Maybe 10 years ago I interviewed both for Netflix and Facebook.

At Netflix, I used a state machine library to handle the project they gave me. Got rejected because I didn't show I knew raw JavaScript enough.

At Facebook, I wrote a calendar dropdown from scratch. Got rejected because I should have used a library.

Interviews sometimes is just a lottery...

Yes I know both companies should have set the expectation, but you can set the expectation for EVERYTHING, otherwise you give candidates all the answers you're expecting. There's always going to be some chaos due to the huge number of variables.

Possible, yes. Easier? I tried to search for YouTube videos of people doing amazing things at blazing speed using Gas Town about a month ago, and couldn't find any. I for sure didn't want to spend hours reading and learning something that I don't know if it even works?

Does anyone have like, projects built using it? I couldn't find "look at the output" types of videos or articles or repos, only "look at the input" types of posts about it.

I am designing one, aimed at Claude Code and other AI Coding Agents, and getting the first version lex/parser/compiler was an afternoon project. It was initially a TypeScript toolchain generating TypeScript code.

I keep adding things here and there, a couple hours everyday. Then after about a week I decided to switch the toolchain from TypeScript to Rust, how much work? A 5 minute planning session and a ~20 minutes implementation phase.

Trivial stuff indeed.

I bought and iPad Mini Nov 20th, 2013, and it still works. Slow, but it does. Enough for my daughter to watch YT Kids here and there.

Kaparthy to tell you things you thought were hard in fact fit in a screen.

Also the case against tariffs, a quick (maybe AI hallucinated) search shows `Victor Owen Schwartz` was part of the challenge.

Democracy isn't dead folks, but it takes more work than usual.

The problem is that it's a never ending game of attrition, and the government can always outspend you.

For example, in case of tariffs, they found another loophole and went on their way.

It's nice to have a little guy take a stand, but without major collective pressure, nothing will change.

We are in a period of resistance, fighting for the next election so we can apply major collective pressure. Then he will be the lamest of ducks.

It always takes a ton of work to roll back state over reach. The Bound By Oath podcast by the Institute for Justice has a whole season about how hard it is to bring civil rights claims against the government or government officials.

And gets harder in a country where even the judges are political appointees and apparently that’s by design. (I resisted adding a smiley here because this is rather sad)

The courts are actually striking down a lot of government overreach recently. The tariffs were just overturned, and the administration was blocked from using the national guard for law enforcement. In fact this administration has lost more Supreme Court cases than any other administration at only 1 year in.

I know it's "illegal" and technically sold as FSD (assisted), but just 2 days ago I was in a friend's Model Y and it drove from work to my house (both in San Jose) without any steering wheel or pedal touch, at all. And he told me he went to Palm Springs like that too.

I shit on Tesla and Elon on any opportunity, and it's a shame they basically have the software out there doing things when it probably shouldn't, but I don't think they're that far behind Waymo where it really matters, which is the thing actually working.

I suspect they have a long tail problem with FSD. It might work fine 99% but that's simply not good enough.

Nice illusion of competence on easy conditions…Until it hits a person and Tesla EV performs far worse than the Waymo both during th crash and afterwards PR wise. Guarantee you Elon will throw the driver under the bus for not watching, not his sketchy system.

the driver and the pedestrian both

Palm Springs from San Jose? Albeit freeway throughout but that's quite impressive.

Nonna Emilia, so I don't forget people's names and what they're up to anymore.

I did post about Emilia a few months ago... now I have a domain https://meetemilia.com/

The basic idea is that you give Emilia knowledge about your family and friends, and then you can ask her questions or (eventually) get reminders.

I was motivated during an extended family gathering where I completely blanked out on the names of the partners of some of my cousins. I felt awful... trying to hide the fact that I didn't remember their names.

Now the names and who they are etc is there in Nonna Emilia, and through natural text I can ask questions like "what's the name of all the partners of my cousins on the side of my dad's family?" or something like that.

I am looking for alpha users. The service has legit helped me a few times already remembering stuff, but the amount of work to input all this data still bothers me.

Anyway, it's free. If you want go ahead and try (bugs here and there I bet, and you need a Google Account) and shoot me an email at inerte@gmail.com if you have any comment.

Yes. It's interesting to see a consequence of this strategy, which is at least some part of your model 3/Y customers bought it because "it is a Tesla", and being Tesla is premium. If you get rid of the premium, you lose that aura. But maybe the impact is small.

You don't simply put a body in a seat and get software. There are entire systems enabling this trust: college, resume, samples, referral, interviews, tests and CI, monitoring, mentoring, and performance feedback.

And accountability can still exist? Is the engineer that created or reviewed a Pull Request using Claude Code less accountable then one that used PICO?

> And accountability can still exist? Is the engineer that created or reviewed a Pull Request using Claude Code less accountable then one that used PICO?

The point is that in the human scenario, you can hold the human agents accountable. You cannot do that with AI. Of course, you as the orchestrator of agents will be accountable to someone, but you won't have the benefit of holding your "subordinates" accountable, which is what you do in a human team. IMO, this renders the whole situation vastly different (whether good or bad I'm not sure).

You can switch to another LLM provider or stop using them altogether. It's even easier than firing a developer.

It is as easy as getting rid of Microsoft Teams at your org.

Of course he is - because he invested so much less.