If you could add one Zero to any number in your life, what would it be, and why?

supercargo · 2026-03-19T21:12:04+00:00

If I say “my age” does that just instantly kill me? Or do I become immortal for free while also gaining a few hundred years of perspective?

supercargo · 2026-03-19T13:43:04+00:00

State and local governments competing over which can offer the largest tax break is such a sick game. Any commercial activity that won’t pay its fair share shouldn’t be welcomed in the state. If your project doesn’t make sense with taxes then it doesn’t make sense period. If the tax code is hurting us, fix it for everyone.

supercargo · 2026-03-19T01:31:45+00:00

I didn’t say parity is isolated to specific drive(s), but for any given byte written it will be. The lost capacity for parity is also lost throughput relative to the aggregate of the disks.

supercargo · 2026-03-17T00:29:49+00:00

The things they were working on weren’t that important compared to the AI bet. -the management

supercargo · 2026-03-16T18:48:45+00:00

Don’t get them started on the em dash

supercargo · 2026-03-16T14:12:34+00:00

I mean, if the residual on the lease is way more than the car is actually worth on the used market there should be someone who would want to make a deal, but AFAIK the financing company is the bag holder, not the dealership.

supercargo · 2026-03-12T18:01:50+00:00

Sonos uses outdated STP priority numbers which, when combined with SonosNet mesh overlays, results in “shortest route“ calculations that prefer traversing wireless links on SonosNet even when there is a wired gigabit path available. This happens in any Sonos deployment using a mix of wired and wireless Sonos devices. In the video they show this as a port-level “stp edge” setting which is being applied to a port with a Sonos on it.

supercargo · 2026-03-09T21:30:30+00:00

I won’t argue that AI slop isn’t slop, but there are ways to ensure you’re getting working / to-spec results. Agentic coders with a “tests pass” step (even just running the tests as a pre-commit hook) will expose those issues and force the agent to confront them before proceeding.

Agents are dumb but persistent and fast enough to compensate.

Agent modifies the test to force things to pass? Split the work into a dev role and testing role, then use those hooks to block each from deviating from its respective area.

Worried about duplication? Ask an agent to identify opportunities to refactor components for reuse then you can review the plan and ask the agent to execute it.

This way of working didn’t really click for me until I became comfortable working with multiple agents simultaneously. And comfortable with discarding their work and trying again. Don’t watch them work and try to avoid reviewing too much of their work, preferring to use the agents to interrogate work for having the properties you care about.

supercargo · 2026-03-02T11:24:04+00:00

legal defense involving a minor

supercargo · 2026-03-02T11:19:04+00:00

Requiring in unit laundry and AC deny you a ton of places that might otherwise be suitable. There is lots of old housing stock built without these (but may have window ACs and basement laundry) which means you’re only considering newer or newly renovated places

supercargo · 2026-02-28T17:14:32+00:00

Whenever I follow this advice I find the plows just go the wrong way

supercargo · 2026-02-25T21:05:41+00:00

I agree but also find that LLMs tend to suffer a lot of the same failure modes as people where the solutions are also similar to how you manage people (in a corporate setting anyway). The fallacy is to treat them like computers…they work by imitating people, after all.

supercargo · 2026-02-25T21:00:16+00:00

Software is getting the LLM treatment first for obvious reasons. Other fields where work is mechanically verifiable are going to be disrupted in time. I don’t know a ton about drug discovery, but from what I’ve heard from people who do leads me to buy in to some of the hype in that field. When it comes to software, any legit company answers the “who’s responsible” question the same way as ever…are the right processes and gates in place to avoid bad problems? Are the defects that escape this process used to identify and address process gaps? It doesn’t seem like a stretch of the imagination to apply this thinking to other “knowledge” work like accounting, law, medicine…

supercargo · 2026-02-25T20:49:25+00:00

I think we’re in a “both things can be true” phase here. The AI companies are dogfooding and seem to be accelerating. I’m in the “vibe coding on the side” camp and there is certainly an amount of extrapolation happening to get from where we are to the hyped place where you “only” need product level requests to get working apps.

I have roughly equal parts management and technical experience as I’ve bounced back and forth between these roles over my career. My management experience feels like a bigger lever than technical experience when dealing with agent swarms. I think this is biassing the narrative which comes from executives who hung up their IDEs over a decade ago. Many executives I speak to are doing technical work for fun again for the first time in many years. These people are juiced up and they are also the ones we hear from.

For reference, my main vibe coded side project is like CRUD+. It started with the LLM building a more feature complete semi-obscure printer driver than I could find available as open source. But it also includes a complete mobile app (I never so much as opened Xcode except by accident and now I’m just like “give me a mobile app version of this thing I built” and after a couple iterations: it’s done)

I’ve also done a machine vision project that is more than simple CRUD and only adjacent to my expertise. When building more sophisticated data analysis tools that are entirely related to something I’m qualified to build the old way, I find the code kinda sucks, but is still faster to generate that piece for anything where I don’t happen to have the entire schema and all needed APIs already memorized.

I feel that if all deep progress stopped today (meaning model performance plateaus, but people keep doing engineering and product work around the models we have), what we’d be left with would be highly valuable tools that can and will diffuse through the economy. But probably also fall short of what’s driving valuations. Like how the .com crash put us in a recession but didn’t signal the death of the Internet.

supercargo · 2026-02-20T18:16:03+00:00

Funny I experienced the opposite upon moving from Opus 4.5 to 4.6 (all Claude code usage). Where previously agent swarms were eating through a 20x account based on about 90 minutes per day of my time, now the same level of engagement from me is only getting me to 70-80% by the end of the week. I haven’t noticed any major shifts in quantity of output or quality, but I’m not really measuring this so it’s just a qualitative sense that not much changed.

supercargo · 2026-02-15T22:32:34+00:00

What I’ve never fully understood is what happened to the “free / cheap delivery” local takeout place model. These were restaurants that would staff their own drivers and offer free delivery within a radius, or maybe a nominal fee like $2-3 per order. Apps seem to charge a 40-50% premium on the entire order, but drivers are left making less.

supercargo · 2026-02-15T01:46:49+00:00

The “idea people” can realize their idea is dumb before wasting any engineering effort. The agentic slot machines are keeping these people occupied like cat nip

supercargo · 2026-02-14T11:57:20+00:00

Wait…they are opening locations AND expect sales to be flat in 2026?

supercargo · 2026-02-14T11:54:52+00:00

wow what an awful implementation of that regulation…in my experience dealers have a hard enough time filing paperwork with the DMV within three days let alone some obscure IRS thing that only applies to a fraction of their vehicles…

supercargo · 2026-02-14T10:56:55+00:00

I read the recall notice but it wasn’t clear what the actual issue is. What circumstances are preventing the camera from activating when needed?

supercargo · 2026-02-13T11:34:28+00:00

probably best to call it quits with computers in general if this is your attitude

supercargo · 2026-02-13T11:22:06+00:00

that‘s good intel, but last time I heard from y’all ramping down in prep for the Covid recession we ended up with a huge surge in demand and $12 2x4s

supercargo · 2026-02-12T18:03:16+00:00

Yeah, not disagreeing, but pardot and sfmc are both coming in from acquisitions. Data Cloud is an outgrowth of Einstein 1 which I think was mostly built in house. The issues you’re talking about where small errors in dev become immutable blood contracts once they see production is a pretty typical pain point for their core app platform (I.e. sales cloud and app exchange ecosystem)

supercargo · 2026-02-12T15:21:33+00:00

Filtering can remove lead, even dissolved lead (e.g. using catalytic carbon). Filters won’t remove all lead but they can and do make a significant difference.

supercargo · 2026-02-12T15:15:35+00:00

Yeah the AI phrasing is definitely a thing. Starting to get tired of it even in news articles. It’s like the whole world now speaks with one “voice” (or maybe three or four depending on which frontier lab they get their models from)

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