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New comment by jugg1es in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

jugg1es — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:35:02 +0000

The statement was in reference to the players in the US healthcare system: payers, ACOs, MCOs, providers, suppliers, SNFs, third parties, etc... It was not in reference to individuals. Most individuals in the healthcare system are decidedly not evil.

New comment by jugg1es in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

jugg1es — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:26:06 +0000

I've worked in the healthcare space for a decade and I have asked some tough questions of my leadership and I got a response I'll never forget: "Everyone in healthcare is a little bit evil"

New comment by jugg1es in "Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people"

jugg1es — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:07:36 +0000

kitten mittens

New comment by jugg1es in "The bottleneck was never the code"

jugg1es — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:29:36 +0000

The problem with tech debt is not that it is some poorly designed code in a few repositories that can just be changed. True tech debt is the kind that requires significant architectural changes across many systems and is almost always coupled with major data migrations. You need the rest of the business to agree that you want to invest all that time and energy to fix a problem someone else created 10 years ago. You likely will also need other teams to set aside time on their own road map to address it. You also might need customers to change what they are doing because if software lets you do something, you can guarantee that someone has learned to do it - even if that 'something' was actually a bug.

LLMs don't solve any of those problems by itself.

New comment by jugg1es in "The bottleneck was never the code"

jugg1es — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:30:16 +0000

I think veteran engineers have always known that the real problems with velocity have always been more organizational than technical. The inability for the business to define a focused, productive roadmap has always been the problem in software engineering. Constantly jumping to the next shiny thing that yields almost no ROI but never allowing systemic tech debt to be addressed has crippled many company's I have worked at in the long-term.

New comment by jugg1es in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

jugg1es — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:47:28 +0000

I want this question to have an interesting answer, but everyone knows that if this question ever goes to the courts, ownership will go to the people in charge with the money. The idea that Anthropic may not own Claude Code just because Claude wrote it is wishful thinking.

New comment by jugg1es in "What Claude Code chooses"

jugg1es — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:41:42 +0000

thats an interesting take on python. I think I might agree with you

New comment by jugg1es in "What Claude Code chooses"

jugg1es — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:00:54 +0000

this is exactly what I mean though. Instead of the community building a better tool that we collectively contribute to and work with, genAI is going to silo all the good stuff with individual developers and teams instead. Because its so cheap to create these tools, no one is going to bother publishing new ones for everyone, so we will essentially be stuck with what we have forever now.

New comment by jugg1es in "What Claude Code chooses"

jugg1es — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:28:50 +0000

I've been worried for some time now that genAI will effectively kill the market for dev tools and so we will be stuck with our current dev tools for a long time. If everyone is using LLMs to write code, the only dev tools anyone will use will be the ones that the LLMs use. We will be stuck with NPM forever.

New comment by jugg1es in "Trying two dozen different psychedelics"

jugg1es — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:44:05 +0000

You are overstating or overgeneralizing the strength of psychedelics as a class of drug. Most people who take them are not taking enough to produce a PTSD-level response.

I developed PTSD after my finding my 3yo son floating in a pool face down (I luckily saved and revived him - he's fine now) and it would take a very intense psychedelic experience to come anywhere close to that kind of emotional content.

Claiming the entire class of drugs are a potent cause of PTSD rings of reefer madness propaganda to me.

New comment by jugg1es in "Trying two dozen different psychedelics"

jugg1es — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:00:15 +0000

I think there is a misunderstanding about the therapeutic effects of psychedelics. The drugs themselves may alter physical structure in your brain a little bit - but what they really do is temporarily give you a different perspective - they change your point of view. That skewing of perspective is (I believe) where the therapeutic effect from these drugs arises.

If you are deeply curious about these types of drugs, you need to remember that they all wear off eventually. Lots of very smart and happy people have taken these drugs and experienced no harm.

New comment by jugg1es in "Video games can alter reality"

jugg1es — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:12:32 +0000

the photo of the gameboy playing tetris in this article is so iconic. I can feel the gameboy in my hands right now.

New comment by jugg1es in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

jugg1es — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:40:34 +0000

I wish I shared your optimism

New comment by jugg1es in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

jugg1es — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:25:06 +0000

All of the nay-sayers in the comments here are thinking about this from the POV of a person who reached intellectual maturity without LLMs and now use it as a force multiplier, and rightly so.

However, I think that take is too short-sighted and doesn't take into account the effect that these products have on minds that have not yet reached maturity. What happens when you've been using ChatGPT since grade school and have effectively offloaded all the hard stuff to AI through college? Those people won't be using it as a force multiplier - they will be using it to perform basic tasks. Ray-Ban sells glasses now with LLMs built in with a camera and microphone so you can constantly interact with it all day. What happens when everyone has one of these devices and use it for everything?

New comment by jugg1es in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

jugg1es — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:18:03 +0000

I think you are looking at this from a too-narrow lens. What happens when people have ChatGPT built into their eyeglasses and they use it for literally everything. Ray-Ban is already selling this as a product.

New comment by jugg1es in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

jugg1es — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:15:57 +0000

This is sad but true.

New comment by jugg1es in "Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)"

jugg1es — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:57:54 +0000

Boot-camp grads are not self-taught, they went to a boot-camp. Boot-camp people are career opportunists. Nothing wrong with career opportunists, just saying that they are different than a self-taught dev.

New comment by jugg1es in "Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI"

jugg1es — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:05:14 +0000

I have found it fascinating how AI has forced me to reflect on what I actually do at work and whether it has value or not.

New comment by jugg1es in "Alkanes on Mars"

jugg1es — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:03:21 +0000

So much circumstantial evidence of past life on mars is infuriating. Wish we could find something definitive!

New comment by jugg1es in "Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria"

jugg1es — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:27:46 +0000

Excellent collection of work