Wazzymandias

Apple used to delay and deliver their own brand or interpretation of technology with meaningful differences

Nowadays it feels like a gilded copy of existing tech that also failed to find PMF

Moreover they lost sight of excellent UX, each new OS update adds more bloatware and needless "features" while the calendar app weeps in the corner and slow performance and bugs plague the system

i hope there's a linux analog to pro display xdr at which point i can jump ship

On a larger scale I think it's _a_ factor, but not the only factor.

It's partly a numbers game. There are definitely amicable cul-de-sacs but if you are in an apartment complex there's 100x more "neighbors" you could interact with.

Suburbs also come with the tradeoff of driving, at least in America. It's a lot easier to socialize when you can put on some flip flops and walk to a friend's place or an event than it is to drive.

It can be hit or miss in either case, and there's socioeconomic and cultural forces that make real world interactions more scarce. If more of my income goes to rent and inflation is too high why would I burn through money on going out when I can stay home and watch a show or be on my phone

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I don't need a more bloated operating system or greater resource usage for things I don't want, use, or need. i'd prefer a calendar app that doesn't suck, and an OS that doesn't decrease performance by 5-15% on every new upgrade for slightly older machines

It's amusing that this blog post explained Jev's underlying design far more clearly than their onslaught of bull posts and marketing

This entire time they could have just said "decision model" but they kept using vague, flowery wording. I have no idea why

this is awkward - the site definitely still looks vibe coded / LLMs helped make it

> Why check it? It's obviously going to be correct.

Because as complexity floor increases, it's "going to be correct" in hyper-specific, hyper-literal, insidious ways, with 10-50x more lines of code than necessary, and tens to hundreds of incredibly useless tests that give the illusion of quality, and cause cascading effects where seemingly irrelevant and orthogonal features that were once working end up breaking because of the agent's changes

> been trained on enough long context tasks to have become pretty good at planning

This is absolutely not true

depends on the blast radius of zero-days, it's not like there's a continuous immediate release process for these models; they can eval internally before releasing publicly

This looks and feels a lot like productionized conformal prediction

Similar reasons why Israel hasn't experienced any sanctions yet despite their ongoing genocide against the Palestinians

It's not a conflict, it's a genocide

Some good takes, some bad takes in the post. The analogy of cutting a tree is pretty dehumanizing and doesn't factor in the morale and culture hit laying people off does to a company.

Sustainable growth is far better than boom and bust cycles. I guess if you're shutting down entire product verticals you can reduce the blast radius. Doing partial cuts across the board can cause top talent to look elsewhere.

It depends on the definition of "relatively simple features"

Mismanaged startups can have a lot of technical debt as a result of pivots, shifting priorities, weak engineering and an emphasis on being feature factories. As a result you can get to a point where even a relatively simple feature takes months because of massive technical debt.

Shipping early and often while giving engineers the space to tackle debt is important. Good hiring pipeline for competent product focused engineers can help mitigate building castles in the sky. That and/or having a good CTO.

It's been mostly from personal experience, though I shouldn't generalize to the community as a whole.

Anecdotally my experience with nix community has been unpleasant. They're very resistant to suggestions and offer little in terms of guidance or documentation.