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What an inspiring post! So much surprise and depth in each selection.

> Success depends on focus and saying no to most things. AI makes it easy to say yes to everything. Instead of making my todo list shorter, it just makes me add more stuff to it. It allows me to ac…

Hi, thanks for reading and your comment. Reviewing now, I can see why the final paragraph might have read this way. What I was hoping to convey in the last two paragraphs was that I was trying to be t…

This metaphor slaps. And folds!

Thank you for your thoughtful response. I was hoping others might relate to this experience in some way. I wonder about the transcendence take as well. I think a lot of us are strapped into this ride …

No, but a lot is. You see a version of this in every tech boom cycle, but this one is way more reflexive. Mature technical software projects are slow moving because they have real users building other…

> Everyone can make anything. Almost no one can tell you what is worth making. That was always the harder skill. It is now the only one left. But people can and do tell you what is worth making. Ta…

And a population that seems content being manipulated.

What a weird title. Parchment is a writing surface made of animal stuff. It lets people not have to remember certain things. They can write those things on the parchment. Paper also lets people write …

> A further factor was cannabis. Attempts to quit left him feeling stranded in a “horribly profane” world, with a “tremendous narrowing of consciousness.” Substances that once served exploration so…

Don’t worry, the 100x boosted harness wrote it

Love this idea

Agree acronyms are often used to signal expertise and depth that isn’t really there, or even needed. But I do think non serious acronyms should be still allowed: YAGNI, YAML, SNAFU, BHAG, GNU, etc.

Wow so technology doing tasks for people has an effect of diminishing their skill at those tasks. Truly unprecedented.

This is how regulation will look someday.

Yep, exiftool is great for CLI use, but in a production pipeline a library is the way to go over shelling out.

Hm, so it’s almost like the corporation is not an ideal format for long-lived values driven institutions?

These are lovely

I had received four very different bids for a home repair project. Just wildly different itemization breakdowns, costs, timelines, scopes, even formats. Opus helped me turn it into an apples-apples co…

Yeah I feel like I’ve learned a lot from superpowers. It’s such a thoughtfully developed skillset.

The software generalist described in this post has domain expertise as well. In software. If you’re a great generalist software engineer today, you aren’t jumping to some random domain to escape AI. S…

I think a lot of us aren’t rational about it. I tend to feel excited about changes for which productivity is a side effect, even if it’s not my motivation. It’s hard to say no to extending my capabili…

My thinking tends to be that our standard work week is an equilibrium among a few different forces. We’re motivated by social norms, capital markets, and biological needs and wants. In places like the…

Computer fun is inversely proportional to number of investors.

Or in other words: I made an extension to dumb down my professional network and unexpectedly found real human feelings