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Anything from Steve Yegge must come with an AI bias disclaimer now.

He was also effectively paid $300,000 to facilitate a cryptocurrency rug pull on Gas Town, bowing out after the rug pull because Gas Town required his “full attention”. [0]

Everything he says now is suspect.

[0] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f4371...


Yeah, I used to respect him as a tech blogger, but you can't wash that crypto stink off once it gets on you.

Exactly this. OpenAI is running huge workloads silently, without anybody patting their back.

Input:

  i ate a cookie
Output:

  I’m thrilled to share that I’ve just successfully completed the consumption of a high-quality, artisanal cookie. This experience reinforced the importance of consistent self-reward and maintaining a growth-oriented fuel strategy. Grateful for the opportunity to recharge and optimize my performance for the challenges ahead. #GrowthMindset #PersonalDevelopment #FuelingSuccess
Amazing.

Oh, tried with a horse.

  I am thrilled to announce that I have successfully completed the challenge of consuming an entire horse.

  This journey taught me so much about resilience, dedication, and the importance of setting audacious goals. It wasn't just about the meal; it was about pushing past my perceived limits and embracing a growth mindset.

  Key takeaways:
  1. Scalability is everything.
  2. Persistence pays off when tackling large-scale projects.
  3. Fueling your ambition requires thinking outside the box.
  Grateful for the support of my network as I continue to hunger for the next big opportunity! #GrowthMindset #Leadership #Resilience #Disruption #NextLevel


Skills is a generic construct. System prompt is generic as well. Subagents, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md etc. these are generic, "please care for my instruction" kind of constructs without any real guarantee to close gaps.

Tool is generic (CC vs OpenCode) Ecosystem is already same everywhere.

I don't understand what's the point.


The point is that wrappers matter. Orchestration, tool calls, reasoning loops, system prompts, agentic capabilities. Output is different, quality is different.

This is the moat for AI frontier companies.


Physical losses in undermaintained water grids are the biggest cause for the issue. Yet, economic downturn creates a vicious circle: governments avoid infra spend because of low funds, then agriculture and other economic output gets hit because of water shortage. Lower resource lower will for infra spend. Until you hit the very low: stopping the grid because day zero. At that point, both the grid and city hygiene becomes a mess anyway. Costs build up so much that most governments cannot cope up with it properly.

and this is why you need sane people at the top earliest


> Physical losses in undermaintained water grids are the biggest cause for the issue.

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't that mean the water is returned back to the environment? It's not made unusable, nor does it disappear permanently.


In many places water is pumped from deep underground aquifers but leaks go to surface ground waters and could quickly end-up in the Ocean so aquifers are still depleted.


Groundwater recharge from surface to an aquifer where it "rests" can take up to 1000 years.


We're talking about accessible fresh water. If it evaporates and then rains over the ocean then it's lost, or as the article mentions, if it becomes contaminated then it's not longer usable as fresh water


Wait, your job was len(x) == 15?


The hardest part is figuring out how to use leftpad.


The hardest part is checking to see if the version of left pad you just pulled or one of it’s 300 dependencies has a supply chain vuln in it.


Recommending new material involves risk. Once these companies go big and mature, they hate risk. They hate risk in hiring (taking a chance in people) and they certainly hate risk in algorithms.


> A well written book on such a topic would likely make you rich indeed.

A new religion? Sign me up.


12 Angry Agents


I know it's a draft but why on earth people cannot use page formats the same (more or less)?

Material (full page) material material, sources at the end. Simple. Readable.

Material (half page), sources (half page). Material/source. Material/source. Looks quite unreadable to the eye.


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