“in the era of the working class teen, you could get a job at a video store and still afford a car and drive around with your friends and feel free. The sense I had, my friends had, that the world we lived in was temporary, fading fast, was not unique to us, to the working class teens of Buffalo and Rochester and Detroit and Grand Rapids.” // A glimpse of Gen-X nostalgia to come (“Back in my day…"), but a sort of culture plan too. // Big All the Real Girls vibes.
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“In software development, we have 18,000 developers at the company that use coding agents today to optimize our development process,” Hari Gopalkrishnan. “We’ve already seen 20% productivity [boosts] coming out of those parts of the lifecycle, which we are now reinvesting next year into new growth programs.”
“For my money, the current multi-billion-dollar question is can AI agents be useful for tasks other than coding?” // Good thinking about productizing AI: what seems to work and not work.
Sounds like a fun game.
🔗 Gamebook Interview with Joseph Fry, Author & Illustrator of Lost in the City
Execs have little knowledge or how things actually work, giving then false hopes on how AI can improve things and replace workers
“In our recent survey of 1,400 U.S.-based employees, 76% of executives reported that their employees feel enthusiastic about AI adoption in their organization. But the view from the bottom up is less sunny: Just 31% of individual contributors expressed enthusiasm about adopting AI. That means leaders are more than two times off the mark.” And: “This disconnect is a symptom of a broader executive blind spot: They’re not especially attuned to what employees think, and they don’t realize it.
How to write in LinkedIn-style
“It involves posing a provocative question, sharing a vulnerability that you have learnt from (ideally losing your job, pet or parent), using an emoji at the start of each paragraph, and the paragraphs being absurdly short.”
🔗 It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code
NotebookML overview and uses
This is a good overview. Other than the podcast generator…I still don’t get it enough to want to use it. Maybe I don’t realize how much I need flash cards and infographics? It feels like my kids would find a lot of use for school. A professor in a box? Maybe it would be good for D&D adventure planning? Like load up the entire Rime of the Frostmaiden and just have it prep the shit out of it for you?
In a UI, label things what they are, not your unique, product centric (often brand/marketing) name for it.
“Internet handle” is a good name for your personal domain name.
A whole bunch of security advice for individuals, more plain-spoken than jargon.