Waymo's Zero Fatalities and Tesla FSD 4x Safer

@levelsio highlights Waymo's zero fatalities and Tesla FSD being ~4x safer than average, noting 80% of 1.19M annual road deaths could be prevented by autonomous driving.
@yongfook reflects that AI reduces the effort and sense of achievement in shipping products, lowering motivation for marketing, while @arvidkahl shares that agentic coding allows him to add 3-4 features daily.
@midwaydude built "Shiyun," a 3D galaxy of 32,657 Chinese poets and 933,857 poems, demonstrating creative use of vector spaces for cultural data.
@tibo_maker reports Anthropic uses a "fu*ks chart" (swear word frequency) as a product popularity metric, calling it the most interesting benchmark.

@levelsio compiled Waymo and Tesla FSD safety data: Waymo has zero fatalities in its history, while Tesla FSD is about 4x safer than the average vehicle per trip fatality probability. He notes 1.19 million people die in traffic accidents annually, and 80% could be prevented by autonomous driving, urging governments to prioritize its adoption. — via 1

@arvidkahl reports that agentic coding enables him to add 3-4 features/fixes/improvements to Podscan daily, whereas each used to take days. Enterprise clients are now proactively reaching out. — via 1
@yongfook quietly released Bannerbear V5, the biggest upgrade in 4 years, featuring adaptive templates that auto-adjust to any resolution. However, he notes that AI has dramatically reduced the sense of achievement from shipping, making him feel less need to publicize. He explains that when coding manually, each release was a milestone; now with AI, weekly milestones are routine, lowering effort, skill requirement, and motivation for marketing. — via 1

@midwaydude shared a project called "Shiyun," which uses a 3D vector space to recreate the concept from Liu Cixin's "The Poetry Cloud." It maps 32,657 Chinese poets and 933,857 poems into an explorable galaxy where each star is a poem, with clickable links to read poems and view author social networks. — via 1
@levelsio notes that in the US, the only limit to starting a business is creativity, citing an example of a premium car air freshener company that promotes through Uber sponsorship. — via 1

@tibo_maker reveals that Anthropic uses the frequency of users swearing as a signal of product popularity, calling it the "fu*ks chart" and one of the most interesting product benchmarks. — via 1

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