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Comment · 1 month ago
With Apple, you can't repair it yourself, but Apple will repair it for much longer than 5 years.

Not even Fairphone can repair your phone if it's out of parts.

Comment · 2 months ago
They're the ones out here asking for us to try it.
Comment · 4 months ago
The magic of distillation!
Comment · 4 months ago
Ex-PagerDuty here. Without weighing in on the criticisms of pricing and innovation with the product, I will say that the value of PagerDuty is its reliability in notifying you when it receives a signal from a system. Rebuilding the product isn't just asking an LLM to spit out a web app to do scheduling, it's in the notification pipeline (SMS, email, push notifications, Slack), maintaining all that and mobile apps too.

Just like Uber itself, this is one of those "I could replace this in a weekend" things that doesn't actually pan out that way.

Comment · 4 months ago
16 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.
Comment · 4 months ago
Cursor Remote Agents are important to our AI orchestration layer. It's possible that Claude can do this directly but Cursor Remote Agents made this laughably easy.
Comment · 5 months ago
You can get any Uber driver to do it for you if you offer to buy them food too and do it off the books.
Comment · 5 months ago
He is, but he's also describing reality.
Comment · 5 months ago
I just got a Docusign and it didn't work in Firefox, I had to use Chrome. That's a huge blow right there. (I sent negative feedback about this to Docusign.)
Comment · 6 months ago
>There'll probably be a startup tomorrow that digests user input and boils out the noise to provide a robust enough signal to guide some monitoring agent, and it'll help some cases, and train us to be even worse at others.

This sounds like Enterpret.

Comment · 6 months ago
Come on now, you're going to need Xcode at some point during development.
Comment · 6 months ago
It does.
Comment · 8 months ago
By default on a Mac, "smart quotes" is enabled that turns "" into “”. I don't think that's a sign of an LLM. I believe Microsoft Word on all platforms does this too.
Comment · 8 months ago
Swift doesn't use a garbage collector.
Comment · 11 months ago
This is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.

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