Comments on Google documents have always annoyed me. Resolved threads disappear into the ether. Intermediate comments are hidden, so you always need to dig for context.

UX for collaborative documents needs some innovation but Google has no incentive.

I appreciate this work you’re doing

The article can be 100% written by the Guardian but with a seed planted by a “leak” from Meta.

It needs to be an IP so it can be one of the “A” records returned by dns lookups of pool.ntp.org.

You just use a subset of the other known good nodes in the pool as your source. You’re just acting as an edge node for load distribution

It’s also enabled by default now if I remember correctly.

My previous org’s GHE went down all the time. It couldn’t handle the CI and automation tooling hitting it as often as an org of our size needed it to. So I can totally see cloud not being able to handle the new AI scale

Isn’t there confusion here between independent contractors and subcontractors?

Amazon is subcontracting out delivery to smaller companies, for example ACME Logistics, LLC. Amazon tells ACME when things need to be delivered. ACME then hires delivery drivers, whether the individuals in vests are full-time/part-time/1099 independent is another thing. I doubt Amazon is hiring any 1099 workers directly, but I could be wrong.

How old is the root user? How about the nginx user? How about “nobody”?

I still like to code a lot "by hand" but appreciate the AI based auto-complete/tab completion. What are folks using these days instead of Cursor in that respect? VSCode + Copilot?

I used to be a heavy shell and IDE user and now I ask my local AI to do the majority of computing tasks I used to do by hand.

Codex/similar harnesses allow me a digital workspace where I can organize both short-term and long-horizon tasks and build a "journal" of my computational history. I journal less and talk with my agents more. When I need to remember something, I can Ctrl+K in my harness or ask my agent to search previous conversations.

In Codex in particular, each workspace is unassuming, offering several panes with various functionality that I can customize to suit each particular task, and Codex remembers the layout for each conversation. You can structure some tasks to offer an IDE-like workspace, while others can just be a simple conversation pane. Cursor feels ham-fisted in comparison with non-coding tasks.

If I need to rename a few files, that's a job for my agent. If I need to convert something with ffmpeg, I'm never looking up reference again, because that's a job for my agent. If I need to change more than a word or two in a line of code, that's a job for my agent.

My job is to build a conceptual map of my work environment so that I can understand how each interface communicates without needing to know the exact implementation (and I still do quality/security review passes). I plan out work with the agent, design acceptance criteria and then monitor my agents as they work on various tasks across several projects. The agents' ability to design bespoke diagnostic programs, use a browser, etc. have allowed me to offload some amount of QA testing as well. I still have to test and review, but I don't have to write regressions by hand anymore or test for the more obvious UI/UX issues.

It's not a perfect system but from top-to-bottom, my computing experience has radically changed in a relatively short period of time. Putting this level of trust into cooperative agents was simply not possible a year ago, and not even six months ago. Harnesses have gotten better, and the last few rounds of cutting edge models in particular have really changed the landscape.

I'm sure I will grow to miss writing code by hand, some engineers have already expressed this to me, but I also have RSI to manage and honestly these agents have been a godsend. My wrists hurt less than ever after a long day of working, and yet I'm working on more things at once with a higher velocity without sacrificing architectural quality, security, robustness or the other big reasons why I previously could not trust agents.

Of course, like many others have expressed, this new paradigm is a lot more exhausting. That's also a good thing, because I have lifelong chronic insomnia. I'm still able to care for my mind and body more as I'm able to take more frequent short breaks to stretch, walk around or clear the cobwebs out of my brain as I know that progress is still being made. And I can still work from my phone while I walk.

Won’t kids just make a new secret account that doesn’t belong to the family? Like you said, they will do it anyway

Still better than what we have now.