pkilgore

AI is great for programs but every product ever kinda sucks if you don't understand a lot of things computers are pretty bad at, generally.

Sure, none of this is rational.

Some of its timing: Claude Code was good before other harnesses and so behaviors (and contracts) were timed to lock in on that ecosystem.

Some of it was ethical/political: Anthropic fighting with the Trump admin about use of the model.

Some of it is social: Never overrate a CEO just being kind of perceived as a piece of shit by people who have power to influence decisions.

But switching costs are low! Because of the same models!

Let the race to the bottom commence. Hopefully before the monopoly/collusion starts.

You gotta have "A" to do "B".

This is one way of having "A" that isn't "massive internal natural resources" like USA, China, Russia, Colonialism, or Oil States (I'm sure I missed other kickstarters here).

Node has both built-in sqlite and testing functionality. Lots of reasons to like bun! But these two are interesting ones...

No remedies, no right.

What are the consequences of breach? Otherwise, Americans only use for this is to wipe their ass, and only if they can find a paper version.

I can't tell if this was written by AI or by an author that has absorbed all of its worse tendencies, but past the bullet list at the front this was terrible writing. It's like the author was trying to meet a page requirement.

Did I miss the breakdown by class/wealth? I saw a bunch of other cross tabs. Not that one.

It's getting to the point where I search "K-shaped" and "Cohort" in these kinds of articles before I even read them. I'm not even saying these are why, exactly, but failure to wrestle with the intellectual effort of rejecting that as a hypothesis is a frustrating omission.

Does this apply to Loom?

Seconded. After disabling adaptive thinking and using a default higher thinking, I finally got the quality I'm looking for out of Opus 4.6, and I'm pleased with what I see so far in Opus 4.7.

Whatever their internal evals say about adaptive thinking, they're measuring the wrong thing.

Did the USA just lose a war to fucking Iran?

Did you have specific complaints about the data in the OP?

To be fair, I feel like the language is widely criticized for this particular choice and it's not a pattern you tend to see with newer APIs.

It's a really valid FFI concern though! And I feel like superset languages like this live or die on their ability to be integrated smoothly side-by-side with the core language (F#, Scala, Kotlin, Typescript, Rescript)

ReasonML / Melange / Rescript are a wholistic approach to this: The issue with stapling an option or result type into Typescript is that your colleagues and LLMs won't used it (ask me how I know).

You "cannot fathom" the privilege your have or life experience you lack to believe this unconditionally.

Months old article.

Andreessen is a virus ("Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Marc Andreessen") and has a virus' motivations: grow without thinking -- maybe the host dies, maybe it doesn't, but just grow.

are you suggesting the former is not a demonstration of a shocking lack of competency?

Appeal to authority, the logical fallacy, is not attempting to claim that authority is irrelevant or has zero signal whatsoever.

Slopliance?

In other words, we're still the product at HN: the customers are just not advertisers.

This blog not having any mobile layout is a bit funny.

cowsay "lemon pound cake"

Is this legal advice?

Congratulations!

It's sad to see someone running doom on a pregnancy tester?

Yeah, but if you vertically integrate you expand your target market, increase switching costs, and can charge rents, so everyone is trying to do it now.

Even better "imminent" war with Iran.

For 47 years.

Imminent.

> actual proof

You don't think their own opinion of their own life isn't self-evident proof?

Fastmail and Kagi are not noticeable expenses (to me) but are a noticeable increase in quality of life.

Might not have been true at one point but if you can spare the cost I highly recommend either.