People complain about how it's written, but it's nevertheless an interesting exploration of the parallels between natural ecosystems and human economies. As someone with no particular interest or background in economics (and who hasn't read anything else by Jane Jacobs), I find it a fascinating and easy read.

Edit: close, but not quite

Three kinds of disability:

1. Permanent (eg, blind)

2. Temporary (eg, pregnant/new parent, recoverable injury)

3. Contextual (eg, holding something with one hand, loud environment)

When people think about accessibility, they often think about 1. But the long-tails for 2 and 3 are huge, and ultimately affect everyone at some point.

(Forgive the link source - I can see in hindsight how that might not be perceived as the most objective source - but there are many other sources for those who care to look.)

There’s valid concern with these types of laws and scope creep. But there’s also precedent which shows they can work and be applied reasonably.

FOSS projects didn’t always have a standard process for Fagan inspections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagan_inspection

And while banning AI outright is certainly an option at a private company, it also feels like throwing out the baby with the bath water. So we’re all searching for a solution together, I think.

There was a time (decades ago) when projects didn’t need to use pull requests. As the pool of contributors grew, new tools were discovered and applied and made FOSS (and private dev) a better experience overall. This feels like a similar situation.

Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.

Some businesses prefer tools built by other businesses for some tasks. The author advocates pretty plainly to identify and target those opportunities if that’s your strength.

I think his point is to recognize that’s moving toward a niche rather than the norm (on the spectrum of all software to be built).

Not sure how well it’s working though (my agents haven’t used it yet)

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents

Are you talking about the same thing or something else like having Claude start new shell sessions?

> Automation doesn't just allow you to create/fix things faster. It also allows you to break things faster.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775966

Edit: found the original comment from NikolaeVarius

It might be more useful if it was an index of skills managed in GitHub. Sort of like GitHub actions which can be browsed in the marketplace[1] but are ultimately just normal git repos.

[1] https://github.com/marketplace?type=actions