that's a good take

> getting software that does what you want

so then we become PMs?

According to Peter Walker from Carta:

> the company re-cap'd employees at a more realistic valuation a couple years back. So looks like all employees benefited here which is a major win. Respect to the founders for looking out!

i get what you are saying, but i don't think it's fair to call it bike shedding, getting the keys right is also important, one can easily screw up that part too

that is some brutal self-honesty right there

Especially since they mention being a surgeon in some other comments.

um, no i didn't

if this is referring to Cloudflare, they are not yet particularly known for any major non-sales layoffs, ai or not.

> the men (and woman) of the party probably weren’t thinking much about their place in history

that's like the first sentence

> they were offering Java tools free to schools for teaching and research

This is also underrated considering there once was an era when you had to pay a lot of money to use a compiler (or almost any software, really) and had to pay a lot of money to access documentation (!) oh what a crazy world it was.

What's impressive is that somebody, somewhere keeps collecting a nice stash of Eastern Baltic cod otoliths in hopes that somebody else would come along and invent a new way to use them.

These types of time series are super important, but hard to finance as they often only yield cool papers after decades.

same here, i dread CSS because it has to look good visually, not regress, work on a ton of devices and is very time-consuming to get right. But every time i tried Cursor with different models it produces CSS code that is just really bad. And the CSS hacks it knows somehow just don't add up to a good solution. Maybe it'll catch up, but so far the result has been worse than mine, so - still coding manually.