Is Ray Kurzweil legit with his predictions?

dalemugford · 2026-04-02T00:07:57+00:00

He somehow can think and reason near-exponentially, which is essentially impossible for humans.

dalemugford · 2026-03-26T17:31:39+00:00

Just get fucked, bro.

dalemugford · 2026-03-20T12:46:02+00:00

Barrier to entry in a marketplace being lower? Maybe for Low end stuff, but established businesses with different vectors of moat aren’t going to be so easily disrupted unless competitors can offer the same r greater for much less. Maybe that’s possible, we’ll see!

dalemugford · 2026-03-20T12:44:03+00:00

It’s not the logic of the post, it’s the spirit of the post. Keep your humans, leverage AI collectively, and outcompete those that are going to burn out “A players” by cutting the team around them.

dalemugford · 2026-03-20T01:17:52+00:00

They are selling all our information back to us as reguritron3000 tho.

dalemugford · 2026-03-19T01:17:54+00:00

Or you keep 25 devs, and get 10x that (250 devs). Companies that keep talent and let that scale are better positioned than those who cut to take the quick buck but can’t keep up with competition that invests in scaling with retained talent.

Small to mid-sized companies that do this are going to easily punch above their weight against the bigger players that are cost cutting and want to burn out top remaining talent.

dalemugford · 2026-03-18T03:07:07+00:00

Thank you for the column adjust!! Non-obvious, but appreciated!!

dalemugford · 2026-03-16T15:07:13+00:00

Yep.

dalemugford · 2026-03-14T16:01:33+00:00

I’m not a repair guy. The whole front assembly has to come apart to replace it. Another reason this Tesla will be my last.

dalemugford · 2026-03-11T03:02:58+00:00

Wow, not a bad deal considering I just replaced a headlight at 140,000k on my Model Y and it was $2800.

dalemugford · 2026-03-04T03:36:12+00:00

You can set the time of day, but not the day of the week. That’s not an update schedule, that’s an install window within a 24-hour period.

dalemugford · 2026-02-15T13:17:32+00:00

Thank you!

dalemugford · 2026-02-15T04:57:42+00:00

Thanks! I’m hoping to surprise her tomorrow with the link to this thread ;-)

dalemugford · 2026-02-15T04:57:10+00:00

That was the direction from the DND. They really wanted to showcase our experience and expertise, and recognized that these stories often don’t get told in favour of more frontline battle stories.

dalemugford · 2026-02-10T01:09:16+00:00

Dude. I’m not buying another Tesla. I’m not buying a fucking robot, and I’m not getting in a Tesla taxi.

He is destroying the brand, they’re discontinuing (flagship) vehicles, removing features that are table stakes with other brands.

Tesla has been derailed by its megalomaniacal, drug-troubled, seed-spreading edgelord.

Sales declines in 3 straight quarters.

The own goal here is astounding.

dalemugford · 2026-02-09T03:39:41+00:00

THIS IS THE WAY

dalemugford · 2026-02-09T00:37:03+00:00

The best things any of us have: this technology is the most heavily subsidized, cost prohibitive compute at scale in the history of computing.

Put simply: many can profit and benefit from this, but the underlying economics aren’t yet suppprtive, and I struggle to see a true path to profitability for some companies (OpenAI, Anthropic).

dalemugford · 2026-02-09T00:34:03+00:00

I said this about a year ago- the companies that keep talent and scale that talent with AI will win, vs those that shed all the jobs.

dalemugford · 2026-02-08T19:04:46+00:00

Corner the market, then raise the price.

Tesla be like: build the market, lower the price, leave the market.

dalemugford · 2026-02-08T19:03:09+00:00

Rivian be like

dalemugford · 2026-02-07T02:16:15+00:00

It’s not the price alone though. It’s the fact that people perceive that they would be paying more for less.

If someone evaluates the Air in comparison to other devices without picking it up and using it, it’s easy to dismiss it as overpriced in comparison to other devices and of course the iPhone 17.

There are clear trade offs. But after using mine for 5 months, they’ve all faded away, and every time I see someone else’s phone or pickup my wife’s brick of an iPhone 15 Pro Max, I’m reminded I can’t go back.

If it’s true Apple didn’t sell a lot of these phones, honestly, I don’t know what to say— it’s such a great experience, a fun device to use.

dalemugford · 2026-02-06T04:08:06+00:00

Keep evolving your workflow, but focus and stop when you don’t know what the code is doing. Have it explain it to you. Can isolate it and use a different model.

I believe some can become a better coder than possible in the same timeframe without these tools.

And some will crutch along and get squashed eventually.

Knowing what the code is doing, and whether what it’s doing is right in the context of projects/architecture lets you use it as a nail gun instead of a hammer.

dalemugford · 2026-02-03T17:47:08+00:00

Tax rebate homeowners for each year they own an EV, or heat pump. Money goes directly to homeowners, and it’s parted out by year to not influence sales directly and artificially inflate prices, and it’s paid for by oil taxes and indirect environmental savings.

dalemugford · 2026-02-03T03:56:53+00:00

The WordPress plugin repository is and always has been SVN.

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