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I’m convinced a lot of the bone headed things the Trump administration have done are after being told by ChatGPT that it’s a great idea.
@marcoarment @siracusa The Mac Pro dies twice: first, when Apple discontinues it, second, when its name is spoken by John for the last time.
“for the United States this war was an unwise gamble on extremely long odds; the gamble (that the regime would collapse swiftly) has already failed and as a result locked in essentially nothing but negative outcomes. Even with the regime were to collapse in the coming weeks or suddenly sue for peace, every likely outcome leaves the United States in a meaningfully worse strategic position than when it started.”
https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/
Miscellanea: The War in Iran

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

This is the big challenge for companies in the age of AI coding agents.

1. Our quality processes are not designed to handle code creation at this pace (10x the code = 10x the bugs)

2. Our organizational workflows with their various meetings and approval processes are big drags on capturing these productivity gains, yet are important and exist for valid reasons.

A terrible step back for privacy and it's crazy that Meta announced this by updating a support page https://www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encryption-for-dms/
Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs [Update: Meta's statement]

Pulling the plug on privacy?

Android Police

I recently commented at work that it’s now faster to build a feature than it is to get time on people’s calendars to discuss it.

I’m slowly facing the reality that almost all of professional software development has to be reimagined in a world where execution is essentially free.

Wild times!

Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

The most predictable outcome of the U.S. government's hostility to immigrants is mass outsourcing of those jobs from the United States.

This is another example of long term damage being done to the economy which will be hard to reverse in a few years when people finally figure out how badly Trump screwed things up.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/alphabet-plots-big-expansion-in-india-as-us-restricts-visas

NYT Pitchbot dropping a series of straight bangers. 10/10 no notes.
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.

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