It, was to me, surprisingly good for an AI slop project. Though Fable not suggesting the Doctor from Red October or Homolka from Congo in its initial roster is the biggest indication to me that we're far from general AI.

Just thought it was appropriate given the news.

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Why not just specify all contributions must be written with a steady hand and a strong magnet.

The speed we can move at is astounding. We're going to finish our backlog next quarter. We're conservatively planning on launching 3x as many features next quarter.

Claude is far from perfect: it's made us reassess our coding standards since code is primarily for Claude now, not for humans. So much of what we did was to make code easier for the next dev, and that just doesn't matter anymore.

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The developers should have never tried to boil the ocean: simple Kotlin or Scala style interpolation with overloading `+` for concatenation is the 80% use case here. Yes it doesn’t do everything. But it makes life a lot more ergonomic. And they rejected this solution out of hand! So instead of something useful but not perfect we get nothing.

[1] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743471598/0743471598___2.htm

What are you talking about? Laptops aren't even round.

Apple first-gen products are often half-assed. But they iterate and improve on a regular cadence. The current Apple Vision Pro is a dev kit, it will get better.

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Doesn't really prevent a strike though: it just makes it cost more. Here in Massachusetts it's illegal for public school teachers to strike, yet it has happened a couple times in the last year. In one case the teacher's union was fined: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/02/08/woburn-teachers-turn...

[1] https://github.com/ecopoesis/nek-type-a

My ideal phone camera would be a single APS-C sized sensor replacing all three current iPhone cameras. The lens should be a f1.2, 50mm equivalent pancake. Yes that’s hard to do, but using fancy fresnel lenses and a pile of CPU to correct things I bet you could make it work. Make the sensor ~30 megapixels so you can digital zoom.

Add a mount that includes communication so if you want you can add fancy lenses and they can be active parts of the autofocus system.

This design actually competes with low-end mirrorless and is probably even possible to build (the lens might be pushing what’s possible, but I bet we can get close).

Even worse, this phone looks to use the same small sensors and small lenses all smartphones are saddled with. A bulkier form factor and slapping Leica’s logo doesn’t make a “real” camera. Big sensors and big lenses do.