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Erik Langille

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Figma is in a bit of a dilemma. v0 and claude code are better at iterating on design, especially if you know some basics about front-end. I'm slower when I open up Figma now. Yet with their Make tool, Figma is entering the slop wars. And their product is undifferentiated.

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Today's cursor-like companies selling $1 for $0.80 is just like early PayPal. When PayPal (and original x dot com) started, it was a competition for who could give away the most money to acquire users. They burned cash. But payments has a network effect. Does vibe coding?

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This is good UI design. It doesn't follow trendy shadows, corner radius, or blurs. It has consistent spacing and components. Information-dense but not overwhelming. I would love to spend all day monitoring the situation by looking at this.

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It appears the transformer model architecture perfectly saturates the efficiency of modern computers (minimal operation set, tons of floating point matrix multiplication). To get better, fluid int AI without a exponential increase in compute, we need new computer architecture

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Fiancee has started organizing wedding planning into weekly sprints. Unironically working really well. I gotta finish my tickets

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The success of waymos can equally be attributed to the rollout of 5G and GPU advances. Without the low latency, high bandwidth of 5G, remote operators wouldn't be possible

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you: considering shorting Tesla stock because something crazy Elon said me: selling Tesla because the Fremont factory is right on the same fault line that caused the last night's earthquake Last active 160 years ago with big earthquake expected every ~150 years

you: considering shorting Tesla stock because something crazy Elon said

me: selling Tesla because the Fremont factory is right on the same fault line that caused the last night's earthquake 

Last active 160 years ago with big earthquake expected every ~150 years
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Businesses used to write runes and spells on their shops to prevent bad luck Now companies post "terms of service" and "privacy policies" to keep out the evil spirits

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AI won’t replace people in the short term because managers love building their empire. They need their legion. All large companies could be more efficient with fewer people