Who is building an agent-first programming language? Something that is optimized for correctness and does not need to care about human ergonomics and brevity. Like rust but 100 times more autistic.

Airline: So sorry we have to rebook you to tomorrow sir. *process processes* Airline: And here’s the new boarding passes. Me: Thank you. Will $AIRLINE also be issuing a hotel voucher. Airline: Unfortunately no. We do not issue vouchers in case of ATC-caused delays of travel.

Top 5 US Airports: * SFO * AUS * LGA * PHX * DFW

I don't think Bill Gates has ever said anything particularly intelligent, and he certainly does not strike me as unusually intelligent in the sense of having a deep, granular command of complicated subjects. Gates got insanely rich because he ended up controlling the operating system layer of the mass market personal computer industry at exactly the right historical moment. Specifically, Microsoft got the IBM operating system contract and, crucially, also got the right to license the operating system to other computer manufacturers. So Gates got strategically lucky, or, if we are being charitable, showed very good strategic foresight. But none of that is evidence of some extraordinary or brilliant mind.

How the German Bundeswehr acquires new software and hardware for developing military technologies, like drones: 1) Soldiers identify their need and take their request to the Bundeswehr Procurement Office, which is headed by picrelated (I swear this is real). 2) A procurement officer then tries to understand the request and passes it on to BWI – the proprietary IT provider for the Ministry of Defence. 3) BWI then attempts to assess whether the procurement officer has correctly understood the soldiers' request. 3) BWI finally make an offer according to their understanding of the soldiers' needs to the procurement officer. 4) The procurement officer then tries to assess whether this offer corresponding to the BWI understanding of the soldiers' needs also corresponds to his understanding of the soldiers' needs. 4) If this assessment is positive, the BWI then gets an order for the goods – software, drone hardware, whatever. 5) When the goods are finally delivered, the procurement officer then tries to work out whether these correspond to what the soldiers originally requested. The whole process, in normal cases, takes about 2–4 years. Drone software in the Ukraine war is outmoded after about four weeks.

I'm hearing a new concern from founders: AI brain rot Some employees are becoming so reliant on AI that they are losing critical thinking and struggle to ask the second order questions to move an initiative forward.

Rob Lowe compares fame in the 80s to fame today

Mark Zuckerberg: failure doesn’t matter. “The question is how much you win, when you win.” “@WalterIsaacson wrote this biography of Einstein. One of the interesting things were all the theories he had that were wrong.” “People don’t remember those.” “We’re all going to get a lot of stuff wrong, what matters are the intellectual and cultural contributions we make that help push stuff forward.” “We have a resilient company that is not afraid of failure.” “That allows us to take some big swings and tolerate being ridiculed for long periods of time.” “If you’re trying to do something that’s really new, people have to think it’s ridiculous. If they didn’t, someone else would’ve already done it.” “In creation, the upside is infinite.” “If you build something that hundreds of millions, or billions of people like, then that makes up for a lot of ideas that didn’t end up working.” Via @Complex