Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee @Pelshoff

Now imagine these euro critters being able to scan all your private messages, group chats, AI conversations. They could ensure so much dEmOcrAZy! And launch 100x more criminal prosecutions against insubordinate citizens.

Florian Gallwitz @FlorianGallwitz

a month ago

A guy jokingly tweeted “olaf scholz you bastard what the hell is this” in frustration because Fortnite was stuck at 3% download. As a result, German authorities investigated him for committing a criminal offence (insulting a politician, §188 StGB) and forced him to delete it.

230 3K 38K 1.6M 4K

Pre-AI (pre-web2.0?) encyclopedia, at a premium

kshitij vaze @VazeKshitij

2 months ago

The rot has spread so deep, the very foundations have now started falling.

348 3K 43K 1.2M 3K

@NoahRevoy @ThruTheHayes Amazing Noah, what a time to be a creator!

@NoahRevoy It takes one to know one 😏

@NoahRevoy Insider trading tip: there is nothing special about ai projects here. This was and is true of software projects. The key is to find the right problem decomposition that allows for independent execution and evolution.

Anthropic’s CEO keeps talking about AI wiping out jobs because he’s trying to IPO this year. If he positions Claude as armageddon for jobs, his TAM becomes “all white-collar human labor,” not just AI agents or SaaS. It’s completely self-interested. All the concerns he’s expressing about job disruptions are fake. It’s a marketing gambit to create hype and FOMO among the people he needs more than anyone else this year: institutional investors like BlackRock, Fidelity, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds. If these investors pay for tickets on the hype train—if he can make them believe that AI will eliminate half of white-collar jobs, with Anthropic, as the dominant leader in enterprise AI, positioned to capture the surplus margin—the IPO will be oversubscribed and Anthropic can raise more funds for the company at a higher valuation. But Dario (or, at least, his bankers) knows that these investors are more fiscally disciplined than they used to be. A lot of them got burned during Covid SPAC-mania and don’t want to risk it again. They’re going to challenge Anthropic about whether it will ever get to sustainably high gross margins, or if its arms race with OpenAI will lead to kilowatt-hours permanently suppressing gross margins. They’re going to ask pointed questions about Anthropic’s massive capex and whether it will ever generate accretive ROIC. And Dario might not have the answers they’re looking for. So that’s why—to answer Austen’s smart question—you keep seeing Dario in the news and the podcast circuit, spreading doom and gloom about widespread job loss. It’s not to make you afraid of losing your job. It’s to get Wall Street afraid of missing out on his IPO.

Austen Allred @Austen

2 months ago

Honest question: Why does he keep saying this?

2K 321 9K 2.0M 1K

Update: it read to 75% session used, made two passes at the code, then started compacting (i.e. forgetting everything it loaded) and then raced right back to 98% trying to remember SOMETHING. And then 100%! I got two minor tasks done. Absolutely worthless. @claudeai

Two weeks ago Claude Sonnet 4.6 could do several tasks in one 5hr session budget in a brownfield, very imperfect repo. Today, Claude is spending 45%(!) of the budget just to read the project... that it started the night before. I'm at a loss here 🤷‍♂️

@NoahRevoy Thanks Noah, much appreciated!

After four years of various adventures, I'll be leaving Superscript. I'm working through April, will take most of May for other work, and then will be available for freelance work come June. Link in comment 👇

pimelshoff.com/blog/i-resigne…

Code quality won't save you from bugs. The most beautiful code is still littered with coupling issues via over-investment in abstractions and DRY and virtually no OCP adherence. The solution to maintainability always has been at design quality - AI or not. Design quality and code quality are not the same thing as many are screaming at you to keep you convinced for many selfish reasons. If you fail to couple over an immutable source of truth and observe OCP for new features by copying then adjusting for perfect solution fit, then you haven't solved maintainability issues. You can have the worst looking code absolutely wipe the floor with the crispiest, cleanest, jaw-droping code you've ever seen. I'll take that bet every day. The industry is in a wild goose chase to make amazing code, fast; and that's what's burning all the power for AI, tax money for go no where death march projects and resource (people) Tetris for management in the dilbert land of enterprises. The cancer treatment pharmaceutical didn't want the tobacco manufacturer to be out of business much like your ide manufacturer didn't want you to stop DRY and chasing pretty code. @EventModeling #EventSourcing.

FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀 Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety. FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety. All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.

From startup to shutdown, loading Windows 3.1, MS Word, and MS Excel, on a computer several orders of magnitude slower and with 1000x less RAM than a modern PC. Note how snappy everything is. iT's dOinG mOre No it isn't. We don't have to live like this!

AC @saveusculture

3 months ago

I'm installing Microsoft Office 4.3 on Windows 3.1 right now just to show you guys what they took from us.

15 6 275 351K 11

My kids are four and one, and I already experience this. Cherish every little thing they do, before it's just a memory!

Matthew Kobach @mkobach

3 months ago

With two young boys at home, I try to imagine this every few months

41 365 4K 581K 3K

Nederland heeft in slechts één maand tijd 130 miljard euro aan ongerealiseerde winst gemaakt op het Groningse gasveld. Ik vind op zijn minst dat we daar 36% van mogen zien als grondstof dividend dit jaar. Toch mooi weer zo'n 2600 euro p.p. Box3 drama 🔂

@NoahRevoy There's never been a better time to have ideas

oog can't sleep. walk outside cave. middle of night. papa already there. sitting. looking at nothing. oog: "papa?" papa: "sit." oog sit. long quiet. bug noise. sky big and close. oog: "papa can't sleep?" papa: "papa just thinking." oog: "about what?" papa: "cold season coming. need more hide. need more dried meat. fire pit cracking, need new stone. koom need new wrap, growing too fast. fru need new spear, old one splintering." papa say all this flat. like reading from wall scratching. not complaining. just... listing. oog: "papa think about this every night?" papa look at oog. little smile. tired one. papa: "papa think about this every MOMENT. just only say it out loud at night when nobody listening." oog: "oog listening." papa: "...yeah. oog is." quiet again. oog: "papa. when does it stop? the list?" papa laugh. real laugh. the kind that surprise him. papa: "oog. it don't stop. you just get better at carrying it while smiling at breakfast." oog sit with this. heavy thing disguised as a sentence. one day oog will have own list. own night sitting. own bug noise and big sky and a head full of everyone else's needs. and oog hope... oog hope someone sit next to oog and say "what papa thinking about." so the list can live outside oog head. even for one minute. that what papa needed tonight. not solution. just a witness. love, oog

The insane 36% unrealized gain tax may have passed in the house, but the law still has to pass the senate. This website makes it incredibly easy to e-mail a bunch of senators & make your voice heard. Do your duty, and send at least 5 today. 👇🏼 vermogensval.nl

@NoahRevoy Trust me plenty of programmers too 😂 one of the reasons why software grows too complex