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Kiriakou has serious “that happened” energy. I’m not really qualified to guess how much of what he says is bullshit, and I’m sure you inevitably gain some stories being a CIA station chief or whatever, but the guy has a story about literally everything ever. He’s been everywhere, he’s met everyone, he knows everything about everything… and it really strains disbelief. The guy obviously loves telling stories (and I’d even go so far as to say he’s great at it), but I’ve gotta imagine that the vast majority of it is seriously embellished if not outright bullshit — especially when so much of what he says seems designed to paint him favorably.

What “usefulness” do you get out of them?

Hear hear.

It’s also clever politics. Minnesota has the largest iron mining operations in the entire United States, so choosing iron as your core battery technology is a smart (albeit cynical) way to drum to some local support with the promise of bringing new demand back to the taconite mines. Whether that will be strong enough to overcome the extreme negative sentiments around datacenter projects? Who knows…

One of your most recent comments is about killing stray cats, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that you've been banned for being an asshole rather than righteously speaking truth to power or whatever.

Do you have any recommendations of cool ‘side web’ sites that are worth visiting?

That perfectly describes what my day-to-day has become at work (not by choice). The only way to get anywhere close to production-ready code is to do like you just described, and the process is incredibly tedious and frustrating. It also isn’t really any faster than just writing the code myself (unless I’m satisfied with committing slop) and in the end, I still don’t understand the code I’ve ‘written’ as well as if I’d done it without AI. When you write code yourself there’s a natural self-reinforcement mechanism, the same way that taking notes in class improves your understanding/retention of the information better than when just passively listening. You don’t get that when vibe coding (no matter how knowledgeable you are and how diligent you are about babysitting it), and the overall health of the app suffers a lot. The AI tools are also worse than useless when it comes to debugging, so good fucking luck getting it to fix the bugs it inevitably introduces…

Typical C-suite. It takes them three months to come to the same conclusion that would be blindingly obvious to anyone with half a brain: if you build something that no one understands, you’ll end up with something impossible to maintain.

100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches Don’t forget the hundreds of MBs of NPM dependencies

The author of this article is literally the Principal Skinner meme

I can only speak for America, but here they’re all a bunch of corporate-sponsored anarchy LARPers.

they still said that they love Google and use all of its products — they just didn’t expect it to release a program that can make a massive error such as this, especially because of its countless engineers and the billions of dollars it has poured into AI development. I honestly don’t understand how someone can exist on the modern Internet and hold this view of a company like Google. How? How?