I'll go against the grain slightly and say that usually Google ratings are quite reliable for me. At times I notice they're exaggerated and it usually coincides with someone coming to ask me to rate them at the end of the meal.

I don't think this is saying that the ratings are unreliable, but rather that searching by rating isn't a guarantee that a high-rated restaurant will show up due to the other factors at play.

You don't get a sorted list from highest rated to lowest rated, but rather, momentum of reviews, number of reviews, changes in rating etc.

My suspicion is that there probably is also a noticeable difference between companies that advertise on Google vs. those that don't. Anecdotally, the gym closest to me has higher ratings than all the other gyms in my area, but when I moved to the area it never showed up on Google Maps for me. It was only by walking by it that I decided to look it up on Google Maps specifically by name that it showed up for me.

There are good businesses out there that don't get a lot of reviews because they don't ask for them. Relying upon customers to do this without a prompt is not something I'd recommend.

Do you need the stock market to undercut industries though? I'm not sure it's necessary

While not strictly necessary, it is a great power multiplier.

It helps as it is both a gauge of the success of the strategy, and also a lever where the process can be fine tuned, eg. slowly buying stock then strategically dumping in the right time, correlated with other external shocks can have wider effect to whole industries through controlling the public opinion on specific industries.

Not OP, but Tuple is pretty great.

Indeed Tuple is a great product. The goal is to match their quality and make it the OSS alternative, it's still early though, and I am trying to get some feedback.

Am I the only one who feels hesitant to even interact with someone wearing smart glasses? I have no idea if they could be recording me.

It's similar to how people felt when Google Glass first showed up. Until there's some universally understood signal like a visible recording light (that can't be turned off), I think that unease is going to stick around

Even with a light, a just made a quick google search and the top reddit thread is about how easy it is to cover up with black nail paint.

These particular classes don’t have a camera.

Why stop at YouTube? Blame Apple for creating an additive gadget that has single handedly wasted billions of hours of collective human intelligence. Life was so much better before iPhones.

But I hear you say - you can use iPhones for productive things and not just mindless brainrot. And that's the same with YouTube as well. Many waste time on YouTube, but many learn and do productive things.

Dont paint everything with a single, large, coarse brush stroke.

frankly when compared against TikTok, Insta, etc, YouTube is a force for good. Just script the shorts away...

Likewise. All my friends were within cycling distance and we had nature to play in. Personally I can't imagine growing up in a city like London.

Not asking for feedback is the killer for me. Even most junior developers will ask for more information if they don't have enough context/confidence to complete a task.

I often ask Claude to scan through the code first and then come back with questions related to the task. It sometimes comes back with useful questions, but most of the time it acts like a university student looking for participation marks from a tutorial; choosing questions to signal understanding rather than be helpful.

I have taken to appending "DO NOT START WRITING CODE." to almost every prompt.. I try to get it to analyze and ask questions and summarize what its going to do first, and even then it will sometimes ignore that and jump into writing (the wrong) code. A big part of the wrangling seems to be getting it to analyze or reason before charging down a wrong path.

If you use Claude Code you can go into plan mode, where it doesn't write code, you can back and forth.

Gemini is terrible for this

GitHub just released spec-kit which I think attempts to get the human more involved in the spec/planning/task building process. You basically instruct the LLM to generate these docs and you tweak them to flesh it out all fix mistakes. Then you tell the LLM to work on a single task at a time, reviewing in small chunks.

That's how everyone is already using Claude Code, it's not GitHub's idea. You go into plan mode, get it to iterate on the idea, then ask it to make (and save) a to do list md. Then you get it to run through the to-do list, checking tasks off as it goes.

Honestly - if it's such a good technique it should be built into the tool itself. I think just waiting for the tools to mature a bit will mean you can ignore a lot of the "just do xyz" crap.

It's not at senior engineer level until it asks relevant questions about lacking context instead of blindly trying to solve problems IMO.

The UK already uses palantir. Clearly they value it to continue and extend the relationship. But what do they know?

"Jumps into bed" gives a pretty good idea of what the author wants you to think. But I'm going to give the people signing the deal the benefit of the doubt that they might know a bit more.

Before, they were just fooling around on the couch.