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“Alzheimer’s Begins When You Can’t Say This Word” – busting a scammy ad with Claude
There’s no single specific word the ad is referring to — that’s the whole scam. It’s clickbait with a deliberately vague hook designed to make you anxious enough to click. There is no magic word whose absence signals Alzheimer’s onset. That said, the ad is loosely based on real neuroscience. Difficulty in word-finding is indeed…
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You Cannot Truck Your Way Around the Strait of Hormuz: A Back-of-the-Napkin Catastrophe
Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Station Wagon Full of Hard Drives There’s an old saying in computing—often attributed to Andrew Tanenbaum—that you should “never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” The modern version uses hard drives, and the math still checks out beautifully. Say you need…
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Lines of Code as a Productivity Metric: Are We Really Going There?
This X post/tweet is making the rounds on various platforms, about a team going from 10,000 lines of code committed per week to 1 million lines of code committed per week, all with just AI agents, and that no one on the team has opened an IDE in months. If you’re celebrating that, think about…