David Brimley

“They seemed terribly pathetic to me. They weren’t warriors. They were American boys who by mere chance of fate had wound up with guns in their hands, sneaking up a death-laden street in a strange and shattered city in a faraway country in a driving rain.”

Dezenas de pescadores acabam perdendo partes do corpo por causa do peixe-lobo. Isso porque muita gente não imagina que, mesmo depois de "morto" e sem corpo, ele ainda é capaz de fazer isso.

@OpenAI "Chat are you sure I'm on the right road?" "Absolutely just keep going straight"

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

I wanna claude like this. Feet up on the desk, custom vibe code walkie talkie. So many style points via bharms27/reddit

For the love of God, don't skip your class!

Is there any other answer?

Useful Victorian phrases for saying no to things. #TuesdayMotivation

I don't think you'll be able to find a conversation like this one on the internet. I interviewed @EthanEvansVP (former Amazon VP) about every possible corporate politics situation I could think of and he told me everything since he's retired. Topics we covered: • Managing people out + promos via reorgs • Orgs trying to steal scope • How to fire managers • What leverage engineers have when getting managed out • Handling politically skilled operators • Examples of political messaging • Handling bad managers and mutiny • Empire building + effective backchanneling • Influence without authority • How to avoid politics if you hate them It was fascinating in a morbid curiosity kind of way. I heard so many things in this conversation which I wish weren't true but are. Hopefully this conversation is helpful for people navigating corporate politics. Where to watch: • YouTube: youtu.be/6WaeGfLnRvc • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6GKb77… • Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… • Transcript: developing.dev/p/amazon-vp-re…

My manager stopped asking me for updates on my biggest project. I told myself I had finally earned absolute trust. Six months later, I understood what they were actually telling me:

@CharlotteCGill There is a visible link between our country's struggles and the superficiality of its representatives. Spencer serves as a case study in this trend; her tenure is defined more by curated appearances than by legislative weight. A lightweight presence in a role that demands gravity

The full clip of “Hannah the Plumber” instagram.com/reel/DWiiWHiDT…

I used to work 12 hours a day. But thanks to AI, I now work 16.

BBC News clearly has a death wish.

Anthropic CEO: “ I have engineers within anthropic who don’t write any code, they just let Claude write the code and they edit it and look it over” “At anthropic writing code means designing the next version of Claude it self, so we essentially have Claude designing the next version of Claude itself, not completely but most of it”. In the last 52 days, the Claude team dropped 50+ major feature launches. This is literally INSANE.

The Lord of the Rings is quintessentially English culture. The Witcher is quintessentially Polish/Slavic culture. The Bear and the Nightingale is quintessentially Russian culture. They are not interchangeably "white culture".

Want to talk to the past? Here is an LLM "trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library." Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian.

Fun fact. There were just 32 years between the maiden flight of the Spitfire and the Concorde's.

One of England’s finest fan-vaulted ceilings, Gloucester Cathedral.

i often think about this..

A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! @bcherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developing one of the most transformative coding tools of the AI era. 00:00 Intro 01:45 The most surprising moment in the rise of Claude Code 02:38 How Boris came up with the idea for Claude Code 05:38 The elegant simplicity of terminals 07:09 The first use cases 09:00 What’s in Boris’ CLAUDE.md? 11:29 How do you decide the terminal’s verbosity? 15:44 Beginner’s mindset is key as the models improve 18:56 Hyper specialists vs hyper generalists 21:51 The vision for Claude teams 23:48 Subagents 25:12 A world without plan mode? 28:38 Tips for founders to build for the future 30:07 How much life does the terminal still have? 30:57 Advice for dev tool founders 32:11 Claude Code and TypeScript parallels 35:34 Designing for the terminal was hard 37:36 Other advice for builders 40:31 Productivity per engineer 41:36 Why Boris chose to join Anthropic 44:46 How coding will change 46:22 Outro