Matt

@tantaman.com

https://rocicorp.dev/

I wonder how Obama feels about the downstream consequences of his actions. - social media for elections -> misinformation - correspondents dinner -> makes Trump run - brings Silicon Valley into government -> tech oligarchs - usds -> doge - bailouts -> wealth transfer from poor to rich

I heard someone say "there is a direct correlation between how much value you get out of ChatGPT and how good of a manager you are." I can kind of see it. It's all about providing clear instructions.

Before pictures and video, did people just trust what was written or told to them? Probably not. Generative AI puts pictures and video back on par with text.

Would be cool if you could post to your own domain and have those automatically picked up and re-posted to Bluesky.

File system watching libraries that assume if file size didn’t change then the file didn’t change 🤦‍♂️

“Every dependency is a security vulnerability” - we’ll be walking this sentiment back in a few years when we realize ensuring the security of a package is not impactful in a world where everyone rolls their own implementation of said package.

Watching vcs write blog posts to hype a segment of the market and push engineering solutions we don’t need makes me second guess everything I was excited about as a young engineer and where we are today.