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Life without HR at your company.

@EthanEvansVP A good leader will be comfortable with and able to lean in and ensure this report as well as co-workers have the emotional and professional support they need to feel safe in the work place after something like this. It's a serious issue and trust must be rebuilt.

Someone took a s*** under my employee’s desk. As a manager, what do you do when that happens?

@EthanEvansVP Anyone who has been a leader in the military should have the skills to deal with this. Interesting fact that had never occurred to me as both a military and civilian leader. It sounds outrageous, but it gets far worse than that and the responsibilities are so much greater.

@GergelyOrosz Anyone who dunks on someone asking for feedback is deficient in character. Unreal how some try to justify acting like garbage humans.

There are few things as lame as dunking on an engineer asking for feedback, esp in public. Honestly, a dev that has asked for feedback *once* in their lives, *in public* is already top 1% or above. Doing it regularly is somewhere too 0.0X% It adds up+makes big differences

Golden Retriever wearing a hat went viral devouring a full hot dog at the ballpark. Dude was in heaven

Ironic how Anthropic sells Claude Code security reviews positioned as something v powerful (costing $15-25 per PR review), and being clear they use it on all PRs... then leaking all of Claude Code's code thanks to publishing their sourcemap. AI won't save you from yourself!

Watch this IT guy handle a tech issue for an arrogant judge. Then watch Karen the judge turn on him and threaten his job. 🤡:"Thanks. Get out of my courtroom..." 🤡: "Find his supervisor!" *torrent of profanity* I wonder if he takes his bad day out on the public, too?

@marcba It's just another layer of abstraction. A very powerful layer. You still need solid engineering skills and those take time to build. Engineering is not going away.

Seriously. With all the AI “workflows”, “skills”, “agents”, “MCP” - coding has become as complex as web development has been 10-15 years ago. By now, you could as well just learn coding. At least that’s fun. People love complicating their lives 😂

@karpathy Perhaps some kind of temporal weighting would help if that's not already implemented.

One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.

@hubermanlab Look up Multi-Domain Operations in US doctrine.

Robbing your competition of sleep and/or focus is the oldest trick in the books. I knew a scientist in a race to publish that would suggest The Wire to his competitors.

@karpathy The hard part has always been understanding complexity and solving problems. That won't change, it cannot be abstracted away. There will always be the area of uncertainty that only a human can adapt to and only certain humans are either capable or willing to do that.

When I built menugen ~1 year ago, I observed that the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc... I am really looking forward to a day where I could simply tell my agent: "build menugen" (referencing the post) and it would just work. The whole thing up to the deployed web page. The agent would have to browse a number of services, read the docs, get all the api keys, make everything work, debug it in dev, and deploy to prod. This is the actually hard part, not the code itself. Or rather, the better way to think about it is that the entire DevOps lifecycle has to become code, in addition to the necessary sensors/actuators of the CLIs/APIs with agent-native ergonomics. And there should be no need to visit web pages, click buttons, or anything like that for the human. It's easy to state, it's now just barely technically possible and expected to work maybe, but it definitely requires from-scratch re-design, work and thought. Very exciting direction!

@jon_stokes Gonna be like cobol devs during y2k except even higher compensation

I have been warning about this pipeline problem since at least 2023, and after many conversations with many people in many fields since then, I've learned that the answer is: IBG YBG

September 1997. Steve Jobs stands before Apple employees and tells them he's been up until 3am finishing an ad. He's been back at the company for eight weeks. Apple lost $1 billion that year. Three months earlier, WIRED put Apple's logo on its cover, wrapped in barbed wire, with the word "Pray." He starts by saying what he's found since coming back. He couldn't figure out Apple's own product line. He spent weeks trying to understand which model was which and how they fit together. He talked to customers. They couldn't figure it out either. He cut 70% of the product roadmap. People whose projects were canceled were, in his words, "three feet off the ground with excitement" because, for the first time in years, someone told them where the company was going. Then he says something about marketing that changed how every tech company thinks about advertising. He says Nike sells a commodity. They sell shoes. But when you think of Nike, you feel something different than a shoe company. Nike never talks about their products in ads. Never tells you why their air soles are better than Reebok's. "They honor great athletes. And they honor great athletics. That's who they are." He compares it to the dairy industry spending 20 years trying to convince people milk was good for them, failing, and then running "Got Milk," which doesn't even mention the product. Focuses on its absence. He says Apple spends a fortune on advertising. "You'd never know it." Then he fires the ad agency. Not just fires them. Apple was running a competition with 23 agencies. He scrapped the whole thing and hired Chiat/Day, the agency he'd worked with a decade earlier on the 1984 Macintosh commercial that advertising professionals voted the best ad ever made. The question they asked themselves: "Our customers want to know who is Apple and what is it that we stand for?" His answer: "Apple at its core, its core value, is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better. And that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do." Then he plays the ad. In this room. To Apple employees. For the first time. "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers." He says almost none of these people had ever appeared in an advertisement before. He personally obtained Yoko Ono's permission to use John Lennon. He says the estates and living subjects agreed because of their feelings toward Apple. "I don't think there is another company on Earth that could have done this campaign." The ad broke that Sunday during the network premiere of Toy Story on ABC. Two 60-second spots. Newspaper ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today. Billboards in major cities. Buses in five cities featuring Rosa Parks. Painted walls. The whole thing. Apple's stock was around $0.10 split-adjusted when this meeting happened. The company is worth $3.68 trillion today. Think Different ran for five years. Every product that came after, the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, was built on the identity this campaign established by a guy who'd been back at the company for eight weeks and finished the ad at three in the morning. Video: Steve Jobs internal staff meeting at Apple, September 1997. This is the first time the Think Different campaign has been shown to employees. Jobs had been back at Apple for eight weeks. Footage leaked from an internal recording.

Today, we’re releasing a feature that allows Claude to control your computer: Mouse, keyboard, and screen, giving it the ability to use any app. I believe this is especially useful if used with Dispatch, which allows you to remotely control Claude on your computer while you’re away.

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

@AlfinCodes Visual Basic

Developers be honest. In which language did you write your first "Hello World"?

Footage from Mexico 🇲🇽; a ‘holy’ cat named Coco 🐱⛪ stands at the entrance of a church, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in to worship 🤲🤣 Locals say this about him: ‘Coco thinks he’s the pope of the church 🤣❤️

AI is making CEOs delusional

Last month, Cook County Sheriff’s Police Sgt. Kevin Johnson was driving on southbound Interstate 90 near 16th Street when he noticed an overturned vehicle and stopped to help. When he approached the scene, Sgt. Johnson saw a man lying on the ground who was not breathing and had no pulse. Without hesitation, he began performing CPR. After a second round of chest compressions, the man began breathing again and regained a pulse. Sgt. Johnson remained by the man’s side until paramedics and Illinois State Police arrived. We are grateful Sgt. Johnson was in the right place at the right time. His quick thinking and lifesaving actions exemplify what it truly means to protect and serve. #CookCountySheriff #PublicSafety #LawEnforcement #ServeAndProtect #CCSPD

@GergelyOrosz Generation was never the problem nor the bottleneck.

Exactly one year ago (10 mar 2025), Dario Amodei: "I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." This turned out to be... too darn accurate.