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New comment by kristianbrigman in "How to earn a billion dollars"

kristianbrigman — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:54:51 +0000

1. Who knows that it will? The point is just that it’s possible.

2. This is one of the (many) side assumptions that are worth discussing.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "How to earn a billion dollars"

kristianbrigman — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:42:20 +0000

pg’s argument is essentially 1. Build something people want to buy 2. If you do, you can get exponential growth of people buying it 3. This isn’t inherently immoral.

There are many assumptions around this you could argue about, but he’s directly addressing the original statement (which was also simple, and did not explicitly include the assumptions either).

I agree they are talking past each other - a lot of this is more related to marginal cost differences than anything else imho (basically how leveraged the value of my labor could practically be).

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

kristianbrigman — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:48:10 +0000

UI/UX is important.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

kristianbrigman — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:41:46 +0000

I bought a used Audi etron a couple months ago. Agent was going to try to sell me a service plan and realized none of them apply to electric :) The downstream fanout of the auto industry is huge…

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Scott Adams has died"

kristianbrigman — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:58:21 +0000

IIRC he did get a lot of ideas from fans talking about their own workplaces …

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Go away Python"

kristianbrigman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:34:10 +0000

That's partly because python has a very large installed base, and ease of entry (including distribution). This leads to people running into issues quicker, and many alternative solutions.

Unlike something like Rust, which has much fewer users (though growing) and requires PhDs in Compiler Imprecation and Lexical Exegetics.

Or C++ which has a much larger installed base but also no standard distribution method at all, and an honorary degree in Dorsal Artillery.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers"

kristianbrigman — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:56:30 +0000

But heat = energy, right? So maybe we don’t really want to radiate it, but redirect it back into the system in a usable way and reduce how much we need to take in? (From the sun etc)

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom"

kristianbrigman — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:17:48 +0000

Where does the food come from that you have the right to?

New comment by kristianbrigman in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

kristianbrigman — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:20:39 +0000

NYSE, NASDAQ, but also AMEX…

New comment by kristianbrigman in "The AI coding trap"

kristianbrigman — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:30:08 +0000

I had the AI implement two parallel implementations of the same thing in one project. Was lots of fun when it was 'fixing' the one that wasn't being used. So yeah, it can definitely muck up your codebase.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "The AI coding trap"

kristianbrigman — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:25:33 +0000

For pet projects, it might be less fun. For real projects, having to actually think about what I'm trying to do has been a net positive, LLM or no LLM.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "The AI coding trap"

kristianbrigman — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:20:31 +0000

It's about as much time as I think about caching artifacts and branch mispredict latencies. Things I cared a lot about when I was doing assembly, but don't even think about really in Python (or C++).

My assembly has definitely rotted and I doubt I could do it again without some refreshing but it's been replaced with other higher-level skills, some which are general like using correct data structures and algorithms, and others that are more specific like knowing some pandas magic and React Flow basics.

I expect this iteration I'll get a lot better at systems design, UML, algorithm development, and other things that are slightly higher level. And probably reverse-engineering as well :) The computer engineering space is still vast IMHO....

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

kristianbrigman — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:52:51 +0000

It was intel culture at one time - when I started, everyone got a card to wear with your badge with intel values, there were only 6 and ‘customer orientation’ was one. It definitely influenced my personal development, but was clearly not adopted equally across the company.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

kristianbrigman — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:26:24 +0000

One interesting side effect of AI is that it makes it sometimes easy to just recreate the behavior, perhaps without even realizing it..

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost"

kristianbrigman — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:12:07 +0000

You can do a lot of this in max (supported), and some in python (unsupported).

Lots of hardware has decent hardware integration with live - a push might be interesting…

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Grok Code Fast 1"

kristianbrigman — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:48:37 +0000

That’s fair… for every 99 they it cements their ridicule, there might be one who takes it seriously, and maybe that is dangerous…

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Cognitive load is what matters"

kristianbrigman — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:42:12 +0000

One relevant side effect: AI seems to understand your code better when you do this as well.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

kristianbrigman — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:44:28 +0000

And one that a lot of people skip, so that forcing function might make for better code, even if it isn’t faster.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "Grok Code Fast 1"

kristianbrigman — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:37:05 +0000

If they represent it as entertainment… it’s a common genre to make fun of what you see as the most extreme views of the other side.

New comment by kristianbrigman in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

kristianbrigman — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 02:28:53 +0000

And there is lots of land - just not in close proximity to existing economic activity. It’s a common pattern.