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in the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won’t be in PRs and it won’t be by looking through every line of the code.
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17 September
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More software is likely to be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.Their words
It's likely that more software will be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.
16 September
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The climate impact from NVIDIA's AI products in 2025 is comparable to that of a major state-owned coal company.Their words
we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025's use of NVIDIA'S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.
14 September
13 September
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The deniers of free will haven't improved society. They have merely produced a more forgiving vocabulary for those who damage it.
9 September
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Most commercially produced black pudding today is made with dried blood imported from Europe rather than fresh blood.Their words
Fruit Pig are one of the few black pudding producers at scale who use fresh blood - most black pudding these days is made with dried blood imported from Europe.
7 September
4 September
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the temperatures produced under RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 are a reasonable upper bound on what the future climate might be.
2 September
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the median venture capitalist has not been much better at harvesting alpha than the median mutual fund manager or PE investor
29 August
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Consensus estimate is that ~15GW of AI compute produced in 2027 cannot be turned on in 2027. This is harder than just finding power, as you also need to build out all the transformers, wiring, liquid-cooling, (massive) chillers & complex networking.
28 August
26 August
From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Why are we surprised? Even if you're a good programmer, if you finish a job and you ask your also very good peer to review it, you're gonna end up with better code. Of course you're gonna end up with better code. So build that into your process.
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Then we get to November 24th, 2025. Opus 4.5, to me, was the dividing line, where suddenly... I didn't even try it on the 24th. I think I tried it on the 26th. I give it a couple of tasks, and I realize that the quality of the output is uncannily close to what I would've written.
15 August
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But the problem of nuclear today is like the Toyota Camry problem, right? Like we don't want to make Lamborghinis. We want to make a very simple, very cheap, very safe reactor that we can make literally tens of thousands of. Um and actually that is going to make the cheapest energy in the world, right?
11 August
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Facts and Fallacies of Software EngineeringTheir words
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.
10 August
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And most of them really sent reports that their agent produced without actually even testing it. I would I would take a stronger sense of explaining what are the parts that we guarantee and what are the parts that will not be fixed because that that's not our security boundary.
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Skipping the struggle in a task also means skipping the growth that struggle would have produced.Their words
That's what I mean when I say that if you skip the struggle, you miss the growth. Sometimes the struggle is all that really matters.
26 July
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So far I haven't seen AI agents doing anything new and important that I would care about, but maybe that's just a matter of time...
17 July
15 July
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I see nothing that looks like a significant new idea or any evidence this isn't a dead field.
12 July
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China's economic success has produced no transferable blueprint that other poor countries could follow.Their words
China’s tremendous success had not resulted in a blueprint that could be followed from Afghanistan to Zambia on how to become rich in four decades.
30 June
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but it would be a little bit disappointing and a little bit surprising if there weren't over the next 5 years like, uh, economically valuable improvements that were made that were directly like referable to the like AI progress in math.
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To meet the global population’s protein needs through factory-produced bacterial protein in 2024 would have used more than the total global electricity generated using renewable (hydro, photovoltaic and wind) energy
25 June
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Mass-produced AI-generated podcast shows are not a major threat to podcasting because listeners do not like them.Their words
I don't think mass-produced AI-generated shows are a big threat to podcasting, mostly because I don't think consumers like them.
15 June
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the council does not simply keep the best bits from everyone. It keeps a minority of the good ideas, while peer review seems to give consensus ideas an extra push.
4 June
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things have to go really wrong for us to like just get over the threshold of uh you know, capital being productive enough to automate lots of work, but not be productive enough that that the interest rate is high and or the price of capital produced goods is falling a lot, okay? So, even without redistribution, a little bit of savings will save a lot of people.
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So with one, you get the effect that the person produced art print is valued much much higher than the than the AI version. And then what we do is to say there's in a set of other conditions, there's 500 of these being produced. So for the human made one, the price goes down a lot because it's no longer seen as like you're not like making a connection with this one artist versus with AI, there's no difference. AI is already viewed as like a commodity.
22 April
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We don't ask the students to write essays because we love reading their amazing essays. We ask them to write essays because they we want them to go through a thought process, which helps them learn something.
13 March
11 March
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Google has produced no innovation since 2008; everything it has shipped since has been acquisitions.Their words
In fact, innovation died on the vine like all together and since I don't know, 2008, there has been no innovation from Google. It's all been acquisitions. They have they've created nothing new.
23 February
12 February
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Silicon Valley talking only to itself has produced a dismissal of ordinary human experience everywhere else.Their words
there’s also within that excitement, and within everybody talking just to each other, there’s a dismissal of the basic human experience across the United States and the Midwest, across the world.
5 February
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Likedrcmnd.app
GeminiTheir words
The command palette that ships for macOS in Ghostty today is only very lightly modified from what Gemini produced for me in seconds.
18 January
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korrents.com
Good documentation is produced by effort, not by tooling that keeps code and docs togetherTheir words
This reinforced my belief that good documentation comes from effort, not tooling.
14 January
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The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing StoriesTheir words
One of the most gorgeously-produced books I read, with illustrations by Matthew Forsythe.
18 August 2025
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if it produces incorrect code our philosophy is don't fix the code fix the context that cursor had that produced the bad code
13 August 2025
From one piece Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And remember that DeepSeek happened in times of crisis, urgency, not in times of comfort. A lot of these technological breakthroughs and leapfrogging happens in times of crisis. This is called crisis innovation. And you got to thank the US for that. When the Chinese were comfortably importing chips from the US, the whole industry stalled for 20 years.
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Maybe on the good side, it’s actually a golden age for Chinese women because the Chinese girls never had as much education investment apportioned to them as they’ve had after being the only child in the family. And you raised a daughter like a son. And if we look at all the skill gaps and the education gaps and the returns to education, actually girls fared better.
31 July 2025
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Mongols produced nothing. They could produce felt to make their tents, but they were not craftsmen. And so they had to get these items from somewhere, and it was through raiding.
25 July 2025
15 July 2025
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As a result, natural selection is very unlikely to have produced in humans any predisposition or preference for a certain number of births.
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
5 June 2025
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the text embeddings across LLMs appear to largely converge on a "universal geometry" despite differing architectures, parameter counts, and training sets.
24 May 2025
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And by that time, aircraft production in Britain is massively outpacing the Germans and the best ratio that the Germans achieve in 1940s, July 1940, when the British produced 496 new Hurricanes and Spitfires, single-engine fighters, and the Germans only produced 240 single-engine fighters.
15 May 2025
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But, China mainly dominates these markets because it has produced a long-term industrial strategy for these technologies and has honed an optimised, modern supply chain as a result.
22 March 2025
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there's been no computer improvement up to this date that did not result in more jobs.
19 January 2025
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never ever once have I seen a rebrand or redesign, especially of your key marketing site produce good performance results.
7 December 2024
30 November 2024
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A kilometre-wide telescope assembled in space out of mass-produced mirror satellites would cost about what JWST cost.Their words
The same as JWST, only 150 times wider and 22000 times more sensitive.
It Is Time To Build The Monster Scopecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
19 June 2024
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korrents.com
Owning the dominant model is not worth chasing, because no user has ever cared which model produced a good answer.Their words
Does the user care if Perplexity has the most dominant model in order to come and use the product? No. Does the user care about a good answer? Yes. So whatever model is providing us the best answer, whether we fine-tuned it from somebody else’s base model or a model we host ourselves, it’s okay.
2 April 2024
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Bulk building materials are already mass-produced in factories, and are among the cheapest materials civilization is capable of producing.
3 January 2024
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A modern shipyard can match a whole wartime industrial mobilisation with a fraction of the workers.Their words
South Korea's yearly production often matches the total tonnage the US produced in WWII - with one-fifth of the workers!
1 September 2023
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I think that let's say from the beginning of mankind going back 200,000 years, the products that we have designed have separated us from nature. And it's ironic that the things that we designed and produced as humankind, those are exactly the things that separated us.
13 December 2022
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All we can say from these big trends is that we have no idea whether peer review helped, it might have hurt, it cost a ton, and the current state of the scientific literature is pretty abysmal.
11 October 2022
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Without this anti-Malthusian response the research lab, corporation, and globalization cannot provide sustained growth.
26 August 2022
From one piece Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Roman economic growth, because it was a product of institutions instead of technologies, was not durable in the face of those institutions collapsing.
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As much as we might want to imagine that the greater currents push historical events largely on a predetermined path with but minor variations from what must always have been, in practice events are tremendously contingent on unpredictable variables.
23 October 2021
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