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20 September
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Scrum made sense at companies/teams that shipped a new version of their product every 2-3 months (or less frequent) As soon as a team got to shipping daily or had CD: they only held teams back Most startups + Big Tech moved on a decade+ ago, legacy companies remained only Quoting @forgebitz it's funny how scrum masters completely disappeared and no one really cared startups Related
19 September
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
If you want to see an example on how having the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you; It took the Claude Code team 16 months LONGER (!!) to add support for AGENTS.md than OpenCode & Codex, 12 more vs Cursor Quoting @trq212 We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle this behavior in /config. Anthropic Related
18 September
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
I don't think how Vibe Coding changes things for marketers gets talked about enough. So much of marketing used to be rationed, begging for engineering resources to get things done. Now you can hop in your IDE and ask your LLM to make the changes and see them done within the same hour. I run the @QAwithIto blog and have: - Designed & shipped my own custom floating social share buttons just how I want them - Fixed a bug with our custom HackerNews share button so it turns into an upvote button after someone submits the post - Added custom URLs and image widths to post images as new fields in San… LLMs Related
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
With the latest external hack of OpenAI via Claude, closed models continue to be the tip of the iceberg on AI risks, not open models. They have been 1) much easier to get started with, 2) more capable & 3) shipped with leaky safeguards. Finetuning open models to specific attacks is harder. Anthropic OpenAI Related
17 September
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
the last 20% to get a product shipped and successful is as difficult as ever this is where 99% of programmers have always fallen off the first 80% is a lot easier and so we're seeing more abandoned projects than ever Related
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Things I never would've shipped without agents, #712: Hand-drawn, glowing orb. Related
16 September
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
agent-browser, now more human --cursor Visible pointers and click feedback --human Smooth, curved mouse movement / drags For demos, bug repros, reviewing agent runs Related
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Signing into Grok Bot is funny. You sig into cursor by "Sign in with Grok" - > "Log in with X" -> "Grant Permission to SpaceXAI" -> "Sign in to Grok Bot with your Cursor Account" -> "Sign in with SuperGrok" Related
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Claude Code showed that AI could do real work, not just answer questions. Developers hand Claude a feature, come back to shipped code. That's where much of the industry's serious engineering runs now. Cowork proved knowledge workers could do the same: hand Claude the brief, come back to finished files. Today, chat and Cowork start merging into one Claude. The direction: one Claude that carries context across everything you're working on, wherever you are. Simple enough for everyone to access Claude's full capabilities. I've been using this experience every day for the last few weeks, and it f… Quoting @claudeai Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. Ask a quick question or hand over a report, and Claude takes it from there, even after you close your laptop. If something's unclear, Claude asks—you keep the final say. Rolling out to Pro and Max over the next few weeks. Anthropic Related
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made.
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15 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
One of the projects I'm most proud of at Basecamp is one I didn't even build myself ... it was the strategic work behind the feature that shipped as "card table." It's really cool to see it getting so much use via AI automation now. Related
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
When playing games on niri I noticed some games don't lock your mouse cursor to your monitor. I didn't want to use Gamescope so I stumbled upon a way to do this natively in niri without needing any tools. This post provides a general purpose solution. nickjanetakis.com
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11 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
ok everyone, i took one for the team here's the data we all wanted to see - real token value of each LLM subscription, empirically measured through usage on my real subscriptions - supergrok heavy has now become the highest value at $12k worth of tokens (40x ROI) - the $200 plan from openai and anthropic roughly give the same amount of token value, $7k give or take - cursor ultra's ROI is the lowest among mainstream subscriptions, roughly half of OAI or Ant. for individual consumers i'm afraid this no longer makes sense to purchase this was done in a clean environment. i ran each provider acr… LLMs Anthropic Related
9 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Shipped. curl https://t.co/kEElDtGYaw -H "Accept-Language: en-us, ruby" Related
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
I asked Grok Bot product lead @romanugarte_ why they built a new stand-alone app vs. building it into Cursor "It was not obvious at all. We saw what some of our competitors doing this, adding new tabs for each new form factor. People can feel that this was not a single, consistent vision of the way that work should work. It's kind of a shipping your org chart style thing that users are reacting negatively to. And so we decided, let's just start completely from scratch." Quoting @lennysan Grok @Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it laun… Related
8 September
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
From the outside, Cursor shouldn't have worked. They compete against the most well-funded and fastest-growing companies of all time, and *sit on top* of those same competitors to power their product. WAT. I asked @romanugarte_ (employee #15 at @cursor_ai) how Cursor pulled it off. Roman's answer: They didn't focus on moats. They obsessed over building something useful today. 👇 Quoting @lennysan Grok @Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it laun… Related
Grok @Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it launched to the world. Less than a month in, millions of Grok Bots are already helping people get work done. Roman Ugarte (@romanugarte_) incubated, launched, and now leads product for Grok Bot. This is the first time he's told the story: 🔸 Why they started fresh instead of building it into Cursor 🔸 T… Related
7 September
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
6 September
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
I had a great time building a @cursor_ai SDK provider for @opencode 2. If you got to use Cursor for free this past month, this is for you! Same harness I already live in, now with Cursor’s models under /models. Related
5 September
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
I wrote an opencode2 plugin so I can /connect @cursor_ai and chat with composer from the tui. not a wrapper around a hack. just the official sdk and a lot of "unsupported package" errors. 10/10 would debug again! Related
2 September
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Yesterday I worked for ~20hs with my agents using Cursor and Claude and when I moved to sleep time I turned on the "autonomous" skill to all my agents. Today, checking the work done, almost 40% was blocked because reasons and when I ask they say "Sorry, my work was left unfinished..." Weird... computation outage? Anthropic Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Excited to share the amazing companies sponsoring The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast the fall: turbopuffer is our presenting sponsor. How the company started is epic: founder Simon Eskildsen told Cursor he can reduce their database bill by 95%... and he did (!!) turbopuffer.com/pragmatic (cont'd) Related
1 September
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
CloudBees surveyed 200+ enterprise technology leaders this year. 92% said they were confident their AI-generated code was production-ready before it shipped. Then after it shipped, 81% of those same people reported a rise in production issues. Confidence in AI output is now a measurable risk factor. A board can put the 92% "confidence in AI generated code" against the 81% "production issue rate" and really understand what is going on. Is it a bunch of unregulated tokenmaxxing? Or is there a plan and is it working? The report itself says that the bottleneck has moved from writing code to gover… bit.ly
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31 August
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
Just shipped a new feature called Spotlights that makes it easy to bring stuff that's deep inside a project right to the surface. Important PDFs people access frequently, key dates or events that are coming up, a specific task, an announcement, whatever. Here's how it works. Related
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
La suscripción de 5x viene rindiendo, pero no estoy seguro si con el cambio del -17.5% de sesión vaya a estar bien. Pensando en probar Codex, veo a todos disfrutando de esa fiesta. Estamos en un mundo donde estar Token Maxing con una suscripción dejó de ser suficiente, ahora necesito 3 (Claude, Cursor y al parecer también Codex). 💸 English, from Spanish The 5x subscription is paying off, but I'm not sure if with the change of the -17.5% session it will be okay. Thinking about trying Codex, I see everyone enjoying that party. We're in a world where Token Maxing with one subscription is no longer enough, now I need 3 (Claude, Cursor, and apparently Codex too). 💸
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12 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Startup employees and investors don't nearly pay enough attention to QSBS. Would have saved me millions of dollars at GitHub (ugh). QSBS got much more complicated, too, so I just shipped the most comprehensive QSBS calculator out there. Give it a shot: signed.com
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10 August
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
GitHub dotfiles — My personal dotfiles Commits config: make the checked-in Cursor and git settings usable on this machine · gitconfig: include private local overrides · Remove Amp, Claude, Codex, and Vitess tooling from configs.
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Blog Joining Cursor I’m joining Cursor (soon to be part of SpaceX) to work on Cloud Agents. I’ll still be managing state, only agents this time instead of databases.
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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
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The the part that's really nice about it is because I do a lot of Mac software, agents love to take over my screen and click around and if you put that in their own if you give them their own machine, it will not bother you. Otherwise, you'll fight with the agent for the mouse cursor.
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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" youtube.com
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We did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.
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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" youtube.com
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You know features are the fun part. A new feature is is just a prompt away. The real cost comes after every feature we shipped of course with a configuration option because we didn't want to break everyone's setup.
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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" youtube.com
3 August
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
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Looking at the results and capabilities from the various labs over the past few weeks I would say we are firmly in this loop now.
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@chamath on X x.com
2 August
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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have I personally shipped some production code and whatnot? Yes. Uh do I think that's really the best use of my time? Not really.
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27 May
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
24 May
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
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And I think that Cursor has at least so far more distinctly chosen a lane. Like they're more distinctly choosing to be a for programmers. And that may limit how far they get in here.
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19 May
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
new Horse Race Tests premiering in cursor camp everyday this week! @snakesandrews Related
3 May
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
it's a beautiful day in cursor camp Related
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Reflections on AI-assisted Programming My former colleague Nan kept telling me early last year that I should try Cursor, but I felt I didn’t need AI assistance at that time, since I knew pretty well what I wanted to do and how. Plus, I’m generall…
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29 April
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now, enjoy :) Related
26 April
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
roasting marshmallows in the cursor mmo Related
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.
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for us design actually has always operated as like a bottleneck at the company, which is incredibly important, right? It's intentional that things need to be approved by design to ship.
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2 April
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
1 April
Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.
31 March
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
Arguing with @cursor_ai over whether it can in fact use `ssh` or not is peak Douglas Adams Related
11 March
Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.
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From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge
2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
10 March
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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Cursor - My preferred editor. Find my settings here: kcd.im/vscode
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kentcdodds.com
4 March
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
2 February
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
18 January
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
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My daily drivers now include Amp, Cursor, and Claude Code. I still enjoy notebooks, but only for data analysis, machine learning, or other exploratory workflows where the iterative, visual nature of notebooks shines.
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hamel.dev
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My daily drivers now include Amp, Cursor, and Claude Code. I still enjoy notebooks, but only for data analysis, machine learning, or other exploratory workflows where the iterative, visual nature of notebooks shines.
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hamel.dev
14 January
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
12 December 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
I really thought after 18 years it would be a simple muscle memory to do text entry / autocorrect / cursor placement / text selection / copy & paste on iOS, and yet somehow it's a surprise every time. Related
21 September 2025
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
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So yes, the tools are great. We can use cursor. It helps us. It autocompletes. It writes a bunch of things. But the acceleration of learning I think is another maybe underutilized tool in all of our arsenals
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19 September 2025
German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.
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And then I found a smoking gun: October 1943. Kuhn acknowledges that he receives half a gram of ergotamine, which is the precursor drug to LSD. And so it's highly likely that the Nazis used LSD together with mescaline in Dachau.
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18 August 2025
Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.
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so it's not a simple matter of programming it's not you know typing into a keyboard until or or I guess asking cursor to do something until a piece of software emerges, it's exploration, it's discovery, it's posing hypotheses and validating or invalidating those again and again and again.
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Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.
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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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it's like if you're a software engineer and you're not using something like cursor to do your job, you're probably being half as productive or even worse than you could be.
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if it produces incorrect code our philosophy is don't fix the code fix the context that cursor had that produced the bad code
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9 August 2025
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
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People had grown to expect miracles, but GPT-5 is just the latest incremental advance.
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22 March 2025
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
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I don't use Neovim because I love Neovim, I use Neovim because I love the instrument I play. And so it's like if Cursor can meet those needs, I could see myself moving over. I don't have some sort of obsessed attachment with it.
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22 November 2024
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=.... In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and to the left. Related
20 August 2024
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
OpenAI Google
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They could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.
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8 May 2024
Biologist at the MIT Media Lab; invented CRISPR gene drives and then spent years arguing for safeguards against their misuse and against engineered pandemics.
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That makes it essential to ensure that all synthetic DNA orders are screened to determine whether they contain hazardous sequences, which should be shipped only to legitimate researchers whose work has been approved by a biosafety authority.
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29 October 2020
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
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