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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
12/07/2025

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Notes
  1. I really want to play Space Giraffe

  2. I think everyone has some daily quota of pointless activity that they need to hit. The modern default is to fill it with doom scrolling - but with only slightly more activation energy you could instead be pruning an Obsidian vault, or playing Donkey Kong. Way more value.

  3. Firing of four concurrent price comparison deep research sessions to help bankrupt Anthropic

  4. Substack are sending me emails about people posting 'Notes' despite me having deleted my account months ago. So I guess things are going well over there..

  5. What if we passed a law that would do nothing except cause some of our least savvy citizens to share extremely sensitive personal information with shady online service?

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