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This 1000x!

I had a bit of an identity crisis with AI first landed and started producing good code. “If I’m not the man who can type quickly, accurately, and build working programs… WHO AM I?”

But as you pointed out, I quickly realized I was never that guy. I was the guy who made problems go away, usually with code.

Now I can make so many problems go away, it feels like cheating. As it turns out, writing code isn’t super useful. It’s the application of the code, the judgement of which problems to solve and how to solve them, that truly mattered.

And that sparks a LOT of joy.

Take One Small Step 7 months ago

This is deceptively difficult but profoundly powerful. The Getting Things Done methodology also talks about natural project planning like this.

But small doesn’t mean “no thought required”. It requires mental power to distill larger projects (or goals) into small steps.

My mistake, for a long time, was thinking that breaking it down into smaller steps was less brainpower.

Better clarity, but also more upfront mental energy to distill what the next physical action to be done was.

I always find it fascinating when science catches up to the Bible.

The Bible clearly articulates some form of generational “pass-through” for the sins of the father passing to the children.

While I do think it largely refers to a spiritual judgement, it’s hard to ignore the real-world examples of abuse that always seem to repeat themselves without a huge effort on the part of, someone, usually the child after they’ve grown up, to break the cycle.

Source: I’ve seen a lot of brokenness in our country’s foster system.

Couldn’t read the article (ad blockers just decided the whole site is an ad, perhaps?)

But I agree. I (foolishly) spent money on an Xbox last year only to find bugs that would make the Windows operating system weep. My kids have to ask me CONSTANTLY to update things, re-install game, or even just troubleshoot a damn controller not working.

Compare that to Steam, where I can just add them to my family and give them access to a huge number of split-screen compatible games across my entire catalog. It just doesn’t make financial sense to keep supporting Microsoft’s enshittification of everything.

Explain like I’m stupid: what is the most gracious interpretation of redaction when releasing files like this?

Why should anyone involved retain any anonymity?

I’m asking in good faith because naively it seems like this should not even exist. All of it should be exposed.

EDIT: I did not think about the innocent folks that might be caught in the crossfire. That checks out. Thanks everyone!

The guy that started Rails wants to keep giving the keynote.

I’m having a hard time seeing the crime against humanity here.

I have not yet had an IDE-based agent give anything close to the CLI Claude Code experience.

So until it manages to do that, I’ll keep being bullish on what works.

Because he said things that some people on the internet interpreted as mean, so therefore he’s mean and we should never associate with mean people.

He acknowledges that mass importing Muslims into the UK is killing the country.

For some reason there’s a large swath of people who really don’t like people saying that.

Not sure if you got the memo but we aren’t cancelling people for their political views anymore.

That’s not really a thing anymore.

Just because you don’t agree with his views doesn’t make it “not a good look”.

In fact, the ability to think outside of his cultural bubble and go against the grain is something that makes him great.

Yep. It’s almost like living the right way has profound benefits over living however the hell you feel.

I’ll get downvoted into oblivion for stating the obvious, but if you’re tired of running yourself ragged you should turn to Jesus.

His burden is easy and his yoke is light.

GPT-5.2-Codex 7 months ago

Ahhh, there it is.

My rule of thumb with OpenAI is, if they don’t publish their benchmarks beside Anthropic’s numbers it’s because they’re still not caught up.

So far my rule of thumb has held true.

Cool, I’ll be sure to adapt all of my writing to adapt to your particular psyche.

At no point in this post did the author assert they knew how your brain worked.

Your argument is that someone sued Berkeley for posting free education materials online purely in the name of accessibility and not to make a quick buck?

Free education provided at zero profit to Berkeley, to great benefit to the public, and it was just the wholesome desire for subtitles that made the case?

Bullshit.

They got sued for not having subtitles… no thanks. I think I’ll blame the chucklefucks that thought, “Oh an opportunity for a quick buck” and resulted in everyone losing a valuable resource.

I think it's less "going fast" and more "going fast forever."

To your point, you can blow through damn-near anything pretty quickly now. Now I actually find myself problem-solving for nearly 8 hours every day. My brain feels fried at the end of the day way more than it used to.

It actually really bothers me that somehow the long dash has become such a "giveaway" that now I have to consider how I write. I actually used the long dash a lot in my normal writing, but now that everyone considers it some sort of "giveaway," it's like a tic that I can't help but notice.

It feels very natural to me. But if everyone and their mother considers it a "giveaway", I'd be a fool not to consider it. * sigh *