True for more than just AI. Someone should sift through logs for any production system. Almost always something surprising when you open up the hood.

When Apple removes self-imposed limitations like this (theverge.com/2024/11/7/2429…), what is the product management decision-making process behind the change? Regulatory pressure? WhatsApp penetration in the US? They could've done this any time. Why now?

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The breathless praise for AI app generation tools (v0, Bolt, etc) are setting expectations too high, but also doing them a big disservice. 1) Building anything of substance using them has a lot of bumps, which is actually ok, because more importantly 2) they are GREAT for

This is such a superior experience for adding cards to Apple Wallet that I can’t believe it took so long for Apple to ship it.

Best thing I've read today from "Systems Thinking" by Donella Meadows, and lots of applications in business. Once a business has the basics down, many problems are a lack of resilience: sales collapsing, talent pipeline problems, difficulty raising capital, etc. Easy to mistake

Nobody Cares by benahorowitz.eth

So, maybe it's a really good stochastic parrot?

What is going on with iollo? They had a mishap in December with my last test, promised a discount on the next kit, charged me too much for that kit, and now haven't answered multiple emails to their support email over more than a week.

for those of us who grew up in modem and bbs days... the only thing I could think is: what is the equivalent of typing ATM1 to not have to hear this whole exchange?

prompted by a conversation i just had with a friend who was saying an engineering task that used to take 40 hours pre-AI, took 2 hours last week, and yesterday was one-shotted with sonnet-3.7 and cursor in agent mode in one minute.

watching cursor with sonnet-3.7 rewrite code that sonnet-3.5 wrote last week is like watching the newly hired engineer leave their mark on every commit

lots of people mocking the guy who lost his code because a cursor agent overwrote it. not enough people asking why we don't have the agents auto-branch and auto-commit. (we should both teach source control and simultaneously re-imagine what agentic software engineering means)

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how long until Cluely announces soham as brand ambassador?