I am beginning to think that our success in this life from the time/place/circumstances of our conception to the moment we shuffle off this mortal coil, is

* 80% pure dumb luck
* 10% balancing ambition with ethics,
* 8% abilities
* 4% sense of humor
* 3% inability to do math

It feels like a year or two from now, frontier models via cloud APIs for coding will be unaffordable for the solo/hobbyist developer. Maybe now is the time to have your coding assistant perform as many audits for security, concurency, and code quality issues as possible while you still can.

Plenty of time later to be your own entry-level assistant _implementing_ the fixes after Anthropic moves to exclusively metered token usage, etc…

Fascinating to watch folks tangling with the new parental controls announced by #Apple. My favorites start with “as a non-parent myself, this is all buush*t” or “as a feral BBS user in the 90’s…”

The cool thing about these tools is that they exist, and thoughtful parents can choose to use them or not as they think is appropriate. Every tool at the disposal of a parent, both good and bad, can be used both wisely and poorly.

It seems really telling that my feed has blown up this afternoon with excitement for #macos improving….

… the window corner radius.