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So, interns can still produce some value. How much value?

> In our product, there was a feature which had been requested for years, but had not been built yet. It wasn’t overly complex, but it was not critical.

Said another way: The feature was of so little value that it was not even worth assigning to a non-AI-assisted intern! This is what most of us mean when we say “AI lowers the value of…”

https://www.cps.edu/media/community-updates/2025/january/neg...

Because well behaved applications play nice with their host system.

I have a strong suspicion that you’re thinking about application configuration, not environment configuration.

This seems like a misunderstanding: The `.env` file should be `source`d into the current shell (environment). The application reads values using whatever mechanism it uses to read these values from the environment. Nothing should be “injected” into the application, i.e. the application should not read `.env` directly.

(Not sure if you were just being loose with your terminology, trying to clarify.)

tl;dr

After 20 years of legal battles abandoned factory containing tanks of rotting fish in St Mary’s NL is getting cleaned up, paid for by provincial taxpayers.

- “paid for by tax payers who fund the court systems”. The alternative would mean taking away the right of private citizens to sue.

- “Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most” by Steven Johnson

- “Big Decisions: Opting, Converting, Drifting” by Edna Ullmann-Margalit (2006) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/royal-institute-of-p...

- “What You Can’t Expect When You’re Expecting” by L. A. Paul (2013)

- “Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming” by Agnes Callard

> To turn cattle into trusted financial guarantees or collateral without requiring inspectors to visit the property, Cowmed equips cows with an AI-powered Smarty Collar. These collars constantly monitor health, behavior, and location. The raw data is then converted into an encrypted digital identity tied directly to the B3 credit agreement. [Emphasis mine]

- “up” and “down” was explained. If I bet “down” I’m betting my stock will underperform the monkey index? And if I am correct, I will make money (short the asset) or simply loose less than if I’d invested in monkey?

- loosing less money was green (win) when monkey is down even more.

Instead you need to find like-minded people who are willing to challenge their thinking.

Define “massive”. SpaceX is only 1.2% of QQQ.

Also known as “social proof”/“social credibility”, and it’s a common mistake to assume it has no value whatsoever.

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This is far more precise. The article talks about this from the users side, how there is a class of user who enjoys learning all of these “extra” features, even though they ultimately provide less value than the core features.

>> If people find vim, emacs, or whatever genuinely good and productive, I’m not going to criticize them for using it. People are most comfortable with what they know. But for the people I am discussing, that same familiarity blinds them to their tools’ flaws, and leads them to celebrate those flaws, flaunting them as games.

I think it’s fine if that’s your hobby, but I agree that in a professional context one should be much more critical of their tools. Even asking “why do I need a tool for this at all?” will reveal shortcomings in processes, data structures or other tools that will reap much greater rewards if effort is put into fixing those instead of optimizing use of a quirky tool.