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I'm all for framing the spirit this way, so long as we recognize that it was rather difficult to come up with the sum total of human creative output (noting also that approximately…

That's very cool, although AFAICT my hacked-together non-product shares most of the same virtues. Can you upsell it to me a little?

If you are a Nix flake enjoyer, I whipped up something similar to this (Claude Code-only right now) based on microvm.nix: https://github.com/cdata/katsuobushi/tree/main/lib/sandbox…

Google contains multitudes. I don't doubt that your personal experience was the opposite end of the spectrum from mine. I maintain that firing is an extreme resolution here (taking…

When I was there, there was no universal process; different teams had different processes based on their focus. There was a launch process for Google products and there was the ope…

Simply put: all work published to Google repos is implicitly affiliated with Google. In my team's case we would include expectation-setting language in the README.md so that it was…

I'm noticing a few commenters who work (worked?) at Google (inferred from comment history) who are critical of this person's actions. First: you ought to disclose that information …

I think the author is referring to enterprise customers. You aren't the "customer" in this case; you're the bait. How do you know that the other models you are referring to aren't …

If our strategy to avoid "slavery" involves "normal people" taking the local-vs-managed choice seriously, we have already lost. This choice is made for us. The deciding factors wil…

We are living in a ZIRP-like era where builders at the fastest pace layer have misattributed their velocity to exponential gains in model capability. In fact, they are surfing on d…

For everyone claiming that this is a trope of LLM text because it is a trope in the training data: how do you know this trope doesn't emerge during RLHF?

> What is reality? Obviously, no one can say, because it isn’t words. It isn’t material—that’s just an idea. It isn’t spiritual—that’s also an idea; a symbol. Reality is this: [GON…

> There's enough evidence for the counter argument that this is essentially misinformation. > No evidence is shared Help an open-minded critic out.

With respect, you were manipulated (either by founders or by investors). Startups leverage employees' pro-social leanings to make them feel good about a fundamentally anti-social e…

> Man, I really feel like they want us to hate them Man, I feel old.

The influence of cartoon foxes on business strategies in tech has a long history and cannot be overstated. https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-3.html

This appears to be dated 2016. Did the preliminary results amount to anything?

I read a lot of AI generated code these days. It makes really bad mistakes (even when the nature of the change is a refactor). I've tried out a few different tools and methodologie…

AI has pushed me to arrive at an epiphany: new technology is good if it helps me spend more time doing things that I enjoy doing; it's bad if it doesn't; it's worse if I end up spe…

Arguably the ad business is to blame. It created a perverse incentive. They maximized pay-to-play. The losers were authors that previously published on a passion budget (and would/…

The foresters refusing to plant vast tracts of Norway Spruce aren't protecting themselves; quite the opposite, they’re falling behind. The gap is widening between states who've rep…

Very cool. I'm always on the lookout for languages - especially beginner-friendly ones - that are good candidates for building Wasm Components (my use case is a fantasy console wit…

Don't sleep on the Rust toolchain for this! You can have DOM-via-Wasm today, the tools generate all the glue for you and the overhead isn't that bad, either.