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New comment by cwoolfe in "The compiler was supposed to end programming too"

cwoolfe — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:47:22 +0000

Yes exactly. LLM-assisted coding is just the next layer of abstraction. This has been happening to computer programming for decades. We've always been in search of a way to program in "natural language"

New comment by cwoolfe in "Gemini 4 Argon"

cwoolfe — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:59:48 +0000

Here I was thinking Google had given up on frontier models...

New comment by cwoolfe in "Claude partial outage"

cwoolfe — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:51:33 +0000

Apple App Store build upload processing is also out at the same time...hmmm....I wonder if Apple is using Claude for build upload processing.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Attention is all you have"

cwoolfe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:37:08 +0000

Pastor used to say: "You become what you behold." too true.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

cwoolfe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:39:42 +0000

I agree. In my experience it does too much and takes too long. Maybe that's just cause I use it on xhigh setting.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

cwoolfe — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:39:06 +0000

This has to slow stock market growth, right? Less young people buying, more older people selling.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Discovery Loop"

cwoolfe — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:11:39 +0000

"The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics."

New comment by cwoolfe in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

cwoolfe — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:51:21 +0000

How can we collectively fix apps/websites that are so poorly built that they take 10 minutes and 100 taps on your smartphone just to do something that could have been done in a minute? Companies put out an app/website as the only way to interface with them, you just have to deal with it. I've daydreamed about starting an agency which scouts bad apps and offers to fix them, as a sort of public service.

New comment by cwoolfe in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

cwoolfe — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:26:43 +0000

I noticed this when comparing my experience in open offices with lots of airflow to the cramped spaces of our WeWork co-working space. I could feel the difference. Also one time I slept in a small basement room with no ventilation. I woke up at 3am feeling like I couldn't breathe. I opened the door and felt better.

New comment by cwoolfe in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

cwoolfe — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:39:30 +0000

The model is 756B parameters, open weights.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

cwoolfe — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:31:54 +0000

I've come to realize this: we are all raising money more than we admit. Whether it's from venture capital or donations to fund non-profits, money is more political than I realized because it's all about the idea of value, which is subjectively determined by humans.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

cwoolfe — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:28:08 +0000

Cyber defense and offense are the same security research skillset. Not sure anybody could really untangle that.

New comment by cwoolfe in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

cwoolfe — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:55:52 +0000

The Bitwarden chrome extension just randomly stopped working for me the other day. This is after years of working flawlessly. I had to remove the extension and add it back to get it working...What a shame. Hosting a password manager isn't a game; these are people's real lives and businesses at stake.

New comment by cwoolfe in "I want to live like Costco people"

cwoolfe — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:00:43 +0000

Acquired did a fantastic podcast about the history of Costco. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco

New comment by cwoolfe in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

cwoolfe — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:03:36 +0000

I've been with eBay since 2006 and have been consistently disappointed with their consistent failure to innovate. They need some inspired leadership.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Chuck Norris has died"

cwoolfe — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:10:27 +0000

Chuck Norris died? I didn't think that was possible...

New comment by cwoolfe in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

cwoolfe — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:13:38 +0000

yes. I think EdTech can be helpful for learning; but having immediate access to the rest of the internet at the same time negated whatever benefit EdTech would have had. I think that's why all the data from the EdTech companies shows a benefit in controlled studies of just their product, but the rest of our overall academic achievement data shows a net decline ever since portable screens were introduced into life and education.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

cwoolfe — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:07:26 +0000

To clarify: Talk of going from iPads to Chromebooks. Because kids view the iPads as a toy to play games on.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

cwoolfe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:40:02 +0000

Repairability and cost are key for the education market. Apple sold iPads into this space for awhile but there's been pushback and talk of going to chromebooks. Seems like they are positioning Neo for this segment as well.

New comment by cwoolfe in "Good software knows when to stop"

cwoolfe — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:33:49 +0000

"know the role and place your software fits in" yes! Probably one of the most important lessons of my career. As a junior dev starting out, I had no idea how my software fit into the company's product let alone into the entire ecosystem of what was already available and open source. Now as a senior, I see juniors making the same mistake that naturally arises out of this: needlessly doing things that have already been done or re-inventing the wheel. And now that coding ability is a cheap commodity, product development, and knowing where you fit into the ecosystem becomes the main skillset.