Related posts

Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model.

  Their words

  Someone needs to define the unit, perhaps using a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which can be solved by a single model.

  @paulg on Xx.com

Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The most common personality type in a population tends to pair well with every other type, making it valuable on any team.

  Their words

  Obligers, the most common Tendency, tend to work well alongside every other Tendency, which makes them worth having on any team.

  gretchenrubin.com

Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.

• Usesrcmnd.app

  Sonos Era 100

  Their words

  Also plugged into the CalDigit is a stereo pair of Sonos Era 100s; they are in turn connected to a Sub Mini.

  usesthis.com

Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Product managers are the AI era’s big winners: coding models are now good enough to pair a lightly technical PM’s product sense with actually shipping.

  Their words

  But the coding models have gotten good enough that he can pair the kind of the technical knowledge he does have with his really spiky product sense and sense for writing and sense for users.

  youtube.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  AI is welcome as a better search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, but writing the code itself is not something to hand over to it.

  Their words, before

  I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.

  Their words now

  I will now start any project I'm starting with. I'm starting agent first and that's a massive shift

Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  One person with many agents is probably not the right answer; the better bet is two-pizza teams made more effective, with pairs of humans steering the agents together.

  Their words

  My bet is on the more effective two pizza teams. Um and it it's also some interesting, you know, feedback we're beginning to get in terms of pair programming. I mean, with pair programming, do you say pair programming is the human and the genie? Or is it two humans and and genies? Because if it's two of us, we can control the genies perhaps a little bit better.

  youtube.com

Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

  Their words

  The empirical evidence strongly refutes the idea that rising opportunity costs of childbearing are driving low fertility. Declining marriage due to exogenous technology and economics shocks is tanking fertility irrespective of child direct or opportunity costs.

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

• Lovedrcmnd.app

  GitHub Copilot

  Their words

  I cannot work anymore without it. AI pair programmer for code completion and suggestions.

  emanuelebartolesi.com

Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

• Usesrcmnd.app

  Tuple

  Their words

  Tuple for pair programming

  duncanmcclean.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  AI is welcome as a better search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, but writing the code itself is not something to hand over to it.

  Their words, before

  I enjoy it even almost like as a sort of pair programmer AI pair programmer who doesn't drive who's just there to give suggestions to know the API to do all these other things but the second it starts wanting to autocomplete my code I'm like yeah I'm out bro

  Their words now

  I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.

Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

  Their words

  From the 1960s, US fertility fell primarily due to fewer births among couples. In that context, baby bonuses might raise fertility. But today, the major contributing factor is the decline of coupling.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

• Likedrcmnd.app

  The Thief Collector

  Their words

  The Thief Collector (US) 3.6 This documentary on a pair of art thieves is extremely enjoyable, despite a somewhat clumsy execution in places. Surprising revelations keep popping up throughout its 100-minute running time.

  themoneyillusion.com