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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  Language models cannot hold a genuine perspective or take a stand for what they believe.

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  But for LLMs, it shows that they have no skin in the game and will never take a stand for what they believe in regardless of what it costs. They are perspective generators, not perspective holders.

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

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  The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that.

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  Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.

  Their words now

  really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  AI will not run out of data, because there is already enough real-world data to build the simulators that generate more of it.

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  Do you have enough data to make simulations, so that you can create more synthetic data that are from the right distribution? Obviously that's the key. So you need enough real-world data in order to be able to create those kinds of data generators, and I think that we're at that step at the moment.

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

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  The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that.

  Their words, before

  it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer

  Their words now

  Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.

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

From one piece How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordable 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Letting generators cover one per cent of the year is what makes an off-grid solar data centre affordable, because the last few gloomy days set the whole array size.

  solardata centersenergy

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  The optimal scenario is typically when the generators supply 1% of yearly electricity (shown below).

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  Buying spare compute is cheaper than buying backup generators, because the servers cost fifty times what the generator does.

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  Installed generators cost ~$800/kW, and the data center capital cost, including servers, is ~$40,000/kW, so adding 1% more makeup compute capacity is money ahead of purchasing generators.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

From one piece Digital pollution 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.

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  These programs that generate a website, app, or file for you spit out thousands of lines of unnecessary junk when really only 10 lines are needed.

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  Code and files generated by tools are pollution: hand-writing them is worth the effort because the bloat slows everything down for everyone.

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  I prefer coding everything by hand, because I don't like the huge piles of garbage that the automated generators create.

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Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.

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  Sublime Text

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  I export HTML from Byword into Sublime Text. My website runs on Jekyll and I use the GitHub desktop tool to commit files to my site.

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  Jekyll

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  I've run all my sites on Jekyll and GitHub Pages for a while now. I have found it easier to manage than WordPress (particularly as I know next to nothing about databases),

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