if you're in tokyo and want to grab a coffee and talk tech, my dms are always open. always down to meet others doing interesting work out here

There really should be some kind of federally guaranteed consumer protections against planned obsolescence

ok so I looked it up and saizeriya is vertically integrated across their ENTIRE supply chain. like to the point that they own wineries in italy. explains a lot actually

I'm grateful to have taught myself to code when debugging was the actual education. You'd sit there staring at a stack trace for 45 minutes, mass googling, and pouring over stackoverflow answers. It was painful, but at the end of it you knew your codebase intimately Now that the fix is usually one or two prompts away people just plow right past it (myself included). I left corporate Nov 2024 but I'm positive the industry is being flooded with juniors who can ship like crazy but can't answer a single question on how anything works. They're getting answers without ever learning how to form the question and I don't think enough people are worried about that

every time i go to saizeriya i genuinely cannot comprehend how they make money

Every AI tool has a mass conversion event where the entire community decides overnight that it's trash. Cursor had it. Claude code had it before fable. Now I feel like gpt is a few weeks away if they don't drop something good. The loyalty cycle is like 6 weeks long

fun fact typos in the middle of words basically don't matter at all but typos towards the beginning/end have a higher chance of being read wrong bc it can result in different tokens the models will still understand if you mess up a few words ofc

yesterday I spent $85 on a kapital jacket in tokyo that would cost $600 on grailed. the arbitrage between japanese secondhand stores and western resale is genuinely stupid and I will never be able to pay retail again without feeling scammed

when I left my corporate job people kept asking what my plan was. my plan was to stop wanting to die on sunday nights. that was the whole plan. it's been a resounding success so far.

please please please please please please

is there any clearer evidence of blatant manipulation than this?

every company with a developer relations team should be forced to make their own engineers use only their public docs for a month

anthropic releasing fable 5 and clearing the usage window on the same day is hilarious

this is cool af

me: add a stripe hosted checkout page codex: good idea btw let's add atomic webhook event ledgers, same-second event tie-breakers, subscription replay/reconciliation tooling, custom stale-event guards, webhook shape validation, and test harnesses for every edge case while we're at it

gun to your head explain the difference between a model and a harness

genuinely how is there such a market for identifier apps when the google mobile app does it for free. Literally used it yesterday to find out what was flying around my flowers

companies will spend insane money on docs infrastructure and still ship content that reads like it was written by someone who has never used their product

How do I filter out all the engagement bait posts that ask the dumbest most inane questions