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A Very Good Guess
Matt Birchler links to a piece from 404 Media about chatbots being terrible doctors: I think there’s something to be understood here about the difference between memorizing every bit of information about something, with …
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Already Battered
Five weeks into the new year and I’m done. The small break I had over Christmas has completely evaporated, replaced by a wall of work that feels deliberately designed to stop me from getting anywhere. I thought the pace …
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WhatsApp, Encryption, and the Trouble With Reputation
Nick Heer linking to Matthew Green’s analysis of the new WhatsApp encryption lawsuit: even with Meta’s scumbag reputation — it is difficult for me to believe the company is simply lying about end-to-end encryption, and …
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The Fear Was Real But Pointless
I joked with my wife yesterday about injuring myself on purpose. Pulling a muscle on the stairs, twisting an ankle in the garden, anything to give me a reason not to go out and do the 28km long run sitting in my plan. …
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Vibing & Coding
Matt Birchler is asking people not to call him a Vibe Coder: I am an app developer, not a vibe coder, and I think this is a significant, and increasingly common workflow for all developers going forward. I am sure the …
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The Fear That Keeps Me Up
Brady McDonald was talking about running through pain. The kind of pain that makes every part of you scream to stop. He said he couldn’t stand the thought of his kids asking him why he didn’t do something he said he …
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Apple Hands Siri to Google
Joint statement from Google and Apple Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology. …
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Envy: The Only Sin That Never Feels Good
I was listening to Chris Williamson interview Andrew Huberman on Modern Wisdom and something Huberman said has been sitting with me for a while. When people face uncomfortable feelings, most turn them into …
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Instagram's AI Crisis Is Not an Accident
Adam Mosseri posted on Threads about Instagram’s AI problems, framing them as challenges the platform is facing rather than problems it created. The distinction matters. Instagram could have stopped AI content from …
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Not Everything Deserves Equal Billing
Jason Fried talking about The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible: Unless you’re making a product that just does one thing – like a paperclip, for example – everything won’t be obvious. You have to make tough calls about …
