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Interesting, but hard to tell how accurate it is. Converting to midi and having a playback from the transcription would help you tell how close it was.

Love this, and immediately wanted a couple of copies for friends + office. Tried ordering from the US and could not increase the shopping cart quantity from 0 in Chrome or Safari.

1000%. I'm experimenting with running my agent (Claude Code) inside a docker container, so I can have a control plane and then YOLO within that limited access. The agent could still mangle my local dev setup, but I consider that an acceptable risk since everything the agent has access to is under version control outside the local machine.

This is a new pattern for me, I'm curious what others are doing.

Solved problems are invisible.

Packaging a capability into a consumable form will still be business.

It's like web hosting; all the open source tools are there and free, and yet website tools, hosts, etc flourish.

"When you a realize a guitar cannot, in fact, be perfectly tuned, you are beginning to get somewhere with the guitar".

Paraphrasing and I don't remember the author, unfortunately.

The final rebuttal to “the data doesn’t lie”: pull the sensors.

If you think you could step into those shoes, you're either built different or delusional.

Being a bit delusional is a critical quality of some CEOs, so the distinction hardly matters.

Thanks for the tip! Ironically it’s the opposite in this case; where we’re willing to exceed the upper bound for the right person.

Your point about the good people self-selecting out makes sense.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rivora/c146a25b-dddb-4ac0-a8c1-c8b3...

In the news I hear about tech layoffs, but I am having a difficult time trying to hire high quality senior SWE's. Perhaps it's not the senior's that were hit by the layoffs, or I'm just looking in the wrong places.

The big job sites feel rife with unqualified applicants and outright fraud, leaving me frankly unsure how to proceed.

It feels like a crisis of candidates-to-job-openings matching, and AI has made it much worse.

In the US there is a widening income equality gap[0], of which outsourcing is one plausible component in a large, complex system.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

Exactly this. When I reject a refactor PR (or ideally, _before_ there's a PR), it's not because it's a bad idea, per se.

But there's risk associated with every change, and it takes time to review, QA, monitor the rollout, communicate to stake holders, etc.

The refactor itself may be the smallest part of it.

Adding a can of coconut milk for your liquids works really well, too. We skip the egg replacement altogether, and it just works.

We called drinking the raw batter a “cake shake”.

Love this idea, can’t wait to try it. Thank you for sharing!

this fetish for controlling people through coercion that seems so prevalent in certain new modern business contexts, like amazon warehouse workers and delivery employees. The only thing it creates is resentment. Is that how you want to build a company or society on. Resentment?

"Resentment" is a bad-faith interpretation at what it creates. What it creates, and why you see so much of it, is a powerful mechanisms to automate routine business of management and extraction of value.

Jevon’s paradox. We’ve been constrained by how much software could be produced for decades.

Making it easier/faster doesn’t increase leisure, it increases the demand for (cheaper) software.

When the parent buys the store, they are also buying their contracts and obligations.

Unless the contract was written so poorly this didn’t happen?

One of the most prominent improvements in Opus 4.8 is its honesty. We train all our models to be honest—for instance, to avoid making claims that they can’t support. But a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions, confidently claiming to have made progress in their work despite the evidence being thin. Early testers report that Opus 4.8 is more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims.

Would be awesome if true

17 months of runway for the something with the scale and ambition of Wikipedia is living hand-to-mouth.

As an adult, I now write clean error handling first thing.

The person it benefits the most is the author, when they are building it and the errors-per-use are as high as they’ll (hopefully) ever be.

By “American People” you mean native Americans?

Because Literally everyone else in the US is an immigrant. Or are you referring to the Spanish that settled the west? The French in the far south? The Italians and Jews that populated New York? The British and Africans?

I’m painting in broad strokes, but to say “the American People” as if it’s somehow distinct from immigrants is just ladder pulling.

It’s funny to me that this is increasingly how packages are delivered in the US, too.

Asking someone who’s going that way already to drop it on their way is inherently efficient in some circumstances.

Once there’s remuneration, it’s not a big jump to making the trip just for that. Add an app and the gig economy is born.

The "pull the slot-machine handle again" is the dangerous thing here.

I can feel it sometimes, as my brain shuts down and I gamble instead of thinking. It's a reversion to what I call "monkey mind" where you just keep pressing buttons to "make it work". I took a decade training my mind away from this, and too much AI is bringing it back.

Douglas Adams coined this effect as SEP: Someone Else’s Problem

It’s a funny idea. Then you can read the prompt and decide if you want to materialize it with your own LLM/tokens.

Spoiler: probably not.

Hot take: TUI’s default to providing utility, GUI’s are prone to extra style/bloat.

Obviously both are capable of the other.

The vanilla HTML styles look bare, so you have do _something_. TUI’s look sort of cool in their simplest form.

In your defense, the Jeeves character became part of the zeitgeist on its own, as the generic perfect butler.

I knew “Jeeves” decades before I knew (and came to love) Wodehouse.

Yes. If my only AI experiences were the ones you list, along with Google’s search summary, and the modern Clippy, I’d hate it too.

My wife was shocked to learn how much she liked Claude after these forced experiences with AI.