1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"

lol who did this

I’m obsessed with whatever this aesthetic is called

most people want sedation, not beauty. stimulation, not truth. slop content is a feature of democratic consumer culture, not a bug. it’s scalable, addictive, and profitable. and it shapes its audience to resemble itself.

It is trivial to explain why a LLM can never ever be conscious or intelligent. Utterly trivial. It goes like this - LLMs have zero causal power. Zero agency. Zero internal monologue. Zero abstracting ability. Zero understanding of the world. They are tools for conscious beings.

In all honesty is more like a hate love relationship. Mostly because y’all are just very unidimensional. Other than that love California.

Unbearable hell if you’d listen to some people.

AI like completely saved San Francisco. The city that runs on gold rushes got another.

two trends are happening 1. startups will struggle to find founding engineers unless they can match big tech cash comp. we get bigger more dilutive raises 2. everyone becoming way more mercenary-like. only mission is getting the bag. huge loss for the startup ecosystem. shame.

anyone who’s used these tools for more than 20 minutes has a decent enough mental model of the distribution to understand that 10k LOC/day is too much surface area to NOT be full of bugs. they’re just hopefully very minor

Nothing ever happens

The Lady's Companion, a series of small kits containing things a Victorian woman would have carried in the mid-19th century: sewing kit, notions, small notebook, scent bottle, corkscrews, and ear picks. Currently on display at the Tatter Library in Brooklyn IG tatterbluelibrary

if you genuinely believed you were 2-4 years away from AGI, is Sora slop really the thing you'd release?

men would rather cal themselves autistic than go to therapy

unfortunately i knew exactly what to look for in this picture. i need a new hobby

Terrifying Reality of 2025 Financial sponsor built a prototype in 2 weeks during diligence on an AI-healthcare company. Prototype outperformed the target’s core product in clinician testing. Deal killed.

In her book Perfumes, written in co-authorship with her partner Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez lays out the roadmap for how many people develop personal taste in fragrances. I find it roughly maps onto other things in one's wardrobe.

unbeaten indomitable spirit.

I understand why Bad Bunny is divisive because he primarily appeals to people who fuck