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Another way to think of this is you just ship the UI DSL, and the user can get the app to customize it themselves with built-in guardrails. Everything should be LCARS at this point.

Yeah, I think there's a tendency to underestimate how much demand is still gated behind cost constraints. The market for this is HUGE.

The PC era, call it 1975-2005, was one of the greatest wealth creation events in history, was characterized by the cost of the underlying commodity dropping mercilessly for the whole time. Each time it did, the space of problem you could solve with a PC would increase, to the point that by the end, they were both replacing mainframes and powering users who do nothing but chat and post cat pictures.

Could there be a correction in the short run? Quite possibly. I think an underestimated last mile problem is just the massive weight of bureaucracy and human process inertia. But in the long run, cheap, efficient intelligence is a new engineering capability that we've just begun to even explore.

I wonder how that stacks up if you consider all the time you have to keep the body alive when it’s not actively producing “tokens”.

Sure seems like OAI is using their compute/capital advantage to dump. Seems improbable they're making a profit at those levels.

Looking forward to their first album dropping.

This is a great article, but I think it’s hard to ignore that Japan’s culture of harmony is a big part of why they were able to choose sensible regulations that benefitted everyone. We struggle to pass even the most sensible land use reforms because entrenched interests want to remain entrenched even if it hurts the system overall.

Yeah. I think most orgs have no idea what they are missing.

I gave a lot of shit about my employees the first time I was a manager. It burned me out, but it made for an amazing team.

I don’t mean specific features, I mean specific verticals. I.e. one app that nails a specific type of business and replaces a dozen disconnected tools.

100%. Saas isn’t going away, but the economics are changing drastically and that’s bad for one-size-fits-all tools, and excellent for niche solutions. But it’s still saas, just more specific.

Even if you power a typical EV from 100% coal, it pencils out as about equivalent to a late model Prius. And any improvements in the energy mix take it further.

Ironically, Russia probing defenses in Europe is functioning like Chaos Monkey — revealing vulnerabilities and triggering hardening.

Either scientist or chef

That is more or less what BAML does

BeOS was so amazing; I ran it for a while on x86 hardware. Ahead of its time. But I always loved NeXT. (I'd go down to the local university computer store to drool over them. The staff all knew me by name.) And now, I carry one around with me everywhere I go. Living in the future...

Suspension bushings because of design flaw that dumps rainwater on them regularly afaik

I really would love to move to helix but they can be… stubborn about what gets into the core. And if you start having to go to a plugin (which isn’t even possible last I looked) to get table stakes features in, it kind of defeats the purpose of a modern batteries included modal editor. But it’s still a cool thing I’m glad exists.

You should extend it into the past. Hapenny hit hard.

Have you ever tried to get an average human to do that? It’s a mixed bag. Computers til now were highly repeatable relative to humans, once programmed, but hopeless at “fuzzy” or associative tasks. Now they have a new trick, that lets them grapple with ambiguity, but the cost is losing that repeatability. The best, most reliable humans were not born that way, it took years or decades of education, and even then it can take a lot of talking to transfer your idea into their brain.

Yes this is strikingly similar to humans, too. “Not” is kind of an abstract concept. Anyone who has ever trained a dog will understand.

Ah, I heard about it, but the timing never worked out to try it. Good to have some confirmation!

YMMV I guess, but I found the best coffee at kissatens, and I hate dark roasts. Lots of great, sometimes super tiny, third-wave pourover types, too. But I guess Japanese coffee culture is more about evening consumption since there were many that were open at 10PM or later, but very few open before 10AM.

I 100% get this, but I will say that the gamification has meant I've stuck with it for a while. I don't know if it's out there, but I'd love something with better teaching methods, but just enough gamification to keep me going.

I was leaving a company recently and the fresh grads, with whom I had a good relationship, asked if I had any advice.

I said, “Always remember that the company is not your friend. I don’t mean your boss or your coworkers, they might well be or become your friend. I mean the company itself. If all is well, it may be an excellent ally, but the company can and sometimes will turn on you in an instant if its goals change. Your boss’s job, even if they are your friend, is ultimately to serve the company.

Go out there, work hard, have fun, but put your needs first in the bigger picture.”

Things got significantly darker after 9/11.

Trump doesn't understand soft power, nor how much he has destroyed in such a short span. I have hope that a some future point we can repair these relationships, but they will never be like they were. So stupid. Such a waste.

Peace without justice is just conquest.

Oh, I'm not directly associated with it, and I don't use it mostly because that specific feature is missing. And they're in rust, so I'm not sure how well c bindings work. Still, really cool project.

This feels like it would be interesting in the Helix editor. They don't have a good solution for traditional regexp search-and-replace, but this would fill that niche in a more elegant way.

My observation in my years running a dev shop was that there are two classes of applications that could get built. One was the high-end, full-bore model requiring a team of engineers and hundreds of thousands of dollars to get to a basic MVP, which thus required an economic opportunity in at least the tends of millions. The other, very niche or geographically local businesses that can get their needs met with a self-service tool, max budget maybe $5k or so. Could stretch that to $25k if you use offshore team to customize. But 9/10 incoming leads had budgets between $25k and $100k. We just had to turn them away. There's nothing meaningful you can do with that range of budget. I haven't seen anything particularly change that. Self-service tools get gradually better, but not enough to make a huge difference. The high end if anything has receded even faster as dev salaries have soared.

AI coding, for all its flaws now, is the first thing that takes a chunk out of this, and there is a HUGE backlog of good-but-not-great ideas that are now viable.

That said, this particular story is bogus. He "just wrote the tests" but that's a spec — implementing from a quality executable spec is much more straightforward. Deepseek isn't doing the design, he is. Still a massive accelerant.