Hippos are scary

Just read (in Kim and Yegge's "Vibe Coding"): "… reported that 70% of developers experienced [AI-related] productivity gains of 20–30%, as measured by increases in commits, pull requests, and overall feature-delivery velocity." This sort of reporting bothers me. As an

Employment is by definition a contractual exchange of labour for compensation. Gen z’s refusal to romanticise underpaid or unpaid work is not laziness but a response to an economy where wages lag behind the cost of living and “opportunity” is too often used to disguise

Hiking in your 40s is a great way to meet new people. Today I met two paramedics, three nurses, a cardiologist and nearly met Jesus.

Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026 I’d like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is

these people are just entirely incapable of doing anything at all that resonates with an average person

Update on my Claude Code test. 1. In domain I know well (Python for AI/ML), it definitely helps. It can do tedious tasks like propagating a class change throughout the code base, add logging, etc. I use plan mode, can fix the plan (not often needed). Most important: I can review

It's so funny to look at these figures. Huang would have to pay a one-time $7 billion sum on $155 billion fortune. "Who cares" is absolutely the appropriate reaction. It means nothing to him. David Sacks types look like the biggest babies in the world.

A guy who worked for TI back in the day told me that after they created the first electronic hand calculator, they got a call from Bell Telephone. The folks from Bell sounded uncertain and worried. You see, when they were creating the first push-button phone, they did extensive

"Programmers will automate themselves out of existence." That's what they said. And programmers laughed so hard they couldn't respond. Two years into the AI revolution, here's what actually happened: What the doomers predicted: 1./ AI writes all the code 2./ Developers become

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LibreOffice is AI-free, costs $0, and saves files to your actual computer rather than demanding you use a cloud service

Vibe coders are like if you trained your entire life to be a musician and then one day 700 randos walked into your orchestra off the street and decided they were going to be vibe-violinists.

You can't have a long term partnership with a place that coin tosses being led by Caligula every four years

Narcissists project their own motives onto everyone around them. Because they manipulate, exploit, and act with hidden agendas, they assume everyone else does too. So when someone shows genuine concern or tries to help them (or anyone) selflessly, the narcissist can’t process it

After quitting/Losing a job, how many colleagues actually call to check on you? Zero. That’s the hard truth most of Us learn late. Work relationships are often role-based, not life-based. Your value is tied to your position, not your presence.

Don't believe the changing reports about the number of Epstein files there are (now 5 million) or the number of FBI agents and DOJ lawyers combing through them. It's all bullshit. They are trying to hide a mountain of Trump's crimes including photos, videos and wire transfers

Stupid people not knowing they’re stupid is quite literally destroying the US, if not the world.

Currently reading a paper on 1950s housing policy. One of the conclusions 76 years ago? Keep homes cheap and accessible for young people, the birth rate will be higher than otherwise and you need fewer migrants. Government continues to wilfully fumble the obvious.

There’s no amount of hyperbole in the world to describe how delusional this is. It’s on par with QAnon, the Stab in the Back Myth, the Lost Cause. The post-Norms world is so unfathomable to Schumer that he has to pretend to live in a universe in which they are still intact.