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My first job after college was on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building. I wrote software for our customers, in BASIC, from a teletype in our office, talking to our mainframe in New Jersey. It seemed magical at the time. But when I hit a bug, a mystery -- you'd try this and that, and not get anywhere on something that seemed so simple, you could stare at the problem for an hour, trying desperate things, getting no closer to the problem. One night, I was the only person in the office, I thought they should put programmers in the Empire State Building with windows that open. I'm having the same feeling with Claude. I know when this project is done, I will have Frontier, and I know what that's like. If I didn't so totally look forward to that I would never try to finish the project, I hate this mode of working with the bot. Ugh.

It's around this time of year that Santa makes his first appearance on my blog. Want to get out in front of the others.

Bryan Andrews has become a divisive figure in country music. Would it surprise you to learn he's really seeking common ground? Continue reading…

Lionel Laurent: “The Nov. 19 release date of video-game series Grand Theft Auto’s latest installment must seem like an agonizing wait for fans. But there’s an amuse bouche for those looking for perhaps less bloody but just as dramatic interactive thrills: A new game that puts you in the shoes of a French budget minister […]

“President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that the Federal Reserve slash interest rates or else he will cut off trade with countries with which the U.S. maintains trade deficits,” CNBC reports. “Trump issued the sweeping ultimatum in a Truth Social post reacting to a much-stronger-than-expected monthly jobs report by urging the central bank and its […]

Updated the web editor to use a lighter font weight for some links and tags, for better readability.

On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including: Katie Gaddini, sociologist, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, an associate professor of sociology at the Social Research Institute, University College London (UCL) and a ...

Like “spotting a firefly buzzing around a powerful searchlight from thousands of miles away." How the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope searches for planets in other star systems.

Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4E7, Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass . I do not expect to have adult emotions watching Star Trek, particularly not during a gimmick episode. 📺

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Defender is preparing to launch its first fully electric SUV, a compact off-roader that’s expected to debut by the end of the year.

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Politico: “The threat of a Trump drag is so dire that some at-risk Republicans have relayed to Trump’s political team that they don’t want him to visit their districts ahead of November… And top GOP pollsters have advised some vulnerable incumbents and candidates to either not talk about Trump on the trail, or at least […]

“President Donald Trump did not dispute that he is building monuments to himself amid his architectural blitz in Washington, DC,” CNN reports. Said Trump: “Nobody will do it once I’m gone. When I leave here, nobody will.”

Don’t miss Layla A. Jones’ piece this morning, which details a kind of census corollary to Trump’s 2020 big lie....

Just said this to Claude: “This is a very broken piece of software. If you were a real developer you’d never hand off something so broken to your coding partner.” If I said this to a human partner they might quit, feeling under-appreciated perhaps. And I can say it to the machine, but it will […]

More and more I’ll realize that Claude doesn’t do anything until you tell it to do it. We have a list of big things that need to be done before shipping. Whenever I get up for a break, I tell Claude to work on its overnight tasks, things we’ve pre-arranged while I work. Sometimes it […]

More and more I'll realize that Claude doesn't do anything until you tell it to do it. We have a list of big things that need to be done before shipping. Whenever I get up for a break, I tell Claude to work on its overnight tasks, things we've pre-arranged while I work. Somet...

Just said this to Claude: "This is a very broken piece of software. If you were a real developer you'd never hand off something so broken to your coding partner." If I said this to a human partner they might quit, feeling under-appreciated perhaps. And I can say it to the machine, but it will change absolutely nothing. I really just want to get this project done and start using it, and reduce my reliance on Claude to getting small bugs attended to, or new features, a lot has happened in the 20+ years since I worked on Frontier.

Poker isn't just about luck. The song captures something true, players make constant choices based on incomplete information and reading their opponents. Continue reading…

Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick was pumping up the Trump economy and claimed on CNBC Wednesday morning that, so far, there were no American deaths in our war against Iran, which is a complete fallacy. Lutnick lives on CNBC and Fox Business and rarely faces pushback or repudiat...