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This Atlantic article about the quest to find the best free restaurant bread is the most enjoyable essay I have read in…I quite literally don’t know how long It is delightfully insane. And incredible writing

Some fields work in theory but not in practice. Some fields work in practice but not theory. The uniqueness of economics is that it works in neither theory nor practice.

Learning lessons from Jurassic Park

FREE THIS MAN

If you ever accidentally create a file named "~" in a local directory, PLEASE, do yourself a favor and delete it through a gui file manager. DO NOT try to be a hero. Don't ask me how I arrived to this conclusion

perfect analogy of what it's like to work in consumer software for the past ten years

Docker solved the 'it works on my machine' problem by making it not work on anyone's machine equally.

overheard a new insult: you have a short context window 💀

Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from sf to la

I don't get how you are considered unemployable past 70-80 years old and yet that's the age group exclusively running most countries

Coding was the bottleneck, then code reviews were the bottleneck. At some point, incidents are going to be the bottleneck.

This is actually how Datadog charges its customers.

Will be watching this 100 times

If you ask AI to rewrite the entirety of an open-source program, do you still need to abide by the original license? In philosophy, this problem is known as the Slop of Theseus

i’m afraid to share that since the cost of code creation began moving to zero the number of tickets in the backlog has begun moving to infinity.

One easy way to not be a doomer about AI is to go talk to people running actual businesses Simple example: Let’s say you use AI to answer your tier 1 support cases. Many are doing this for 30-60% of cases depending on business complexity What is actually happening is that these businesses are now doing two things: 1. Training the tier 1 reps to be tier 2 reps, that are doing more service, maybe selling, or doing more hybrid work with product to triage things that broke through AI because they are either bugs or feature requests 2. Taking the cost savings and hiring more CSM’s who can do concierge-type service or drive upsell/focus more on Churn If your business is firing on cylinders, you just move the people/hiring to the next blockage point or opportunity to drive revenue

I, apparently a naive idiot, had assumed that this was what “we background check our drivers” always meant.

@rawsalerts What about 7 cups a day?

I noticed an analogy between how some friends of mine are working, in a little apartment above a bakery, and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working, in a great big building with a bakery in it, and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that. steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-…