I still hope this will be a shared goal in at least some tech companies long-term. But the headwinds are strong. "Not better, but faster" is starting to look like a job requirement.

It truly is a pain in the butt. But if access to (US banking | Fable) is worth it, you do the annoying work, and the customers accept the annoying limitations.

That part is up to Anthropic. KYC[0] is not exotic, it's just a pain in the butt: if Fable is that good, they can do the KYC.

I don't think this is the right move from the government, but we shouldn't pretend that "citizens only" is an insurmountable hurdle for a company that just got a $65B capital infusion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

Your manager will look at your token usage and the number of Jira tickets you closed, and if you have not increased both 10x in the past year then you will be let go. 10x is the new 1x.

Whether that's early retirement depends on how much money you have.

(I'm surprised to see it actually, since my own use of Claude has mostly yielded well-structured code. But I'm not doing proper vibe-coding, more like friendly Socratic arguing with another engineer who happens to be a robot.)

[0] https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/blob/main/datas...

I could imagine something like “inference is done at home or in China, that’s the price to beat” and it’s not worth keeping all those GPUs cool out in Nevada.

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https://youtu.be/hr-isyMV1y8?si=grnJqn8AOEuIwkRw

The intriguing part is that we could get objectively good outcomes, but at a cost of being dependent on the machines. So it's not that you couldn't actually unplug Skynet, it's that if you did civilization would collapse (or whatever) because Skynet stops doing its thing.

I'm not sure that gets us to a better place overall, but I doubt we could resist the temptation.

Say we achieve interstellar travel, but nobody actually knows how it works.

Or we cure cancer, but the "cure" requires a microrobotic implant, and it runs as a blackbox AI, and only the other AIs can make one, and there's no guarantee they will know how to make one tomorrow.

Or we solve global warming but it requires giant cooling machines running 24/7 and again, nobody knows how it works, but with the added bonus that the planet is cooked if they ever stop working.

Instead he didn’t read it at all, and just threw the whole thing at Claude Code as a big prompt. The result was… interesting!

Whenever I go to the family farm I check to see if there are any fat juicy grilled rats at the local market. Alas, I’m still too squeamish to eat them, but I’m working up to it!

I’m sure Google cares very much about UX as a funnel into their ad brokerage, but was there some time when they cared about it in the user’s interest?

Maybe that magical moment when the results page showed the results first?

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Greetings fellow hackers!

I'm a high-agency, high-energy, eclectic, serious, fun, creative techie who's done lots of things at BigCos and startups. My happy place is working hard with smart people on something big and complex that makes the world better.

After several years in the consulting/contracting game, I am looking for an ambitious team to join. Maybe yours!

A few of my spinning plates right now: Golang inference worker, two Expo apps in TS/RN, Python data pipeline, AWS IoT for HVAC-adjacent devices, shared FFI components in Rust, and a HealthTech web app in TS/React.

Interested? Drop me a line, and if you're in the Bay Area let's grab a beverage!

You just need to have some idea of what to do when your frontier model is not available. Use Qwen? Read the code you've been generating?

Multi-model coding tools seem like the obvious, sane path forward, but the Will to Lockin is strong.

Can't have the Hosts getting riled up about the Gavinite-Baronite skirmishes, even if the Guests are all hot and bothered.