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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case.

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

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  AI guardrails will end up binding only the ordinary person, because the powerful actors they most need to check will simply steamroll them.

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  the most powerful actors for whom this is the biggest concern if these guard rails or the constitution or whatever is getting in the way that will just get steamrolled and so the constitution will only be you know hitting the everyday man rather than hitting governments.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Reinforcement learning leaves models sharply jagged: on the rails of a verifiable domain they are superintelligent, off them everything meanders.

  AI alignment

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  And so you're kind of like you're either on rails and you're part of the super intelligence circuits or you're not on rails and you're outside of the verifiable domains and suddenly everything kind of just like meanders.

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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

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  The Open Banking fight is not about data but about whether banks may charge for economic activity on payment rails they do not operate.

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  Almost all discussions of it center on “data”, but it’s actually a fight about payments, and whether banks have a right to monopolize and charge for all economic activity their users engage in, irrespective of whether the bank operates the payment method.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The Rails doctrine's 'progress over stability' is the one point that dated: churn is not progress, and stability turned out to be worth more.

  JavaScript

  On changing their mind

  I used to think it required more churn to get progress to stay on the leading edge of new stuff. And I wrote this before I experienced the indignity of the 2010s in the JavaScript community.

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.

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  Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.

  Ruby on Rails

  On changing their mind

  And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.

General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

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  Superintelligence

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  the back half I think it goes off the rails and makes a ton of assumptions

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