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This was such a fun read, and wigglegrams are still popular on tumblr (although tumblr is no longer popular!)

To the people pointing out the lower quality of the author's wigglegrams: it's because they're accidental...

The multiple uses of "it's worth X" made me question the authorship, for one

lmao! thank you for the update; i was wondering why it was no longer viewable.

Since you seem interested in the ins and outs of English, I want to say that "retort" has a connotation of anger or sharpness. Your response reads more like a "rebuttal" to me.

This is not a correction; maybe retort is what you meant and I'm not trying to be the English police. I just like discussing the intricacies of language :)

Such a fun site, thank you! I was surprised that Seedream4 passed the mermaid test since it's hard to tell whether they are in the water or submerged, and the mermaid has something funny going on with her left hand.

Maybe it's less risk for them to offer the individual features. That way if people get inadvertent results, it's easier to blame the user, not the tool/company

I guess we work in very different places!

When circumstances eventually require that understanding, when something breaks in an unexpected way or requirements change in a way that demands architectural reasoning, the organization discovers the deficit.

Maybe it's because I work in such a small team on a still-starting project, but even with the chaos of LLM-generated code, I can't imagine such a case as above that the LLMs couldn't also address.

Great read though and I appreciated the article.

With the free time gained from not manually writing code, documentation should be part of the workflow. I should start doing this.

you don't think LLM impacts on productivity were a factor at all?

For real. Very worried about when other CEOs follow suit and there is a flood of people into unemployment.

Square payment processing?

Which ones have you compared it against?

Who are your competitors? What makes you different?

I don't have a macro-level answer for you but an interesting anecdote: we opened a job for a Software Designer and looked at the first 9 applicants. All of them were in need of H-1B sponsorship, most were Indian, and most were "software-engineers-turned-designers". So at a micro (company) level, we hire immigrants because those are the candidates we receive.

Note: One of my parents is an Indian immigrant. I have worked with many great Indian engineers and many not-so-great, just like every other nationality.

It's a great post, I will use it for the same. Thank you.

what do you mean?

I also didn't understand the point the authour was trying to make about this method being superior at allowing a learner to remember things under pressure.

Oh my god this article was bursting with them!

It is not a “Platform.” It is a library.

It isn’t a heavy observability platform. It’s a simple Python library

Yes! They are extremely susceptible to user influence, based on what I have read and experienced in personal use. If your initial message contains a seed, e.g., "Should I break up with my boyfriend? He doesn't listen to me," the LLM will stick with the seed of negativity and not make an objective analysis of the situation or take initiative to challenge your/its original perspective.

They restarted Claude Plays Pokemon with the new model: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

(He had been stuck in the Team Rocket hideout (I believe) for weeks)

The NYT recently did an interesting review of Canada's program: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/magazine/maid-medical-ass...

It must be hard to say one last permanent goodbye.

When reading the rest of his posts, I think you are right to ponder how his mental health is negatively impacting his outlook. He seems to be more ready to accept death than I'd expect, given how young he is. I wish him and his family the best; an unimaginable situation.

Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

What does this mean? "Obsolescence" just in the case of the topic at hand?

especially since gender seems to be a contributing factor to the incident

Can you elaborate on that?

I'm happy with them paying their taxes and trying to build tech that makes my life better.

But neither of those things is their goal. If they happen to build tech that makes your life better, it's because it makes them money (that, generally speaking, they try not to pay taxes on)

Even if AI doesn't kill every last person, I think it will almost certainly increase the wealth gap. I agree that the tradeoffs will most likely not be worth it.

It is a common opinion (shared by myself and many others, including the streamer Primeagen, for example) that Cursor is much better than Copilot

aka Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle: https://www.mckinsey.com/alumni/news-and-events/global-news/...