why does it sound like the crux of your argument against Ed is "why is he evolving his position"? Are we supposed to respect someone less for not being dogmatic and holding onto an opinion against mounting evidence?

What about first mover advantage though? Some people believe it's all about being first to market then let others have to convince people to switch to their products. I also think velocity won't matter. But I don't think the companies pushing their employees to use AI are thinking of anything other than "others are using AI and moving fast therefore we need to keep up".

I don't think first mover is going to matter. I think the race to be first is a waste of money. Deepseek sort of showed that LLMs aren't signicantly protected from duplicating results. AI will drastically change how we deal with 3rd party services. Third party services are going to have a very hard time locking in users. You can't lock me in if I can get AI to scrape my data out and translate it into data another provider uses. Going forward I am of the opinion the winners will be the innovators that can create intuitive interfaces. Innovation alone won't be enough. Someone else can rebuild your concept with a better interface.

Edit: fixed intent.

My favourite by far was Adam Becker's More Everything Forever.

Special mention also goes to Taming Silicon Valley by Gary Marcus.

Shortest damn outage ever

I've seen this post on every who's hiring for the last 6 months. Are they even hiring? Applied twice and got no response

> AI overviews now have 2 billion users every month

More like 2 billion hostages

I'm genuinely curious how much of the web depends on cloudflare and AWS. This centralisation sucks though

I did not anticipate this much traffic, working on restoring it right now

I’ve heard that GPT 5 Pro is great at fixing bugs.

Curious about your hosting stack? I'm always curious if a jam stack site can handle these big surges better. Or is this just a single VPS?

Maybe it's hosted on a disposable vape

Ah yes, the good ol' HN hug o' death.

Always wondered how much this much traffic is. Would love to see a behind the scenes view of the numbers of requests made

The peak is a handful of requests per second. If you have a static site, the cheapest Hetzner tier handles it just fine.

A few bad updates borked my Linux install and cost me hours of potential work and left me with a deep fear of installing updates. No idea what I'd do if I had a car that needs updates

Paying to reduce the number of ads is like going to the hospital to get only part of a tumor removed