mizzao

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by mizzao 8d ago
Is there an analogy here to the phenomenon that senior {engineers, designers, PMs} are now able to be insanely productive with AI, but it's also very hard to train junior folks to develop the sense of judgment that senior folks have?
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by mizzao 8d ago
I've found this book to be particularly instructive in understanding how policies across the world ended up neglecting citizens and pushing them to the far right, from Trump to AfD and everything in between. It's made it clearer t
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by mizzao 20d ago
If someone takes a bunch of good ideas and turns them into an essay with the help of AI, does that make the ideas inherently untrue?
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by mizzao 1mo ago
Also, corollary from the above: you want to make lawyers happy in an acquisition because of the above, which allows you to sell for more $
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by mizzao 1mo ago
I strongly disagree with this on the steak part and maybe the coffee too. Many people pride themselves on buying expensive ingredients and thinking they have the best steak but it actually sucks. To get good steak you don't need USDA P
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How to find your first designer(parsnip.substack.com)
1 points by mizzao 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mizzao 1mo ago
We started with no design expertise of our own and over 2 years, learned the ropes and evaluated 300+ portfolios in our designer hiring process. I wrote these notes up in case they might be helpful to any early-stage startup that's try
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by mizzao 2mo ago
Paywall bypass: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/ice-arrests-airports-v...
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ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive(nytimes.com)
15 points by mizzao 2mo ago|1 comments
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Generative AI is an Engineering Disaster(theatlantic.com)
11 points by mizzao 2mo ago|2 comments
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by mizzao 2mo ago
Or we can just start school later because kids no longer need to leave at 2:30 to go help on the farm.
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by mizzao 2mo ago
I doubt anyone in the media is paying attention to projects being rewritten in Rust...
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by mizzao 2mo ago
Not sure if you're alluding to this but it's analogous to the same differences between startups and big tech companies. Startups = have few resources, product has to work or company dies Big tech = minimal cost of failure, instead
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by mizzao 2mo ago
Why does he call Android the "Nothing Phone"? Missing the context.
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by mizzao 3mo ago
Is "being mocked" not also "facing the rage of many"? What do you imagine with the latter that would be so much worse?
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by mizzao 3mo ago
McMaster-Carr has entered the chat...
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by mizzao 3mo ago
I actually didn't smell AI at all while reading this article, because the idea density seemed high, rather than when AI just expands a few ideas into repetitive mumbo jumbo. The last portion was a bit wordy and metaphysical, but he lan
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by mizzao 4mo ago
Seems like a good reminder of https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by mizzao 4mo ago
What is the CPU/GPU architecture of this and how could a collaboration between whoever made it and Nvidia possibly outperform Apple Silicon?
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by mizzao 4mo ago
Good luck, and please don't be discouraged if it takes 20 launches to figure out what works! That's completely normal.
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by mizzao 4mo ago
Time is money, and it's easier to negotiate with a dealer from whom you're buying a car than to coordinate many meetings with randos on Craigslist.
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by mizzao 4mo ago
Don't forget the mortgage interest deduction as well, which is a huge subsidy for those who can afford to buy.
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by mizzao 4mo ago
2 years ago AI coding agents had barely emerged yet, right? Couldn't have gotten good results even if a good engineer was forced to use it...
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by mizzao 4mo ago
This feels like the example of (world-famous violinist) Joshua Bell playing violin in the DC subway and getting just a few bucks. It's totally different than paying money to see him in a concert hall, context matters so much...
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by mizzao 4mo ago
How do you use Claude Code to access your browser memory?
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by mizzao 4mo ago
A skills-based personalized learning platform: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/knowledge We started this because we were building https://www.parsnip.ai/ , an app to help people learn how to cook. But th
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by mizzao 4mo ago
Was that Matt Pittinsky?
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by mizzao 4mo ago
The fact that one of the em dashes has spaces around it, and the other does not, makes it more likely to be handwritten. I personally love em-dashes and hate that they're a sign of AI writing now.
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by mizzao 4mo ago
No-logo clothes are actually the ultimate flex now...
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by mizzao 4mo ago
It seems like Black Mirror's "Joan is Awful" is here, but instead of a quantum computer generating personalized content, we just have an endless parade of meaningless slop.

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