Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.

The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.

By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.

https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880

Good move, Amtrak! Come on, corporations—do the right thing here; it’s actually good for business too!

Amtrak is slashing executive bonuses to give out $900 apiece to over 18,000 rank-and-file workers
https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/amtrak-bonuses-for-18000-workers-900-apiece/