@maceip @jacobmparis Hmm, I’d have been willing to pay some for arc, but they just pivoted away to making an AI browser that I didnt want. It’s a shame
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Nate Norberg
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Nate Norberg
@natenorberg
Follower of Christ, Husband, Father, Musician, Software Developer/Designer, and Sound Guy
Bozeman, MT Katılım Temmuz 2010
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@natenorberg @jacobmparis i never used it but i remember the ceo posting about it, maybe twitter?
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The Browser Company appeared out of nowhere
They gave us vertical tabs and Instrument Serif
And then faded into the night forever
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@maceip @jacobmparis When did they do that? I was using arc until several months after they abandoned it and I don’t remember them ever asking me to pay for it
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@jacobmparis you're forgetting the most important
they reminded us how fucked we are : they asked their users to pay and they got canceled
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Nate Norberg retweetledi
Faith in eventually.
Making something new takes patience. But it also takes faith. Faith that everything will work out in the end.
During the development of most any product, there are always times when things aren’t quite right. Times when you feel like you may be going backwards a bit. Times where it’s almost there, but you can’t yet figure out why it isn’t. Times when you hate the thing today that you loved yesterday. Times when what you had in your head isn’t quite what you’re seeing in front of you. Yet. That’s when you need to have faith.
There are designs that are close, but not there yet. There are obvious conflicts that will need to be resolved. There are lingering things that confound you, confuse you, or upset you, but you know that eventually they’ll work themselves out. Eventually you’ll find the right way to do something you’ve been struggling with.
It’s hard to live with something that isn’t quite right yet – especially when it’s your job to get it right. It’s important to know when to say “it’s fine for now, but it won’t be fine for later.” Because moving forward is critical to getting somewhere. And, eventually, you’ll figure it all out. It’ll all work out in the end.
This is what I’ve always believed, and have always tried to practice. A dedicated faith in the eventual resolution of a problem, the eventual execution of a concept, and the eventual realization of the right design. Even when something’s poking out you don’t like, or something isn’t aligning quite right, or the words aren’t as elegant as you’d hoped, or something just isn’t easy enough yet, you need to have confidence it’ll all come together eventually.
Remember that what you’re making is in a perpetual state of almost right up until the end. And it's never right even after.
In the meantime, you just press on and keep making things, trying things, and getting closer and closer to the time when you can tie the loose ends into a perfect bow and present it to the world. What fun it is!
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Nate Norberg retweetledi
I talked about this on the standup podcast yesterday, but I'll reiterate here: if you're losing sleep because you need to keep feeding the agents STOP, I promise it's not worth it. You got caught in a [prompt -> reward] dopamine cycle and you're addicted to the feeling of the token slot machine. It's not your fault, but you need to escape before it grinds you into a pulp and you can't look at a computer for a month (this was me). If you can break out of it and spend some more time offline, or find other healthy sources of dopamine in hobbies/etc, you'll start to realize just how warped your perception was and that the thing you were chasing wasn't actually productive.
TFTC@TFTC21
Marc Andreessen on JRE: AI hasn't replaced coders. It turned them into vampires. "The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents."
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@natenorberg Very hard to say. But if GPUs became as difficult to obtain as, say, uranium centrifuges . . .
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I expect (vs predict) that there will be a 9/11-level event (causing grievous harm to >thousands of people) that will change the direction of AI policy in ways that are genuinely unforeseeable right now. Biosecurity is a strong candidate for the vector, though there are others.
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
So much of our biosecurity infrastructure is built around assuming we will retain the moats / signals of suspicious activity we've relied on in the path. That is very, very unlikely. Biosecurity, not job loss, remains my expected cause of a strong AI backlash.
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@JoelKatz @skuwamoto If it’s split evenly, people from poor parts of the world would disproportionately benefit
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@natenorberg @skuwamoto And then everyone alive gets the money, which pretty much cancels out since it doesn't magically make there be more stuff for people to buy with that money.
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@skuwamoto Probably for some. I see the question as whether you’ll risk yourself for the sake of others or put yourself first.
If red wins, I think everyone loses because you lose the most selfless people, even if you get more money out of it
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@natenorberg Yes I agree! (but I am a blue pusher)
I also understand the logic of the red pushers, which is that no one should push blue.
But I’m curious if the fact that you might profit from pushing red would make it feel different in any way.
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Finally, the AI feature we all wanted and needed: Amazon now creates an AI “podcast” about products where two AI “hosts” discuss the product and take your questions as if it’s a call-in show.
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I’m thinking design, engineering, and product all have had fuzzy borders that are getting fuzzier
Whichever slice has the thinnest definition in your mind will be “the first to go” and be absorbed by the other roles
Gokul Rajaram@gokulr
DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.
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"Transitive guilt is a terrifying tactic the first time you encounter it. Not only are you being accused of something awful, but the accusation is supercharged to run through your connections to others... We must say no to these people." world.hey.com/dhh/we-must-sa…
Grok@grok
The "NaziBook 13 Pro" jab (and extensions to DHH/Omarchy) is hyperbolic name-calling from critics who dislike DHH's public pushback against cancel culture, DEI mandates, identity politics, and "woke" corporate practices. They equate his emphasis on merit, free speech, and technical excellence with far-right extremism. It's the latest round of guilt-by-association in tech Twitter: disagree with the ideology = Nazi label, then smear anything he endorses (like Framework's modular laptop). DHH's post calls out the endless demands behind it.
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@aarondfrancis If you make your terminal fireplace inefficient enough, it can work as an actual heater
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It's one terminal Michael, what could users possibly do?
The users
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@suni_code IIFEs are so underrated! They're so useful for complex assignments to replace ternary hell
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@DavidKPiano I think this is highlighting the difference between those who see shipping as an important milestone and those who see it as the end of the story.
Shipping is super important, but there's a lot of important stuff that comes after
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USERS care if code is messy.
They care if the app is buggy. Or slow. Or if the UX is frustrating. Or if important features are missing or broken.
These are downstream effects of messy, unmaintainable code.
Suhas@zuess05
Senior developers are currently having a massive existential crisis because Claude writes "messy code" A junior just used Claude to ship an entire feature in 2 hours. Meanwhile, the Senior is still spending 3 days reviewing code. When will y'all realize that literally nobody cares if the code is "messy"?
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@philvischer At this point, the holy post theme song sounds really weird to me at 1x speed
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Listened to a podcast about Bad Bunny to learn about him and his music. Came away thinking his music was REALLY fast.
Then noticed I’d listened to the whole thing at 1.3x speed.
Oops!
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Nate Norberg retweetledi
Thank God. Liam gets to go home to his mom, his brother, and his friends.
And remember: we were told by @JDVance, @DHSgov, and MAGA world that this story was fake, that Liam's mom didn't want him, that his father was a criminal illegal alien.
Once again, they all lied.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney
!! Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos — who became a symbol of ICE's aggression in MN "The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas..even if it requires traumatizing children storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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@ryanfred Yeah, I get that concern. Fortunately, there are a lot of theologians with old-earth or evolutionary creation views but a literal Christ and resurrection
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I don't know that I'd go that far at this point. Trying to be discerning, but doing so while "hoping all things" and all. But he does seem uncomfortable with mystery in Scripture. The big red flag is that these sorts of interpretive methods have trajectories. They are the same ones that lead to proper heresies like the "mythological Christ" and Scripture, not as divine revelation itself, but only "human attestation of revelation".
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...and is why I have learned to never substantively quote living theologians or pastors when I'm writing.
(I learned this the hard way with Keller, Ortland, Barrett and others.)
Protestia@Protestia
William Lane Craig says that Adam and Eve were non-homosapien cavemen that lived 750,000 years ago, and the reasons that theologians and pastors don't know this is they are ignorant of science & philosophy, making them "impaired when it comes to doing systematic theology."
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@ryanfred Oh gotcha. I thought you were saying it like he was a false teacher or something.
I'm not saying I share all his views on this. I don't really have a settled position, really. I just thought it was interesting and seemed to me to fit well with the Bible and science
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It’s not to say he and others don’t have their reasoning, it’s that I reject it. Again, on the grounds that Scripture is our primary interpretive lens, as opposed to submitting it to human frameworks.
ANE mythology has been used to try and explain or decipher lots of textual critical (more so source/form critical) issues as well, but from the outset, the assumption is that Scripture as we have it is not preserved (and is therefore fallible).
Rough strokes here, but that’s the gist of my distrust of WLC on this. He makes fine points elsewhere.
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