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[jonfazzaro]

"Contractors such as Palantir are merging disparate federal databases, potentially creating radical new surveillance capabilities that can be exploited at the touch of a button."

[jonfazzaro]

"There's almost a hysteria in the rush to create AI products, and a lot of very young, highly intelligent people, in their fervor, are forgetting all the risks they're creating, all the massive liabilities."

[jonfazzaro]

"The inability of developers to tell if a tool sped them up or slowed them down is fascinating in itself, probably applies to many other forms of human endeavour, and explains things as varied as why so many people think that AI has made them 10 times more productive, why I continue to use Vim, why people drive in London, etc."

[jonfazzaro]

"The same managerial types who bitch about the entitlement and unrealistic expectations of young people are the same ones that also eviscerated the bottom rung of the career ladder or see AI as a way to eliminate what they see as an optional cost center, and not the future of their workforce."

[jonfazzaro]

"They're building a heat map of how language actually works. Not how we think it should work. How it does work."

[jonfazzaro]

"The deepest risk of all, as Naaman pointed to, is not linguistic uniformity but losing conscious control over our own thinking and expression."

[jonfazzaro]

"At the heart of mise-en-place is an unrelenting honesty about the limits of time and space."

[jonfazzaro]

"The smaller the step, the faster we can rotate. The more we rotate, the more engagement we feel as a group."

[jonfazzaro]

"Its usefulness as a reading tool depends on the existence of a culture of reading which it can't embody or perpetuate."

[jonfazzaro]

"This trend from businesses has led to an arms race of escalating automation, with candidates using AI to generate interview answers while companies deploy AI to detect them—creating what amounts to machines talking to machines while humans get lost in the shuffle."

[jonfazzaro]

"Zero. You should give it 0 time. You already know, and you've known for a long time; it's not gonna change. I'm sorry. 💔"

[jonfazzaro]

"I'm doing them a disservice when I let them let AI do their writing and thinking for them, as though — to borrow a popular metaphor — they were using a forklift at the gym."

[jonfazzaro]

"You don't get to 3% of the market by trying for 40% and failing. You get there by embracing the 1% and doing such a good job that the word spreads."

[jonfazzaro]

"The cost of writing code has indeed dropped. But the cost of making sense of it together as a team hasn't. That's still the bottleneck."

[jonfazzaro]

"The biggest fear in all of Hollywood is that you're going to make a blockbuster, and guess what? You're going to sit in litigation for the next 30 years."

[jonfazzaro]

"And if squares are fundamentally compelling, the crossword, in its recursively square structure, starts to look like an equally fundamental art form."

[jonfazzaro]

"We took a pipedream, and made it a policy choice. No one can claim with a straight face that Direct File is impossible anymore; bringing it back requires only that our elected leaders make a different choice." direct-file