July
@july
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"But Boyd did not believe the performance specs and had no fear of the aircraft. He jostled the T-6; he pushed it and horsed it around the sky. He flung the airplane up against the outside edges of the performance envelope and then beyond. If the book said the aircraft should never exceed 260 mph, Boyd pushed it to 265...
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So easy in the face of fear to search for an answer to anticipate and plan before taking action and while preparation and going through how to take action prior to taking action is paramount to any sufficiently complex task, it’s so easy, so easy to search and want to have the answers beforehand
Much more dangerous a...
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HARD MODE started from a feeling. I was prototyping hardware faster/better than ever, and I looked around and thought: this is amazing, why isn’t everyone doing this?
The most exciting thing about AI for me is how it’s collapsed the gap between imagination and physical reality. Stuff that used to take me weeks or mont
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For agentic engineering, I found myself increasingly having to make verification gates, where I set almost certain rules that they need to be verified in order for pull requests to merge. Essentially, I need ways for the work to be checked without me actually being there. That's how I've noticed I can scale beyond just...
Same here. I can juggle at most three or four parallel agent threads in Cursor at a given time. Any more and I forget to check on what one was up to and follow up with corrections.
Inevitably I’ll stumble upon mistakes and code smells half a day later and have to start a new agent to clean things up, unfortunately wit
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I actually don't care if I'm right, because being right doesn't really mean anything. In some ways, it's cool that you predicted the future, and sure, as a vocation with prediction markets and the stock market in general, it can be lucrative.
I am not as excited nor strictly attached to the outcome. Much more interest...
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