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I also had Squeak in my curriculum! From what I remember it had a unique object hierarchy or something like

While the demo is incredible, I think that in most practical use-cases, models aren't very useful without tools (search, code execution, etc.). Even if we assume reasoning latency …

Everybody thinks they have good taste don’t they. How convenient it is that we’re all so awesome according to the one metric that can’t be measured

Many years ago, back when I was a junior, I wrote something like this to my manager, complaining about another employee who has wronged me. I eventually decided not to send it beca…

>Let’s examine another crazy version. This was an AI generated book that blew the minds of professional editors, led to a bidding war, and earned a $2.4M advance. Let’s examine a t…

I tried letting Fable have a few passes at my docs (ultracode) and the output was basically unreadable. Nothing a human would ever write. I wonder if limiting them to a certain sty…

I said the same thing about chat bots trying to act human, but evidently that's what people want. I still cringe whenever an LLM uses "I"

I have no idea what this is but I appreciate the roster.

Has there ever been a case in human history when technology just stopped advancing, simultaneously world wide, only because a bunch of people wanted it to? I think these people are…

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”

Working as intended

If you’ve ever worked at a tech company you already know the answer without reading any further

Are these typically the type of tasks that are genuinely worth tens of thousands of dollars?

I’m sure they can hire a whole team of world-class UX folks and it will pay for itself

Anyone surprised by this is incredibly naive. By all means use whatever works for you, I’m not even going to try to make an argument on ethics (and honestly I’m not even sure where…

It’s crazy how much these companies invest in their models but when it comes to UX they do fuckall

And you an do it without even changing the model!

I think if you showed these before/after menus to people from 5 years ago, most would tell you it’s a massive improvement. But now many of us have been trained to detect slop from …

From my experience, this thing is crazy fast. Spawn 10 on the same problem and have them debate to reach a consensus, you’ll get Fable-like results but 100x faster.

I think many of us engineers (including myself) are suffering from AI-induced procrastination. Fixing that pesky bug in production isn't fun. Building a harness/workflow that detec…

The Chinese ecosystem is largely built on stealing intellectual property from and/or distilling of US closed source models. I’m not getting into the ethics/comedy aspect of it, but…

Because it's mostly a load of crap. Most of these reusable, automated workflows sound really cool in theory, but in practice either they require a lot of customization (not really …

I bet that, all things considered, training 10 new Chinese frontier models costs _significantly_ less than a single modern fighter jet.

> I'd expect them to shift to a model where Chinese models are hosted on Chinese infra. You assume these Chinese companies need to make a profit. Nothing is really private in China…

How dare they not buy things