this must be what the furries felt like when they took away gpt 4o

Marc Andreessen on JRE: AI hasn't replaced coders. It turned them into vampires. "The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents."

i made a map to monitor data centers all around the world tracks construction nearby power plants local AI legislation, and follows the politicians behind their bans ( if they're getting paid to do so!)

man the early days of the internet were so special

Opus 4.8 is insane guys. It one shotted my session usage limit.

Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.

walking around outside is like scrolling with your body

You only live once, so make sure to spend as much time as possible on your computer. You won’t have access to it when you die

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin

It’s an honor just to be nominated

that's no way to talk about @eshear

me watching the llm do the job i used to love

im either at work, going to work, coming from work, getting ready for work, getting some sleep for work, or thinking about not wanting to go to work.

shiny new thing syndrome: people love coining new words for old problems. they get excited by "new ideas" and rush to build new frameworks, new concepts, new abstractions – when what they actually need already exists. it just needs to be more robust, more extensible, better fitted with the rest of the system. shiny new thing syndrome adds unnecessary complexity. every new thing tips the balance of the whole. if you keep adding, and adding, and suddenly you have a tower of abstractions that's too complicated to reason about. it becomes unstable. fragile. the real art isn't in creating new things – it's in seeing what's already there. lose the blinders. look at the whole, not just the part you're excited about. don't over-optimize every single piece. sometimes the best move is to use what exists and make it better, not reinvent it with a shinier name. most things aren't new. they're just repackaged. the concepts underneath are the same – databases, views, functions, state. if you can see past the surface, you realize we're all just rearranging the same fundamental pieces. the question isn't "what new thing can i build?" it's "what already works that i can make truly better?"

wow LLMs are just like me

If I didn’t have a cofounder, I would have given up.

literally no rational reason to get a laptop which isn’t a macbook so anytime I see someone with a windows laptop I know they are subject to tyranny, either by another (eg their job) or by their own mind

i still think of this when making new things, that apple seems to have forgotten: “15 platforms and a gazillion variations – how do we explain this if we don’t even know which to recommend to our friends?”

inspired by bolter, i used gemini to completely vibe code this 2d top-down interface where you explore a garden of ideas/notes, represented by hieroglyphs. if you want some idea fusion, just walk into a water tile: it would combine 2 nearby ideas and synthesize a new one 🌊