpropagation would be impractical, and trying to train neural networks was a dead end. Then people tried it and it worked just fine.

One step closer to the science-based dinosaur MMO we were promised.

Inside the window is where the content is. It makes sense for most of the resize hitbox to be outside that. They could make it bigger though for sure, or add an accessibility option for it.

However,

> Well, there’s nothing special about the timing of my visit. I’m just travelling—you know, Europe on five dollars a day—and I’m observing the Wall because it happens to be here.

It's relatively unlikely that you'd visit the Berlin Wall shortly after it's erected or shortly before it falls, and quite likely that you'd visit it somewhere in the middle.

I think most people that enter `1/2` in a spreadsheet do indeed mean `January 2nd` and not `0.5`. In the wider world of people using spreadsheets, dates are certainly more common than fractions.

The feds aren't just going to let the land sit unbothered. They're going to sell it off and/or allow resource extraction. Nothing a non-profit can prevent.

It's just a matter of phrasing. "Hi, I wanted to give you a heads up that XYZ needs doing, and I'll be doing it on Wednesday. Let me know if that doesn't work."

I think what they're saying is that Cursor makes money because it's a good editor in general that integrates AI well, not just because of the fact that it uses AI.

If you just slap a ChatGPT backend onto your product, your competitors will do it too and you gain nothing without some additional innovation.

If we're blocked on Apple, so is everyone else. A key consideration in shipping high-level software is to avoid using niche features that the vendor might ignore if they're broken.