Paul Graham

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"When I was a child she worked as a schoolteacher, and her school was next to mine, so in the mornings we would walk to school together. I don't know why I remember this — but she'd always walk between me and the sun. So that I could stand in her shadow."

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He said if I'd asked him 6 months ago he couldn't have said for sure, but that he was now confident vibe coding was going to stick. And right now is the worst it's ever going to work, so if it works now it will just keep working better.

Vibe coding is here to stay. I'd been worried it might be a fad, but I talked to the founder of an infrastructure company who's in a position to see how well vibe-coded apps are doing, and he said a lot of them are making money.

Interesting insight from Andy Lapsa of Stoke Space: If you're running a hard tech startup, you should be able to fabricate everything you need yourself. You may choose to farm something out to a supplier, but you shouldn't need to.

"It's lovely to be useful."

— Jony Ive

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It makes me so happy that Pebble is going to live again. It was always such an optimistic, hackerly project.

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This prediction turned out to be all too accurate.

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Source: https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/faking-wokeness-to-fit-in

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A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically.

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Now all we need is an OpenAI wearable that can imitate our voice while we move our lips, and we've solved Thanksgiving dinner.

A friend's mom sent her an email full of anti-vax conspiracy theories. She didn't have the energy to refute her point by point, so she asked ChatGPT to write a response, which she said was actually pretty good.

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"The cases reaching us are of people who collapsed in the streets from lack of nutrition."

I had to explain to 13 yo what it means to describe someone as "rum." It's a subtle word. I finally said it's when someone seems strange, but not simply in a lame way, and in fact you worry it might be because they know something you don't.

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So basically you're free to say anything you're not forbidden to say. Right.

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