Sasha
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People really don't seem to understand that Malaysia is basically a first world economies at this point.
Salaries are even higher there for most tech roles than in London + most European cities now.
Especially around Penang, which is very notable given its not the main economic engine of the country but is a huge semiconductor/engineering hub, and around Johor, which is Southeast Asia's data hub.
The world has transformed massively in the past generation.
The Malaysian Century.
Nikkei Asia@NikkeiAsia
Malaysia has overtaken Japan in salaries for key technology roles for the first time, driven by rising investment in the booming semiconductor industry and intensifying competition in digital sectors. s.nikkei.com/40D2o4E
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Britain specialises in charging premium prices for third world results
£3500 council tax just to live in your own house and the streets are still full of potholes, bins are every two weeks and you can't get a GP appointment
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This is insane. To be clear this means you could modify the details of FTSE100 co’s. Failed state, there isn’t any excuse on the planet for this.
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
I see some weird things but this takes the biscuit. A vulnerability in the Companies House website, that let anyone view the private dashboard of any one of the five million registered companies, see directors' personal details. And modify them.
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@ilyamiskov screen size hard to get used to, even more so in an agentic world, otherwise worth the trade offs - can handle most things you can throw at it (except cargo clippy on a large monorepo)
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As someone who's been using a 16" M1 Max Macbook Pro, I'm thinking about going with the 14" model next year.
Any serious drawbacks to the 14" besides the smaller screen size? Is the Max chip too much to handle for the 14"?
Curious to hear about your experience guys.
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I’ve argued before. Once frontier models cross a certain threshold, releasing them broadly may cease to be the profit-maximising strategy. At that point, the dominant incentive is not to sell intelligence, but to deploy it to capture every industry it can reshape. I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve already crossed the Rubicon.
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I can do this without AI. Its just a 1000 print statements via a vim macro
Paul Graham@paulg
An experienced programmer told me he's now using AI to generate a thousand lines of code an hour. When I posted a similar stat 6 months ago, I got about a 50-50 mix of indignant disbelief and "Yeah, me too." I'm curious if the split will be different this time.
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Sufficiently advanced agentic coding is essentially machine learning: the engineer sets up the optimization goal as well as some constraints on the search space (the spec and its tests), then an optimization process (coding agents) iterates until the goal is reached.
The result is a blackbox model (the generated codebase): an artifact that performs the task, that you deploy without ever inspecting its internal logic, just as we ignore individual weights in a neural network.
This implies that all classic issues encountered in ML will soon become problems for agentic coding: overfitting to the spec, Clever Hans shortcuts that don't generalize outside the tests, data leakage, concept drift, etc.
I would also ask: what will be the Keras of agentic coding? What will be the optimal set of high-level abstractions that allow humans to steer codebase 'training' with minimal cognitive overhead?
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I think eventually there will be a single everything UI.
Fundamentally, all a UI provides is data translation.
It will be dynamically built in real-time by agents.
No point building personalised custom frontends per domain, just need one.
Just state the data to be presented
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Thanks to good people at @AnthropicAI we now have an official MCP for Excalidraw!
Take it for a spin on @claudeai (search for Excalidraw in Connectors, or use in Claude Code and elsewhere).
More to come. ✌
David Soria Parra@dsp_
We are moving quickly. Thanks to Anton and the folks at @excalidraw , this is now the official Excalidraw MCP server. From weekend project to official server in less than a week.
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@RokoMijic 4GB Hetzner instance is sufficient - lags out on rust builds sometimes, but its not terrible.
You can ask it to harden itself and it does a pretty decent job out the box.
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