anonzzzies
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- anonzzziesThe chronicles are great; I like watching them today, like I enjoy reading EWDs today as well. Well done Stewart.
- Is there also not a some genetic aspect there? It is a question as I do not know but always assumed as I always did whatever and have 0 cavities or anything else that other people seem to have and I am almost 60. Never have receding gums, sensitivity, cavities or anything else since I was born.
- They did for the new copilot agent builder products, thats where I get most early invites.
- But "AI did it" is not immediate you are out thing? If you cannot explain why something is made the way you committed to git, we can just replace you with AI right?
- Not OP but I would and do write things 20x, for the simple reason that the 2nd is better than the 1st, even after refactoring the first, the 3rd better than the 2nd etc. We have a durable workflow thing from when it wasn't a thing yet (it was called enterprise workflow engine or something back then) which I started in PHP in the mid 90s, it has been rewritten by me over 30x and now its as optimal as it can be. It is finally finished. I have 20 year old clients who upgraded to it and are happier with the performance and stability. We do this with many parts of our software stack; not big refactoring but rewrite from scratch. One thing with this: in my opinion you can only rewrite if you are NOT adding any features; it should be a 1 to 1 rebuild.
- But he says that every year in the earnings call, he will say it again in the q1 call. 'By september' full of confidence and no one calling him out.
- I guess that depends on the user; most people are not getting most out of flat priced subscriptions. Over all they probably make a profit, and definitely on API use, but some will just spend a lot more. It'll get cheaper though; they are still acquiring as long as there is VC money.
- I wish I got out more. I used to go a lot to meetups and sit next to people 'closer to the hype' showing me the cutting edge stuff; often it was just a 'meh' experience vs the 'this is like seeing god' type of comments on hn/reddit and sometimes it is an eye opener (rarely). The 'meh' is usually when people claim it is 10000x more productive: I sit next to them and seeing them struggle to get even the basics done; after that, they struggle with the same issues I do when I try it while they are the 'experts' and I learn that people call things productive when they are kept 'busy' not actually producing results faster.
Anyway:
> agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations,
give me extreme Emacs 'setup' feelings: I was at a meetup in hk recently where there was someone advocating this and it was just depressing; spending hours on stuff that changes daily while just my vanilla claude code with playwright mcp runs circles around it, even after it has been set up. It is just not better at all and until someone can show that it is actually an improvement WITH the caveat that when it is an improvement on t(1), it doesn't need a complete overhaul at t(n) where n is a few days or weeks just because the hype machine says so. This measured against a vanilla CC without any added tooling except maybe playwright mcp.
People just want to scam themselves in feeling useful: if the ai does the work, then you find some way of feeling busy by adding and finetuning stuff to feel useful.
- Yep, that usually works best.
- Luckily I have a very large amount of MSX computers, zx, amstrad cpc etc and even one multiprocessor z80 cp/m machine for the real power. Wonder how gnarly this is going to perform with bankswitching though. Probably not good.
- I had that one with 64gb: got a new one twice but could not get it to act normal. It just got so incredibly hot, it was uncomfortable. It was one of my worst hardware purchases.
- When calory restricting I do this too: I am actually never hungry before 11 am while I get up at 5 am always but I force myself (at 8) and don't need anything else the rest of the day because of it.
- After about 24 hours I don't notice anymore. I just finished a 2 week fast on only water, tea and supplements. I hardly notice when I focus on something else (work/hobby). When I stop focusing I get sleepy instead of hungry. Cold I have not managed; I come from a cold country and I really really hate any type of cold; I like 30C+ high humidity as a baseline, under that, I am cold and uncomfortable. I did try to view them the same and tried to meditate through it, but, unlike fasting, I cannot ignore the continues suffering that is cold while fasting is almost pleasant (makes me sharper).
- But the issue is, and I am not someone saying we should or can throw everything out, that if the US gov demands it, you have to hand over the data right? If your HQ is in the US? Palantir, for me, is worse because of what they are and their communications as you say, but all of these, when compelled by the courts, have to hand over right?
- Agenda's delivered prior to the meeting, not just at the start and MoMs afterwards, otherwise if was a waste. And with this, it often is a waste anyway, but at least there was an attempt.
- Clicks don't work on mobile?
- But that does not make it 'normally'; where does it work that way vs income(and other) taxes? Where I live and all countries around, roads are paid from general taxes (including income, road and fuel taxes).
- Thanks, fixed.
- A friend started that type of business in my country a few years ago (end covid): she is pretty successful and I gave her a chance for a trip I am on now. It mostly exposed how absolutely terrible everyone seems to be at this: she did absolutely lazy work I could have done fast(er) and better myself (usually do and will do again), but, seeing her other clients, including a friend, it seems most people are just really bad at it, far worse than she is (or wants to spend time on I guess).
- Everyone should say no to palantir anywhere, especially outside the US.