Daniel Wentsch

And then there’s identity. Since my teenage years, technology and the web have shaped my life in ways I’m genuinely grateful for – education, connections, work I benefitted from immensely. But I find it increasingly hard to be part of an industry that is building a future I fear is becoming deeply anti-human. The person with seventeen browser tabs... See more

In userPromptKeywords.ts , the company with the world’s most advanced language model was detecting user frustration with: /\b(wtf|shit|fuck|horrible|awful|terrible)\b/i

Pattern matching for sentiment analysis. At an LLM company. One HN commenter delivered the line everyone quoted: that’s like a trucking company using horses to haul parts. Defenders... See more

Fuck productivity. You are more than your work – and more than your output. You deserve to spend your finite time on Earth on your own concerns. A life should have more to it than bare neoliberal necessity and empty authoritarian compulsion.

Keeping a journal is one step in the direction of productivity-free autonomy. It encourages you to take a

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Er war einfach nur anders, ich meine, anders als die meisten. Aber viele Leute sind anders als die meisten. Zum Beispiel Olli Zack mit seinem Stottern. Oder Konrad unterm Torbogen am Fluss. Und sowieso: Katinka. Sie setzte sich immer wieder vor die Wand und meditierte. Sie lernte freiwillig Französisch. Sie dachte sich eine Kollektion aus. Ich war

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The code you produce using LLMs is pure cognitive debt. You have no idea what it’s doing, only that it seems to be doing what you want it to do. You don’t have a mental model for how it works, and you can’t fix it if it breaks in production. Such a codebase is not an asset but a liability. I predict that in 1-3 years we’re going see organizations

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