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Those are simply what the clients wanted to do themselves but they needed someone else to be accountable for their stupid ideas, or to resolve an internal conflict. A good consultant company doesn’t actually provide consultancy, but they’re good at figuring out what the client wants and propose the exact same thing as the solution, so the client can take it to their boss and say “look, …”

Fresh grocery is a luxury. It really tastes much better. It’s the same in America too.

Try it out.

I for one, wish they don’t change what they’re doing, and that people don’t give them advice—let them use AI to generate anything that want.

That will help me easily distinguish and avoid bad bloggers (or any kind of merchants).

It’s interesting to see how all these big techs are going from “hiring with best with attractive comp package” directly to “saving the most by replacing employees with something that sometimes does the right thing”.

I wish it knows that I absolutely hate dark modes with such low contrast.

So, why does Anthropic need so much aggressive marketing lately?

I’ve noticed that the so-called industry is always fixated on the most crappy language. First it was JavaScript, then Python, now English. They have the common problem of being too flexible and ambiguous, causing bugs that are incredibly hard to find. Yet somehow they always become the most popular, and there’s always a cult about it, mostly consist of people who aren’t real computer scientists.

“This time is different” are the famous last words.

Police in China would at least identify themselves, and never wear a mask.

If I overpay for a house, shouldn’t it be taxed as a gift too? :p

What the AI bull Wall Street analysts didn’t realize is that AI will replace their job much sooner than replacing programmers.

I feel that with non-standard syntax like $100 + 25% tip it become very confusing whether the answer would be 100.25 or 125. I’ll end up spending a lot of time trying to verify the answer.