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Seconding the author, at my last job a new VP started pushing AI hard, in every use case, and suddenly I had to read AI-generated high-level design documents that were both overly-detailed, and... really difficult to read.

There was just something about them, like they were written by someone obsessed with detail but without a clear idea of the audience they were writing to.

The result always ended up being a document that was way too long, way too detailed, without context for those details, speaking over the head of the reader.

They also used Claude in a fairly sophisticated way to design their missile guidance system (PDF, search for GTG-87001).

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a...

How exactly would you recommend criticizing the actions of the State of Israel then, without being labeled antisemitic?

I'm sick of this equivocation. Nobody is claiming that Jewish people in general manipulated Trump into touching the stove.

Some facts:

* Netanyahu met with Trump in February to show him a presentation intended to convince him to attack Iran.

* Netanyahu convinced Trump that it would be fast and easy.

* Trump's own intelligence agencies and cabinet members called this "farcical" and "bullshit."

* Trump gave the green light anyway, based on Netanyahu's presentation, and against the advice of CIA, State, and the Joint Chiefs.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-wa...

Why would you attribute to genius what is more likely explained by idiocy?

No, Trump's administration is straight up criminal.

The guy has made ~3500 stock trades in the last 3 months, and there's a pattern of him publicly pumping stock by mentioning a company in a tweet or public statement.

The problem is, the framers of the Constitution believed the American people would never elect someone so criminal and unfit, so the President is exempt from many criminal laws, including those that would stop this.

I support this. The purpose of a home is for people who live in the area to live in, not to be a speculative investment.

This is part of the reason we have a housing shortage in the US: 20% of available homes are purchased by investors, which squeezes the supply.

Airbnb has made this worse. There are areas near me where during the COVID ZIRP, people snatched up like 70% of the homes to turn into rentals. Those places are now ghost towns, unless it's Memorial Day weekend.

It's only a certain subset of the population that speaks like this. It's pompous and ridiculous. Are the two syllables in the word "request" one too many for people working in Product?

A distinct people? That's a myth. Every American is an immigrant, or descended from an immigrant.

> this administration clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into

All of the advisors in the room with Trump (Cheung, Caine, etc.) told him explicitly after the meeting with Netanyahu that attacking Iran was a horrible idea. His military advisors told him that Strait closure was the most obvious consequence.

The root cause here, is that all decisions are being made by a single biological neural network with a really high error rate, which is increasing.

I don't think so. During that time the potential of LLMs to eliminate work wasn't obvious. That was pre-hype explosion.

Making America great again, again.

ICE is now a fascist paramilitary operation, and in my view, they are no longer legitimate. They lost that claim when they began violating the constitutional rights of citizens and immigrants alike as a matter of policy. They must be abolished.

He keeps claiming falsely that he's "ended 8 wars," but at this point he's actually attacked 8 different countries.

Up is always down with these people.

Not only aid, it was a powerful tool for the extension of American soft power around the globe. But I guess we're no longer able to reason in the abstract beyond "helping people is woke."

By the way, this is just the estimate from Pete Hegseth, who has demonstrated himself to be an unreliable narrator. This administration seems to have difficulty with numbers in general, accurate numbers in particular. The real cost is likely twice this, or higher.

For example, roughly 50% of our missile stockpiles have been depleted during this "excursion."

xAI is working on virtualizing white collar workers. I'm guessing this is part of that.

See also: companies buying up the Slack and email archives of defunct startups, for training data.

Great write up... curious about the RCA. Thanks!

Hardly a party trick. My car handles 97% of my driving and it's on old hardware. Have you actually tried HW4? It's definitely on par with Waymo.

Also, I guarantee you FSD would recognize a mattress as an obstruction.

> Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action.

You'd need to say something which directs others to violate the law or commit acts of violence, at a specific time ("imminent"), and your statement must be likely to be effective at causing them to do so.

Protesting, encouraging others to protest, expressing your political beliefs, organizing a protest, etc. are not incitement to violence. Nor is "doxxing" (filming, identifying) a public employee. None of these activities satisfy those criteria.

Remember the "Twitter files" nonsense? I recall they were upset at the government influencing the expression of political views on social media. Not hearing much backlash about this from the same people, because this is what they were claiming, but 100x worse.

It's an alias that only applies to Federal employees.

The Congressionally-legislated actual name of the department is still Department of Defense.

Exactly. "Department of War" is guidance that applies only to Federal employees, and the Department of Defense was named through Congressional legislation. That is still the department's name, whatever Trump decrees.

Fun fact: The Department of Defense was named through legislation.

Trump's EO that "renames" it only applies to Federal employees as guidance. No one else needs to call it that, and it's still legally the Department of Defense.

It was well-litigated by the Trump administration, and none of their frivolous claims held up. They lost ~60 of their 63 court cases, and the 3 they won were technicalities.

2020 was a free and fair election.

Oh sure... I'll just give you my idea to make Uber but for dogs.

For context though, consumer spending has contracted significantly.

I had the same sentiment, but also recall what generated human hands looked like a year ago vs. now.

The solo was pretty funny though.

Seriously. Who is going to buy another Futurehome product knowing that they feel entitled to extort their customers, whose only alternative is to remove the devices integrated into their home?

Morality and religion are entirely independent dimensions.

That's completely false. You run evals.

edit: you're supposed to run evals.

Waymo has been "scaling" down the Peninsula from SF for about 18 months now, and it's still not generally available.

Tesla can scale by simply adding vehicles.