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"Becoming Steve Jobs" had a great part about NeXT and how Steve Jobs grew there to bounce back once he was back at Apple. This looks promising.

I think it's very interesting to read about how his personality grew and how he became a better manager and visionary at his time between CEO-ships.

This one made me chuckle, so true!

Asahi is awesome! But this is also proves that laptops outside the MacBook realm really need to improve so much. I wish there were a Linux machine with the hardware quality of a MacBook

The two categories of software developers you mention already existed pre ChatGPT and will likely continue to exist. If anything, AI's going to make those who're in it just for the money much less relevant.

Do you really think that Software Engineering is going to be less about precision, control, predictability, and efficiency? These are fundamental skills regardless of AI.

It's been somewhat disheartening to see many techie spaces (also HackerNews) become so skeptical and anti AI. It's as-if the luddites are at it again and they're just refuting progress because of a bad impression or because they fear the consequences.

AI is a tool and it shuold be treated as such.

Also, beware of snake oil salesmen. Is AI going to integrate widely into the world? Yes. Is it also going to destroy all the jobs in the world? Of course not, luddites don't understand the naïvety of this position.

HCF! Such a great show!

I’ve rewatched it last year and, like a really good book, I found myself liking a different set of characters than on my first watch. There’s truly a lot of depth there. And a lot of humanity, which is something we sometimes forget about the tech industry.

Genuinely curious, do a lot of people use these multiplayer features? I always thought of design as (mostly) a solo endeavour

I tried Kagi and liked it for the most part. But I really wasn’t seeing the big benefit everyone’s claiming.

Google is…fine? Maybe I just learned how to use it for what I do

This is absolutely bonkers, $110mln/year?? How’re they spending this much??

"Author fails to understand that there can be multiple definitions for a phrase"

Just as expected from Musk and his clique: free speech for me but not for thee

They’re right, the declaration is useless and it’s just an exercise in futility

The biggest disappointment is that these discussions are still happening on Twitter/X. Leave that platform already

How does any of this address fake news, bots, or inflammatory discourse? It feels like a lot of technical jargon that neither improves nor worsens the platform compared to what already exists. Clickbait will remain immensely popular, regardless of whether you implement a fantastic cryptographic datastore or not.

tbf, I don't have a vision for it. I'm just saying that this model works only because we've seen that the current model works around bots, inflammatory content, and fake news. These are all really hard problems..!

It's mostly become a marketing tool for individuals

I think this medium already proved that it doesn't work. A new social media model needs to emerge - we shouldn't try to rebuild the same old with a fresh coat of paint.