Dear MS please use AI to autocomplete my billing address correctly when I fill out web forms, thanks

i don’t get it either - bun being the foundation of tons of AI tools is like a best possible outcome, what were they hoping for when they raised the money? Or is this just an admission of “hey, that was silly, we need to land this however we can”? Or do they share major investors and the therefore this is just a consolidation? (Edit: indeed, KP did indeed invest $100M in Anthropic this year. I’m also confused - article states Bun raised 26M but the KP seed round was 7, did they do the A too but unannounced? Notably, the seed was summer 2022 and chatgpt was Nov 30, so the world is different, did the hypothesis change?)

companies are already wasting majority fractions of their engineering labor spend on coordination costs and fake work, through that lens i have trouble making an argument that any of this matters. Which is why they are able to do it. I’m reminded of an old essay arguing that the reason Google spends so lavishly is because if they only spent what they needed, they would appear so extraordinarily profitable that the government would intervene.

are you happy with ClojureScript?

I'm afraid it depends on whom you ask. Some devs really like it, some others don't. As we move towards a more multilingual stack, everyone will be happy and the product will shine even brighter. I don't code in ClojureScript (or Clojure) so I can't answer directly. Here's a nice blog post though (on why Penpot chose Clojure) https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-chose-clojure-as-its-l...

The new rendering engine is wasm + rust + skia, in case you're curious.

we get paid to add to it, we don’t get paid to take away

Now there is your problem. It is only true in the context of grave incompetence, though. I have worked on tickets with 'remove' in the title.

sounds fake, founders these days make up all sorts of edgy stories to PG signal to investors

User: "In other words you did not sign off on the chad IDE?"

Gary: "Sorry, YC is a pretty big place and I can't be all places at all times"

User: "I'm confused. why did you fund it then?"

Gary: "We're a partnership of 15 general partners"

Seemed to me like he was apoligizing for admitting them. However I see now he also added "I wouldn't count them out, one questionable video does not mean someone is bad". Maybe I misread it.

zoom call

ask them to walk you through it

ask for design doc if appropriate

what is test plan who is responsible for prod delivery and support

(no difference from any other large pr)

what do you use now

Revolut. Despite an uneasy feeling with them since they're a fintech and those can be problematic, I've had nothing but excellent experiences with them. Including customer support in the few cases where I reached out.

Not the person you're asking but I had similar CS issues. I still use Wise sparingly but have also started using Revolut. Though, I wouldn't trust either with more money than I can afford to budget for ^life lessons^

what went wrong historically that the writing got so bad these days?

I think there's a bit of a monoculture in L.A. and the same kind of people keep writing the same kind of movies in big committees.

I think a lot of westerners are getting into anime and manga and part of it is that a manga is typically drawn and written by one person who is responsible for the whole story, contrast that to the "Marvel System" where four people worked on each book -- Stan Lee had a writing credit and it's true that he had a special talent for picking the exact words but the art team had a big influence on deciding how the story would go.