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And that's not counting the entirely separate march along Embarcadero either, right?
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Someone had a "Taco Fell" sign at the march today. It made me hungry.
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He also considered pardoning the attempted Whitmer kidnappers.
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Anyhoo, my two cents on Slack replacements is that, apart from social channels, every Slack conversation is really a variation of a task and that Asana (ahem @moskov.goodventures.org) is much more of an alternative to Slack than most people seem to realize.
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We used to joke at Slack about that one Hacker News comment saying you could build Slack in a weekend, and that's probably more true than it's ever been, although you'd have to focus on a specific vertical like "small teams of software devs" vs "every Fortune 500 company".
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Wait, are you sure Slack isn't allowing third party access to real-time search? The linked article says it does.
The issue, as I understand it, is that if you're someone like Glean, you also want to build your own index and that is explicitly forbidden now.
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See also: Nudging your kid to invite a limited number of friends because party packages come in certain sizes and then not everyone shows up
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"lengthen and darken my beard" - when your white grandma accepts interracial relationships but not gay ones
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bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I'll caveat that a big limiting factor is my ability to context switch. But that was also true at big co job and getting slammed with meetings and PRs and Slack.
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You're spot on in that intuition figures heavily here as well. Both in knowing what is a good candidate for farming out to an agent and in being able to see an agent's intermediate output and knowing that it's stuck in a dead end.
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It's rare that an agent is better or faster than what I do by hand. But parallelism makes this about comparative advantage. I get to focus more on "hard" problems while agents handle long tail of "easy" stuff.
In that sense, not too different from being a tech lead with a bunch of jr engs.
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Not vibe coding per se, but what made agents click for me was having multiple Claude Code instances work on a bunch of small-ish features in parallel.
Ideal case is when there are similar features and lots of boilerplate (e.g. new pref with UI in options page).
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The year is 2035. You commute to work and strap on your headset. You have an office, but it's just duct tape on the floor and virtual walls. You chat with a holographic projection of your manager, who sits two squares over. You request to work remotely.
"No," he says. "Face time is important."
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Ah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, this is the larger scale version of "no one knows how to write Assembly anymore"? But worse because there's an added bit of non-determinism.
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TypeScript is sort of an interesting example in that the benefits seem just as (if not more) useful with AI than humans?
LLMs are bad at context and remembering things. Types are a quick way to catch when they've gone off the rails (ditto unit tests, linting, etc.)
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We used to be a country.
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I mean, it's one plane flight, Michael. What could it cost? Two dollars?
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As someone with bad eyes, I have doubts from a legibility standpoint but I will note that the gradient direction in the Mail app icon (finally!) matches the gradient direction in other apps. So ... OCD folks rejoice.
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The way updates push content *down* as I'm scrolling is killing me. It'd be great if you detect that I've scrolled and maintain my scroll position or even just did a "5+ new updates" badge or something that didn't shift vertical positioning.
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I mean, I wouldn't mind more diversity in the sense of "people who don't care about current events and only post about mushrooms" or even "people with strong disagreements about fire safety codes" but that is not what he is talking about.
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Or a task management system
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the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
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Quisling: The public-private collaboration company. We make the (deportation) planes run on time.
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You know, Quisling is a nice Silicon Valley sounding sort of name.
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I don't know much about image hashing, but I think part of the challenge is that you'd want different hashing for, say, photos vs screenshots of text.
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A bsky / atp feature I'd love to see is the ability for the community to directly annotate an image with alt text and others to upvote. It'd allow friendlier UX than searching the QTs or replies for alt.
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"Due process for people, not for parking lots"
"Trans rights are human rights. Minimum lot sizes are not."
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Bezos neutered WaPo for precisely this opportunity.