The Trump administration getting a $10B finders fee for selling TikTok to the Ellison family and others is truly a grifting masterpiece.
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Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
The flip side of AI coding agents is that once your company gets hooked on them, Uncle Sam can’t wait to jack up the price.
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This article strikes at the heart of the weirdness in the software industry right now. Programmers making $200K+ are no longer writing code but instead simply supervising Claude Code which writes the code for them.
But instead of being afraid for their jobs, they are excited by how much more productive they are.
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The biggest dilemma I face at work these days is how to politely say "ay yo, this is AI slop!"
Suggestions welcome.
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Just because AI makes it super easy to deepfake a person doesn’t mean you can just include that deepfake into your product without permission.
Even if it’s “just” deep faking authors and journalists giving writing tips. Intellectual property laws still exist. Superhuman indeed. 🤦🏾♂️
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Whenever I hear someone say that PMs are vibe coding features in production, I always want to ask if those PMs are on call for when those features inevitably break in production?
Note: All features eventually break-in production.
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The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three questions which the media skipped asking
1. Should a computer be able to kill people?
2. What’s an acceptable error rate for that computer given LLMs 5% hallucination rate?
3. Can the government force you to sell them your tech to kill?
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The official statement from Caitlin Kalinowski, former head of robotics at OpenAI, about why she quit company.
I think this is the most significant ethical discussion in tech of our lifetimes.
Should a computer be able to kill people shouldn’t be framed as a tiff between Hegseth and Anthropic.
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The only feature of 1Password that matters is their business dies overnight if they get hacked so they’ve thought harder about security than anyone you know.
You can’t vibe code that in two evenings no matter how much you ask Claude to “make it secure”
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It's funny communicating with coworkers when we're both using AI to rewrite the content. Definitely a "my lawyer will talk to your lawyer" vibe.
I guess at some point we can just have our AI agents argue it out and wait for the conclusion.
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Understanding cause and effect (if I hit the snooze button then I’ll get more sleep) and second order thinking (but then I’ll be late for work) are the basics of being an intelligent person.
Unfortunately we decided to elect the dumbest and most spiteful people we could find to the highest offices.
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A data scientist at Cash App quite her job after Block laid off 40% of her coworkers and offered those remaining, retention packages equivalent to a 75% pay increase.
She said it’s dystopian to be forced to use AI tools that accelerate the disappearance of the job you depend on for your livelihood.
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Trump’s approval rating is so bad even racist uncles are having second thoughts.
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As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.
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I’m glad I’m not on X because the debate that is being waged there about Anthropic versus the Pentagon is appalling. The post below, like others on X argues that national security should override Anthropic not wanting their AI being used to kill people.
This ignores the incredibly obvious point that LLMs are not reliable enough to make life or death decisions. They aren’t even reliable enough to summarize a blog post consistently. 🤦🏾♂️
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The defining characteristic of domestic policy in the United States is racism. It’s literally why we can’t have nice things.
Every time some practice doesn’t make sense from the war on drugs to how education is funded, Trump getting elected twice or the lack of universal healthcare, you can trace the roots back to racism.
People would rather be kings in hell than risk being servants in heaven.
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The idea that people have made over $1M betting on the U.S. bombing Iran this month is gross. I can’t believe people figured out how to make gambling even worse for humanity.
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America’s foreign policy is now “How many people have to die before you stop talking about the Epstein Files?”
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Following the launch of Claude Code, US GitHub code pushes were 30% above the pre-2025 trend.
Similarly iOS app releases were up 55% vs last January, and new website registrations rose 34% year over year globally after years of flatlining.
AI productivity gains have hit software in a major way.
https://www.ft.com/content/5ac2ee5f-f8bd-4f39-a759-3c5c50c8b37e
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Nvidia beat on revenue, earnings and raised its outlook.
The market: Sell, AI is a bubble and this is too good to be true. 😭
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When it comes to the impact of AI on jobs and the economy, I’m reminded that people overestimate what will happen in a year and underestimate what will happen in ten years.
The stock market similarly overreacted and then underreacted to the internet. Tech was overvalued in the late 1990s then crashed in the early 2000s, undervalued through to the early 2010s and now we have multiple trillion dollar tech companies in the 2020s.
The bet on the internet was right but the timeframe was wrong.
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Props to @shanselman@hachyderm.io for writing about the elephant in the room in big tech.
AI coding tools increase senior engineer productivity while creating an “AI drag” for junior engineers who lack judgment or context to validate AI outputs.
Companies optimizing for the near-term output by reducing junior hiring, are undermining the future supply of experienced engineers. We likely need to move to apprenticeship like models in the future to give juniors experience.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3779312
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Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to perform worse on standardized tests than their parents.
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath blamed the introduction of technology over textbooks in schools and the rise of the iPhone.
I believe COVID also was a major inflection point which many never recovered from.
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When I tell people how I use AI at work they often ask “How can you trust it?”
My reply? “I don’t.”
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80s kids, imagine if this was the ad for Contra from Konami when you were growing up.
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Tesla sales in January were -17% lower than the same time last year. However its stock price is +22% higher.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the business performance of a company and its stock price diverge this much.
The question is how much longer can Elon’s cult prop up the stock?
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article314701754.html
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This is a good story of why being focused on cost cutting as the top priority can be deadly.
Red Robin decided to fire bussers to save costs and tables stopped getting cleared, wait times ballooned and dine-in traffic declined. Stock down -88% since 2021. Chilis decided to invest in customer experience in 2022 and just saw same store sales grow +31% year over year.
https://garryslist.org/posts/red-robin-died-by-spreadsheet-don-t-make-the-same-mistake
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I think two things are true.
1. There are real productivity gains from using AI and jobs being lost as less hiring is done due to usage of AI tools.
2. However the vast majority of the past year of layoffs are due to economic conditions and anticipation of AI productivity gains not actual cost savings from AI.
https://fortune.com/2026/02/19/sam-altman-confirms-ai-washing-job-displacement-layoffs/
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Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and brightest in the world wanting to come here, low corruption and childhood diseases like measles being eradicated.
I guess things are definitely less boring now. Worse, but also less boring.
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Ramp’s data science team has published research showing businesses are replacing freelancers with AI. Two key findings
1. Spend on services like Upwork & Fiverr has dropped -80% as companies have shifted to spending on OpenAI & Anthropic’s tools. More than half of the businesses using freelancers in 2022 have stopped entirely.
2. AI is much cheaper. Each $1 of freelance spend is replaced by $0.03 of AI spend.
https://ramp.com/velocity/ai-labor-market-impact-freelancers
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A genuine question I have is that as white collar work evolves over the next few years to telling an LLM to do your job and catching the 1%/5%/10%/etc where it hallucinates nonsense, how do you hire and train entry level people to do this?
I would love to figure out how to pitch companies to try.
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Other countries are arresting people on the Epstein list, America decided to make its most frequent flier its president and is now going to give him a war with Iran as a distraction.
This is not a serious country.
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A student decided not to work at a newspaper because of their use of AI and they just wrote up their processes.
Journalists no longer write articles. They research stories and interview people then their notes are turned into an article by AI which they review before publishing. They claim it’s saved them an entire workday per employee.
Note: This is how people are expected to work in Big Tech. This would be celebrated in FAANG.
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Apple sitting out the AI race has given its stock price an essential feature; stability.
Tech stocks are experiencing wild swings as investors can’t decide if AI will kill SAAS businesses or big tech is overspending on AI.
Meanwhile Apple isn’t in any of these conversations as they’ve just focused on selling phones.
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A CEPR study of 12,000 companies shows a 4% average AI productivity gain, but businesses under 50 employees saw negative impacts.
This matches my impression from work where getting the most from tools like Claude Code requires heavy data and software infrastructure that favors large companies.
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Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic) refuse to hold hand’s at India’s AI impact summit.
Their beef runs deep.
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A study of 12,000 European businesses shows that AI adoption has increased productivity by 4% without reducing employment in the EU.
Results also show that medium and large companies are seeing more productivity gains from AI than small ones. In effect, the rich are getting richer.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-ai-affecting-productivity-and-jobs-europe
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The U.S. government plans to create a website to host content that is banned in the EU so that European internet users can still view it.
For example, Germany bans Nazi content but now the U.S. government in the name of "free speech" will host that content so Germans can view it online despite it being banned in their country.
An incredible government y'all voted for.
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I’m more curious about what percent of their code is reviewed by humans since that is the systemic risk.
While Claude Code is impressive tech, I’ve seen it make incredible mistakes almost every other day on basic tasks. I can’t imagine the bugs lurking if you trust it completely.
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Apple plans to launch smart glasses (similar to Meta RayBans), a pendant (similar to the Humane AI Pin) and AirPods with AI capabilities (similar to Galaxy Buds3). All powered by Siri infused with Google's Gemini.
Apple has historically leapfrogged competitors by making high tech products more palatable to consumers but this time it just feels like they're catching up from behind.
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There is a management trend being discussed in tech circles that looks like
• little to no hiring of entry level workers
• turning managers into super ICs (individual contributors)
• smaller teams
• everyone heavily using AI tools
I’m curious to see which companies actually follow through.
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36% approval rating? Dude is as popular as measles.