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> A person close to Reckitt said the tighter marketing rules had weighed on growth but did not indicate a structural deterioration in demand.
Great work. Is it possible to use this dataset to calculate total plug in solar potential within the geographic constraint?
I think you're not reading it in the spirit it's intended. There's a section towards the end (Chapter 5, I think) that is full of policy prescriptions. But most of the encyclical isn't "about" AI, it's "about" Catholicism, and is using AI as a lens to talk about principles the church has been building up over a century. In that sense the document is less concerned with frontier models and disinformation than it is with establishing Catholic social doctrine --- subsidiarity, solidarity, the common good, etc.
As far as the church is concerned, AI as an issue will come and go, but the ordering and prioritization of human relationships is timeless, and is the important issue. The subtext of the whole thing is that if you get the principles right, the tech policy will fall into place.
You can argue with those principles, but at that point you really are just arguing with Catholicism itself, which is fine, but is besides the point.
(I'm not engaging with or disputing your takes on policy, only with your comment as a critique of the encyclical itself.)
"You mispoke on that issue? No grant. You were of the wrong political perssuassion? No grant. Hurt the feelings of X group? No grant."
Are you talking about not getting the grant in the first place, or are you talking about grants being cancelled after they had been approved and you had taken the money and started doing the funded work?
Those two situations are different.
> Who ensures it followed the specs?
I mean, it's the same with building a bridge in the real world, right?
Someone has to check the work.
rsync has specific running modes for the super-user. It also pumps arbitrary data from the network onto your file-system. openrsync is about 10 000 lines of C code: do you trust me not to make mistakes?
No, but that's why almost nobody runs it outside of strict trust boundaries. This security section would make more sense if rsync was like curl, which routinely deals with hostile counterparties. If the other side of your rsync is hostile, you probably have bigger problems!
(I'm not an rpki person so I don't know if there's some part of that problem domain that changes this equation. I'm not dunking on the project, just saying this snagged me in the README).
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/27/g-s1-...
Musk: “So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention.”
“As of early February, the U.S. was not providing funding to support testing and port screenings in Uganda because of Trump's freeze on almost all U.S. foreign assistance.”
“Within USAID's Global Health Bureau there was a team of people that specialized in high risk outbreaks, like Ebola. "Virtually all of those people have been pushed out of the agency, and they have not been brought back. Only a very small handful — like low single digits — remain from what had been something like a 30 person team," says Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.”
“As for the role of the CDC, Spencer says what its officials can do is limited by Trump's order that the CDC not communicate with WHO.”
Nah, it was going on before, for the same reasons, just not openly. You mispoke on that issue? No grant. You were of the wrong political perssuassion? No grant. Hurt the feelings of X group? No grant.
These just make it more fixed it into rules as opposed to doing it with plausible deniability like before.
A law which will be used from the opposite side just as well, as soon as the power switches hands again.
To be devil’s advocate: if you are just running commands with bash or power shell or the like there is no protection. You might have some rules that ban
rm -rf ~
but sandboxing in general is not an easy problem.
Basically what the world has lost by ignoring Modula-2 and Object Pascal, and going down the C path.
When you look at white noise from up close, you see dramatic changes, periods of calm, and what seems like patterns.
Only when you step back, you realise all that drama you read is mostly inconsequential. What will be the impact of Napoleon 1000 years from now? Of Columbus? If instead of Hitler Germany had Rohm? It’s all monkeys and typewriters all the way down. What matters are the structural forces, the natural resources, the geography, and so on. Chances are it’ll be all forgotten in a billion years.
Now, on a more serious note, did anyone else, at some point, started wondering whether the article was really about Wilhelm II?
I've always considered mine a 21st century Commonplace book/journal mashup. Write it/post it/move on...
Sometimes I miss washing my car on the driveway. I guess I’m far less emotionally attached to my car now than I was in the 1980s.
I’m sure Unisys will still support it for decades to come.
Oh. You mean that new thing also named MCP?
I am not sure how much KVM instance’s processes are invisible to the host. KVM is very thin.
The whole selling point of the Framework is easy upgrades, thanks to modularity. It is a laptop that’s designed to be your laptop for at least two or three upgrade cycles, which, for Apple, implies a new laptop.
> It's pretty standard for "no runtime" to mean nothing on the device you install the compiled target app.
Only by layman that don't understand compilers.
This brings back memories, I thought it was long gone in the magpie attention world of frontend frameworks.
Yes, and ideally in this case LLM would be translating your intent into a series of invocations of specific APIs or scripts to do the transformations, and correcting for unexpected failures or realizations.
Because it's often not just Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. It's Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, except today paste is Shift+Insert, and in the other project it's usually C-y, and you actually need to check one more place for full list of things to copy, and then you discover one case needs a minor transformation, ...
LLMs can handle such annoying details intelligently.
> What's next? "Claude, rename the function doFoo() to performBar()"?
Yes. Such prompt can be issued in many equivalent ways, and works across environments, contexts and tool stacks. I can issue it from the phone, in form of "also doFoo -> perform... reame", and it will work even on Lisp code inside Word documents it accesses through Google Drive.
So you don't use anything Linux related in any form or fashion, whose devs are on IBM's paychecks, or owned by IBM like Red-Hat?
Worse is that they proud themselves of having a security culture since XP SP2, hence having even a security conference and related podcast.
So something went down really bad on their side.
Magnetic field cameras exist:
https://matesy.de/en/products/cmos-magview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Visualization_of_magnetic...
As someone who has done RE for decades, I feel like I've been seeing a lot of new decompilation projects recently, but even before the rise of AI. Possibly correlated with the release of Ghidra? Either way, it's great to see and perhaps a sign of a greater trend.
Controversial opinion: I think the FOSS movement was a setback and distraction from attaining software freedom as well as giving an undeserved negative reputation to "reverse-engineering" in some areas. RMS had the right idea, but missed the mark when it came to practical application by focusing far too much on "source code". Other industries have long been making third-party parts by merely inspecting existing ones with measuring tools, and let's not forget the whole discipline of scientific research is largely what amounts to "reverse-engineering" the natural world. You don't need the original source code if you have good decompilers, and now LLMs to assist.
Decompiling a binary, finding what you need to change, and then patching precisely that piece, seems like a far more liberating process than getting the source code, figuring out how to build it in its entirety, and possibly changing more than only the piece you wanted to. Many years ago, I remember coming across a few Java utilities that were public-domain but not open-source, and the author explicitly told users that they were to use a Java decompiler to decompile, edit, and recompile if they wanted to make any changes.
Everyone is trying to make it possible, without thinking if they actually should.
I wonder how they expect people to work, to be able to buy all the junk they put out.
Thanks, I was wondering what this README could have meant by "RL loop" here.
Adding take-home problems to a traditional 4-6 hour interview loop is odious.
But the "way more than 4 hours" thing smuggles in a premise: that every candidate should be able to finish the challenge in the allotted time. But candidates with greater aptitude or conversance with the problem domain will complete work sample tests faster than candidates without, and selecting for those candidates is the point of hiring qualification.
Your claim is "a strong genetic correlation". You can look up what that means mathematically.
There is something appealing about "it's just a file" (it really isn't; it has locks and a WAL), but I agree with you.
I think people are afraid to read the documentation for postgres. You can start it up in milliseconds. Fast enough and light enough to run one copy for every test case in your test suite, or whatever you're using it for. (mkdir /tmp/whatever; initdb -D /tmp/whatever --no-instructions -A reject -c listen_addresses= --auth-local=trust --no-sync -c fsync=off -c unix_socket_directories=/tmp/whatever -U postgres --no-locale; postgres -D /tmp/whatever) Now you have a test database that behaves exactly like production because it's exactly like production. (OK, turning fsync off makes it a lot faster than production, so be careful.)
The country runs on the principles of the constitution, not the institutional principles of science. Control over spending of taxpayer funds always must remain within the political system.
Voters can always choose to turn over those decisions to scientists they trust. For much of the 20th century, that’s what voters did. But if they don’t trust the priorities of the current scientific establishment, they can also choose to put that control back in the hands of political appointees. The institutional principles of science cannot override the prerogative of voters to decide how their money is spent.
>“Humans are valuable.” You can just say it. As a human yourself, I advise you to. You do not need to qualify it. This is a robust1 statement that is not conditional on a point-in-time snapshot of the leading frontier model’s score on some recent benchmark.
Nope, it very much is conditional to it, as it's conditional to utility.
The OP is not going to come an pay someone who can't get a job and has zero market value due to AI.
So this "a human is (intristically) valuable" is just a meaningless pat on the back, while the human is devalued.
Did anyone else think this was a clever keming pun?
Fortunately, for those sites where either JS is required for the content or to remove the dickover, browsers still have an Inspect Element tool that makes deleting this and other annoyances not too difficult and rather cathartic.
Yes there is. Stop drinking the woke-aid.
Look at where advanced civilisations started, and it's clear as night and day.
For me, it's the invasiveness and lack of agency; your house is the most private space in your life. At least if I do the cleaning myself, there won't be anyone else to blame for things broken or gone missing.
It’s not about the petrodollar, Jamie Dimon doesn’t want to give up demand deposit account holders to crypto yield, as they are super cheap cost of capital for JPMC to lend against.
> As the bill came closer to a vote in the Senate Banking Committee in May, internal rifts between the banks started to emerge. Large depositors, such as JPMorgan Chase, remained strongly opposed. Other banks, which draw more of their revenue from activities like trading and are less threatened by competition from crypto platforms, were more willing to overlook the yield issue, according to industry insiders.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-slo...
> Banks like getting deposits from customers, because it’s cheap. On the other side of the ledger, banks make loans. There’s a myth that banks accept deposits and make loans with those deposits. That’s not true, banks first make loans and then find the deposits to finance those loans. If they can’t get enough deposits from local customers to match their loans, they will acquire higher cost deposits in various money markets. If they have deposits and not enough loans, they can just put their extra cash at the Fed, and make a guaranteed 3.6%.
> Profits are easy, as the Fed gives high rates to banks while banks offer low returns to depositors. This dynamic is particularly the case for the largest banks. JP Morgan, for instance, made $96 billion in net interest margin in 2025.
“Your margin is my opportunity.”
I asked Claude this:
> I want you to make something. It can be anything you want, I just want you to express yourself. Don't ask me any questions, just make whatever you want.
It thought about the chance to make something unconstrained, mused about how it's drawn to impermanence, and made this:
https://www.pastery.net/ugschp/
How are we sure there's no intent there?
Are you unable to export the post source from a browser and provide that to the LLM?
One idea I had was to count # of distinct API keys that have spent atleast $100 (number's flexible), which would be enough to provide guidance on if the traffic is from a single power-user.
In the Cursor case which is BYOK, that would count as distinct API keys.
If they’re suing, that seems to be insufficient.
Among other issues, it likely causes knock-on problems for tomorrow’s reservations.
SQLite requires writes run sequentially. Most SQLite write operations take single digit milliseconds or even microseconds. If your writes are inexpensive (inserting or updating single small rows) you'll probably never even notice the queue.
This made me realize it's been 12 years since the last John Siracusa review of an OS X release on Ars Technica.
I miss those so much! Here's John talking about ending them in 2015 https://hypercritical.co/2015/04/15/os-x-reviewed where he said "Someone else can pick up the baton for the next 15 years" - but sadly nobody even came close.
I'd consider Cursor one user because it's one entity that made an editorial decision about which model to make available to their own community.
If you treated Cursor as millions of users it might look like millions of people independently chose a new model when actually it was Cursor making the choice for them - and the thing I care most about is how many choices were made that selected a model and put it above the others.
China has already mandated an end to retractable outside door handles and electrical inside door handles. That takes effect January 1, 2027. There were two major incidents where people could not get out and could not be rescued.
The powered charger port door would make sense if there were robot chargers that used it. Tesla demoed that, but people disliked the snake robot approach. Technically, a snake robot is ideal for that, but too many people fear snakes and tentacles.
Rear view cameras are better than rear view mirrors. The field of view is better.
> I did check but did not find the reference. What exactly are you quoting?
I mean man, I didn't ask you to search for my verbatim quote (it's an one-off llm answer). Search for her SSN. You can google it, it's here on the first page under "'Application Info" for example:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01653...
Also in meta pages about the documents:
https://github.com/rhowardstone/Epstein-research/blob/main/i...
Nope, the same single meaning.
English to program is the same kind of abstraction as going from assembly to program to C to program to high level scripting to "4G languages" and so on, and hiding all kinds of details behind a much terser layer. It's just that it's a qualitative jump at it.
Here's a ChatGPT provided answer asked to "define abstraction in programming, like when going from assembly to C to scripting, etc":
"Abstraction in programming is the process of building layers where each layer hides the details of the layer below".
> First off let me get on my high horse and say the engineering in video gaming is generally more complex than the engineering I've done working in big tech.
Yes. Having done everything from mainframe OS internals to proof of correctness to autonomous vehicles, video games are the most difficult.
At the beginning, game dev looks easy, because the tools are good and modern hardware is very capable. But as you approach a big, highly detailed, photorealistic world, the easy approaches hit a performance wall. Then the necessary optimizations become insanely complex. That's the tyranny of the frame rate. That's why I've complained about game engines in Rust. Everybody writes My First Game Engine, then hits the wall about two years in.
The metaverse problem is even worse. All the problems of game dev, plus the problems of user-created content and large scale. With all the effort and money put into metaverses, none emerged that worked as well and looked as good as an AAA game title from the GTA V era. Roblox, Improbable, and Second Life are as good as it got. You'd think there would be some good examples still around, with small user bases, but there are not. There are a whole range of problems only metaverses have, and some of them are unsolved. For commercial games, much of the work takes place during level building and optimization. Unreal Engine Editor does much of the heavy lifting. Metaverses don't have that option.
The total failure of the metaverse industry comes partly from this. It's hard to do, and the problem was underestimated. Mostly by the people who really just wanted to sell their crap NFTs and coins.
The people and wage problem comes from too many people wanting to make games. It's like Hollywood. If you've spend any time around there, you've met the actress/model/waitress types. The male version has stand up comedy levels of ego. That pushes wages down.
>Electron is an artifact of the richest companies in the world prioritizing their platform monopolies and trying to increase their stranglehold on businesses by forcing them to write platform specific code, which is hysterically expensive to build and maintain. When I'm confronted with writing for web then reimplementing for mac and win... the answer is electron.
And yet we could build native apps a plenty in the 90s and 2000s, with 1/100 the resources (tutorials, third party libs, native GUI frameworks, IDEs, etc) available, and 1/10th the target user base.
It's not about "platform specific code, being hysterically expensive to build and maintain". It was more expensive in the 1990s and 00s too, but people built it and maintained it just fine.
It's companies chosing convenience.
Especially since it's not poor programmers and small software shops going for Electron. It's the biggest multi-billion to trillion dollar companies.
Facebook uses this crap, Slack uses this crap, Adobe and Google use similar web-based UI crap (in what used to be native apps), and so on.
The more recent report says corporate AI adoption has found several issues with AI, with human workers turning to automating dreary and mundane tasks they don't like doing, rather than valuable or meaningful work.
Isn't dreary and mundane stuff exactly the sort of stuff that should be automated, so people can concentrate on the interesting/exciting aspects of their job? Some (not all) kinds of AI boosters seem to have this idea that AI's optimal use is to replace all the high value jobs for cheap, leaving humans with the 'low value' drudgery for which they can be paid less.
What’s funny is that Q1 per capita GDP growth in the U.S. was about 1.4% annualized (within the normal range) while Canada was only at 0.1%. Trump is the bull in the china shop but it’s not his China he’s breaking.
I co-founded a startup. Trite, I know, but the skills I learnt going from zero to one, talking to customers, relying on no-one else and owning all the tech decisions (I had a non-technical co-founder), and the community it forced me to build--those were all priceless.
Editions for the time being don't cover all language evolution scenarios, e.g. breaking changes on the standard library, and having incompatible crates on the same build talking to each other.
Unions are the only legal way for workers to improve their situation around compensation and working conditions. Support for them is at a historical high, especially amongst younger cohorts.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel...
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/27/majoritie...
https://www.epi.org/blog/americans-favor-labor-unions-over-b...
It did, as did other Xerox systems, Interlisp-D, XDE and Cedar.
Here's a brief summary from Sears' archives.[1] I read a much better description in a business book once, but it's not online.
Here's the concept. The simple way to fulfill orders is Doordash Shopping. One person goes to a store and picks the entire order. Performance degrades with the size of the store. This takes O(orders * inventory size) effort. If too many shoppers are trying to fill orders, they get in each other's way and the building traffic starts to choke. This is why Doordash Shopping has a big markup vs. Amazon.
The classic Sears schedule system takes the incoming order and breaks it down by department and picker. Pick slips are generated, originally by hand, and sent to the various pickers, originally by pneumatic tube. Pick slips have a 45 minute time window and a destination bin number. Pickers get pick slips, all of which are for items in their area, grab the item, and put it on a conveyor with the pick slip attached. The conveyor leads to the destination bin area, where orders are assembled in the bins. At the end of a 45 minute cycle, all bins are sent to order checking and outprocessing, and new empty bins are placed for the next fill cycle.
The order paperwork is already attached to the bin, so the checker checks off the items in the bin vs. the items on the order. Excess items from picker errors become go-backs; missing items are not charged to the customer. The total is computed and billed. The bin and paperwork go off to packing and shipping.
Each picker moves only short distances. No running around the giant warehouse. That gets the overhead down to O(orders * log(inventory size)). Pneumatic tubes carry the data that drives the pickers, and conveyors do most of the carrying. The system can develop a backlog in the incoming order area, where it's obvious and can be managed. The picking areas don't usually choke, because their load is bounded by the number of bins per cycle.
It was all done with paper, forms, carbon paper, clipboards attached to totes, cash registers, conveyors, and pneumatic tubes. Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) designed the original system and became quite wealthy.
Sears should have become Amazon. They had the fulfillment system. They had catalog ordering working well. They never got the online front end right.
[1] https://www.searsarchives.claeys.co/history/history1900s.htm...
This always felt like a giant ADA lawsuit waiting to happen.
India has the problem with farming that the US is starting to have with AI. Farming in India is still far too labor intensive by world standards. 43% of workers still work in agriculture. [1] For the US, that number is under 2%. China is at 22% as of 2023, and dropping steadily.
This inefficient agricultural system is not by accident. It is supported by heavy subsidies. Attempts to cut the subsidies resulted in riots.[2] Trouble is ongoing. Comments from someone who knows more about this than I do would help here.
The US and most of the EU went through that transition over several generations, and farming is still heavily subsidized in both areas. The transition happened faster in China, and a hukou system was put into place to prevent people from migrating from farms to cities faster than the cities could absorb them.
Looking at how countries coped with a fast transition from labor intensive agriculture to an urban society gives hints on how an AI transition may look. All the Asian countries that went from poor to rich in a generation did this, with different approaches. How that took place may provide more useful info than philosophy.
[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%942025_Indian_farme...
Key element of your quote: “if the tests [...] are not job-related”
There’s nothing magic about IQ tests. Any hiring criteria that isn’t sufficiently linked (the threshold here has always been low, and the trend has been to lower it further) and is also shown to have an uneven impact by protected class is a problem.
Alpha is ultimately the result of analysis, of better analysis than others.
LLM's can actually be exceptionally good at research and pattern recognition, i.e. analysis. And while they aren't great at running numbers themselves, they can do exceptional work passing off Python scripts to an interpreter to generate the numerical results they need.
I'm quite sure the Robinhood AI is going to be trash, i.e. just a gimmick.
But, it's not crazy to think that with the right harness, there are big opportunities for identifying profitable strategies. Especially relying on unparalleled and essentially unlimited research capacity based on public information. More analysis than any single firm could ever hire.
And even for Robinhood users, it's entirely plausible that AI-traded stocks will perform much better than the trades a majority of users would make, since most investors are really unsophisticated.
It’s telling you left out the people running the biggest AI companies.
AI agents for trading, as well as 24/7 trading are no different than offering sports gambling and prediction markets to the masses; it is a vacuum for the fiat of the unsophisticated. The goal is more trading volume to generate more fees, similar story with private equity wanting access to 401ks to unload PE at peak valuations to bag holders.
I don't buy it. It used to be you typed into a 1980s home computer and characters appeared the instant you typed them. With a modern computer, it could take a few seconds for characters to echo. If the system administrator wanted to pull up a process list on a PDP-11 running RSTS/E or an IBM 370 mainframe they could type a command and... there.
If your Windows computer is running slow, it might take 20 seconds or more for the task manager to start. Computers are orders of magnitude more powerful than they were back then but perceived speed is an order of magnitude worse and getting worse.
People who deny SLOW = BAD are part of the problem, not the solution. We really have to create a culture where slow software, slow builds and slow responses are seen as completely unacceptable.
Have you tried putting known human writing into pangram? I have. I've gotten 100% AI with multiple samples of my own human writing. It has also given me 50% on things I know were 100% AI written (from my prompts).
Pangram and everything like it is useless. The results are random on known samples.
Indeed, it's like robbing a bank while the bank is holding a party. Except its everyone's portfolios who are invested in the index funds with potential exposure in scope.
High level, it's concerning to observe this unfold while almost every asset class is at its peak and there is no one willing to purchase (office real estate [1] [2], private equity [3], us equities [4], crypto, etc). Late Stage Capital Markets when you've exhausted greater fools available.
[1] Office Real Estate Is Facing ‘a Year of Reckoning’ in 2025 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-12-18/commercia... | https://archive.today/fTPSY - December 18, 2024
[2] Blackstone Is About to Take a 54% Loss on Iconic Seattle Tower - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/blackston... | https://archive.today/fcA8W - May 29, 2026
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049024 (citations)
[4] BlackRock Scales Back Equities After ‘Generational’ Earnings [Peak S&P] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/blackrock... | https://archive.today/lMIcH - May 29th, 2026
What "balanced budget?" Mamdani got a massive bailout from the state of New York, and deferred pension payments.
It's classic third worldism, made possible by a low-information electorate that not only can't do the math, but lacks instinctual skepticism of the idea of a free lunch. Chicago went down the same path, and found that these gimmicks work until they don't.
> BNP Paribas runs Mistral models on-prem for KYC in Belgium, with sensitive data staying within the bank's walls. Abanca is using agent orchestration to handle sensitive customer information at a huge scale (2 million customers in their app). For European companies in regulated industries, this is a good alternative to relying on US hyperscalers.
Mistral leaning into on-prem and European-hosted models is very smart.
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740
If you just like talking and some program comes out (aka "business problem solving") you might like it.
If you like coding (aka "problem solving"), it feels like crap.
And if you like still having an IT job in a couple of years, it feels like dangerous crap.
(Of course you can be hoping you'll be the one selected, out of millions laid off, to get to keep working on a higher level).
Reddit had a term for people who read the new page -- the knights of new. The small group of people who make the site work by traipsing through the sludge that is the new page, finding the gems within.
We did a lot of experiments to try and get more people to look at the new page or new content. One was placing one new item at the top of your home page and changing that every couple of minutes. The other was the "rising" sort, which was similar to the hot sort on the front page, but much higher velocity.
None of them really worked all that well. The group of people who read new are a unique breed. :)
I am not convinced that the "dark factory" / "gas town" people are actually shipping anything that isn't also part of the AI ecosystem. At least the noise/ship ratio is incredibly high.
I tried this and it was unbearable.
> People did not stop talking to family, friends and colleagues just because they're able to leverage LLMs.
Which people? There are clearly people who did—some with catastrophic, newsworthy results, but presumably more without.
Am I the only person in this thread who thought this might be a joke? The job at Home Depot in particular, and this bit:
> I haven't used a phone or the Internet in my personal life since February 6. To communicate, I use the USPS, or maneuver my body into close proximity and vibrate air with my throat. I love it. I want to be part of a society of people likewise inclined.
I'm not at all certain though. Chad posted it on LinkedIn and Bluesky, so if it is a joke he's definitely committing to the bit.
Here's Vlad-Stefan Harbuz, the person Chad names as taking over the Open Source Pledge, posting about it - https://bsky.app/profile/vlad.website/post/3mmw3jigagk2q - which makes it seem more real.
Update: more evidence in-favor of "not a joke" is this 19th Feb 2026 video from Chad's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCC76jmmzkc - at 16:22
> I don't not want to be someone who helps lay the groundwork for the remnant. I'm going to call it the remnant, a remnant of humanity that doesn't take the bargain. I have no idea what's next. Alright, we're starting Gift magazine. Whoa. I went to Penguin Bookstore. I got an address book, and I got a ridiculous planner. And we got our P.O. Box. Box 200. Oh, and I also switched to paper billing. Paper bank statements at Dollar Bank. Puzzle gaming. Figuring out the offline.
Update 2: here's a blog entry from 19th Feb that accompanied that video: https://openpath.quest/2026/spitting-out-the-agentic-kool-ai...
> Long story short, I’ve decided to dial back my engagement with mainstream technology, and to launch a print magazine called Gift to network with like-minded individuals.
So I'm sold, there's humor in the presentation, but it's a real decision.
Yeah, I see the chat transcript as an important part of the work, and worth recording.
I've taken to linking to mine in commit messages, e.g. this one: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/commit/e781e4eef...
(My favourite feature of the new Codex desktop app is that it has a comprehensive "Copy as Markdown" feature, which I can then paste into a Gist.)
Yep, this is the right answer. Everything is max money always, and you can't have nice things any more, you can only have things that extract all the value they can out of you.
Those 11 steps would probably take me 15 minutes.
There are a lot of small refactorings that I wouldn't consider to be worth 15 minutes of my time, so I wouldn't do them.
Outsourcing those to an agent means I don't have to make that tradeoff, which means I can get better quality code.
But yes, for a lot of my work I'm now a Claude Code / Codex first developer. I run Zed so I can navigate the code and occasionally make small edits.
It also brings me memories of Japanese calligraphic art and the careful use of various sizes, shapes and textures for brushes, where even the smudges and splatters are deliberate.
0% if by testing you mean "somebody who uses a screen reader regularly was able to use the product successfully" because nobody seems to do that.
Is it too much to ask that when giving a book review, a link to the actual book title, and possibly a listing on a website, should be prominently given?
It's probably easier to handle as civil negligence. Criminal damage has an intent component. Of course it would hinge on discovery - as soon as you find an email to the effect of "we know this will cause damage, let's test it on someone else's house", that counts as intent.
> Customers expect some products to be dangerous and rely on product reviews to determine which ones.
.. which are of course the easiest thing to fake.
> then overpriced incumbents use their influence over the laws to target any new supplier that tries to establish a trusted brand, which causes the foreign suppliers to have to sell through dozens of unknown labels so they can continue to dissolve them if any of them get prosecuted.
This is not an accurate description of new market entry for .. well, anything? And what are the new entrants being prosecuted for? Is it by any chance unsafe products?
Cable News Network Inc v. Perplexity AI, Inc.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73402641/cable-news-net...
And in other blue collar union environments, following the book is known as "work to rule" and considered a mild form of sabotage/industrial action.
Not really, no.
The product launch was a group buy of minimum 400 units. You can choose one of "compete with China" or "expensive product testing requirements for small-run products".
You can easily do that at airshows as well.
> If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science.
I'd say the incentives are misaligned.
> This whole "permanent underclass" thing seems like it's just the Rapture in secular clothing.
The Left Behind version of the Rapture.
Databricks raised an L last year.
Southwest Airlines just banned humanoid robots on their flights.[1]
[1] https://aeronauticsmagazine.com/news/no-robots-allowed-south...
> A source indicated that one of the lightning towers may not be salvageable, and that the transporter-erector may also be damaged beyond repair.
My first thought is why wasn't the t-e moved away before launch?
Does anyone else find it surprising that rockets are a century old[1] and yet still seem to fail spectacularly with amazing regularity, often due to some small flaw? Is it just that they're still relatively niche machines and thus haven't benefited from mass manufacturing improvements?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goddard_and_Rocket.jpg
For those wondering, you can still buy all the major components for a simple pre-computerised car from the aftermarket, and classic cars are definitely going to continue rising in value.
If you're so good at it that they can't tell, does it matter?
Possibly AI-generated too? I can't tell.
Has anyone proposed a solution that balances privacy and consumers’ desires for connectivity features?
EDIT: Sorry, I meant a legal requirement.
I’m unsure if this solves the problem. Like childcare, we may need to collectively subsidize housing construction to make it affordable. Example: China.
The problem is that the costs of labor and materials from the past are behind us, and there are potentially no material cost and productivity improvements to be had. The costs are the costs and potentially unavoidable.
That's because LLM output is "average"; so if you're below, it will obviously look better than what you can do, and vice-versa. It will be interesting to see what happens when current LLM output becomes the bottom, as everyone worse has pulled themselves up to that level.
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I've been calling it Deep Blue: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/