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This launch feels weird. Every blog post is dated Nov 25, 2025 (~6 months ago), and no events since. What's up?

What blog posts?

There's a 'Blog' link in the footer.

Oh. Hmm. I suppose I shouldn't deeplink into the Motion website. I can see why this is confusing. Also, re the dates. Looks to be a Framer bug that I will contact them about. Thanks.

The ones linked on the front page footer

Fixed the dates, and actually removed the Motion deeplink as I can see it was confusing. Thanks

Currently the #1 entry. Noted fast.

Can you point to one other post like this? Curious. Thanks

What exactly makes you say that "the author who seems to have fully signed up for the LLM hype train"?

I feel the author is just stating the obvious: code quality has very little to do with whether a product succeeds


OK, but what happens after product market fit when your code is hot garbage that nobody understands?

This is a different question, but obviously, a code that "nobody understands" is a terrible situation

I don't trust what OpenAI says. Sam Altman gives shivers, and these kinds of blog posts make things look even worse.

I believe AGI is mostly a marketing term, so the data center buildup definitely seems foolish.

Thiel is an idiot


>> “Competition is for losers” - Peter Thiel

> Thiel is an idiot

Sounds more like he's selfish, perhaps to an unusual degree. Monopoly is great for the monopolist. For everyone else? Not so much.


Maybe we should examine as an industry why so many mediocre men get elevated to positions of incredible power and run great businesses into the ground.


Luck (primarily) and connections. We feel psychologically safe believing there is some determinism _in the world_. But there's none. Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.


> Luck (primarily)

This is an extraordinary claim. What is your extraordinary evidence?

Why didn’t it rain today? Good luck! Why was Michael Jordan so skillful at basketball? Just good luck. Why is Linux better than Windows? Good luck! Why did VMS fall off? Bad luck. Why does 2 + 2 = 4? I guess just good luck.

These are all laughably incurious, superstitious answers. Other factors must be at play. Yes, identifying them may require hard thinking and concentration.

Otherwise, what is democracy other than selecting the luckiest? We already had strange women lying in ponds distributing swords for that — and much cheaper and quicker to boot.

> Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.

We’ve likely all known people who were book smart but didn’t have good walking-around sense. Everyone knows others who make poor or destructive choices. The interpersonal skills, soft skills, and emotional intelligence being dismissed in this thread as mere “luck and connections” may be severely lacking. The person may have poor mental health or addiction.

Are you using determinism in the automata theory sense or some other?


Luck here isn't referring to some invisible dice roll whose randomness can not be explained or is just a correlation (like no rain on your wedding day would be), it's refers to variables that the person can not influence. Being born into a rich family is lucky for that baby, and the baby can't have done anything about it.


Connections... It was always like this..


The same way mediocre men have been elevated for thousands of years.

A combination of being in the right place at the right time and connections to people with money


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Who said you need to be great in an area to tell the difference between competent and incompetent?

While it helps, it doesn't take a genius to tell the difference. Picking the great from the great apart, that'd be another story all together.


Thiel is not an idiot.

Competition is for losers, is a way to say to go and compete in a super crowded market where it is impossible to differentiate yourself is not going to make you a winner.

But usually people are called idiots because they don’t swallow the progressive propaganda wholesale.


But very rich...


One has very little to do with the other, contrary to popular belief. Exhibit A from 338 BC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutus_(play)


Rich!= smart


So are drug dealers


China's ideals make better public services and puts less pressure on environment. But China may not be the opposite you are referring to here.


> puts less pressure on environment

China has been competing with India for decades for the most-polluted cities crown, and only slightly ranks below the US and Russia in CO2 emissions per capita. It's also the only large country where its emissions have been growing over the last decade. Where does the idea come from that China somehow puts less pressure on the environment? Less than what, exactly?


>and only slightly ranks below the US and Russia

By slightly ranks below you mean ~50-60% per capital.

>China somehow puts less pressure on the environment

PRC renewables at staggering scale.

Last year PRC brrrted out enough solar panels whose lifetime output is equivalent to MORE than annual global consumption of oil. AKA world uses about >40billion barrels of oil per year, PRC's annual solar production will sink about 40billion barrels of oil of emissions in their life times. That's fucking obscene amount of carbon sink, and frankly at full productionm annual PRC solar + wind can on paper displace 100% of oil, 100% of lng, and good % of coal (again annual utilization) once storage figured out.

This BTW functionally makes PRC emission negative, by massive margin, arguably the only country who is.

It's only retarded emission accounting rules that says PRC should be penalized for manufacturing renewables, but buyers credited AND fossil producers like US not penalized for extraction, which US has only increased.


Also, unlike US and Russia, China has green transition as an official policy. There are additional savings from total electrification. (I think they also care more about longterm and being closer to the equator and the sea, they better understand the consequences of global warming.)


And they have little to no sources of fossil fuels within their borders (not enough to support their demand, in any case).

It's a great policy, but it also makes sense for geo-strategic reasons (even ignoring the climate issue).


This is the irony: AI projects are comparable to crypto projects, but receiving 60M in seed-funding.


Dropbox value was instantly recognizable, but I feel I have zero use for Entire.


I mean, I CAN see the value in pushing the context summary to git. We already have git blame to answer "who", but there is no git interrogate to answer the "why". This is clearly an attempt to make that a verb git can keep track of. It's a valuable idea.

I also seen examples of it before. I've got opencode running right now and it has a share session feature. That whole idea is just a spinoff on the concept of the same parent that led to this one.


Isn't "why" what commit message bodies are for?


That's actually not a bad idea. Idk about any tools that do that tho


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