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20 September
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korrents.com
CMake tooling is missing a linter that could statically catch most CMakeLists.txt mistakes.Their words
The world needs a good CMake linter, which could catch most cases statically.
What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com
19 September
18 September
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korrents.com
Export controls work, and claims that they merely make Chinese companies work harder or catch up are propaganda.Their words
Export controls work. "Export controls just make Chinese companies work harder or catch up" is propaganda ass shite
16 September
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korrents.com
Designers' jobs are safe from AI.Their words
Designers, your job is safe from AI. https://t.co/W7eAOnYvQW
15 September
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2 September
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I worry a lot about reliances on continuity failing at exactly the most dangerous time.
1 September
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But if there was some amount of cheating that the monitor didn't catch, then those rollouts wouldn't be removed. And it might be like structurally very analogous to just positively reinforcing whatever the cheating rollouts were that happened not to be caught by your monitor.
31 August
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The most positive use case if you said, you know, what's the number one thing we could use AI for? It's not giving kids chatbots that's going to work. It's giving them an individualized lesson plan based on their level to catch them up to grade level. And that would be the single best thing we could do to fix education in America.
26 August
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korrents.com
A frontier AI model's competitive lead decays within months to a year as others catch up.Their words
The frontier keeps being extraordinary valuable and that value keeps having a half-life in months or a year.
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There's not any accumulation, which is in some ways a great relief.
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UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)Their words
UCP, the universal commerce protocol is growing better and better
25 August
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korrents.com
Defunding public health surveillance systems allows foodborne disease outbreaks to go undetected.Their words
When the public health systems meant to catch and stop this stuff are cut (less funding, less staff, less historical knowledge, and less leadership), outbreaks can, and will, emerge between the cracks.
24 August
23 August
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SMB Multichannel can make an old NAS with several gigabit interfaces much more capable than one might assume from looking at any single Ethernet port.
21 August
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17 August
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The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.
16 August
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Design of Everyday ThingsTheir words
Must read not only for designers, but for software developers too, even if you develop backend exclusively. I wish everybody read it really.
15 August
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korrents.com
AI text detectors and the LLMs they try to catch are locked in a permanent cat-and-mouse arms race.Their words
AI checkers are essentially a cat-and-mouse game. AI checkers may learn to detect a certain pattern that is indicative of AI-generated content. Then, the next LLM may incidentally or deliberately not exhibit that pattern and avoid detection. The AI checker then has to be updated to detect said LLM, and so forth.
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratchmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
14 August
11 August
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One concern you might have is there are like large categories of reward hacks which humans can't detect well and which we consistently fail to detect and which consistently get reinforced and then this category is sufficient to cause the most natural behavior for the AI to learn to be like cheat when the humans can't find out
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Let Over LambdaTheir words
Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte is perfect for those three people in the world who find The Art of the Metaobject Protocol underwhelming. One of the most impressive books I've read.
7 August
2 August
From one piece This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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hiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.
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if you don't actually push yourself down to sit alongside your IC engineers and your IC designers and your IC PMs, you don't actually know that stuff. So you can't make good macro decisions without the micro.
29 July
24 July
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korrents.com
AirPods' reliability comes from using a proprietary protocol rather than standard Bluetooth.Their words
AirPods work flawlessly because they're cheating with a proprietary Apple-only protocol.
22 July
19 July
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I get really nervous about having different design languages or different types of user interactions and shipping Frankensteins, basically. So, designers need to then be the people we're hiring again for design systems thinking.
15 July
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yes it will catch things and it will raise your floor but I don't believe like the model writing the code is the same model reading the code and if you ask a model hey is this code good it's going to be like oh yeah it's great comprehensive it's got unit tests
14 July
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Likedrcmnd.app
404 MediaTheir words
Trigger warning to graphic designers: worst AI-designed fliers, via the excellent 404 Media. Heinous!
9 July
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you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.
2 July
29 June
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it turns out that making a secure form of obfuscation is really really hard
18 June
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He and I, we share the same view that semiconductor infrastructure actually is not catch up with the AI growth.
28 May
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
24 May
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Designers have stopped handing work off — they open the pull request themselves, which changes how companies build.Their words
And what you see when we work with them internally is now they're just like they're just making pull pull requests. Like they don't they don't need to hand it off as much. Sometimes they do but like a lot of times they just make pull requests and it's like the thing is built and that's it and I think that's incredible for the way that companies work
16 May
13 May
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but but if you have good locality where you you clearly stating what you're importing and whatever and and you can analyze just a single source file and from that extract its protocol to the outside world without having to to know anything deeper. Do you do you know what I mean? I think those are important aspects just simply to reduce the size of the of the of the context window and also make it easier to summarize each module in a program, right?
26 April
From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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in the early days, my view was not that we don't need PMs. My view was that designers should do that work.
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when you're creating a thousand new ideas, who cares if most of them are not great ideas? That's totally fine, right? What we want to get rid of is that sense of, you know, preciousness that people have around ideas
8 April
7 April
From one piece Should Designers "Code"? 2 beliefs · lukew.com
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There's a question that never goes away in design: should designers code? My answer has always been yes. But for a decade or so, the complexity of front-end development made it impractical for most. Thankfully, AI coding agents have reopened the door.
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For years, it was faster to mock up software than to ship it. Designers stayed "ahead" of engineering with prototypes. Now AI coding agents make development so much faster that the loop has flipped.
26 March
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The reason companies pay for design is to get customers to buy more and users to look at more advertisements.
11 March
From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There’s this phrase of catch the wave, ride the wave. Most games fall off the back of the wave. They don’t catch the wave. No one plays it or plays it for two weeks.
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World of Warcraft, when we made it, there was no CFO at Blizzard. You don’t need a CFO to make World of Warcraft. You need artists, engineers, designers, producers, and an audio team.
23 February
8 February
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korrents.com
Local AI models will eventually catch up to frontier models once frontier progress hits diminishing returns.Their words
At some point frontier models will face diminishing returns, local models will catch up, and we will be done being beholden to frontier models.
19 January
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But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.
15 January
11 December 2025
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The US has a lot to learn from other countries for how to catch up to the efficient frontier, especially for certain types of construction (ie: transit) and in certain places in the country (ie: expensive coastal metros).
1 December 2025
From one piece Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Value 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Utility protocols face heavy competition, and thus their value trends toward their marginal cost of operation.
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korrents.com
Decentralized finance mainly converts custodial risk into technical risk rather than eliminating risk altogether.Their words
While there is some utility value in DeFi, it basically lets users transform custodial risk into technical risk (e.g. bridge protocol hacks), which is not a free lunch.
28 November 2025
20 October 2025
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The fractures fell neatly along disciplines: engineers using AI to wish away designers, designers wishing away engineers, product managers wishing away both. In this climate, AI becomes frenemy identification technology, another way to avoid working together.
16 October 2025
From one piece Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think the best, you know, designers on the product side can turn it on and off. They can go, I have my own taste. I know what I like. And then, okay, you're going for this. And that might be different than what I like, but I can match it brand as well.
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PMs are no longer saying to the designer, hey, can you draw this thing out for me? That frees up designer time to go explore more deeply the stuff they need to go into and it allows anyone to kind of add to that first conversation of where should we go and look further and wider and broader at the option space.
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I think in this world where software can be created more easily, design matters so much and designers matter so much. I think designers are going to be the leaders of the future and I think that more designers need to speak step into that leadership role
14 October 2025
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
GLM 4.6Their words
I keep an eye on China’s open models, and it’s impressive how quickly they catch up. GLM 4.6 and Kimi K2.1 are strong contenders that slowly reach Sonnet 3.7 quality
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Kimi K2.1Their words
I keep an eye on China’s open models, and it’s impressive how quickly they catch up. GLM 4.6 and Kimi K2.1 are strong contenders that slowly reach Sonnet 3.7 quality
27 September 2025
21 September 2025
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It's easier to even predict whether growth will slow down at a certain point. it's easier to catch these trends earlier. If you don't have good observability over how your business runs and what the company's um key levers are, then you will be scrambling.
14 July 2025
6 July 2025
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Bitcoin is not going to catch on as a charity. In order for spending it to catch on persistently at scale (i.e. not just billions of dollar-equivalents in annual global medium-of-exchange volume, but trillions), it has to solve problems for spenders and/or recipients that other solutions are not doing.
12 May 2025
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Sometimes designers will go to great lengths to make a user interface novel, or minimal, or simple. This is the wrong goal. Novelty, minimalism or simplicity are good heuristics for obviousness, but do not mistake the means for the end.
30 April 2025
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And by doing this, removing this from being a programming problem for the programmer to deal with, to being a language problem for us language designers to deal with. And we're moving a vast amount of pain that would be imposed on a million people, instead to a vast amount of pain imposed on a small number of people to have to actually make this work.
7 March 2025
From one piece Vibe Coding and Vibe Design 2 beliefs · jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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Essentially, vibe coding makes it trivial to create front-end code, so designers can skip static mockups and go straight to building a UI that works.
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Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
4 March 2025
23 January 2025
21 January 2025
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Catch-up growth in the 20th century was almost entirely state-led.
21 November 2024
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When a team of 10 AI-enabled super-designers can do the work that used to require a UX department of 100, the need for higher management levels shrivels. I call this the “pancaking” of the design profession.
Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
26 July 2024
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3 May 2024
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But as fab costs increased, it became more and more burdensome for manufacturers to operate cutting edge manufacturing facilities due to the high costs, and fewer manufacturers had the production volume to spread those costs over.
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com
22 April 2024
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This is the 2001 monolith hypothesis. I would be less surprised to find a quiescent alien artifact in our solar system than I would to catch a radio signal from an intelligent civilization.
22 March 2024
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Now, does that mean that every UFO sighting in the world has been a U-2? No, but I come from it from that lane of thinking, and there are so many strategic deception campaigns, and as I look over the decades of how these same UFO stories, and again, this is just my opinion based on my reporting, this narrative that keeps reoccurring, it seems to me like a very large catch- all to keep the public’s attention on that, not on that.
16 January 2024
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Design LobsterTheir words
Ben Strak's short and sweet Monday newsletter offers weekly inspiration to designers and anyone else curious about the world around them. A good example of how newsletters thrive on the authentic curiosity of the people who write them.
31 December 2023
1 September 2023
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So if you think about entire all of nature, let's say all of living systems as a matrix that runs across two axes one is material sophistication, which is terribly relevant for designers, and the other is communication. The termites ace on communication, but their material sophistication is crap.
20 April 2023
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Design is not the way it looks, or beautiful colors and animations. It's not the brand or the logo. It is how the product works. Designing is the the process of exploring and arriving at a solution. I believe all builders are designers.
7 April 2023
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A big moment of realization for me is that most of the social sciences are not design practices.
1 January 2023
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Social affordances are naturally open because humans crave social connection and will pry open channels that designers tried to close off.
13 December 2022
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Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this.
28 October 2020
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
The Non-Designers Design BookTheir words
If you're like me, I knew nothing about fonts, layouts or basic usage of text before I read this. This book uses great, full-color examples to explain the basics of designs. If you don't know the difference between a serif and a sans-serif font, this is a great place to start.
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
Biomimicry: Innovation InspiredTheir words
Who are the best engineers and designers in the world? Nature. This book is an interesting, science-heavy look at some really interesting properties in nature we could use to learn from as we try to design new technology. Benyus takes us across the spectrum from photosynthesis, to agriculture, to spiders. If you want to geek out on a little biology while applying it to technology this is a good read.
10 July 2019
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Work that’s too fine, too early commits everyone to the wrong details. Designers and programmers need room to apply their own judgement and expertise when they roll up their sleeves and discover all the real trade-offs that emerge.
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Regardless of what you say, any specific mockups are going to bias what other people do after you—especially if you’re in a higher position than them. They’ll take every detail in the initial mockups as direction even though you didn’t intend it.
25 June 2019
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Likedrcmnd.app
Steam ControllerTheir words
I use a Steam Controller, which honestly is a really great choice for PC gaming that didn’t catch on and now Valve seem to have given up on it.
10 April 2018
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
full spectrum LED lightTheir words
I use a full spectrum LED light most mornings for about 10-15 minutes while I catch up on email. It's great—if you try nothing else in here, this is the thing I'd try. It's a ridiculous gain for me.
1 January 2018
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Halt and Catch FireTheir words
Halt and Catch Fire is extraordinary. It’s the best fictional portrayal of what a tech start up is actually like.
5 October 2017
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Rather, the best way to reduce the volume and severity of mistakes is to adjust the system itself.
16 January 2017
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