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We are quite confident that drops should be attributed to the WR, not the quarterback.
2 September
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I do not see AI as driving these changes, but an interesting result nonetheless
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14 August
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American sports laws amount to a kind of out-in-the-open conspiracy to help a lucky few billionaires get much, much richer
8 August
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Increasingly, it is looking much more like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown.
7 August
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I think the best companies in my experience come from what might be characterized as scenes. There's like a moment that enables a new company to be born and there's a bunch that comes together that really creates this like unique nucleation for the new company.
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you can have an agent make code for you and it could work and it could test, but is it secure? Is it maintainable? If there's something going wrong, can you roll things back and understand what's going on?
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From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what you can do if you've got one of these conformance suites is you can give it to a a good agent and say, "Write code until this test suite passes." And it kind of will.
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just cuz the test suite passes doesn't mean that the web server will boot. You know, there's there's always a chance that when you actually try in the real world, something's not going to work.
12 March
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Everybody thinks our schools are in crisis all the time because they’re being forced to do something they were never meant to do, which is to make everyone college-ready, and they’re being forced to do that because we have seen jobs that provide a living wage without a college diploma evaporate.
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12 February
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Long lead times and soft costs, fueled by the world-leading US wages for "white collar" work, are the root cause of poor performance in low-volume production because there are few units to spread the soft costs over.
16 January
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Advice to never give up becomes dangerous once a venture passes an unknowable tipping point.Their words
"Don't give up" is really, really useful advice-until a certain point. After that, it becomes extremely dangerous.
22 December 2025
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A good overview of his work in labor economics.
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And you know what no sci-fi author dared to predict is that the Turing tests just passes by.
10 April 2025
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