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It's going to be dicey whether you can keep all the suppliers engaged with start / stops over 3 years.

If these projects ultimately end up canceled they’ll be the largest “mostly done” infrastructure projects to be cancelled. A huge waste. And a monument to US incompetency.

Having worked in large orgs, I can totally imagine someone having an idea like Claude Code and it getting quietly shelved because it (A) doesn’t align to some important persons vision, who is incentiv…

It really says something that MS/Github has been trying to shovel Copilot down our throats for years, and Anthropic just builds a tool in a short period of time and it takes off. It's intere…

Yes but I was also taught to use a calculator, and particular the advanced graphing calculators. Not to mention programming is a meta skill on top of “calculators”

Honestly defining what to teach is hard People need to learn to do research with LLMs, code with LLMs, how to evaluate artifacts created by AI. They need to learn how agents work at a high level, the …

Do you find advocating for AI literacy to be controversial amongst peers? I find, as a parent, when I talk about it at the high school level I get very negative reactions from other parents. Specifica…

Anyone who has been a freelancer negotiating a contract with a big company feels this sort of thing in their bones.

One way hand coding is productive is it gives you detailed intimate knowledge of the code. We’ve all seen someone that really knows a system hear about a bug and say “Aha!” and take 5 minutes to pump …

Arguably these and billionaires have become a social menace. They undermine democracy, destroy our environment, and prioritize shareholder value over long term well being of the economy they live in. …

For sure. But a major goal of US foreign policy was to create an EU so it would be easier for trade. Backsliding on support, wanting to sabotage it, doesn’t help US companies as it just adds burden.

It’s not just this, it’s the arrogant attitude of the administration on tarriffs, Ukraine, and a broad range of topics

Outside companies don't do well in China India doesn't have nearly the purchasing power of EU or US

Americans fail to appreciate a few things about our economy 1. We have a large homgoneous market where you can build a product and it’s expected it can succeed for hundreds of millions of Americans 2.…

Sounds a lot like model training and I’ve treated this sort of programming with AI exactly like that importantly making sure I have a test/train split Make sure there’s a holdout the agent can’t …

Did the Senate pass it? I think just the House did.

This is probably a good day to take time away from social media. Doom scrolling won’t do anything Instead there’s DHS funding going through Congress which could give Congress leverage to restrict ICE.…

They can prosecute federal agents but the bar is VERY high from what I understand.

How do you look at this video and conclude it’s the protestors fault? What dystopia do you live in where a shoving match, resulting in someone getting restrained, should turn into execution of the res…

It used to be the big worry among climate activists that you'd never get every country organize and move in one direction. Like you'd need some global body to clean everything up. That'…

Druids used to decry that literacy caused people to lose their ability to memorize sacred teachings. And they’re right! But literacy still happened and we’re all either dumber or smarter for it.

I think the takeaway is we need a specialization beyond coding. Coding is part of the job, not the whole thing.

A counter example to Jevon's paradox is writing Arguably, with the increase in literacy, Jevon's paradox would say we need to hire more writers. Indeed, a lot more people DO write for their …