Kayla Comalli

anthropic is hiring a what????

Discussing geopolitics at 2am with bro with the depth and intricacy of a Pentagon briefing (you’re both unemployed)

just met a cute girl at the wedding i’m at like unreal. face card so crazy my frontal lobe clocked out. i’m talking generational. if symmetry was a startup she just closed series b. we’re vibing. she’s laughing. eye contact locked. i’m farming aura like it’s a full-time job. then coding comes up. she goes “yeah i code” my soul did a hard restart i’m like oh word “what do you build?” she says “mostly vibe-coding rn” and that’s where a normal man would say “that’s fire” and get her number but unfortunately i was built in a lab i go: “ok define vibe-coding” “claude code or codex” “cursor agent mode or raw dogging prompts” “you got git or just vibes” “tests?” “types?” “deploy?” “rollback?” “you read diffs or click accept like a casino addict” she starts laughing like i’m joking i was entering forensic mode. she says “i just use chatgpt and claude and keep asking until it kinda works” i say “works where” she says “like… on my laptop” i say “so localhost cosplay” bro. and i swear to God the violinist in the corner sounded like a system alarm the vibe died instantly DIED flatline. kernel panic. social segfault. full emotional 500 in prod. i try one last save. i go “ok but do you at least push to github” she says “sometimes, i mostly keep stuff on desktop folders” DESKTOP FOLDERS i started dissociating. i could see my ancestors. i could hear linus torvalds screaming in the distance. her friend walks over like “omg are y’all talking tech” and i accidentally say “she said she’s a developer but her stack is claude code, codex, and divine intervention” she goes “wait no i made a website” i said “a figma screenshot with a typeform link is not a website, it is a cry for help” SILENCE. like biblical silence. they walked away. she did not look back. my friend comes over like “bro she was INTO you what happened” i said “she called herself a coder and then described generating a landing page and praying over it” he said “so?” SO??? i’m supposed to build a future with someone whose incident response plan is ‘refresh and re-prompt’??? she had a heavenly face card but an apocalyptic workflow zero tests zero repos zero shame infinite vibes could’ve had her number but she now knows i respect source control and honestly that’s worth more

This story is actually insane: • dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic • refuses to use the normal app like a peasant • Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller • Claude delivers the goods • pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully • except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums • checks again • yep, seven thousand • DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification • any valid token works for any unit on the planet • Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries • live vacuum camera feeds everywhere • full floor plans from the mapping data • some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching • one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history • all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick • does the right thing and reports it • DJI fixes it in two days • back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner • IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

If Bilbo asked ChatGPT

New piece by @LehmanBrother42 on Boston’s policy environment published in Pirate Wires–go check it out: piratewires.com/p/is-boston-co… As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of Boston. I was born here, lived here pretty much my whole life etc… etc… but far more importantly, I’ve chosen to build here (LevelUp, Grubhub, Groma) because it’s a great city with great people. Groma is probably the most direct example of my commitment to this city. We are investing huge amounts of time and treasure into making housing work better for everyone in Boston. Groma breathes new life into old properties, we advocate for policies that create more housing, we own and operate 100+ properties, and enable everyone, including our renters, to own them along with us. While we’ll expand the Groma model to other cities in the future, we’re starting in Boston for a reason. It’s a unique city and a place capable of forging solutions to local and global problems. A big part of Groma’s approach to investing to improve cities we operate in is an active approach to policy risk. A bad policy can do tremendous damage to cities as we’ve seen time and time again. Lots of cities across the US, including most of the big ones, have a tendency to propose or implement policies that are bad for residents, businesses and economic growth more broadly, but may have short term positive effects for certain favored groups, which is helpful during election cycles. Groma has a variety of strategies for mitigating the impact of these policies. In some cases, our scale and operational flexibility allow us to minimize their impact; in others, we’re able to work with aligned groups to stop the proposals from being implemented in the first place. This latter approach tends to rely heavily on active discussion and calling attention to the negative expected impacts of policy proposals when appropriate. Chris’s article is pretty harsh, but it fits squarely into this category. Our goal here is to build awareness of the risk posed not just to Boston, but to Massachusetts’s economy as a whole, by these policies. The state legislature in particular has been pretty well attuned to Boston’s political excesses, and conveying to them the importance of maintaining smart, pro-growth policy at the state level has been an effective strategy. I care a lot about Boston. I know Chris feels the same. And caring about something sometimes requires saying some pretty harsh truths. Boston has a choice in the coming years. Do we go for the Mamdani/Johnson/Breed doom loop ride, or skip it? SF is already recovering, NYC is headed down a scary path, and Chicago is in a rough spot with no obvious path out. Boston is doing fine today, but flirting with terrible choices with predictably terrible results. If you care about Boston, read Chris’s (extremely thorough) article, and let’s work together to not make the same mistakes other cities have in the past few years. There’s no need to repeat the experiment. As always, feel free to ping me or Chris with any questions about this piece–we’re always happy to chat.

Matt Levine sums up the absurdity of the current economic situation; OpenAI and AMD have entered into a, well, interesting business and partnership.

@manoj_the_dev @kimmonismus How so? Where does the risk of default come in/payout obligations increase by orders of magnitude? Not contradicting, generally curious.

@kimmonismus This is just Synthetic CDOs all over again

Sébastien Lecornu

@sethpriebatsch HNY!

Happy New Year to all celebrating!

LPT: if you’re ever feeling lonely just put literally anything up on FB marketplace.

In Nyric, you describe a dream and a world appears. We just added a new feature to our dynamic skies: clouds that cast shadows and shift with the environment! What kind of skies should your dream world have? Wishlist: cutt.ly/ne0G7jjt #NyricWorlds #GameDev #UE5 #IndieDev #ProceduralGeneration #SurvivalGames

We talk a lot about how GPT lowers the code barrier from a productivity side, and not enough on how transformative the engineering exp can be for someone. Remember coding for the first time? Solving an infinite possibility space by just _thinking_ through an object/data sandbox?

I just saw you the other day, too! In their defense I totally see the resemblance.

Really clean. I’m impressed it kept the photographers watermark, panned back to a DJ with realistic depth, and added lens flair motion 🔥

Grok Imagine idol dancing 🩵 twitter.com/kay_coms/statu…

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me last week: idg how people can wear smartwatches all the time me today: charge fasterrrr! Get me back on grid zomfg MY DATAAA

Huge.