I'll admit that, until now, I never understood what the Scroll Lock key was intended to do (nor do I believe I ever used it for any purpose whatsoever).
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I'll admit that, until now, I never understood what the Scroll Lock key was intended to do (nor do I believe I ever used it for any purpose whatsoever).
I, too, find the Slack AI bot to be shockingly helpful. My general mental model is that "ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude = helpful, vendor specific AI (looking at you MSFT) = completely useless" and it was a pleasant surprise.
I don't know how representative he really was (I used another lawyer), but I do believe there is a very real segment of fathers who are not particularly invested in the role. Which is something I just don't understand but there it is.
This reminds me of my meeting with a prospective lawyer as my first marriage fell apart and me asking him how 50/50 custody works and him being kind of shocked I'd even be interested in that sort of thing and him explaining how most men wanted to be able to, like, move out of state.
If only life were like Skyrim where you could finish all the side quests first and then find yourself ridiculously overpowered when you finally get around to finishing the main quest line.
Totally agree! Just depends on which end of the pleasure vs. efficiency spectrum you want to optimize for.
...why AI is so productive for them. It removes the least important step from their process.
In my experience, this is the dividing line between folks who are superstars and everyone else. Every superstar developer who I'd trust with my life is incredibly good at thinking through a problem before their hands ever touch a keyboard. The code has always been almost an afterthought. Which is...
You can watch the id and ego (there is no superego) of the administration battle it out in real time.
Tesla is a meme stock with car dealerships.
“He can’t magically access my bank account just because he has email access.”
Are you *sure*? There isn’t a stray email that references your bank name and account number? Maybe a random attachment you forgot has your SSN in it? The inevitable “OpenClaw helpfully reset my bank password…” awaits.
In pondering this, I came to the realization that a lot of my career has involved coming in to some mature impossible-to-distingish-from-vibe-coding codebase and trying to whip it into some semblance of shape. My time has come!
My experience is similar. Typically deciding what to do (i.e. design) is the most mentally taxing part of engineering, but you'd get a pause between design problems because you'd have to spend time coding. With that short circuited, it's just the hard thing, over and over and over.
Giving a shit can be a real liability when working with LLMs.
A corollary to Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced software system is indistinguishable from vibe-coding."
That's... actually shockingly true.
...it has been extensively and exhaustively discussed, analyzed, and deconstructed. There are hundreds of implementations readily available (some that fit into just 100k!) with extensive conformance tests. It'd be a little surprising if it couldn't one-shot it, given how good the models are.
This is a very impressive achievement but, in fairness, a C compiler is like the "Hello, world!" of compilers. A half century old language that is extremely compact and straightforward with an extremely simple type system. As the foundation of the most important pieces of software in the world...
The thing is, whether Apple is on the “stupid” list or not, probably three of the others will definitely be there regardless.
Even if you believe that measles is no big deal, I just don't understand not having the impulse to help spare your child suffering. My oldest kids just missed the introduction of the rotovirus vaccine and got it. It was awful, but they survived just fine. I would have been happy to have spared them.
If a SaaS app is truly trivial or the company is wildly overcharging for it, it could make sense. But I think there'll be a lot of companies that go for it only to some slinking back a year or two later when they get tired of having to maintain the thing. Even with AI helping.
One of the critical things that distinguishes a senior developer from a junior developer is an understanding, deep in their bones, that the cost of DOING a thing is cheap compared to the cost of truly FINISHING a thing and utterly trivial compared to the cost of MAINTAINING a thing. Like 1:10:10000.
A truly unexpected side effect of the Epstein Files release is getting a window into what was really going on in the upper reaches of the Microsoft org chart during the Windows 8 timeframe. Absolutely not on my bingo card.
It reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) words of David Lee Roth: “Money may not buy happiness but it’ll buy a big enough boat to sail right up next to it!”
I don't believe for a nanosecond that Anthropic won't start running ads when the time comes (c.f. "don't be evil"), but well played for the moment.
I guess Bezos forgot a semicolon back then: Democracy dies; in darkness.
What the hey? How did the nice Seattle Scandinavians get pulled into this crap? Watch this Almost Live skit from way back to see what Scandinavians contributed to Seattle. Uff da!
I'm having a real problem with Claude Code. I've got too many f**king ideas and I can't stop creating new git worktrees. I'm really worried about where this is all headed.
In a meeting, it finally hit me that coding agents are just machine equivalents of Leonard from Memento. Every time you wake them up, they have no idea what's going on and have to read all the post-it notes and tattoos to catch themselves up.
What is starting to come into focus is that agents like Claude are like a true genie in a bottle: incredibly powerful but you really have to ask for the right things in the right way or you’re going to find that getting what you think you want is going to be an unpleasant experience.
This picture just...