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"Free encyclopedia service founder disparages competing free encyclopedia service" See also entry for "encyclopedia salesman"

Now AI is summarizing your daily progress from your commits and AI is writing the planning docs (with HITL). And version control makes it a historical record of your planning process. Keeping detailed planning docs doesn't take your whole day anymore and can be an integral part of any IC's workflow now.

As a person who wants to consume LESS human slop in my news feeds, this seems like exactly the wrong direction.

Yea, this project gives less "my contract partners will benevolently read my diary after I die" than "enabling and incentivizing my closest friends to hold a vote to redistribute all my assets amongst themselves"

Every local tree listing that I've clicked is incorrect. I'm guessing bad municipal data. But this seems useless if it's all wrong.

It sounds like AI summarization tools would be beneficial. You can just have the conversation, not fill out any forms afterward, then your partner can either watch the recording or read the AI summary of the relevant customer needs from the recording (or ask their AI agent questions about the transcript of the recording).

Are other phrases of the form "ending ____ness", where ____ is a racial qualifier, also acceptable, then? Someone using that term could similarly argue that they're not advocating for the eradication of ____ people - just the identity and behavior associated with ____ people.

It's a poor metaphor. Real tolerance necessitates intolerance - see Marcuse. What is a browser going to do, send malformed HTTP requests and name-and-shame any server who refuses to respond? Servers vs. browsers is not the same type of relationship as people vs. people.

Not to mention that the author's metaphor is implying that certain types of people are malformed.

What a bizarre bait and switch. Starts talking about browsers allowing malformed HTML and uses that to draw conclusions about allowing certain types of people.

What do you mean when you say building crud apps should be automated?

Third party benchmarks like terminalbench exist.

W.r.t code changes especially small ones (say 50 lines spread across 5 files), if you can't get an agent to make nearly exactly the code changes you want, just faster than you, that's a you problem at this point. If it maybe would take you 15 minutes, grok-code-fast-1 can do it in 2.

Would you mind sharing a motivating use case for those of us who don't think S3 is complicated or unreliable? Doesn't S3 already include HTTP upload capability? Are ML engineers really avoidant of basic operations like "HTTP retries and S3 multipart uploads"?

This is the first time I've seen an ad presented as a bullet point in a list of otherwise-salient bullet points. Nefarious.

Is it? The article is exclusively about federal income tax - spefically the variable part that you have to calculate yourself, not the constant % that's automatically withheld from your paycheck (FICA).

Pedantry: the article claims "Paying taxes is a universal experience", but only 60.4% (2024) of American households pay income tax.

Don't all the major coding agents have CLI mode now? Cline CLI. Opencode CLI. Codex CLI. Gemini CLI. Claude Code CLI. Etc.

I recently asked grok-code-fast-1 to read the SST OpenTUI readme and docs (gave it the github link), and to write an implementation plan for an OpenTUI usage mode for my Rust CLI stdin/stdout app. It fetched the readme. Fetched a couple more doc pages. Response begins "Sure, here's the plan: I'll write a TUI using the Rust package Ratatui..."

I'm sure the patrons at dive bars love businesspeople walking up and asking you to listen to their startup idea or review their designs for a corporate rebranding.

Yes. For the same reason that the Yoneda lemma and the Cayley theorem are almost meaningless tautologies once you fully understand what they're saying. "Every small thing (of a certain type) is able to be expressed as a subcase of a bigger thing that contains every single possible subcase in existence." Well no shit.

Okay, if you want an aggressive animal that is interested in the fight, we can pick hippos.

This isn't about what humans have done at other times or in other places. The author wrote "At any time, in any location, under any circumstances", so the statement can be proven false with one single counterexample - e.g. a lone human without a firearm encountering a tiger in the Indian Sundarbans.

Must not live in the Sundarbans

"We (humans) are the scariest animal in the woods. We’re the scariest animal anywhere. At any time, in any location, under any circumstances, if there’s a human present then that’s the scariest motherfucker in the woods."

Has this guy not heard of the Bengal tigers of the Sundarban forests, which kill ~50 humans per year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attacks_in_the_Sundarban...

My American brain: "The legislature is a branch of the government!"

Without naming, there seems to be >1 VC-funded companies building "open-source" products, with paid-enterprise or other more sinister business models, where they claim to be open to contributions and have a full CONTRIBUTING.md, and where there's an active community of devs trying to contribute good PRs to solve open issues in the issue tracker.

But the issue tracker is so overwhelmed by slop, non-Latin scripts, and people who think their personal problems (or AI model problems) are the product's problems, that the employees have all but ghosted the issue tracker and PRs; it takes days or weeks for the maintainers (employees) to triage/respond/despam the Github issues list. And if the employees _do_ leave an initial comment on a community PR that multiple users on the issue tracker are begging to be merged, and the PR author makes the requested changes or solves the roadblock, then the team never responds, or takes months to respond. Meanwhile main branch marches on - PRs from the internal paid dev team do get merged often.

I have to imagine that there's a layer of internal politics (maybe VC funding related? dunno) at these companies that shifts more and more communication onto internal nonpublic platforms, to the point where the open-source community rarely gets updates beyond patch notes. It certainly can feel strange when you're on the receiving end of a ghosting. One has to remember that "open-source" does not necessarily mean "community".

LMGTFY without the snark

Modern LLMs are also "essentially only trained to predict the next word, based on what they've seen on the internet."

I'm sure they would argue that the primary impact is higher prices (of housing especially), not higher salaries and tips. If you have a few new high income people come into a neighborhood, that feels like some extra dollars coming into the neighborhood; but if a large enough portion starts to become high income transplants, suddenly the locale starts catering to high income as the median consumer target, and previously-middle income workers are now relatively low income.

Well I can't dispute Fred and Hud. I wonder if the discrepancy has to do with the harvard data only considering metro areas, and metro areas having significantly higher incomes but possibly not significantly higher median house price.

The text "1989" isn't in the article I linked. You may have meant "1988". But I'm not trying to assert that the headline of the article or the comparisons it makes are worthwhile. I'm just referencing some data points contained therein.