Readit NewsI will miss the grab and go tech in the Amazon stores. I was hoping they would successfully manage to sell that to other stores and make the tech wide spread in bodegas, gas stations and 711s
I employ a few tricks:
1- I avoid auto-complete and always try to read what it does before committing. When it is doing something I don’t want, I course correct before it continues
2- I ask the LLM questions about the changes it is making and why. I even ask it to make me HTML schema diagrams of the changes.
3- I use my existing expertise. So I am an expert Swift developer, and I use my Swift knowledge to articulate the style of what I want to see in TypeScript, a language I have never worked in professionally.
4- I add the right testing and build infrastructure to put guardrails on its work.
5- I have an extensive library of good code for it to follow.
This will hopefully be a huge improvement for the reduction of fraud on the platform. Hopefully, they give the ability to only buy from verified vendors. This is why only buy CPGs on Walmart.
Was fun to mix 3D in with my personal work
Personally, I work on Graphite for two reasons. 1) I love working with kind, smart, intense teammates. I want to be surrounded by folks who I look up to and who energize me. 2) I want to build bleeding-edge dev tools that move the whole industry forward. I have so much respect for all y’all across the world, and nothing makes me happier than getting to create better tooling for y’all to engineer with. Graphite is very much the combination of these two passions: human collaboration and dev tools.
Joining Cursor accelerates both these goals. I get to work with the same team I love, a new bunch of wonderful people, and get to keep recruiting as fast as possible. I also get to keep shipping amazing code collaboration tooling to the industry - but now with more resourcing and expertise. We get to be more ambitious with our visions and timelines, and pull the future forward.
I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t think the Cursor team weren’t standup people with high character and kindness. I wouldn’t do this if I thought it meant compromising our vision of building a better generation of code collaboration tooling. I wouldn’t do it if I thought it wouldn’t be insanely fun and exciting. But it seems to be all those things, so we’re plunging forward with excitement and open hearts!
Still a bit weird to pretend we now have cyber weather that takes our webpages down.
But now, when one of these services breaks, everything on the internet goes down. And it is a lot easier to explain to your director of engineering that the whole internet is down than to say that your custom home-rolled storage system fell over, or whatever esoteric infrastructure failure you may run into doing it yourself.
1. Put a moderate amount of money toward having the world's experts in uptime keep your site performing fast, and accept that occasionally your service goes down at the same time as everyone else.
2. Roll your own service, hire a large number of expensive experts to try to solve these problems yourself, and be responsible for your own outages and failures which will happen eventually and probably more frequently.
If no one is going to die from your service going down, it seems like this is a perfectly reasonable third-party dependency. And if the issue is just your contract's SLA or a financial customer, the saving that comes from using Cloudflare can probably be worked through via negotiations.
If anyone here is well-read on his policies and they have specific opinions I'd love to hear what you think.
Do you think Zohran will be successful with his agenda or will he get blocked by pushback from other political forces? I read some commentary that a few of his policy ideas are unfeasible without support from Albany, and I'm not sure how to evaluate that relationship.
Many online figures have become heavily invested on this mayoral election despite living hundreds or thousands of miles away, and I think that speaks to a real hunger for greater political experimentation.
As an aside, how do you evaluate the lessons that you learn or derive from what others are doing? Generalization sure is a tricky thing.
I don’t think I like several of his ideas or think he will get most of them passed. In fact I think a few like “freezing the rent” are actively bad
But I’m happy to finally have a politician who lives in and loves New York and is earnestly trying to my the city better. If he tries and fails, it will be better than our other politicians that have stopped trying
I got off traditional social media (twitter, fb, insta, etc) years ago and feel all the better for it. But I still visit HN and YouTube multiple times daily. For the most part I find those to be information-dense and part of my continual personal development practice. That said, YT in particular has a tendency to draw me into endless shorts holes.
They thought they could support trump because they were upset with the democrats policies on crypto and AI cautiousness
But instead they got someone willing to break the world order and our alliances which will harm tech growth