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sent this to the team today
everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible
and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that
He must share an amygdala with Alex Honnold
Radical Candor
Not religious but god grant me the serenity to get these kids awake and to school after daylight savings amen.
a screenshot of atvouch.dev's main page showing text descriing what atvouch is: atvouch is a proof of concept atproto app to let developers vouch for each others' skill. developers can see whether there is a chain of trust between themselves and another developer. this may help you review PRs.
made a little thing
login -> vouch -> explore the graph
atvouch.dev
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
We have to agree on a definition of consciousness first. That's how words work. We make them all up and come to an agreement about what they mean.
Consciousness feels like one of the ones we'll continue to have a hard time with for awhile to come, because our egos are tied up in it.
Definitely an idealist, for better or worse.
Re: forces of capital: IMO that's the problem to be solved here, not the technology itself.
That feels like a very coarse diagnosis. Also how are they using it? This is such an open ended technology that its almost impossible to make such broad claims about it.
Generating unreviewed code from a vague prompt and not iterating on it? Sure, I'd feel dumber after enough of that too.
Effective strategy it seems
I, admittedly naively, hope that enough have the discipline and care enough to use LLMs without willingly deskilling themselves. It is possible.
This assumption that using an LLM means being unengaged with the work is wrong.
Fair, and I’m also concerned about this. Hoping we will collectively learn what it takes to use them sensibly. I’m sure it will take many hard lessons along the way.
"When she asked why they were taking her information, her video captured a masked agent responding, 'Cause we have a nice little database, and now you're considered a domestic terrorist.'"
Here's a good podcast episode on this from @oxide.computer, who _very_ much care about and invest in the rigor of their software.
There's a huge human factor to this as well. Engineers are under pressure, especially at big companies, to "go fast" with AI, not nearly as much to improve the rigor and quality of their work with AI.
Both are very possible. It's all about how it's used.
Seeing Like a State
vs
Seeing Like a State Machine
The only feature of 1Password that matters is their business dies overnight if they get hacked so they’ve thought harder about security than anyone you know.
You can’t vibe code that in two evenings no matter how much you ask Claude to “make it secure”
Bold move wearing dark colors. Can relate 😅
I want a poster with a progression of the pelican on a bicycle SVGs that @simonwillison.net has been testing LLMs with.
AI driven dev work be like
I really misunderstood the strength of lexicons for decentralizing power in the Atmosphere. Atproto isn't an ecosystem, it's a foundation for creating parallel ecosystems.
"By letting lower court rulings stand, the Court effectively solidified a 'Human Authorship' requirement."
"If the code is truly a 'new' work created by a machine, it might technically be in the public domain the moment it’s generated [...]."
Kind of wild
All that said, if I’m being honest, I don’t know that I have the time to dedicate to seeing this project through. Just got curious and spewed some ideas to Claude 😅
Feel free to take and run with this if you’d like!
Would be curious how representative your approach is overall. Internally at Zapier, inline comments are preferred where feasible.
Our internal review agent often leaves suggestion comments that can be directly applied from the UI even, which is a very nice touch.
Because phones are better? 🙃
Another hard part is owning and operating the software, being responsible for keeping it secure and reliable for its users.
AI helps there too but it’s still a different ball game than spitting out code for a prototype that never goes to production.
Personally I think it’s less about taste and more about exploring the design space to understand second/third order effects of the things being built.
Not all projects need that level of deep design thinking. But many do, and that’s one of the non-coding “hard parts” I generally refer to.
True! There are pieces that need more tending and maintenance than others though and that is where buy can still be good.
Lower level primitives that you can build your custom use cases on top of, as opposed to heavy all-in-one solutions.
Not quite ready to launch, but if you're a decentralized identity and/or AT proto nerd, you might want to take an early peek at this freeq.at
