I petition to rename "feature" as "complication" on software teams.
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I wrote a blog post about my learnings there - "Engineering over enforcement":
> Enforcement philosophy is rooted in the idea that behavior can be controlled by threatening punishments. Engineering philosophy believes that infrastructure can be designed to incentivize desired behavior. When Oslo sought to reduce pedestrian deaths, it turned to engineers.
> [ . . .] Intersections are one small example where philosophies can diverge. But, as I learned in Oslo, engineers have a whole toolkit of methods to make cities safer. Bumping out a curb slows down turning speeds and protects pedestrians. Bike lanes can be safer by being raised above the street instead of relying on a painted barrier. Limiting how far cars can see ahead of them slows them down. Behavior can be designed rather than just enforced, and in aggregate these small changes can make a city safer.
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We're a team of 14, all engineers today. We work in Rust, Python, Typescript, and Go.
We're hiring for these areas:
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Chroma is the open-source search database for AI applications. It supports dense vector, sparse vector, regex, and full-text search. We support local, single-node, and cloud hosting.
We're a team of 14, all engineers today. We work in Rust, Python, Typescript, and Go.
We're hiring for these areas:
- Account executive (founding)
- Database storage engineer
- Distributed systems engineer
- Platform engineer
- Product engineer
- Product designer
Learn more and apply here: https://www.trychroma.com/careers
I believe, at the end of the day, insurance companies will be the ones driving FSD adoption. The media will sensationalize the outlier issues of FSD software, but insurance companies will set the incentives for humans to stop driving.
How many people are stuck in the middle, having less extreme beliefs reinforced by a sycophantic AI?
I've started to hear whispers among friends that there are many founders stuck in loops of "planning" with AI, reinforcing banal beliefs and creating schizophrenia-like symptoms.
https://contraption.co - personal blog
Sharing here in case anybody from Anthropic sees and can help get this working again.
It may seem off-topic, but I think it hurts developer trust to launch new apps while old ones are busted.
I feel like I'm limited by writing specs for agents, then by reviewing their work.
I typically spend 30-60 minutes writing a spec, then the agent runs for 30-60 minutes, then I spend 30-60 minutes refining code/ui/etc before putting up a PR, then another 30-60 minutes waiting for CI + addressing automated + human code review feedback.
Chroma is the open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications. It supports dense vector, sparse vector, regex, and full-text search. We support local, single-node, and cloud hosting.
We're a team of 14, all engineers today. We work in Rust, Python, Typescript, and Go.
We're hiring for these areas:
- Product design
- Production engineering
- Platform engineering (Rust)
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trychroma/9ed3aee8-07dd-44e3-9ca1-d...
More details at: https://careers.trychroma.com
Lob.com is a powerful tool - I think more people should experiment with it. I know Robin Sloan did an experiment a few years ago that used GPT-2 to send poetry to people via Lob mail. There's something so cool about APIs that create actions in the physical world.
This idea was inspired by Craig's "Between Two Mountains" pop-up. As those emails accumulated in my inbox, I wanted to print them out so I could carry them to a coffee shop. That sent me down a rabbit hole, and I ended up building a printing system for my own site.
Sharing because I think it's a fun idea that I hope more blogs embrace. And, it's built on the YC company Lob.
The timing and manner of the break make a lot more intuitive sense when you consider that the engine is essentially a massive gyroscope. As the plane starts to rotate, the spinning engine resists changes to the direction of its spin axis, putting load on the cowling. When the cowling and mount fail, that angular momentum helps fling the engine toward the fuselage.
Eventually Cisco did indeed buckle in 2021 and reincorporate in Delaware . . .
I wrote that post about a similar sentiment - that lag is a feature instead of a bug in Rails framework development.