mattchew

This is the best essay on agentic coding I've read. Clear thinking and writing, pragmatic about the future of agent-led coding.

If you usually skip straight to the comments, you might want to actually read this one.

I had pretty much written off ever my credit card to Google, but a better billing experience and hard billing caps might change that.

I'm not crazy about SOLID principles either. They don't feel like useful, practical ideas to me. They were born to be memorized for a classroom test or a job interview. SOLID does come up in interviews, though.

Most companies don't really invest in trying to do good interviews. Rarely is there anyone motivated (or permitted) to think about the process and make it a lot better or different. Doing what they've always done, or what everyone else seems to be doing, is good enough.

If you can't imagine how politicians could endlessly fight over a UBI you haven't tried hard enough.

The implication is that Amazon was fully aware that this was happening and didn't care. That's what most people would think "let" meant here.

Yes, equivocating over the meaning of "let", the headline is technically true. Like so, so many other technically true but misleading headlines.

I get where you're coming from. The free content is possible because of the advertisements, and you are sort of consenting to the ads when you choose to visit the site. It's not an explicit agreement but it is at least an understanding of what lets the wheels keep turning.

However, when ads are so obtrusive that they slow down my computer or ruin the use of the site completely, or if they have malware payloads (does happen) then I'm quite happy to use an ad blocker. I didn't use one until I started encountering this kind of nonsense regularly.

Our family started taking Vitamin D at the start of the pandemic. We've all gotten sick a lot less than we used to, despite one of us working at a drugstore constantly exposed to sick people.

Of course I don't know for sure that the Vitamin D is causal here, but it's my best guess. I suspect a lot of people are D deficient and just don't know it.

This game is on my radar, but as I understand it it really wants a lot of players at the table and my group is typically capped at 4.

Glad to hear it referenced though.

A degree can be a valuable signal to employers and also be a terrible waste of time and resources. It can be both at once.

It would be better if we found ways to let young people get into white collar and middle class professions without spending $100K and four years of their lives. This used to be possible. I'm quite sure it could be done again, but collectively we're not going to go there. Yet, anyway.

Oh, I dream of a day where there are multiple useful search engines, specialized for different purposes.

You're doing God's work here. Thanks and good luck.

I think this is a sincere question.

It's quite possible this ends in a global depression that's worse than what we had in 2008, maybe even worse than what we had in the 1930s.

There are a lot of states that are not very solvent: states collapsing financially is also a possibility. Very bad for the people who live there, and sometimes their neighbors.

Freedom of speech has always meant the idea that different points of view should be aired, not suppressed, and that people should decide for themselves what is right or what is correct, rather than authorities deciding for them.

A society where "wrong" points of view are thoroughly suppressed by giant social media companies or angry mobs (or angry mobs on social media) might not violate the literal text of the First Amendment, but it lacks the spirit of free speech that inspired the First Amendment in the first place.

What I find most disappointing is not that Facebook is censoring QAnon (or whatever), but that the popular sentiment is they should be. That's a big change from the culture I grew up in, and not for the better.