quick, let's find the author's shirtless beer drinking pictures before they get deleted
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I didn't realize until the very end, but his writing embues the distinctive latent resentment common among millennials whose family had a Mac in the 90s.
I'm not sure that telling it to "try explaining that again, simply and briefly" is helping my ego.
edit: how do you feel about paying 5% on every token's cost to stripe? it made me cancel, and sign up directly with a few providers.
It's getting hard to even get a shrug.
There's probably a field of study with vocabulary and accompanying proofs of significant rigor that prove or disprove this. Maybe they'll stop by our little subthread and clear it up.
edit: Fixed the poor AM English.
I read that as a hat tip to the legendary argument, and a partial adoption of Linus's rebuttal, “Linux wins heavily on points of being available now.” Besides the general tone, I guess.
I found this interesting and wonder whether LLMs have a higher density ceiling, since training and inference don't rely on a fixed lattice and can instead learn their own representational geometry.
I think this bubble's failure mode matches that of a Ponzi scheme.
It boots up to OpenVMS 7.3. I demo with 5.5 because its 1/10 the size and hits the nostalgia even harder.
From a firm that has fully embraced agentic engineering, they offered topline stats on their measurements of a 4x boost from November to February, and 8x on top from February to May. That's 32x since November 2025, coding with LLMs.
And like whatever, this is second hand and I'm not going to disclose the source. Actual hard, published, and peer-reviewed research is needed here to backup quantitative claims. 2x, 10x, 32x, whatever.