In my experience, doing these things with the right intentions can actually improve understanding faster than not using them. When studying physics I would sometimes get stuck on small details - e.g. what algebraic rule was used to get from Eq 2.1 to 2.2? what happens if this was d^2 instead of d^3 etc. Textbooks don't have space to answer all these small questions, but LLMs can, and help the student continue making progress.

Also, it seems hard to imagine that Alice and Bob's weekly updates would be indistinguishable if Bob didn't actually understand what he was working on.

The slop we're seeing today comes primarily from the fact that LLMs are writing code with tools meant for human users.

LLMs are useful and these companies will continue to find ways to capture some of the value they are creating.

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> If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at performance-recruiting@anthropic.com with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing.

That doesn’t seem snarky to me. They said if you beat Opus, not their best solution. Removing “perhaps” (i.e. MAYBE) would be worse since that assumes everyone wants to interview at Anthropic. I guess they could have been friendlier: “if you beat X, we’d love to chat!”

If the AT instagram wants to add a new feature (i.e posts now support video!) then can they easily update their "file format"? How do they update it in a way that is compatible with every other company who depends on the same format, without the underlying record becoming a mess?

Cowork seems like a great application of that principle.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdLVWMdjOk

Sure, when debugging a complex issue, it’s worth knowing the low-level, but CSS is not a great abstraction for day-to-day work.

With CSS you have to add meaningless class names to your html (+remember them), learn complicated (+fragile) selectors, and memorise low level CSS styles.

With tailwind you just specify the styling you want. And if using React, the “cascading” piece is already taken care of.

But, from your post it’s not clear specifically what you are looking for. If you think you will level up by learning how to apply numerical modelling techniques, then it’s probably best to focus on that.

There are so many apps I want, that companies are not incentivised to build for me.

We’ll see what the sales numbers are like.

The board seemed to be pretty anti-Amelio already so it wasn't clear to my why Steve _needed_ to sell these shares.