One of the use-cases for LLMs that I hate the most is that so many people have started using them for writing feedback (e.g. for peers and reports) and the end results are usually laughably bad. They use fancy and sophisticated language to tell you basically nothing of value.

This meme is a modern work of art tbh. Put it in the museum.

Recall the old “make it work => make it pretty => make it fast” AI increasingly good at “make it work”, sometimes manages “make it fast”, tends to fail at “make it pretty” And tbh that’s a great division of labor: AI makes it work, I’ll make it pretty, perhaps AI makes it fast

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Getting good at acceptance testing suddenly surging in prio

A great time to re-read Brooks' "The computer scientist as toolsmith": cs.unc.edu/~brooks/Toolsm…

ferran i use opencode a ton - it types out all the code for me but i know how everything in my codebase works anything that's subpar i'm aware of and i have a sense of how to fix it eventually when ai fixes something i don't move on until i know it's the best possible fix anything

"AI code review" should be about teaching people how the code works, not just verifying that it's correct We can now generate essays, diagrams, and explorable explanations on demand!! Why are we still reading raw code diffs as the primary UI?

bedtime convo with my 7yo 7yo: “I think when I grow up I want to be an illustrator and novelist. I have many great book ideas” me: “That’s great. You could use the computer to turn them into movies now!" 7yo: "yeah but anyone can do that. So it's not going to be special."

Apps (and app stores) are so vintage, who’s gonna be the first one to boot a mobile with “HalOS”

I left xAI today. Not because of the pay. Not because of the internal politics. Not even because of the SpaceX and xAI merger. But because, in my manager’s words: “No matter what feedback I give you, you never change your direction.” At first, I thought he was just calling me

“Hey Claude find opportunities to cross reference my Obsidian md’s” I wouldn’t generate obsidian md’s themselves (defeats the purpose of writing as a medium for thinking), but holy smokes letting it “discover the graph” is powerful

SystemD has added birth date storage in order to comply with Brazil and California Age Verification laws. Let that sink in. A Linux init system now handles Age Verification. github.com/systemd/system…

After eight years of building @AztecNetwork, the network is about to go live at Alpha. My co-founders @zac_aztec and are moving to Aztec Foundation to steward the protocol, while I am returning to my roots: building privacy products people actually use.

Alpha is live. After nearly a decade, the first feature-complete privacy stack on Ethereum is here. Developers can now build apps and contracts with ground-up customizable privacy, from execution to settlement. aztec.network/blog/announcin…

I'm quite proud of this milestone.

 Private transactions are finally live on Ethereum! - Private function inputs
 - Private state
 - Private contractual terms - (you don't even need to broadcast the bytecode to execute private fns, so your agreements can stay private)

Apps that let users interact via AI prompts have wonderful second order effects for UX designers: even when it fails, you now have a realtime, direct stream of things users wished your app did for them!

Two months ago I’d have said this is bollocks… not anymore 😅

If this works and they leave, would this make them… miss Anthropic?