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I can't promise right now that I'd make it, but I'd try like hell. Would love to do it.

Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views. I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this — that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.

Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️

The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.

It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

Let it teach you and help you as you go. You won't believe how good the instruction-following gets as you iterate on what the AI needs to be most productive.

And have fun! (This is supposed to be fun... if it's not, ask the AI how it could be more fun! 😉)

Keep at it, create a fuck-around project to practice on, ask your AI for what could be improved in your instructions and processes as you go, let it write the updates for your AGENTS.md files and custom instructions, ask it "based on what you learned doing this task, what should we update?"

Last thing: remember, this is a new skill, and like any new skill, you need to practice it. You won't be good at it in one day, or one week, or even two weeks. And that's OK.

10x, if taken literally, means: "Ship what used to be two weeks worth of code and updates in one day."

It's possible. I'm not quite at 10x yet, more like 5x on a good day, I'm still learning and practicing, but I see it, and it's the most fun fucking thing I've done as a programmer in a long time.

...which obviously works, but is a waste of money when I already have Pro. We'll get there, I'm sure, but the bottom line:

Max out your AI usage, as much as you can, as much as you can afford. This is the step-change to get you to bring 10x more productive as a programmer.

I still say that CLI-only (i.e. Codex, Claude Code, etc.) is a weak UX, but it works for now. Can't argue with the speedups.

I'm itching to design a GUI for this kind of AI assistant flow, but there's no way to use my ChatGPT Pro included usage in a non-OpenAI client. I'd have to use an API token.

I copy-and-paste the spec over to Codex gpt-5.2-codex high, and say "implement and don't stop until it's complete" and 20, or 30, or 90 minutes later I have a week's worth of code generated and updated. Plus tests, plus updates to AGENTS.md files, plus docs, and I'll add more soon.

My favorite hack so far: putting the code for my project in a .ZIP file, uploading that to a Project with detailed instructions, and turning GPT 5.2 Pro with Extended Thinking loose on creating detailed functional specifications.

I iterate in ChatGPT until I'm happy, then generate the spec.

Then create Projects and Skills for yourself. Load context once and re-use it. Create repeatable processes and set Codex loose on them.

The light bulb has gone on for me. I'm getting so much more done with this insanely intelligent assistance.

About ten days ago, I upgraded my ChatGPT subscription from Plus ($20/month) to Pro ($200/month), which includes virtually unlimited AI + Codex usage.

It made me realize that I've been in a scarcity mindset about AI.

Having virtually unlimited AI changes everything.

If you can afford it, do it.

a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it Alt: a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it

Remember: if you make developer tools and ignore Windows developers, only provide examples in bash, you're telling over 50% of programmers in the world to go fuck themselves.

What defines a correct program? What education makes a good programmer? The answer depends on what culture of programming you subscribe to!

This has been a long time in the making, but my open access book on the history of programming is available for pre-order!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Remember: the question is not "Why does AWS and Azure have outages?" the question is "could you stand up an infrastructure as reliable as theirs by yourself and have fewer outages/year than they do?"

For most orgs, the answer is "no". Also, I'm tired of racking servers.

Macs Are Still Years Away From Face ID as Touch-Screen Models Draw Closer Apple's fingerprint sensor remains its fastest and most practical security method for computers.

Apple makes boring hardware and shitty software. Macs are a cult.

In today's episode, Apple marketing tells the brainwashed that what Windows has had for over a decade - facial recognition login - doesn't matter for Macs, because they say so.

www.extremetech.com/computing/ma...

ChatGPT - Seismic comparison analysis Shared via ChatGPT

How big was the celebration after the Mariners won last night?

"Bottom line for Polanco: it’s visibly a real spike on the PNSN station at field level, but substantially smaller than the BeastQuake and far smaller than the Swift Quake — likely under M≈1.0."

chatgpt.com/share/68eb10...

Does #fsharp need file-based apps like C#?. Join us next Friday for a new session where Martin will showcase a prototype for "dotnet run app.fs"-like functionality.

More info: amplifyingfsharp.io/sessions/202...

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC In .NET 9 we enabled DATAS by default. But .NET 9 is not an LTS release so for many people they will be getting DATAS for the first time…

Incredible details on better tuning for garbage collection in .NET 10.

maoni0.medium.com/preparing-fo...

Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks.

I assume those "experts" are the ones who get paid to pick stocks and whose livelihoods are threatened.

arstechnica.com/information-...

Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident It was preceded in death by conservatism, which fell to a terminal case of fascism in 2016.

lol

"Born from Ayn Rand paperbacks, pulp science fiction novels, and Austrian School daydreams, libertarianism never matured beyond a sophomore debate-club rant."

www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

`Flag shorthand -h has been deprecated, use --help`

If you create a CLI and do this, you're an asshole.

What's the thought process here? "Well, I know my users want help, so I'm going to make it more difficult for them to get it."

🤦🏻‍♂️

Performance Improvements in .NET 10 - .NET Blog Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.

It's the latest Stephen Toub post!!!! 🤓

devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...

I use Bing for my searches (when I'm not using Copilot or ChatGPT), because it's an better search product, i.e. fewer, better, higher-quality results, with way less ads.

I just tried Google again for something. God, it's terrible. I can't imagine why you all still use it. And their AI is 🤮.

Make Sense of Your Output Window with Copilot - Visual Studio Blog Discover how Visual Studio’s Copilot works with the Output Window - helping you ask questions and act on logs smarter than ever before.

Cool new feature in Visual Studio: attach the Output logs to Copilot Chat to help you figure out WTF is happening. devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

Work in progress Aspire landing/marketing page.

Proposed new Aspire page for creating your fist app.

Conceptual content will be more concisely conveyed with modern flexibility in the new platform.

An all-new Aspire integrations gallery page, with search/filtering, and download counts.

It's been super energizing working on the #aspire brand refresh + docs re-platforming. Here's a few sneak peeks! 🤓

✨ Fresh new docs UX
📖 Simplified nav and structure
🎨 Modern themes
🔍 Better discoverability
☑️ Asciinema terminal embeds

Built with 💜 at Microsoft — @aspire.dev

GitHub's listing of lines added and deleted in a pull request; this one says "+117,375 -1,791,022".

Tell me you're using Node.js without telling me you're using Node.js.

Ah... after every reinstallation of Windows comes the day when I can no longer avoid installing npm.

Sigh.

I feel about Node.js the same way I feel about Perl and PHP... you could, but why would you in 2025?

You know that thing where you start writing the GitHub issue for the problem you've been banging your head against for days, and just to make sure you don't look like an idiot you go over everything _one more time_ to make sure...

and then you see what you've been missing.

So that just happened.