Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you
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It used to be that you wouldn't even be considered eligible unless you were a member of the AP network. (Source: me being told no at a previous employer 😅)
But it's my understanding that's gone now. I more meant that no one gets access without a conversation first, which I believe is still true
I do think "anyone" is maybe a little strong, hah. In my experience AP isn't necessarily just handing out access to anyone who asks.
But yeah, this probably just means Kalshi is paying AP for the privilege of being provided an API key.
My long-time rule is that if you as a newsroom were to cease publishing and no actual community were to suffer harm as a result, then you are an investment vehicle.
Dude is leading an authoritarian censorship effort targeting major news outelts, but sure great guest to talk about 'free speech'
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This of course did wonders for my popularity and made me who I am today
for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position
Something I’ve been thinking: if you create software, or do something that is potentially “a software problem,” AI can seem like it would be incredibly transformative. But are most things software problems?
One thing I find so embarrassing about the "agentic AI is so great this changes everything" discourse is while I'm sure Claude is great for various use cases people sound like they're in a commercial and that just is the opposite of cool
A fine evening to do some muted words gardening
I missed this back and forth but yes, extreme co-sign on both accounts
part of why this is bugging me so much is that it seems many people are discovering the value of open source software, but crediting it to tools that are trained on it
these tools can do many amazing things, but I promise you that "barebones monday.com board that runs locally" was already possible
something that I wish people would understand is that the kinds of apps that are easiest to "vibe code" a working version of—kanbans, news aggregators, blogs—are also the kinds of tools that there are countless open source, free, forkable versions of on GitHub/elsewhere, and that's not a coincidence
TIL django-haystack still exists, whoa
If you're at IAH then yeah it's a core feature of that place
Last time I was there Avis assigned me a car someone already had, then gave me a broken one, then forgot to un-give me the broken one in the system and accused me of having two cars a week later
all video is vertical video depending on how you hold your phone, if you think about it
Also Buc-ees is a novel place to experience at least once but I would not go out of my way for it. It’s just a big ass gas station and the food isn’t that good.
Plenty of good restaurant lists out there so I won’t go long on that (and much is location dependent), but when I’m in Houston I’m prioritizing roughly five kinds of food:
BBQ
Tex-Mex
Seafood
Vietnamese
Cajun/Soul
This is also a rare seasonal window where being outside in Southeast Texas doesn’t feel like death, so the parks are viable places to be!
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The layoffs at WaPo also hit their software engineers. Its a tricky situation because they were negotiating their first contract. They worked diligently for years and organized the second largest software engineering union in the country. Just awful
Every person named in this thread has likely had other organizations trying to poach them ever since joining WaPo.
They're the kinds of people data/graphics teams elsewhere base entire roles on: "Someone like <name> at WaPo"
An absolute shame. Give them a shot, you won't regret it.
If I see a “now is actually the most important time to subscribe to the Washington Post” take I'm gonna lose it
ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
