The IRS does have a free filing service called Direct File: https://directfile.irs.gov/

The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of it, but its been so successful and so well-rated that they're having trouble doing that.

I looked this year and the site went nowhere. But now seems to be up. Not sure what happened.

But I just went through the eligibility steps and it requires id.me verification! Big nope. Mailing a paper form does not. Of course Uncle Sam figured a way to fuck it up.

They do, IRS Direct File: https://directfile.irs.gov/

You mean they did, but the Trump administration and GOP passed a provision to begin eliminating the program earlier this year.

At my last job, whenever a commit wouldn't build, we would blast it into a slack channel with an alert that included the comment and the name of the developer.

At one job, we had a garish chicken hat that lived in your office if you were the last one to break the build.

This was in the days before automated CI, so a broken commit meant that someone wasn't running the required tests.

Ah yes. Public shaming. The “beatings will continue until morale improves” strategy of code development. Next time, you may want to suggest an evergreen strategy where commits are tested before they’re merged.

‘Works on my local’

No. Evergreen means CI tests your commit, not relying on individuals to be doing before pushing.

We used to have a git plugin that snaps a picture on every push, which accompanied the "alert". Was fun.

> Democrats are cowards and will not stand up against any of this.

They're making a lot of money in the stock market due to their position, they won't jeopardize it.

Which tickers? The indexes have been pretty flat since the shutdown. Or is this Pelosi Derangement Syndrome?

> DOGE may not be the right answer, but it's the first actual reduction in spending in my lifetime

On what timeline? The week of the first round of RIFs? The first month?

I assure you, as someone who works with in the space where DOGE has played, it will NOT be a reduction in costs in the long run. In fact, costs will go up because of the indiscriminate nature of "cost reduction". When the only people with knowledge of a system are removed, the remaining people cannot run it - no matter what AI they are given. At that point, you have to either hire back the people you fired, with a serious delay of important work, or you stumble for years until it can be figured out at the cost of delays, protests, lawsuits, whatever.

Considering firing everyone a reduction in costs is a shallow, short-term view.

How much safety training have you done with the models? i.e. does it know to stop if it's about to drive over a human?

We have some autonomous safety layers (comprised of object/human detection like you mentioned and others) even for remote teleop. But we haven't deployed autonomy on real sites yet. We still have some work to do before we can reliably deploy/test it out on the actual sites!

Safety is a huge concern with construction and really any operation that uses heavy equipment. I promise you they all know about Tesla autopilot running into people and will absolutely bring it up ad nauseum.

And I only say this because I think this is an interesting area to pursue so I hope you're successful with it. But a focus on safety will be of paramount importance.

I completely agree. If you have worked in the industry, I would like to talk to you and get your feedback on what I might be missing on my understanding in requirements in safety layers. Would be great if we can chat on email: contact at useflywheel dot ai

Right but if the user hates espresso but loves black coffee, how do you properly store that in SQL?

"I hate espresso" "I love coffee"

What if the SQL query only retrieves the first one?

Good queries are hard. Database design is hard. System architecture is hard.

My comment described the problem.

The solution is left as an exercise for the reader.

Keep in mind that people change their minds, misspeak, and use words in peculiar ways.

Github + VSCode will probably eat Kiro's lunch pretty soon with this: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-deve...

If you take a look at what that tool is doing, it's all very hand waivey prompting that will sometimes work, but mostly not. You need to put agents on rails and the docs it produces are more like friendly suggestions.

uv has been amazing for me. It just works, and it works fast.

I had a 365 and traded it in. Wasn't even a good pistol, just small and light. Got a S&W CSX and it's fantastic.