I fully intend to pay my transportation costs myself.

It’s not about getting a free ride, it’s about being able to get to work while sleeping, saving money on housing, and pocketing the difference.

The places where people want to live have no land or archaic zoning laws.

I wouldn't want to live two hours away, but if I could sleep/work during my commute, and pay $400/month for it, I might do it. My housing costs would be like less than a third of living in the metro where I work.

Supercommuting becomes slightly more palatable.

Yes, but good, standardized developer tooling is valuable.

Postman could’ve also been a “just use CURL and dump to JSON” for example.

I actually am bullish on this. Tmux and ssh are somewhat clunky and probably under utilized by most people. I struggle to find commands, navigate sessions, see history, and so on.

Also in an “agent” based world where you might ask an agent to execute things for you, how do you manage that context well beyond just giving it its own Tmux session to drive?

It’s a good idea, and I’m surprised no one’s built it sooner.

Providers change tokenizers all the time with model updates, and it's often not even possible to query/figure out how text is tokenized without actually just sending the LLM a request.

Just switch to charging for bytes of intelligence. Please. Claude Shannon figured this out decades ago.

Even before this AI wave, it was common for me to see spinning dev environments for like $3k/month that hadn't been used in months on AWS.

You would think they’d be more reflective and introspective about these brash moral decisions. Their product quality is akin to my CS capstone lab group.

The music is all just very average, it sounds like the most average song with the most average chord progression/drum pattern per genre.

I guess that makes sense if these are most likely next audio token predictors... but it'd be cool if there was a way to inject some type of creativity/novelty into these, or at least tune up the temperature.

Everything so far just sounds like stock library music to me.

If it's not running fully end to end in some secure enclave, then it's always just a best effort thing. Good marketing though.

whisper: There is no linter.

There is no unsupervised robotaxi service in Austin and there won't be, for years, if ever. Just like the way "FSD" is not fully self driving and likely never will be.

Saying the "boomers ruined everything" is not sophisticated, we can't move forward from a blame game, we have to diagnose the actions and actors that implemented them, but of course this is much more challenging.

Ancedotally, I know plenty of poor boomers. Have you seen who works at a Dollar Tree lately?

The popular dialogue that boomer=rich and greedy, millennial=poor and exploited is not productive, it's a fabricated generational war that distracts us from the real issues.

I understand the desire to find an entity or group of people to blame, but they were acting in their own self interest at a peak time, they didn't know the party would be over soon, for many of them, it still isn't.

In my case, I have CS degree and work as SWE but I probably would've been fine with just my Data Structures & Algos course as I already had programming experience.

Are computational theory, circuits 101, discrete math, logic 101, etc necessary for being a good SWE? Probably not, but they do probably expand your mind a bit.

1. Punch cards -> Assembly languages

2. Assembly languages -> Compiled languages

3. Compiled languages -> Interpreted languages

4. Interpreted languages -> Agentic LLM prompting

I've tried the latest and greatest agentic CLI and toolings with the public SOTA models.

I think this is a productivity jump equivalent to maybe punch cards -> compiled languages, and that's it. Something like a 40% increase, but nowhere close to exponential.

And while you could make the argument that these forms of media were superior to TikTok, I’d also argue that this is mostly just taste.

While we have closed ecosystems now, they’re much easier to make and share content to than the web of the past. It’s much easier to get distribution and go viral. There’s also a well trodden path to monetization so that if you craft great content people love, you can make a living from it.

Yeah quirky designs, guestbooks, affiliate badges, page counters, all that stuff. I miss it. But only ever a very small fraction of society was going to be able to make and consume that stuff.

This new internet is much more accessible and it occasionally produces diamonds of culture, you just have to know where to look.

So no, I don’t think any amount of decentralized protocols or tooling or any technology really can change this. I think this trend is set and will continue, and I’ve had to learn to be more open minded to how I perceive internet content.

No one is going to make personal websites or change their behavior in a major way.

Look, you can still sign up for free web hosting and make an HTML page and tell your friends. There are still people that do this. But it’s naturally eclipsed by these other methods of much easier content sharing.

The point is the content itself, not the packaging. Just get over the shape of the packaging and enjoy.

This blog post reeks of “you can just do things” type of engineering. This is the quality of engineering I would expect from “TPOT” (that part of Twitter) where people talk about working 12 hour days. It’s cause they’re working 12 hours on bullshit like this.

Building some sweet custom codec or binary transportation algorithm was barely cute in like 1989. It definitely ain’t cute now.

How many of these AI and “agentic” companies are just misled engineers thinking they are cracked and writing needlessly complex solutions to problems that dont even exist?

Just burn it all down. Let it pop already.

"Bring me the rats."