Just like financial markets, this phase is very volatile. But today’s price can look much different in 1, 2, 5, and 10 years.

Right now there’s a lot of opportunity to disrupt companies who are moving much slower since adoption can vary greatly.

But I think in a few years this meta will be overcrowded. The overall skill/productivity gap across companies will be reduced and the bar for productivity will be raised.

There’s room for taking profits now from the productivity gains but I don’t think it will last long.

If AI is really increasing productivity enough to reduce headcount right now, it won’t be in future. If all your competitors are using AI as effectively as you are, can you still do this?

The world’s demand for productivity is limitless. As of right now you still need someone to at least install Claude Code and run the binary.

I constantly see people saying Apple displays are a terrible value. Last Apple display I had was the Thunderbolt 27 but from now on I'm sticking with Apple.

I've had nothing but issues with non-Apple monitors as well. Customer service ime is non-existent if you need a repair. For something I rely on to get work done, I'm starting to think the premium is worth it.

I actually hated the web design at first but now I much prefer it and find it difficult to use American apps with the modern tech aesthetic now.

I noticed that I started to get annoyed doing things like filling forms. I feel like American apps tend to reduce complex flows into simpler decisions but requiring more steps. It feels like my brain is wired to want to see as much information at once now.

For mid sized tasks and up, architecture absolutely has to be done up front in planning mode. You can ask it questions like "what are some alternatives?", "which approach is better?".

If it's producing spaghetti code, can you explain exactly what it's doing wrong? If you have an idea of what ideal solution should look like, it's not too difficult to guide the LLM to it.

In your prompt files, include bad and good examples. I have prompt files for API/interface design, comment writing, testing, etc. Some topics I split into multiple files like criteria for testing, testing conventions.

I've found the prompts where they go "you are a X engineer specializing in Y" don't really do much. You have to break things down into concrete instructions.

I used one for the first time while traveling and bought one as soon as I got home.

Probably one of the best quality of life upgrades I've ever made.

I used Elixir for a period and loved the language but I got fed up with using Dialyzer so I switched to other typed languages.

When this is done, I'll be coming back as I think Elixir does pretty much everything else better when it comes to writing web apps vs other languages.

Laptops have terrible ergonomics it’s near impossible to get proper posture while traveling.

- Laptop stands help but introduce a new set of problems around the distance of the screen and keyboard height

- Hard to find adjustable office chairs anywhere

- If you’re in a city where you’re walking for hours a day, carrying a larger laptop gets tiring

Twitter / FinTwit is the best

Level of discussion is not always great but I find its way better than anywhere else. Twitter Spaces usually have great discussions since people are less likely to troll vs tweets.

One thing I've found though is if the person is getting too cocky and going on victory laps, it's pretty much always a good time to counter trade them.

You'll be able to find some great Substack's, Podcasts, Youtube channels from Twitter as well if you're following the right people.

Some that I follow

  - @fedguy12 - macro  
  - @JulianMI2 - macro  
  - @biancoresearch - macro  
  - @acrossthespread - Japan macro  
  - @anasalhajji - energy  
  - Pretty much any central bank, government official  
  - Fund managers. Many of them aren't too active and just crosspost links to videos. Cliff Asness is one that is active though

  - Forward Guidance
  - Odd Lots

HN is still way better than Reddit on the rare finance/economics post. Every finance thread you'll get a few people who have unique insights/opinions but I think the majority is still a lot of retail market participants who just regurgitate the Reddit stuff.

1. BTC dominance seems to be getting lower

2. Ethereum PoS seems very likely to launch this year IMO

3. Alt chains which run on PoS like AVAX and SOL have been eating into Ethereum's market share of the smart contract space. Newly onboarded retail users to crypto have been priced out of Ethereum due to fees over the past year. The alt chains running PoW seem to have no real usage.

4. Fed raising interest rates could dampen the growth of crypto asset prices

If I put myself in the shoes of a miner running GPU's, once the merge happens I only see these options:

1. I switch to a chain that is still profitable for GPU's. None of these have much demand for block space and unless that changes, other profit minded miners will be dumping the token.

2. Switch to some kind of P2P GPU-aaS like Render or Livepeer. I haven't been following this space to closely but I doubt it would have the same returns as mining Ethereum over the past years.

3. Exit out of mining and sell GPU's

Personally, I'm curious to see a project like Mastodon or Peertube fund itself using a token. I don't think those projects will ever get any meaningful use aside a few nerds and outcasts that got booted off of Web2 properties. You'll probably get speculators in it purely for profit, but to me it sounds better than the alternatives.

- Dysfunctional government - Hyperinflation - Limited access to financial/investment products if any

The crypto space does have a huge amount of problems, but I think there's some innovative stuff going on in crypto. You'll end up writing it off if you just fixate on the speculators and the "blockchain everything" people.

I've been using an iPad Pro as a laptop replacement for the past year and Codespaces makes it a pretty viable development machine. I'd been mulling over switching back to a laptop, but I'll probably stick to the iPad for now.

Before I was using Blink shell to ssh into my desktop and run Emacs. Not really ideal for me since I mainly use VS Code on my desktop (which is my main computer) and hardly touch Emacs anymore.

I wasn't able to find anything on deployment in the docs. What does it look like?

I've been looking for a framework with the following requirements:

  - Functional-ish language
  - Statically typed with Result error handling. 
  - Garbage collected. 
  - Compile time checked HTML templates, with autoformatter  and IDE support (like working with JSX/TSX in VS Code). 
  - Some kind of SQL DSL that has decent IDE support (like Ecto on Elixir, Diesel on Rust).