A few minutes ago, I read an overview of a report that more people take a source of news, not traditional outlets and media, but influencers. [I am attaching the screenshot from Reutersinstitute.]

TL;DR:

FB, YT, IG  More attention is dedicated to news media/journalists

Something I wish I'd understood earlier about working with coding agents: there is no such thing as dispatching without a spec. There's only choosing who writes it.

When you send an agent a one-liner like "fix the login timeout", the unstated parts don't stay undecided. The model fills every blank with defaults from its training data the average project, the average convention, the average meaning of that sentence across every repo it has seen. Where your codebase matches the average, those fill-ins are invisible because they happen to be right. Where it doesn't, you get a diff that answers a question you never asked.

An intern who hits ambiguity tends to come ask. An agent mostly picks, and rarely flags the pick a constraint that never made it into the context might as well not exist.

So we stopped asking "spec or no spec" and started asking two questions before every dispatch. How long would a wrong guess stay invisible? And how far is this task from the average project the model trained on? Fast feedback plus mainstream shape: one line, go. Slow feedback plus weird shape: write the contract, and budget the writing as part of the build.

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and
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Last year I signed up for the LLM fine-tuning course taught by Hamel Husain and Dan Becker.
The experience was fantastic in every way. The material was great. The course expanded to cover way more than fine-tuning. It seemed like all of Twitter signed up. I met people in the course Discord that have become online and offline friends. Someone eventually dubbed the course "AI Woodstock." (I think credit for that goes to Swyx.)
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I have been thinking about this a lot lately and curious how the rest of you handle it..

forexample, you ship your app on one platform say mac, or web, or just windows it gets some traction, and then the requests start rolling in: any linux version? when windows?? pls make it work on X

Today, I read 2 messages that are contradictory in nature, and it seems like one branch is rebelling against the other.

• Meta and other big tech companies are replacing human workers with AI.

• Heineken, Aerie, Polaroid, and even Cadbury are riding the anti-AI wave, mocking Big Tech and positioning human-made creativity as the ultimate authenticity flex.

How do you think that these pro and anti streams can affect the evolution of AI and our perception of its use?

So I've been a solo founder for almost 3 years, first two years was a b2b company and a lot of sales, meetings and "people to people work".

This year its been a lot more me and my computer when starting a tech/ai company. which have really tested me and my sanity...

We've been stuck in merchant verification for almost a month.

The provider's site says a few days.

First the company took weeks to verify. Then the identity of the founder. Now they won't enable payment processing because they can't see the connection between our marketing site and our app, which lives on a subdomain of the same domain.

Same brand, same company, same documents they already have. One is the website, the other is the product. That's how software has worked for about fifteen years.