7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (374+ words) There is a particular kind of complaint that gets louder as a market matures. Not “this is broken” — that is the noise of a new product — but “wait, what am I actually paying for?” That is the sound of customers…...

12+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1112+ words) I read Dario Amodei's post about slowing down the AI frontier, and Sam Altman's reply saying OpenAI's been having the same internal conversation. The safety angle is real, but what actually stuck with me was a dumber question underneath it:…...

12+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1143+ words) In 2022, I was 26 and working for a major grocery store chain. I had been there for more than five years, two of them as a manager. The pay wasn't great, and the work was tiring, even after a recent raise…...

17+ hour, 22+ min ago   (715+ words) Standing orders are pre-authorized decisions, in writing, with limits: what the on-call may do ALONE while the decision-maker is unreachable. Without them, every small team eventually pays for the same gap - the incident that needed one decision at 3 a.m., the person…...

19+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1160+ words) We taught them to summarize knowledge, generate code, write essays, recommend products, imitate experts, and answer questions in milliseconds. But there is a deeper problem we have barely touched: What if the human asking the question does not understand the…...

23+ hour, 27+ min ago   (766+ words) The business case for our workflow platform promised savings of around four hundred thousand a year, made up of reduced manual handling, fewer errors and faster turnaround. It was approved on those numbers. It was delivered roughly on time. It…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (452+ words) Last month I wrote about how I use coding agents to build things. This week I pointed the same setup at someone else's codebase. Rowboat (rowboatlabs/rowboat, 17.5k stars) had its good first issues picked clean, so I had to work…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (984+ words) I have been sitting with this question for a long time. The more I fold language models into my daily work as a software developer, the less sure I am about a very basic thing: which model do I actually…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (816+ words) I build the whole argument while walking. Beginning, middle, the objection someone will raise, my answer to it. It is all there. I get home, open the editor, write the first sentence — and the second one does not come. I…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (316+ words) Somewhere in your system the same fact is stored twice. A count in a column and the rows it is counting. A status on the order and a status on the payment. An email in the profile service and the…...