It is 2026, and I, a relapsed catholic, gruff atheist find my attention wholly gripped by the encyclical letter. I'm genuinely shocked, but really, truly everyone should be reading it! www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Carlos Scheidegger
Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org
Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...
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Another observation for the "the problem it's not that they don't work; the problem is that they do" column In the last 2-3 months, LLM-generated PRs have moved from "incoherent garbage" to "does the thing the title says" But good software doesn't solve the X in an instance of the X-Y problem.
Friends, this thing with the cleats being all the same. Is that… because everyone asked an LLM? Like, you see it at least a little, right?
So what does the hive mind here think about the Karpathy -> Anthropic news?
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