RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

Last fall, I was asked to do some reporting on whether software developers should be anxious about AI coming for their jobs. TLDR: if you're only doing easy stuff you should be nervous; but there is always going to be HARD stuff. meridian.mercury.com/smart-computer…

If computers learn to code, what’s left for human coders to do? To quote John Allspaw: “The tasks that are left over after automating all the things that can be automated are the ones that you can’t automate because they’re so f**ng hard.” Read more on Meridian 👇

UNBELIEVABLE! In Elon Musk @Twitter world open death threats, complete with displayed bullets, is permissible. And the target? A man of Science who has dedicated his life to providing #vaccines -- including the only low-cost #COVID19 vax made specifically for poor countries.

So, anybody looking for a FREE automated transcription service should check out MacWhisper. I just used it on a 45 minute audio file and it was 95 percent perfect. Main drawback: processor intensive, my laptop's fan was running hard the whole time. hat tip OM

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 Caesar’s army marches back into Rome except this time Caesar is a caterer and his army’s on meth

the whole "rate limit exceeded" for a product people are dying to abandon once and for all is like a philip k. dick story with a happy ending. REALLY REALLY WEIRD.

Just was rate limited for a few hours. In that time I got to inbox zero, wrote 6 blog posts, went on a bike ride, pivoted a company, read 2 books, and learned Japanese. Rate limits will save humanity.

Even when I am reading for the purpose of mindless distraction, a cleaver-wielding virtuoso waits for me at the end of the path with important life-lessons to impart. andrewleonard.substack.com/p/the-cleaver-…

Elegiac.

The San Francisco I believe in. (From the SF Chronicle)

I got biking to Costco into the New York Times: nytimes.com/2023/08/26/wel…

Taylor Nichols Andrew Leonard StreetsblogLA Ride a bike...outside? For errands? That's just crazy talk.

The polite interpretation is that this is a major mistake by a revered journalist in the anecdote he chose to promote his book worldwide. The ugly interpretation is that he has joined the ranks of the many thousands covering for Musk and papering over his colossal misjudgments.

Does translation matter? andrewleonard.substack.com/p/an-insignifi…

Deleting Twitter from my phone. Enough is enough.