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Ok. Because the Trump admin sucks there should be no more product innovation because…. The corruption is always in the room with us. Thank you. Very insightful.

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nice goalpost move! I don’t work for Waymo man, I don’t have access to their internal data lol But I also have basic common sense that their lawyers are involved and are signing off what markets they should try to go after.

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You think that’s funny because your don’t see what I see every day with how prolific these things are on streets in SF — and how they have improved over time (even that post is a year old), so you’re decided know-nothingness is righteous.

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Creating an all-weather Driver

Have you actually done research into this or is this most vibe spitting from a city Waymo isn’t in? Of course you start in easier to serve markets, expand capabilities, and go from there. They’re pretty transparent on the challenges and how they think about: waymo.com/blog/2025/10...

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Life doesn't freeze when winter comes—if anything, that's when riders need reliable transportation most, when being exposed to the elements becomes less appealing. Today, the Waymo Driver successfully...

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Tell me - are you aware a computer is handling your traction control already today and this is a pretty easy-to-solve problem?

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Seems… reasonable? Isn’t there sufficient data from SF and other cities these days to not require a human driver for these things to work? Waymo’s here in SF annoy me (as a driver), yet they’re definitely safer than your average frustrated commuter trying to rush a right turn.

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Yes, you’ve already made your inability to see that distinction clear.

Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Can’t possibly be addictive” is a very different bar than the one being discussed by Stancil vis a vis Bender. The distance between the bars and that people pretend it isn’t a vast distance is the entire point being made. And it reduces “chatbots” to a single usage style which is obviously wrong.

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lol, how did I not see it coming. this started by fellating the new regime head’s posts

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Gruber should have thrown in the towel a decade ago. He’s had nothing fresh to say since OS X and iOS became dominant, instead turning into a regime defender but keeping the same smug tone as if he’s still sticking it to Microsoft when the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads were around.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He’ll never let Frodo down

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Being “shit talking poster” was more or less his job in PE, next to Chuck as earnest analyst. Terminator X was definitely not posting.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Gonna be some interesting choices for people with 7 figure ARMs coming due

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

c'mon, you know the ratio of product managers working on things with a social media addicting component is a *tiny* fraction compared to those doing the important work of ensuring nav buttons are aligned.

Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Most of the people you see as prominent right wing tech posters are relatively senior. Your average product management lead in the Bay isn't aspiring to hang out with VCs and is still an NPR listener.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i have this half-baked theory that most of these guys have become so scrolling/online/dopamine fried, they don't *really* have the attention span to consume traditional games, media and life -- and are spiraling into more and more meta takes to share online where their personal reward system lives

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Onion would know how to make a joke about pro-lifers frying their brains on aborted fetus pics, but be totally stumped here

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So weird that’s what America is and yet there’s no viable center-right based political stable ground, and hasn’t been for over a decade.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can we bring back Craigslist, but make it a little modern? A true community board/classifieds section, but with moderation so it’s not the Nextdoor fearpit…? “Make social media local again”

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You know this is like an empirically testable thing, right? Like you could take all Hellman & Friedman portcos two years post exit and assess their performance.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think about this post every time I see a sixth grader run around excited in a Lamine Yamal or Mbappe shirt around here and smile. And when you talk to them, they know what’s happening in the season. It’s great.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone to hand you a square Someone who cares

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok, here’s an example: had 3 CSV files this morning, and was running a pipeline analysis across them. Normally probably a 2 hour job for me to look at files, fix some data formatting stuff, write. Now it’s 5 minutes. And yes, I have the workflow down so it repeatably provides accurate results.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Which is followed by Klein showing why he set the question up that way, to engage with current government policy.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sorry, I think you’re mistaken. That’s Ella Langley.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've started going back to mass as an adult after a 19 year break, and I don't think all parishes are like this. At mine, it's clear that support for the weak, for the poor & for the immigrant are still front and center, both in the homily as well as the services the parish offers.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Haven't seen that Allred's name since leaving the old site, but we're still talking about this guy, right?

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You are correct, and I learned something new about Bsky's UI today.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All I'm learning is that she's probably got a pretty good publicist, who knows exactly what catnip to feed where

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

no mention of "Vanna White's head is replaced by crossed fingers" in the alt-text

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

fwiw, i've been really impressed with opencode / glm5.3 experiments in last 2 weeks. did a bakeoff turning a moderately complex excel planning model into a web app across Sol 5.6 and GLM 5.3... and well, the GLM one is what's getting used. was a joy to use opencode to eval various models

Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sure, nuclear bombs are also a coordination & control problem - but this feels so much harder for that to work.

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I guess where I diverge is around who is incentives of people involved and the pace of progress. If AI were being developed in some gov't lab, fears would be easier to dismiss. But when we see things like Anthropic's wetlab announcement, why should we assume every one involved is responsible?

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Kshekar @kshekar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TiVo + mail netflix (with the huge catalog) was genuinely good era of TV. Was also right before reality tv shows flooded prime time.

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Given the handle, I want to believe it's a bit.

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Don’t get me started on some of the pathfinding killing your characters lol But it’s what gives it the charm

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Me, panic hitting the power button on the Switch after accidentally swinging at Andre the blacksmith, 15 hours into a dark souls run…. Fuck.