I was just talking to a friend about this last night. She said they also used to give change on the books, her parents would have her go buy a pack of kool-aid, then use the change to buy cigarettes. The EBT can’t be abused like that.

I’ve thought a lot about this, in terms of pro athletes. In the popular sports, signing a single rookie contract should set you up for a modest life, but those kind of expectations aren’t what get you to pro athlete levels. Winning $2 million in a lottery is the same thing.

Karpathy talked a bit about losing both control and knowledge, which really reminded me of William Gibson’s work. Bunch of autonomous AIs running around and people in the midst of it all

A ton of stuff in here really: effect on GDP (computers were part of the trend not an inflection point), what will become of creativity, etc.

Chewy should just sell rolls of the packing paper they use. Jiji loves the stuff. Also the caps off of soda bottles. She'll chase those all over the vinyl floors. Basically she likes playing with trash.

Heck, there's probably some Windows 3.11 out running some airline's operations department.

I’ve felt this too, I’ve been pulling out some of the electronics I used to play with because that feels more interesting. AI made coding easier but real world interaction is still hard.

It’s 45 minutes to downtown then a transfer to a bus to get you to the Boulder station which may not be your ultimate destination. RTD seems optimized for finding the most expensive solution. Their problem is routing but they solve everything with infrastructure.

Artifacts are something I’ve never quite understood so I haven’t used them much. Have you written up how you like to use them? I’m mostly doing Claude code on a project by project basis

I put it this way: the younger devs see possibilities where the older ones see problems. It’s valid to see limitations and issues but it also holds one back from growth.

I personally make a point to talk to younger devs. A little over 2 years ago I had my big wake-up moment when I was hanging out with dev friends and realized there was a divide - the ones under 40 were approaching AI way differently from us in the older group. Now I really try to learn from juniors

Also “different branches of SWE”, there’s just less training data for some areas. I’ve noticed that Claude is markedly better at Apache Spark, for example, and even then it gets some crazy ideas at times

A bunch of reasonable ideas, I think that not doing agentic right stands out. @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com has research showing most teams have copilot, and the default for most people is “super autocomplete”. People I know who really do AI coding well have rebuilt their whole dev process

I think that’s the main lesson of this decade. Work is for chumps

There’s some confirmation bias - they already believe the system’s corrupt, Trump tells them it’s corrupt, so “at least he’s honest”. Then when he goes and openly acts corruptly they aren’t shocked: “But the other side does it too they’re just dishonest about it”