jdelman

I took the comment to mean "most" active traders, not all. Obviously it's possible to beat the market, it's just very difficult, and many fail trying, especially if it's not their day job.

Reading this conjured some feelings in me. At various points in my career, I’ve wanted to take a sabbatical and go to RC. Having spent the last year in the agentic coding world, the idea of writing code by hand seems quaint and outdated. Many have spoken of this feeling of loss so I’m not saying anything new here, but for some reason reading about RC in 2026 specifically cemented the idea that I’ll probably never write anything by hand again.

Isn’t being able to switch models and providers an advantage of integrating once against OpenRouter?

So you work for them?

Some surveillance is necessary for justice, but it is very readily abused in the US.

Inappropriate comparison. Did Linus raise a family by age 30?

While purely speculation, I believe the same thing would have happened, albeit even sooner, under a Harris administration. Government intervention was inevitable and it will have to be worked out through the law.

I can’t help but wonder if this is the basis of the model they’ve helped tune for Apple.

The centrality of GitHub was part of its appeal. It’s where you went to see where nearly every (obviously not all) open source project was being developed. Based on his post, the network effect was a large part of the draw and the reason he stayed despite reliability issues. A more federated set of git UIs will never capture the same feeling.

Lately I’ve found myself taking the “if you can’t beat em, join em” attitude: if I’m not going to have a job in 5 years, I might as well help get there. It’s a strange feeling where it feels like the only way to exert free will is to accelerate my fate. The feeling of inevitable acceleration is difficult to ignore if you’re a software engineer in 2026.

What exactly do you believe to be dangerous? Your comment comes off as judgmental rather than genuine.

Pangram says this article is about 50% AI generated, including the opening several paragraphs.

That’s simply not what introspection is, though.

I’m convinced that he meant rumination, not introspection. There’s simply no way to be “high agency” without some level of introspection. Rumination is essentially a kind of excessive introspection that leads to paralysis.

I remember there was a service that would do this by mail in the 90s. You had to fill out a card with each block letter and then it cost a few hundred dollars. I wasn't even a teenager then so I couldn't afford it, but I always wanted to do it.