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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Connecting an agent in one place and then switching the main driver to another location is suboptimal.

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  I don't yet have numbers to back this up, but I gotta believe that someone connecting their agent to Kody in one agent and then switching their main driver to another somewhere else is suboptimal.

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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  Riding in a taxi with a human driver carries no genuine expectation of privacy, only reliance on the driver's discretion.

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  There's no privacy expectation although you might rely on their discretion.

  The expectations of privacy in driverless carsshkspr.mobi

Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  AI is not the primary driver of the recent decline in the college wage premium

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  I do not see AI as driving these changes, but an interesting result nonetheless

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Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

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  Scaling up spending on expert human data has not been a major driver of progress in AI research.

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  So my sense is that scaling up the amount of effort spent on getting expert human data has not been hugely important for AI R&D in general.

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  In the areas where it operates, the Waymo driver is about seventeen times better than human drivers at avoiding crashes that cause serious injury.

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  in the areas where we operate, the Waymo driver is about 17 times better than human drivers when it comes to crashes uh that cause serious injury.

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  Cameras alone are enough to approximately match a human driver, but weak sensing puts safety on a curve that flattens out well below superhuman.

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  However, if you are targeting full autonomy, and you're targeting superhuman, strongly superhuman performance, you find that weak sensing just leads to a safety curve that flattens out way too early.

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  Driving turns out to be much like language modelling, because a driver is holding a conversation with other road users in the body language of a car.

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  Turns out, the task of driving is not that dissimilar from the task of modeling language uh because of the social aspects of driving. You're kind of having a conversation with other dynamic actors in the world, but you're doing that in the space kind of body language of your agent, your car, as opposed to just the language of words.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Shape the company to fit the founder the way an F1 car is fitted to its driver; the next CEO can reshape it after you.

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  whatever it takes to fit the car to you whatever it takes to fit the organization to you, that's what you got to do. And the next CEO, whatever the personality is, they can figure it out.

  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  SQLite is a fine production database for a small site, but running it well is more complicated than the "SQLite in production is totally fine" blog posts make it sound.

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  I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.

  Learning a few things about running SQLitejvns.ca

Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

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  Growing public unreasonableness and contradictory demands are a major cause of persistently low approval ratings for politicians of both parties.

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  the increasing unreasonableness of an electorate that wants all its groceries in one bag and also doesn't want the bag to be heavy is a primary driver behind permanently low approval of politicians in both parties

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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.

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  Moving a robotaxi's safety driver from the steering wheel to the passenger seat is a bad idea dressed up as a milestone.

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  Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea

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Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.

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  Harness improvements help deploy a model better, but the model's underlying intelligence remains the core driver of capability.

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  harness improvement enables better deployment of the model but intelligence is still the core.

  Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io

Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

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  Codex, not Claude Code, is the right daily driver right now.

  Anthropic

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  but I I think Codex right now is my daily driver. I like spend all all my time in it basically.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  A lunar mass driver cannot pay for itself by cutting launch costs, because launch is already a small part of what an orbital computer costs.

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  At even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.

  How to build a lunar mass drivercaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.

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  Data centres will become the majority driver of electricity demand growth in Australia's National Electricity Market.

  data centersenergy

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  Even if a small fraction of this pipeline ends up operational, data centres will drive far more than 50% of demand growth in the NEM.

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Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  iPhone 17 Pro

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  Recently upgraded to this beast, using as daily driver, love the performance and camera

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Prisma

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  Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  The Driver's Seat

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  If you like her at all, you will be entranced by this one.

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Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Macbook Air M4

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  Macbook Air M4 (16/256GB): daily driver. Get things done. It's also my second device from Apple and I'm very satisfied using it as a mobility solution.

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Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  What decides a country's fortunes is not owning the leading sector but using the leading technology to create its own comparative advantage.

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  ultimately I think what matters is the use of AI in their economy to create economic value right I mean that's the uh the diffusion theory which is ultimately it's not the leading sector but it's the ability to use the leading technology to create your own comparative advantage right so that I think will fundamentally be the core driver

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  Anticipation, not quality, is what drives a game's early sales.

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  I would assume it will because it’s so anticipated, and anticipation is the best driver of early sales, as we saw with GTA4 versus Red Dead Redemption one.

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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

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  Competition drives skill, and sparing young people the struggle only defers it.

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  it seems like struggle is a part of life, either you do it earlier or you do it later. And it’s true, that’s such a good point that competition does seem to be a really powerful driver of skill development

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  Competition and experimentation among local officials has been a major driver of China's economic growth.

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  China does much better in basic service delivery-and its local governments have also played a very obvious and important in driving growth, thanks to the competition and experimentation among local officials driven to develop their jurisdictions.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Forced labour in Chinese clean-energy supply chains is real, and it is not why the goods are cheap.

  energyChina

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  But my point is that this is still not the reason (or is only a very small reason) why these goods from China are cheaper than elsewhere. The main driver of lower labour costs has been automation; not having a human worker at all.

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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.

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  Tesla's robotaxi intervention rate is far better than its consumer self-driving software and far worse than a human driver or Waymo.

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  That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  Without hard skills of your own, your ceiling as a programmer is whatever the LLMs happen to be capable of.

  LLMs

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  And so if you don't have those hard skills and you're not ultimately the driver at the end of the day, you're going to really find some hard times, and your ability to progress will be directly bound to how good the LLMs are.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

From one piece Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominance 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Raising interest rates cannot meaningfully cool inflation when structural fiscal deficits, not private-sector lending, are its main driver.

  inflationinterest rates

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  Since inflation is not primarily driven by private-sector lending in the current environment, making borrowing more expensive will not significantly cool the economy.

  Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominancelynalden.com

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  Structural fiscal deficits have surpassed private sector lending and monetary policy as the primary driver of economic activity and inflation.

  inflation

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  Structural fiscal deficits have surpassed private sector lending and monetary policy as the primary drivers of economic activity and inflation, marking a fundamental shift in the economy's liquidity dynamics.

  Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominancelynalden.com

Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  A self-driving car is more trustworthy than a random human driver.

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  Personally, I would trust a self-driving car more than the average stranger to give me a lift.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Once a vehicle no longer has to survive a crash with a human driver, it can be made ten times lighter without losing speed or interior space.

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  It should be possible to decrease the weight of a car by 10x without sacrificing speed or internal volume.

  Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10xaustinvernon.site

Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.

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  Riding in a Waymo robotaxi is a better overall experience than being driven by a human driver.

  self-driving cars

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  I found it to be a superior experience to a human driver, for a few key reasons.

  Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymonathanielbullard.com

Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

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  At current ride volumes it would take a leading robotaxi fleet about twenty years without a single fatality to show it is as safe as the average human driver.

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  At current deployment rates it will take Waymo about 20 years with ZERO fatalities to show they are net as safe as average human driver fatality rates (including the old cars, impaired drivers, etc. in that comparison baseline).

  Perspective on Waymo's Safety Progresssafeautonomy.blogspot.com

Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.

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  A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale.

  self-driving cars

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  If Waymo vehicles were constantly asking for remote guidance, Waymo might need to hire so many remote operators that it negates the cost savings that come from not needing a driver.

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Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

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  Whatever safety gain a driver-assistance system delivers is cancelled out by the driver complacency it creates.

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  suggests that any steering automation safety gains (e.g., Level 2 autopilot) are approximately negated by driver complacency, with autopilot on being slightly worse than autopilot off

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Environmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one.

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  The primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.

  Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Technology is a lever on the world -- the way to make more with less -- and productivity growth is the main driver of wages, industries and jobs.

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  We believe technology is a lever on the world – the way to make more with less. Economists measure technological progress as productivity growth: How much more we can produce each year with fewer inputs, fewer raw materials. Productivity growth, powered by technology, is the main driver of economic growth, wage growth, and the creation of new industries and new jobs, as people and capital are continuously freed to do more important, valuable things than in the past.

  The Techno-Optimist Manifestoa16z.com

Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

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  A self-driving car should be roughly ten times safer than a human driver before it is deployed, to leave engineering margin for what nobody can predict.

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  Taken together, there is an argument to be made that AVs should be safer than human drivers by about a factor of 10 (being a nice round order of magnitude number) to leave engineering margin for the above considerations.

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Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.

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  Chips are getting more expensive mainly because they take more process steps, not because the tools got dearer.

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  The primary driver is not only the rising costs of tools such as EUV, but the rising number of steps to make a chip.

  The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com

Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

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  Every mile of public-road testing adds risk, so each one has to earn its keep.

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  Even if you have the best possible safety drivers, every test mile adds some risk. Hopefully that risk is no worse than human driver vehicle risks, but that’s a different discussion.

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