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Building products without leveraging ML is the new building products without talking to your customers.
Chatting with 5.1 and it slipped in a couple characters mid-answer:
"Great catch — I slipped a Japanese/Chinese word in there 😅
具体 basically means “concrete” or “specific”, as opposed to vague or abstract."
Overheard from my 16 year old: “You’ve heard of Golden Gate Claude, but have you heard of That Changes Everything Claude? (Which is just normal Claude.)”
Great post from @simonw! I especially like the five bullets toward the end that get concrete about how it all works. Making that fourth bullet accessible is going to be the big unlock here. “A skill defined by an experienced data reporter talking about how best to find the interesting stories in a new set of data”
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/1…
Dan Sweet retweeted
School teaches you what others want you to learn.
Only you can teach yourself what YOU want to learn. Don’t wait for others to do it.
Took me a few decades to understand this.
Picked up a new iPhone (17 pro max) on Saturday. It randomly restarted while idle at least once yesterday and twice today.
i've just put in my 3 hours of poking the jello of docker config files with a stick for the day (maybe its finally working...)







