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In the same vein, engineers be like "I have this under control" but then
Hans Zimmer
No Time for Caution
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Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist
oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
Unless I'm working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there's no reason I should be expected to "thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment." Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.
Talking to LLMs about sleep is demoralizing. It’s a death march in continually telling it that you’ve done the obvious and it continually suggesting it.
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
I saw a post about how our children will remember the little rituals we create, the songs we play, the meals we cook, and how safe they felt being themselves. And it made me think about what a huge responsibility it is to create a home inside someone’s memory. What a privilege to have chosen this. I think that’s what parenting is. Understanding the weight of the responsibility and taking it on proudly.
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
I accidentally pooped my pants during a meeting today
But it wasn't a crisis—It was an opportunity to lean into vulnerability and practice radical composure during an unexpected operational disruption in the workplace.
These moments remind us that true leadership is about navigating discomfort with grace, maintaining professionalism under pressure, and quickly pivoting to contingency protocols.
With my steady hand at the ship, others in the room were hardly bothered by the foul stench emanating from my pants
Grateful for the chance to strengthen my resilience muscle and model authenticity for the team. #GrowthMindset #WorkplaceResilience #AuthenticLeadership #AlwaysLearning
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
Hearing from the rumor mill: a frontier lab is preparing to release a new model that is better than their old model. In response, other frontier labs are reportedly releasing new models that are better than their old models. One of these will be the best. It may be a surprise.
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*snort*hahahahahaha
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
You’re standing on a planet with molten lava at its core. Trees are turning sunlight into air you can breathe. Your heart is beating without you asking it to. There’s a moon in the sky and bugs that glow. This whole thing is absurdly beautiful.
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
our butt was making so much poop we had to invent a new kind of toilet
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
astronomy is a hoax perpetuated by Very Large Telescope to sell more telescopes
Jay /ˈstjʊəɹt/ Stewart retweeted
I am not joking when I say this.
Restaurants are over.
Microwave food is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all TV dinners today are from ~2-3 generations ago.
Microwaves have solved infinite personalized food.
