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@kepano I get basically the feeling from faceless companies outsourcing their development work to a firm that doesn’t care. I’m looking at you, SafetyCulture.com

You can still instantly tell when an app lacks the human touch. I can't commit my time to something if I see that the creator is not willing to commit theirs.

Ai agent orchestration gurus are just inventing little fantasy worlds for themselves to play in

How I lead the vibes for Brrrrfect outputriff.com/writing/vibed-…

@Breaking911 I have never seen a more East Coast Man in my life

American citizen at Newark Airport: They're here to help. They're not bothering nobody. As long as they can get me on my flight, I'm good to go.

I'm impressed with how completely unusable the google cloud platform is. How the heck am I supposed to get an API key? Half the buttons I'm trying to click don't even seem to do anything!

@thdxr The algorithm really and truly pumps prediction porn way too strongly. I actually don’t care about anyone’s predictions and they’re all going to be wrong

please shut the fuck up i don't even care about the specific thing you're saying i'm just so tired of hearing predictions one after the other telling me what the future is going to be like just please shut the fuck up

@WarrenInTheBuff It’s not even that! It’s like they make it specifically to taste bad without French vanilla creamer

it's like a slightly higher quality Dunkin'

Nespresso is gross

@AutismCapital Ohh an AI agent that can just solve all the puzzles and quests in a game for me! Exciting! Said no one ever…..

We joked that with the new Xbox CEO it would now be the Copilot Box and lo and behold, it’s became the Copilot Box.

@Mericamemed *heavy breathing*

How high do you have to be to come up with this?

@BenjaminDEKR Okay but is it intrinsically safe? Please tell me it is. I want Motorola to die in their overpriced radio hell. I’m sure these aren’t actually cheaper though…

Handheld radio, powered by Starlink... L3Harris has unveiled the XL-300P, the first P25 land mobile radio with native 5G and satellite direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity. It will support Starlink via T-Mobile's "T-Satellite" service, it guarantees first responders ultimate triple-layered redundancy (P25, cellular, satellite) so they never lose critical communications.

Overnight success usually takes a decade.

@elonmusk @OfficialLoganK A lot of focus will shift to design. Sure, Codex can spit out good looking CSS but it’s rarely exactly what I want and requires a lot of fine tuning and iteration. As long as the initial data model is good, that iteration has been easy

@OfficialLoganK Even code review will swiftly become a thing of the past

The bottleneck has so quickly moved from code generation to code review that it is actually a bit jarring. None of the current systems / norms are setup for this world yet.

Usually I interact with codex directly and review changes. Tonight I’m trying to get OpenClaw to interact with Codex for me. I have zero confidence, but I’m curious if it can be better at talking to codex than I am.

Brrrrfect.com taught me how to underwrite properties, yes. But more than that it underlines how hard it is to one shot anything. I think it’s pretty good now, but this is still months of work on and off and I’m not 100% satisfied with it yet.

@thdxr In most corporate environments, pushing the lazy button is heavily incentivized under the guise of “getting more done”. Far more incentivized that being perfectly correct

i largely know that if you give people a lazy button most of the world will just press it no matter how much we tell them they should also be doing xyz it's all going to get skipped but im having a tough time finding clarity on what happens next

@rtfeldman Corporate software hasn’t changed much because of the planning process being so slow. AI has only really been released to clean up tech debt and developer tools

In the past 3 years, I haven't noticed any uptick in release speed for software I use. If productivity is increasing, I can't tell as an end user. I have noticed decreases in uptime, increases in bugs, and a HUGE increase in people bragging about how many PRs per day they land.

@CultureCrave When you’ve stopped innovating, you must grift

Amazon is removing 4K streaming from Prime Video in April and putting it behind its ad-free tier paywall The ad-free tier is also increasing from $3 to $5 a month

@steipete @petergyang I’ll buy that drink for you

@petergyang I know way too much about this and could explain, but I need a drink before.

Why does reading some PDFs require 2 GB of space? Even Adobe's software is bloated.