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Anticheat is indeed a huge blocker, and given how invasive shady kernel anticheat software is on Windows I kinda hope it stays that way

In my own experience this is 180 degrees from reality. As a generalist, feeling out the depths of a single domain (something I've been forced to do at least 50 times in my career, to the point that I'm probably a global expert in at least 2-3 things I don't actually care about, but are poorly documented and not especially lucrative on their own) is something that's basically a bunch of Google searches, reading source code, and writing/running tests manually, none of which I really care about short of getting to "the right solution."

Meanwhile, as a generalist who has a basic understanding of general things, everything from how to design efficient network protocols, to how cache lines affect the performance of sorting algorithms, without being a real expert in any of those things, I act as a constant course correction for AI agents doing work on my behalf, in a way that LLM context windows simply cannot replicate.

To give a concrete example, I recently used agents to build a specialized sync protocol that broadly resembles Dropbox. It's nowhere near as efficient in terms of how blocks are synced (because it entirely happens on a LAN and the cost difference is minimal), but I constantly had to make objectively more valuable course corrections on how the sync actually traversed the participating nodes. If I'd just let the LLM drive, it would have come up with a reasonably efficient algorithm (better than I probably would have done on my first try in the same timeframe) that would have had an obvious (to me) single bottleneck.

Making a billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Blowing up billions of dollars.

I have a relatively large "vibe coded" project that I let Claude 4.5-4.7 drive over the past few months, and my read on it is:

1. It's much more verbose about how it perceives the current state of things, i.e. "this is a large, well-documented project"

2. It's much more willing to trust its own judgement, e.g. fewer prompts to approve decisions

3. In terms of how long it takes to solve isolated problems, and the quality of solutions it proposes, it isn't meaningfully different from 4.7

YMMV, and maybe my view will change as I work with it more, but it feels like system prompt tweaks more than a real step forward

The 80s and 90s were pretty much the golden age of music production in terms of breadth and sheer volume.

This is the distilled essence of a “first world problem.”

As someone who built a custom serial cable (not my idea, greetz to the original designer) to load assembly programs on TI-85s for all my friends, the “approved for exams” shit is so funny

The article is clearly not "about" ICE. One paragraph talks about the ICE deployment

Personally, I make a lot more "out of hour" commits than I used to because I'll batch up low priority tasks throughout the day and let the computer chug on them at night when I'm elsewhere. Commits are coming in at all hours, but I'm not actually looking at them until the next morning.

As insane as American politics is "I can blast robots on my property" has exactly the right amount of crank appeal to be possibly the final 90/10 issue

As a security conscious dev that has worked in various highly regulated spaces I want to say we really appreciate people like you, because they’re super rare

Are we pretending that optimizing for taste is a bad thing?

It’s obviously bad to eat super salty “ultraprocessed” food all the time, but it’s not like the salt is the primary problem

To take OP’s example, I’d much rather kids eat generously salted broccoli that is “optimized for taste” rather than unsalted mac & cheese, regardless of whether they just throw it away (which I probably would, too)

It feels like you’re using “industrial food” as a pejorative, but the best chefs in the world also do not skimp on salt

People spend hundreds of dollars and many hours sharpening kitchen knives

With a mass market electric sharpener and a reasonable knife I spend maybe 15 minutes/yr on sharpening and the knife + sharpener costs less than half this product

The marketing video seems to try to head people like me off, but it also seems to wildly overstate the level of commitment required to have sharp knives

(I do think the tech is cool tho. I just wouldn’t pay $400 for an 8 inch chef’s knife no matter how good it is)

I generally agree you should buy fast machines, but the difference between my 5950x (bought in mid 2021. I checked) and the latest 9950x is not particularly large on synthetic benchmarks, and the real world difference for a software developer who is often IO bound in their workflow is going to be negligible

If you have a bad machine get a good machine, but you’re not going to get a significant uplift going from a good machine that’s a few years old to the latest shiny

(That said, I liked the Pixel 4a better than the iPhone 15 Pro I’m typing this on)

My experience in the mobile space from having a personal lab with all the flagship phones paid for by my employer was that the hardware on the Android phones was at least as good as Apple but everyone other than Google made the software side feel janky

It wasn’t bad, and I’m sure I’d just get used to it if I picked one and lived with it, the same way I’ve gotten used to Apple’s dumb photo app

Using them side by side made it really obvious tho

BlackSky seems to be run by a competent dev with a high enough profile that I see his posts regularly without following him directly

Based on his progress posts it seems that ATproto is intentionally moving in the right direction and BlackSky has progressed to the point he’s asking for volunteers to move off Bluesky and try out his implementations

It will undoubtedly lead to great advances

"Undoubtedly" seems like a level of confidence that is unjustified. Like Travis Kalanick thinking AI is just about to help him discover new physics, this seems to suggest that AI will go from being able to do (at best) what we can already do if we were simply more diligent at our tasks to being something genuinely more than "just" us

Wade Boggs is one of my favorite players, but better than Mike Trout?!

I agree with your first paragraph, but there are lots of basically-broke people who live on boats

Old sailboats can be had for practically (and in many cases actually) nothing. If you’re reasonably handy and willing to learn you can do all the maintenance they require yourself

Boats can be some of the cheapest housing there is, even more so if you want to live somewhere picturesque

(There are, of course, significant downsides)

It would be sick if they could leverage this increased efficiency to reduce how frequently they bother already paying customers with annoying upsells

This is what I hoped for but based on the Ultra implementation in the Astons is not at all what we’re getting

It seems to require pretty deep integration with the automaker (Aston provides a lot of custom visuals), and based on the available third party reviews it doesn’t work as well as you’d suspect for a flagship integration

FWIW I'm a happy paying customer of Kagi search for quite a while. I am very much not opposed to paying for things _if paying = value_

I don't think pointing out "this is a web directory full of links submitted by people willing to spend $20/yr" is being cheap, per se, the same way I don't think paying to be "verified" on Twitter means your content is worth paying attention to

There was a time where "willing to pay for access" was a decent spam control mechanism, but that was long ago

Are you suggesting the market for omg.lol URLs intersects with the people who like to buy burnt coffee?

Typed languages are also better suited to IDE assistance and static analysis

I'm a relatively old school lisp fan, but it's hard to do this job for a long time without eventually realizing helping your tools is more valuable than helping yourself

This is cute, but I absolutely do not care about buying a omg.lol URL for $20/yr, and I'm not trying to be a hater because the concept is fine, but anybody who falls into this same boat should know this is explicitly "not for them"

1) Dates are often stored as strings, so parsing them correctly is a necessary component of storing them. Also, those dates need not be simple app state. They could come from an API provided by your doctor/pharmacy

2) Many people (especially the elderly) take enough medications on different schedules that managing them all would be a significant cognitive load for anyone

It’s just an illustrative example, though. My point is getting dates right (including parsing their string representations) often matters quite a bit. If you disagree, let’s argue about that rather than quibble about the minutiae of the example

Correct date handling (including parsing) can be monumentally important. Imagine an app that reminds people when to take their medications, for example

Narco subs are mostly/entirely submerged to reduce visibility, but they almost all still operate at the surface