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My biggest challenge is what it does to my ability to pay attention 1. Set the Agent off on some task 2. Go scroll social media <15 minutes later> Get back to whatever the agent was doing. AI co…

You can also do this better using just ChatGPT because it forces you to ask better questions independent of your code And it is a lot cheaper in the end :)

Anthropic thinks they’re managing safety. But they come across as just elitist. They appear to say only they should get to make safety decisions about their creations But the conflict of interest is p…

I still oscillate between "I'm totally cooked, I have no role here, the AI does everything" to "WTF why is this LLM so stupid today, WTF is it doing? This is garbage?" A lot o…

The real problem in all this is lack of predictability. The White House is just making it up as it goes along. Investors, customers don’t know what the process is and can’t plan. In the end, we need …

The real problem is the White House just making up the rules as it goes. No laws. No predictably for the markets. A week or so pause from seemingly legitimate cyber security concerns isn’t cause for p…

How much of a salary do you pay yourself? Like equivalent to what your developer salary would be? Less? More because you’re a CEO now? I basically have minimum $ amount I would accept for “developer j…

I see a pattern where companies end up becoming consulting firms with a bit of proprietary tech. Then all their efforts are put into a handful of clients. The companies call them “design partners” but…

I don’t worry about access to amazing AI. GLM 5.2 is pretty amazing. I can easily see it becoming a norm to own beefier personal hardware to run your own AI. I worry, like other emerging industries, t…

Maybe a simple question I didn’t see here: paying yourself a salary? How true is it you’ll need to persist under extreme duress unable to pay yourself a salary? Relevant for us with kids / famili…

Are open labs just loss leaders backed by Chinese govt? Is this like electric cars where the goal is to flood the market with good enough quality for free so they end up dominating the market? Or is t…

I think most teachers have adapted pretty well. I'm really surprised to find teachers that haven't reckoned with possibility of AI cheating in 2026. In person writing, etc. But also for anyt…

The gray beards were always least threatened by AI. It’s the junior market that’s getting decimated.

Can you legally buy a 4k version on a movie and host it yourself? Since physical media can get damaged, seems like that’d be an ideal solution.

Whatever debates we might have about AI in higher ed, is anyone actually advocating for AI in primary school? Seems self evident you would not want to do this. It’s so obvious elementary school is as …

It’s hard to have sympathy for Zuck when Facebook / instagram don’t police misinformation about other people. Sort of ensnared in a trap of his own making.

> while AI companies and the administration work out a longer-term plan for regulation on the sector. It’s not really the executives job or role to create new regulatory structures. If they want so…

It’s worse than that. It’s available to large companies. The WH gives them a competitive advantage against the rest of the market.

I find with AI coding its like tick-tock You "tick" - expanding functionality and get over your skis in code quality (this is the 'legacy code' part) Then you "tock" - yo…

His claims are that because of this sequence of events “Fauci caused Covid” - Fauci led NIAID - NIAID funded EcoHealth (an external non profit) - EcoHealth sent some money to Wuhan labs - Maybe Covid …

The only real risk I’ve been able to find in literature of mRNA vaccines is myocarditis in young men Occurring in roughly 8 out a million doses. ( https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-bio…

Every AI coding project feels like working with legacy code. All the skills I actually use look more like managing a big messy, brittle black box codebase. It’s exactly how we would have inherited a b…

One thing I think about a lot is how these companies metered coding / work. They want the economy to go through them. I just don’t see how the economy tolerates that. We’re already seeing people …

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

To win your argument, you need to enumerate every major outcome in the last few decades, and argue how it would still happen under the other party's president. Here's a few: 1. Iraq War (how…

I don't see how you can back that up with actual data. - SCOTUS would be radically different in composition without a GOP President being elected in 2016. That would have preserved post-Watergate…

*global poverty

Much of that can be true. But global property has never been lower. We’ve never lived in a time with such access to medicine and vaccines. We have cheap solar and wind some argued would be impossible.…