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we spent decades learning to use GUI applications. future generations won't. the next abstraction layer means agents handle application use, not us.
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Most of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for ordinary users.Their words
Most of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for normies
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People should climb the abstraction ladder and give their jobs to AI agents that want them.Their words
Keep finding ways to climb that abstraction ladder! Your agent wants your job! Give it!
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Young people tend to be happier than older generations, but not in the Anglosphere
9 September
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Computer-use capability will be a major focus of LLM and coding-agent development in the coming months and years.Their words
I expect the upcoming months (or years) also to be an era of computer use refinement on both the LLM and the agent harness layer.
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Among the Silent Generation (born 1925–1945), only 15% of parents had a single child. It was 22% of Boomers and 27% of Generation X.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
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And it's effectively the next step of, you know, every phase of of software evolution is just like a rising tide of abstractions. This is the next abstraction.
11 August
From one piece Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And so there's some like deep underlying properties of the model that are being sort of transferred between model generations because basically you you train your AI on data from the prior generation and keep going.
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Second, I think ML is a very shallow domain relative to math. So I think in math there's much more of a you find some true deep abstraction um and then like that like if you really understand that thing which is hard to understand then you get somewhere
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson. SICP is my all-time favourite programming book. It's also where I learned about the power of wishful thinking when coding. SICP uses wishful thinking as a design tool: write code as if the abstraction already existed. Pretend. Then, once the ideal abstraction has taken shape, you go ahead and implement those functions. This meta-level is what made SICP so valuable. Ultimately, it's a book that teaches how to think about code and problem solving. I'm tempted to even say that SICP is more a work of art than a pure coding book, but I won't go there. A beautiful book.
29 July
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Then the actual system might still have bugs, but we can iron out the issues in the abstraction such that we don't actually build them in the real system.
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And the reason is every model is very different. So, something that you did for one model maybe 3 months ago, it just might not translate at all to the next model.
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I think evals, they outlive the harness a little bit, but not by that much. Like an eval might live for maybe one, two, three model generations, but nowadays the you know, we're on the exponential. The model is improving so quickly, very often we just saturate the eval, and then we have to throw it away, and we have to come up with a new eval.
21 July
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So you went from a business chain of customer > app > ai model provider To customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!
15 July
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And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.
4 July
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The deployment layer surrounding a model is as important as the model's raw intelligence.Their words
the layer between the raw model and the real-world context seems to be as important as the model's raw intelligence
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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An intentional steering layer can not only help but is increasingly needed in software today.
16 June
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And everyone says, "Why are they liking this man? He is a cruel murdering tyrant." And the answer is for the first time in generations, they have had something close to fair justice.
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Younger generations are rejecting AI hype while older generations, who stand to benefit from it, remain optimisticTheir words
there's a consistent theme where Gen Z (and millennials, to some extent) are rejecting the AI hype while older generations are optimistic and coincidentally in a position to benefit from it.
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Larger language models already have enough capacity that extra per-layer embedding tricks add little benefit to them.Their words
However, larger models already have sufficient capacity where these extra embeddings may not help that much.
8 May
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And so one possible explanation for that is just that there's only a handful of generations maybe five over which the natural selection would operate. And so maybe if the selection was 2% a generation you would still only see maybe a 10% compounded effect and there's just not enough time to detect it. But the Bronze Age is not 300 years, it's 3,000 years. It's the power of compound interest and you have enough time to begin to see a strong effect.
22 April
From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You're building higher-level business logic, actually I think it's just fine for people not to care about memory management.
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And now suddenly people are building databases on top of object stores, for example. And now the replication happens at the object store level, no longer at the database level.
From one piece I am building a cloud 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You cannot solve the fundamental problems with cloud abstractions by building new abstractions on top.
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VMs are the wrong cloud abstraction because they bundle CPU and memory into fixed-size units.Their words
VMs are the wrong shape because they are tied to CPU/memory resources.
11 April
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With requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.
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CloudflareTheir words
Always my first layer and the secret to scale without surprises in your billing.
13 March
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So when you look at inference at let's say 100 tokens a second for deepseek and kimk 2.5 hopper versus blackwell the performance difference is on the order of 20x
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14 January
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this sort of thing is only possible if you view other people as abstractions more than people.
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28 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
TrustTheir words
Trust by Hernan Diaz is an onion of a novel in which every chapter peels back a layer to reveal yet more beneath. Following the meteoric rise of a Wall Street financier in the early 20th century, the intricately plotted story will seduce you, transport you, stimulate you, mislead you, and, ultimately, move you.
20 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
SvelteKitTheir words
elements, JavaScript reigns supreme. SvelteKit's efficiency and reactivity make it my framework of choice, and TypeScript's type annotations bring a welcome layer of confidence to my codebase.
9 December 2025
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By this broader definition, humans have never been truly sustainable.
17 October 2025
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and we'll gradually layer all this stuff everywhere and there will be fewer and fewer people who understand it and that there will be a sort of this like scenario of a gradual loss of control and understanding of what's happening that to me seems most likely outcome of how all this stuff will go down.
18 September 2025
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An abstraction chosen wrongly at the start means a team can never make its software great, however good that team is.Their words
Just imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.
8 September 2025
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I think regulation of AI is sort of the wrong level of abstraction. Talking about regulating AI as AI is the wrong level of abstraction. And it's like saying we're going to regulate databases or regulate spreadsheets or regulate cars. Well, we do, but not like that.
18 August 2025
From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This kind of zone of the barely doable, it's super important that to the largest extent possible, you be able to kind of control your own technology destiny.
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many of the breakthroughs that we've had that have enabled us to to deliver such quality and cost savings and more have come through novel agent architectures and and really going down a click or two in in the stack to innovate at at lower levels of the technology stack.
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it has to be consolidated because to basically make the money back on the pre-training and post-training process you need relatively few players that are collecting taxes you know from all the players on top or you just can't make the the math work.
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The short-term that company that could make the most money is the one that figures out what advertising targeting method works for language model generations.
13 June 2024
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We are conscious because we are objects extended deep in time — consciousness is all of that history rolled up in us.Their words
Yeah. I think if you’re thinking about this thinking about living things as these giant causal structures or these objects that are deep in time or whatever language we end up using to describe it seems to me that consciousness is about the fact that we have a conscious experience is because we are these temporally extended objects. Consciousness and the abstraction that we have in our minds is actually a manifestation of all the time that’s rolled up in us.
25 May 2024
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about this idea that really when you’re older in most societies, your job is no longer to form new episodic memories, it’s to pass on the memories that you already have, this knowledge about the world, what we call semantic memory, to pass on that semantic memory to the younger generations, pass on the culture.
21 May 2024
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