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7 September
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korrents.com
Open source wins because agents can train on it and use it efficiently, as with Blender beating its competitors.Their words
Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
6 September
3 September
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korrents.com
AGI is not a finish line to be crossed but a smear with width, and we are already standing on it.Their words
some bits of AI are way across the finish line, some bits are like maybe in the middle of it. Who knew the line had dimension? The finish line is actually this sort of smear. And I think the best answer you can give is like we're on the smear.
2 September
31 August
26 August
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This is complete nonsense, a shame that The Economist has been taken in by it.
17 August
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11 August
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
Clean CodeTheir words
Clean Code is another standard recommendation, but that one wasn't for me. There are useful design principles in there worth studying, but the book as a whole is too narrow and a bit too dogmatic for my taste. Your mileage might vary.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Multi-Paradigm Design for C++Their words
Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ by James O. Coplien. Twenty years after reading this, the core techniques are still with me. These are commonality analysis, where the purpose is to identify families of systems, and variability analysis, which focuses on capturing the domain parameters that vary. In essence: the foundation of great software design.
15 July
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But it's basically this idea that like the only thing that made claude code good was reinforcement learning. And the dimension along which it got good was like we made a model. We trained the model and the harness together. And so the model got really good at calling the specific tools in that harness.
5 July
10 June
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Careers no longer span fifty years; people should now plan in roughly five-year horizons.Their words
There is no such thing as a fifty-year career anymore. At maximum, plan for five.
2 June
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I believe that one dimension of this sadness or demoralization can be attributed to the simple fact that we are increasingly invited to outsource a class of activities that grant us a measure of satisfaction, accomplishment, and purpose.
26 May
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AI systems however don't need lunch meetings, careers, or envelopes of cash to have an analogous failure.
10 May
1 January
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AI is replacing the jobs people don't want to do today, and it is displacing the midpack and the mediocre.
21 September 2025
From one piece From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And I am a very big believer that every strength is its own weakness and every weakness is a strength. There's no such thing as you're going to somehow, you know, get every dimension to be 100%.
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I go back to usually when people are unhappy it's because these things are a little bit out of sync. Like they want this big thing, but they don't actually they're not actually excited about what it takes to do that thing and therefore it's just going to be a mismatch.
18 September 2025
From one piece ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I I sent a memo to my company like and we set the expectation that we require that people reflexively reach for AI now and and we require it because it's unfair not to because the people who do otherwise going to be the people who sequester all the best careers to themselves, right?
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But again, the people who love to solve problems are the ones who are just so enabled right now and I think everyone starts there. No one is falls in love with solutions at the beginning of their careers.
1 September 2025
21 May 2025
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We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.
16 December 2024
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a good overview of SRE at Google. For those who worked at places with oncall, much of the first part of the book will likely be very familiar. Keep in mind that your mileage might vary: what works at Google scale, might not be the ideal fit for your use case.
21 July 2024
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Team leadership covers a huge array of things-as you can see from how long this post is-and trying to find someone who can be great at all of them is often a unicorn hunt.
1 September 2023
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And the way of being in the physical world today is really not in tune with the time dimension of the natural world at all, and that needs to change.
17 June 2022
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In particular, most EA careers and most careers to do with AI are competitive as fuck.
1 June 2022
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Multipliers are likely to vary a lot over time and space, but the bulk of the evidence is that they are different from zero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and that they are stronger when monetary policy does not or cannot react to fiscal policy.
5 August 2021
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Take Back Your PowerTheir words
For women in tech, how to unstack the deck against you in your workplace and careers.
22 November 2020
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