mkozlows

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by mkozlows 11d ago
It always did, we just had the norm that in a liberal democracy, we put that to the side for our dealings with people. Same thing as religion -- a huge deal that shapes people's values and attitudes about the most core aspects of life
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by mkozlows 26d ago
I believe that this is your opinion, but my own opinion (having also tried them, and used multiple generations of B&W ones before this) is that the screens look just fine, and that the slight downgrade of contrast isn't a big deal
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by mkozlows 26d ago
Yes, I replaced a B&W Sage with the Libra Colour, and used them for a bit side-by-side. Contrast (not sharpness) of B&W text is slightly worse with the color one, but not by so much that you'd notice it if you weren't comp
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by mkozlows 1mo ago
It's true that developing junior devs is challenging (but it always was), but that's not what this is about: This is about the kind of not-that-good, mid-ass programmers who make up the silent bulk of the industry. The ones who ha
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by mkozlows 1mo ago
No, free tier was total garbage with GPT-5.
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by mkozlows 1mo ago
I think the article actually _does_ call that out, noting that the reason for some of these things is due to how wealth propagates through society, even noting the minimum wage specifically. (But it does bring to mind the Agatha Christie qu
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by mkozlows 1mo ago
Yes, but their newer write-up discusses that (and shows that the self-reported numbers have gone up radically, in a way that suggests that even if there is some inflation, the numbers are almost certainly positive if you deflate). They also
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by mkozlows 1mo ago
Your PM can write the ticket, and your QA can test the output.
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by mkozlows 1mo ago
Yeah, this seriously drives me nuts. That meeting that you spent an hour in to understand the requirements? You don't need that meeting if you're not writing the code. That sync up with the QA engineer you did to hand it off to th
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by mkozlows 1mo ago
I feel like all you need to know about how seriously to take this is that they cite that ancient early-2025 METR study, and describe it in the text as "recently one even found..."
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by mkozlows 2mo ago
It's not a scam. Connecting to the grid has enormous value, and keeping the grid up has real costs. A model where your generation pays you retail prices doesn't make sense. California's current net metering system, which is m
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by mkozlows 2mo ago
It really wasn't. Early streaming (like 2012-ish, after cord-cutting was possible but before it was mainstream) had Netflix and Hulu as the two major services, and so anything that was on streaming was on one of those two. But lots and
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by mkozlows 2mo ago
The point of this seems to be building on open hardware. If you want open source software that builds on proprietary hardware, KOReader is what you want. (I use it, it's great.)
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by mkozlows 2mo ago
I mean, a) regular consumers are just gonna buy a Kindle, do nothing with its software, and only buy books from Amazon. But also b) the way a lot of these hobby things expand is that if they get some market traction, someone starts making a
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by mkozlows 2mo ago
This was also my thought, and I think holds true of the ones with invisible requirements that aren't stated up front and are only captured in tests. Oh, you need to rework your solution to handle requirements nobody mentioned before? W
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by mkozlows 2mo ago
I kinda love that you made this post feel negative enough that a bunch of AI skeptics are enthusiastically agreeing with a post suggesting that the realistic, pragmatic bear case for AI is, uh, 2-3x productivity improvements.
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by mkozlows 2mo ago
These days, they mostly don't. California passed a law that required clarity (good), and now most things accurately say "license" instead of "buy." (Not universally, but in many cases.)
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
Go to chat.z.ai right now and ask it about what happened in Tiananmen Square. Do you think it's good for the world if software is written by the model that answers that question that way?
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
No, I know what it is. But it's not as good as Claude Code or Codex. Harnesses matter for coding agents, it's not just the model. There's a reason Microsoft had to make its developers stop using Claude Code, and it's bec
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
I mean, literally the answer is that nobody knows. Maybe the robots replace us all. Maybe they shift those who remain into being some combination of Product Manager and QA. Maybe there's still a role for a technical overseer even in th
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
10% of a developer's cost is something like $4000/month. Many companies are complaining at a point that's well, well below that. (I think they are being irrational, and that the mental model they have of AI costs -- "how
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
If your company was giving you Copilot, they were never that far on board the AI train anyway.
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
Which is why one of the big problems for the field right now is that a) most code bases still need someone more skilled than a mere robot driver, and b) many developers are not better than that. In the past, a team of five mid devs and one
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
Most code they write is obviously fine. Much of the rest isn't obviously fine, but is in fact fine once you've gone through understanding it. But yes, there's some that still benefits from a human eye. (For as long as that&#x
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
Completely disagree. I think this is one of the big wins of agentic engineering. When you look back at your own completed change and realize that you made it too complicated because your initial abstraction was wrong, you have to debate lon
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
Yeah, but I think there's a difference here: If your coworker puts up code that you don't understand quickly, in most environments people give it an approval, as withholding approval is meant to indicate that there's a proble
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by mkozlows 3mo ago
You can also just use AI and keep the scale of your changes small rather than refactoring the whole app with a change? This isn't super-weird.
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by mkozlows 4mo ago
I was hoping that the web UI would be better -- I like Anthropic better than OpenAI from a values perspective and want to use their products, but ChatGPT in thinking mode has been just vastly better than claude.ai.So my fingers were crossed
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by mkozlows 4mo ago
5.2 still had a Codex variant, which this doesn't describe using. It also notably is not using the Codex harness -- it does everything with open source harnesses (which obviously are worse). And while it uses two harnesses with its che
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by mkozlows 4mo ago
Yeah, they conflate Microsoft's actions (which are not about cost) with a random quote from the "vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia," who says that compute costs more than people on his team -- but his team isn

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