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A mere 22% share of the world GDP. “Capitalizing on that interest is crucial for SpaceX as it …#
A mere 22% share of the world GDP.
“Capitalizing on that interest is crucial for SpaceX as it had pitched its IPO investors an addressable market worth $28.5 trillion”
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/
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“And as a result, we’re now building a team to focus on formal methods. Our hope is to make f…#
“And as a result, we’re now building a team to focus on formal methods. Our hope is to make formal methods as pervasively useful of a tool for building software as sophisticated type systems are for us today.”
https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/
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“But in the past few weeks, all that has changed, as if the leadership has been following detai…#
“But in the past few weeks, all that has changed, as if the leadership has been following detailed blueprints on how to demolish a proven, successful engineering culture in the most ruthlessly efficient way possible.”
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
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Tuckman doesn’t stand a chance… “If you’ve been in tech for any length of time, a reorg …#
Tuckman doesn’t stand a chance…
“If you’ve been in tech for any length of time, a reorg every six-ish months is the weather. You don’t get angry at rain—you buy a raincoat.” https://ben.balter.com/2026/06/07/reorgs-happen/
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“So we have a problem, one that divides service owners into at least two philosophical camps. T…#
“So we have a problem, one that divides service owners into at least two philosophical camps. The problem is:
Who is going to add all those API calls?”
https://yegge.ai/essays/services-and-complexity/
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“The root cause: AI bots are unable to distinguish between instructions provided by users and t…#
“The root cause: AI bots are unable to distinguish between instructions provided by users and those snuck into third-party content the models are summarizing, drafting responses to, or using to perform other actions on behalf of the user.”
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Why doesn’t everyone just stop using just? <https://mailchi.mp/wherewithall/why-cant-they-just…#
Why doesn’t everyone just stop using just?
https://mailchi.mp/wherewithall/why-cant-they-just?e=10c4bf886a
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I remember a time when purchasing a water supply line adapter didn’t create an expectation that…#
I remember a time when purchasing a water supply line adapter didn’t create an expectation that I complete a survey form.
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“It’s that well-intentioned founders are influenced by the structures around them — the inc…#
“It’s that well-intentioned founders are influenced by the structures around them — the incentive systems, the governance structures, the investor expectations.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/incorruptible-spotify-brendan-marsh-feirc
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The job is to solve user problems. Code is a way to do that. “A mentality shift would be a sta…#
The job is to solve user problems. Code is a way to do that.
“A mentality shift would be a start, reckons Josh King, CTO of &above, an enterprise AI firm. “Developers still think of themselves as writers of code,” he says, but that’s not correct anymore. “Their actual job is now evaluators of code.””
https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-isnt-making-developers-more-productive-its-making-them-busier
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If you can’t state a constructive alternative, it costs nothing to stay silent. <https://newsle…#
If you can’t state a constructive alternative, it costs nothing to stay silent. https://newsletter.weskao.com/p/speak-in-the-affirmative-do-this
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It’s interesting to contrast how quickly AI spend has risen versus the historically glacial 3-5…#
It’s interesting to contrast how quickly AI spend has risen versus the historically glacial 3-5 year developer worstation upgrade cycle.
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“That’s exactly why we are seeing tokenmaxxing and similar trends, as output-based management…#
“That’s exactly why we are seeing tokenmaxxing and similar trends, as output-based management systems are focused on measuring and increasing activity. The problem is not the tokenmaxxing itself; it is using activity and consumption as proxies for value.”