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when re-designing a feature, one approach is to take what you have, and imagine small changes that will solve the problems with the feature. Instead, it’s often instructive to imagine that you were working from a clean slate and design the feature from scratch. In either case, the right approach is almost always to re-use the existing codebase in y... See more

“Workflow still matters,” Sankar argued, and the job of the programmer will be to understand what can be done by traditional software, what can be done by AI, what still needs to be done by people, and how you string things together to actually accomplish the workflow. He notes that “a toolchain that enables you to capture feedback and learn the ed... See more

Midgley specifically challenged Descartes' famous thought experiment where he sits by his fireplace and questions everything he can possibly doubt, including the existence of other people. Descartes concludes that the only thing he can know with absolute certainty is that he is thinking (and therefore exists) - the famous "Cogito, ergo sum."

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In The Bell Jar, Plath writes (bolding mine):

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and an... See more

but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason

Just as with lean production, Scenario #2 promises better quality, lower costs, and faster delivery. But it requires specific institutional conditions to initiate and to succeed:

• First, it thrives in contexts of demographic pressure , where young workers are scarce. This describes much of Europe (particularly given increasing resistance to immigra

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“If all media is training data, including art, let's turn the production of training data into art instead.”