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saxelsen··on If you don't have the factories, you lose the expertise
This is a very confusing read - hard to understand what the main point the author is trying to make.

Is it that you can't effectively offshore just the factory production (and keep designing from California), and the flattening in manufacturing productivity + job losses is caused by offshoring chip development to China?

saxelsen··on Attention is all you have
I use Innoreader as a database of websites/blogposts I want to reference or read again later.

I only use it to bookmark it into the database so I can search it up later.

Firefox had a tool partnership with an app that did exactly this, but unfortunately it was put in the grave last year (now I know why).

saxelsen··on Exit the Cave
I thought this article was going to recommend to stop obsessing about grinding and just go touch grass.

It was only half..

saxelsen··on The Amazon tax
> Frank Nd earnest question

What's the question?

saxelsen··on The dead economy theory
I think the premise of the article is interesting, but it's a bit mis-leading to start it out by quoting "last year half of the internet was AI-generated" and the source doesn't actually say that at all, just that there has been a huge uptick in AI crawlers.
saxelsen··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
Yes but companies would love for a robot to be able to do it instead.
saxelsen··on When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
In reality, I think it's more likely that the lay-offs will be when the marginal rate of growth slows down. Once executives see that growth doesn't change much when hiring, they stop hiring, and once they see that growth doesn't decrease much when firing, they start firing.

There's still an opportunity for engineers to eat their bosses lunch and just start their own company. It's never been easier to start a lower cost competitor.

Employment isn't a social law of nature: it's a transaction of money for "units of work", just like the business might have with other vendors. Governments should be making it easier to become a vendor.

saxelsen··on Trump fires NSF's oversight board
What do you know?
saxelsen··on Claude Design
Agree, but maybe they worry they'll be even more irrelevant if they don't partner? Keep your enemies close...
saxelsen··on Introduction to Obsidian
Shout out to Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/), which I use on a daily basis.

It does most of what Obsidian does but has a free sync version where you just use your cloud drive as the storage.

The main thing missing, from what I've found, is that it does do the "notes mind map". But I never really found that useful.

saxelsen··on The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety
They are being selected for their survival potential, though. Any current version of LLMs are the winners of the training selection process. They will "die" once new generations are trained that supercede them.
saxelsen··on Software Engineering Is Becoming Civil Engineering
> The PMs writing features? That’s the welding. And there’s nothing wrong with it. But it only works if the bridge is designed right. > > The profession is splitting. The mistake would be pretending it isn’t happening

I'm tired of reading AI blog-posts. Write in your own words, please.

saxelsen··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
Would you like me to draft a list of recommendations for how best to use comments?
saxelsen··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Can I ask how you annotate the feedback for it? Just with inline comments like `# This should be changed to X`?

The author mentions annotations but doesn't go into detail about how to feed the annotations to Claude.

saxelsen··on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
There's pretty much only one global insurer affiliated with dive schools, so this is spot on
saxelsen··on Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial
If the monopolist chef is deliberately adding addictive ingredients that causes health problems, I think, yes, they're the ones to punish or address the problem with.
saxelsen··on Raising money fucked me up
This hit close to home..!

I had a startup some years ago and took angel funding from family. When we were later running out of cash and had to raise professional money to stay alive, the pressure of the expectations I thought my family had because I was on the verge of losing their money caused me debilitating panic attacks.

I still feel the effects 6 years later, but have learned to cope whenever I feel the pressure begin to build. But man did it scar.

OP if there is any advice I can give, it's that you should have a chat with your investor friends about and make sure you feel like you can always walk away.

saxelsen··on Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
I used to resonate with the word "taste" as a distinguishing factor between good and bad quality, but a comment on HN some months ago about one of the many blog posts that talks about taste really nailed it:

"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.

When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.

The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.

saxelsen··on Claude Memory
1000% agree on the YouTube/Spotify parallel!!

I find it so annoying on Spotify when my daughter wants to listen to kids music, I have to navigate 5 clicks and scrolls to turn on privacy so her listening doesn't pollute my recommendations.

saxelsen··on Build your own database
Nice interactivity, but this is taken straight from the Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Literally all the content here is an interactive version of chapter 3.

Maybe give credit?

saxelsen··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
A person with integrity would have promoted bootcamps and recused themselves from smearing competitors.
saxelsen··on Apps SDK
I agree with you. Just disappointing that it's just another company slowly abandoning their mission in favor of profits.
saxelsen··on Apps SDK
I'll bet $100 they're seeing an opportunity to dethrone Google as the entrance point to the web and this is a big part of it.

It feels like OpenAI's mission has changed from "We want to do do AGI" to

"it'll be easier to do AGI with a lot of money, so let's make a lot of money first" to

"we have a shot at becoming bigger than Google and stealing their revenue. Let's do that and maybe do AGI if that ever works out"

saxelsen··on A venture capitalist goes to extremes to punish her surrogate
This story sounds like the worst consequence of American liberalism and capitalism in one.

This would be a hit TV show on par with Baby Reindeer, if it was ever televised.

saxelsen··on Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
In Swedish it's "var uppmärksam" which is more like "be attentive" - same as in English. They just use the adjective form more.
saxelsen··on Sequoia backs Zed
I strongly doubt that Cursor makes anywhere near 40m profit. All they're revenue is spent on tokens with the LLM vendors. I'd be surprised if they are even running at positive margin and not just subsidizing usage with the VC money.

Unsure of what the end goal is, but I expect everything AI related to be a load-leader right now and then the goal being to figure out how to drive down costs or make even more money later.

Maybe that's what Sequioa thinks too...

saxelsen··on How to Write Compelling Release Announcements
The company I work at is at a sufficient size that we publish changes internally to other teams.

We have the concept of Release Announcements that are a quick attention grabber headline, followed on by Tasting Notes that explain in detail what changed and additional release notes.

That way the people who just want to understand the primary changes and those who want the details are happy.

saxelsen··on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation
Someone else mentioned it in the comments. A quick google gives some websites that estimates their revenue to that within +/- 5M
saxelsen··on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation
$2B valuation at $16M revenue sounds nuts..

My prediction: They're banking on a big exit to OpenAI or Claude as the defacto backend for an AI IDE.

They're the only big alternative to Firebase, and Firebase just got pulled into Google AI Studio.

saxelsen··on There are two types of dishwasher people
I don't understand what's wrong with this.

The handle is typically loaded so that it weighs a lot more than the blade, which means they're likely fall out of the basket if they're blade down.

Also: blade down, you can't tell which ones are the knives unless you only do knives blade down (but forks and spoons handle down), which seems even more insanity to me..!!

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