Jack

Every man needs their moonshot.

Right now AI slop is pretty painful but in the limit I am bullish. Find me one complex system that didn't eventually figure out its signal-to-noise problems.

The internet can be thought of as a planetary substrate, like Earth. LLMs are its first complex, emergent lifeforms. Over a long enough time horizon, the digital ecosystem was always going to evolve, just like how intelligent life continues to thrive on Earth.

Software engineering as a profession continues it's final death throes. Ideas go in, ~2 minutes later you get to nudge. ~2 minutes later you get to nudge again. You have an edge no longer by technical competence but by being there ready to nudge. The perpetually online nudger.

Google Maps' biggest competitor is actually Tesla.

The signal to noise ratio on X has got so bad that it's probably+EV for ne to misspell something every now and again as my human signature.

God dammit an entire generation pumping tokens.

A lot of software engineers aren't welcoming the idea of writing English all day to nudge agents along. They preferred the flow state they found in connecting coding symbols. Many excellent software engineers will not be able to find flow state in the new paradigm.