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New comment by thenanyu in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

thenanyu — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:19:53 +0000

Siri was under jobs. He saw AI before everyone else

New comment by thenanyu in "The silent death of good code"

thenanyu — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:24:07 +0000

CC got my dev env set up and running in 20 min. It had to fix my local node setup and a ton of other dependencies. A junior dev cannot do that in 20 days (unless they just asked CC to do it)

New comment by thenanyu in "The silent death of good code"

thenanyu — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:51:35 +0000

That's not even remotely close to true anymore. Agents are far better than any intern or junior developer.

New comment by thenanyu in "The silent death of good code"

thenanyu — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:50:09 +0000

Agents can write good code. If you don't like the way that they write code, tell them to write it differently. Do that until you think the code is good.

New comment by thenanyu in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

thenanyu — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:40:44 +0000

I don’t know, man. Rands was kind of the original slop

New comment by thenanyu in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

thenanyu — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:36:31 +0000

This is goddamn terrible advice. You’re rolling a dice to see if the great work ends up making it.

Have we not learned the lesson of bell labs? 90% of the time the great work doesn’t make it by itself. It takes leadership to carve a path for it to emerge and actually flourish.

I swear, there are like two influential things on the internet that have completely wrecked the practice of engineering management:

The Spotify org chart blog post and Rands.

New comment by thenanyu in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

thenanyu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:09:06 +0000

You can prompt the model to dump all of the memory into a text file and import that.

In the onboarding flow, I can ask you, "Do you use another LLM?" If so, give it this prompt and then give me the memory file that outputs.

New comment by thenanyu in "Imagine 130M Washing Machines"

thenanyu — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:44:03 +0000

Presumably, the percentage of taxation is a function of the price of the item? You can have a different curve or base rate for different harmonization codes.

New comment by thenanyu in "Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial"

thenanyu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:30:43 +0000

When I was in my early 20s I used to think I was very clever for pointing out apparent hypocrisies. Now I realize how easily that devolves into “you are imperfect therefore you may never criticize anything”

Americans can never call out human rights abuses because of slavery. The British can never because of colonialism. Period. Forever.

If you find this line of argumentation compelling there’s no discussing anything with you.

New comment by thenanyu in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

thenanyu — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:38:27 +0000

You seem to discount that the yappers are good and convincing writers as well

New comment by thenanyu in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

thenanyu — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:31:34 +0000

That’s beside the point. It wouldn’t help shaq or any of those big men hit free throws. They have no problems with mechanics.

New comment by thenanyu in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

thenanyu — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:35:02 +0000

I hate this analogy. NBA players can all hit 90% of their free throws shooting overhand too. Just some of them are much worse at handling the pressure and pace change of the situation in a game context.

New comment by thenanyu in "Being blocked from contributing to lodash"

thenanyu — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:24:31 +0000

Block is a no

New comment by thenanyu in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"

thenanyu — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:08:20 +0000

there's this things that happens where blog boys love to say Big Important Stuff (that isn't true) and in the 1% chance that it becomes true they point back on it and say "I am a goddamned genius" and if it hits the 99% no one remembers their bullshit.

New comment by thenanyu in "Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it"

thenanyu — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:22:37 +0000

This doesn’t sound very much like like OST beyond the general concept of caring about problems to me

New comment by thenanyu in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

thenanyu — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:35:38 +0000

I don’t understand how you can make this statement in the midst of chatGPT being the fastest growing consumer app in history.

New comment by thenanyu in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

thenanyu — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:22:17 +0000

What did you buy

New comment by thenanyu in "AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?"

thenanyu — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:05:50 +0000

dude I think you’re one-shotted

New comment by thenanyu in "You Had No Taste Before AI"

thenanyu — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:35:45 +0000

Yeah it’s a lot of projection.

New comment by thenanyu in "Programming Deflation"

thenanyu — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:28:32 +0000

Make lots of predictions and write down your thought process (seriously write them down!) once the result is in, analyze whether you were right. Were you right for the right reasons? Were you wrong but had the right thought process mostly?

Do it every day for years.