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this meeting could have been an MCP invoked search of our company’s internal knowledge base that aggregates data from virtually every service we use behind a unified retrieval layer and provides a streamlined interface for extracting critical business insights
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Finally someone said it
When are tech folk going to get that people like wasting time, it's life. They don't optimize for efficiency, they try to get by, they watch dumb stuff, they enjoy shopping. Inefficiency is another work for living and life.
Your m mean and median job isn't a software engineer in Menlo Park, it's Ashley in accounts in a not for profit in Columbus, it's Jesse , the office manager for a tool rental business in Tallahassee, they are more likely to use a Fax machine than Slack.
They quite like meetings because they like chatting, they'll use AI to make a better invite to their baby shower, not agentify their job.
These people, nor their bosses boss, aren't in a rush to build software as a side hustle, they are keen to use AI to check if their vet is overcharging them. They'd like AI to check spelling on the email to the school governor.
They don't want agentic commerce, they want AI to be in the background and make living a little less stressful
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"We used to debate using tabs vs spaces in code we'd type out"
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Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art.
She never expected to slay. wapo.st/4qIqlTl
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Before AI coding agents, I'd constantly have 2 or 3 side-projects that I would struggle to finish
AI completely changed the game
Now I have 15-20 unfinished side-projects
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It's funny to see how quickly folks went from "AI is a fad that generates monstrous code" ... to "If you're not running 10 agents in parallel at midnight while you sleep, yngmi."
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You’re not behind or ahead of anybody else.
The 26-year-old who worries they're "behind" because their colleague got promoted to senior.
The 35-year-old who thinks they missed their chance because they didn't start a company in their 20s.
The 43-year-old who thinks that they are too old to have a YouTube channel. 👀
There's no universal timeline for careers.
Your life is not a race where you’re trying to get to the finish line as fast as possible.
The finish line is your death bed.
The sad trick the world played on you is convincing you to compare your insides to people’s outsides.
Nobody posts their failures on LinkedIn.
You’re not too late, you’re not ahead or behind.
Life isn’t like a train with planned stops and a shared destination.
We’re all just riding around on ATVs and seeing what’s out there.
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how can you call yourself an entrepreneur if you dont have a bunch of unused domain names?
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As an engineer.. 100% agree with this. Just like engineers, designers have to iterate rapidly, deal with an absurd number of edgecases, design systems that scale, and manage stakeholders who lack domain knowledge. Good designers, like engineers, are worth their weight in gold.
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I'm less interested in what can be built with five minutes of effort and more interested in what can be built with five years of effort
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insane lore inside SQLite's source code
ALT ** 2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then ** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it ** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. ** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a ** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the ** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain. ** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" ** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but ** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart ** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid ** of the file. */ #ifndef SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX # define SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX "etilqs_" #endif
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