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What do coders do after AI? - Anil Dash
anildash.com · 14 people Worth reading
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
There are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and it’s part of their identity. Today’s LLM tools now enable an individual to essentially be an entire software _factory_, and this is going to impact those 2 kinds of coders very differently — especially in how they respond to *both* of their bosses trying to put them out of work.
— @anildash · Mar 13
Trump Surprised To Find He's At War in Iran
doomsdayscenario.co · 48 people Worth reading
Once his not-even-half-baked plan failed to materialize in Iran, it’s clear that there’s no Plan B.
"The hardest thing for the #media to wrap its hands around over the last year is that Donald #Trump has no plan — for anything, ever... In each public appearance and social media post, the Mad King Donald Trump spouts a string of words, devoid of meaning or purpose, that may or may not represent anything at all."
The #American #president is very very mentally unwell. The world is in the grip of a very stupid madman.
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— @wms · Mar 13
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
newrepublic.com · 259 people
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
“Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of ‘highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat’ while increasing the power of working-class men.”
— @acdha · Mar 12
UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
theguardian.com · 20 people
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Monbiot nails it again.
> If it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, this is because there isn’t one. For the sake of the ultra-rich, we are all being gaslit.
— @jbond · Mar 13
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
samhenri.gold · 166 people
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
i really liked this blog post about the macbook neo
— @jacqueline · Mar 12
The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702
techdirt.com · 24 people
Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you…
The #Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the #NSA Is Doing Under Section 702 - "If you’ve followed Wyden’s career, you know this is not a man prone to hyperbole — and you know his track record on these warnings is perfect."
— @glynmoody · Mar 13
Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis
theguardian.com · 13 people Worth reading
As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transition
There is a simple answer. Fossil Fuel companies are determined to maintain their profits and having worked hard to deny any impact on climate are finding this a little more difficult to avoid - although many governments are trying their best to ignore it.
— @Wen · Mar 13
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
arstechnica.com · 27 people
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants. See full article...
1. YES THEY ARE.
They are vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They are generating tech debt at scale. They don't THINK that that's what they're doing. Do you think most programmers conceive of their daily (non-LLM) activities as "putting in lots of bugs"? No, that is never what we say we're doing. Yet, we turn around, and there all the bugs are.
With LLMs, we can look at the mission-critical AWS modules and ask after the fact, were they vibe-coded? AWS says yes
— @glyph · Mar 13
Everything's Casino
joanwestenberg.com · 10 people Worth reading
On the evening of February 28, 2026, American B-2 bombers lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. By the time they reached Iranian airspace, Tomahawk missiles were already in flight from submarines in the Persian Gulf. Operation Epic Fury hit over a thousand targets in its opening ho...
Between the gamblers and the disappeared, there is almost no space left for the old model: the person who plants a tree knowing they'll never sit in its shade.
— @Daojoan · Mar 13
Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work
sharif.io · 15 people Worth reading
Looking foolish is underrated.
Willingness to look stupid
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— @hn500 · Mar 13
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