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This is the way. Accept code on merit and ensure that a person takes accountability for it. Doesn’t matter if it was typed, chiseled, generated, or bit-flipped via magnetized needle on a chip. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s slop, it’s slop.
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24 August
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Embracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
22 August
7 June
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A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it.Their words
Sometimes, a good idea doesn't get traction because there isn't a convenient way to implement it.
2 June
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I think that you owe it to in that moral contract to your good employees to fire the weak people. And they're not bad people. They may be really smart. They are not effective in your organization. They are not taking hills.
24 May
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The workable model right now is one super agent for a whole company, not a personal agent for every person.Their words
And I have completely flipped. And I I really think that uh the the model for now is going to be a super agent, like one agent for the entire company.
15 May
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A tool's popularity can become a self-reinforcing network effect rather than a sign of technical merit.Their words
The popularity feeds the tooling, and the tooling feeds the popularity. That's not a technical argument-it's a network effect.
7 April
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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.
20 March
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The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default.Their words
I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December basically.
19 October 2025
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A government's political legitimacy depends on providing a fair, merit-based channel for social advancement.Their words
One possible reading of the last century or so of political history in China, therefore, is that governments who provide a meritocratic channel for social advancement have legitimacy and popular support, and governments who do not provide one, do not.
15 April 2025
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Wokeness is the obvious answer. There are many lines of defense in the War Against Merit.
19 June 2024
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So most people, when they advertise new context window increase, they talk a lot about finding the needle in the haystack sort of evaluation metrics and less about whether there’s any degradation in the instruction following performance. So I think that’s where you need to make sure that throwing more information at a model doesn’t actually make it more confused.
26 March 2024
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Which products become visible is decided by distribution friction rather than by any contest of merit.Their words
Your product might be great, but how do you get it on the shelves of Walmart? Or how do you get it on the shelves of Google? Because if you're not on the shelves of Walmart, you're not on the shelves of Google, you might be invisible. And it's friction that kept you there, not some sort of merit contest.
4 September 2023
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