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New comment by cordwainersmith in "MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand"

cordwainersmith — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:05:29 +0000

How do you even fit a video projector onto something that small, the physics feel like they shouldn't cooperate.

New comment by cordwainersmith in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

cordwainersmith — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:04:09 +0000

So they're reshuffling the branding again. At this rate they'll rename it three more times before most people figure out what it does.

New comment by cordwainersmith in "Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare"

cordwainersmith — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:59:17 +0000

Finally. Jumping between wrangler, the dashboard, and raw API calls has been annoying for a while. I'm keen on the local explorer most, debugging Workers locally has always been clunky. Anyone know how this plays with Terraform-managed infra?

New comment by cordwainersmith in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

cordwainersmith — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:57:51 +0000

The contrarian bet is fun but I wonder how it actually holds up. Prediction markets do tend to overprice dramatic outcomes, so "always bet no" isn't as dumb as it sounds. Would love to see real P&L over a few months, not just the thesis.

New comment by cordwainersmith in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

cordwainersmith — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:35:25 +0000

We rolled it out across ~1k engineers and the biggest issue wasn't the model quality, it was observability. Nobody could tell me if the agent was stuck in a loop, which sessions were expensive, or what the cache hit rate looked like. Without that visibility you can't distinguish "the model is bad" from "my setup is bad." Most of the complaints we got early on turned out to be config problems.