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drusepth

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About drusepth

Chroma Golem co-founder (2023-Present); Indent Labs founder and maker of Notebook.ai (2016-Present); I also run a few other niche sites for authors and/or game devs.

Feel free to contact me about any of the above at andrew@indentlabs.com (writing) or dru@chromagolem.com (gaming).

Recent public activity

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    A /precommit tool can be very powerful -- not only can it run the tests, do light code review on its own, spin up sub-agents to review performance/architecture/etc impacts, but it …

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    Comment #49131584

    One of the best features I built into our game studio's AI router (IMO) was to take a random sampling of generations and have them generate across ALL models (that we support, at l…

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    Comment #49115608

    I don't think OP's "Why do people ask employees this stuff" question implies you _shouldn't_ ask, but rather wonders why people even ask when you're obviously not going to get an a…

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    Comment #49113379

    Yes, I've worked remotely for the last decade+ on many innovative teams and typically find them more engaged, autonomous, and innovative than most of the on-site-only teams I've al…

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    Comment #49113346

    Same, it was $150 for 1400 sq ft house last I did it, so roughly same ballpark. I do remember it being closer to $80 10ish years ago though.

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    Comment #49113273

    nit: 45k is the average car loan for a new car, but average for a used car is $25k. Purchasing a car is a necessity but purchasing a new car is a luxury.

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    Comment #49113184

    I don't think a cleaning robot and a vehicle are in the same category, as vehicles are more a necessity (at the very least to get to and from your jobs, to buy groceries, etc) and …

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    Comment #49094375

    The job postings being all on-site (no remote) is kind of wild.

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    Comment #49065518

    Bots routinely overwhelm my public-facing websites. The last few times I've turned on "attack mode" in Cloudflare (which I do when bot swarms get particularly nasty), traffic dropp…

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    Comment #49039224

    on the API for people who don't want to change models, but I imagine most people will probably switch to their cheaper Opus 5 (cheaper for us and presumably also cheaper for them)

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    Comment #48937277

    Very, very, very excited to hopefully stop getting support emails at Notebook.ai for people trying to get help with NotebookLM. Gemini Notebook is a way better name for the masses.…

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    Comment #48911247

    Ironically, the prevalence of AI "tells" like that (combined with the ubiquity of AI works passed off as human-written) will inevitably feed back into more use by non-AI writers wh…

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    Comment #48863518

    Is a google search actually easier than asking a model?

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    Comment #48835181

    I reaaaaaally hope we have an option to disable those random ums and ahhs that interrupt for no reason. :|

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    Comment #48808976

    I had a 300k LOC game that needed refactored and segmented into DAG assemblies for a composable engine to reuse in a few other similar games our studio is prepping to build. I trie…

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    Comment #48751763

    > Among other things, Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models; to work diligently with the U.S. government on protocols and…

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    Comment #48650951

    What is an "ephemeral" model in this context?

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    Comment #48544702

    This makes me yearn for the golden years of april fools online.

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    Comment #48452454

    Before you start driving, at stop lights, while waiting in lines, etc. I don't know how it works on CarPlay but when I turn my car on I have a bunch of suggested addresses (home, w…

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    Comment #48392507

    Interestingly, as someone who works in story generation and AI-assisted writing specifically measuring "quality" when it comes to generated writing samples, I've found Claude > Gem…

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    Comment #48388138

    How are people selling RAM (and GPUs) these days? I have a bunch to offload but Facebook Marketplace and eBay don't sound like they're very great for small, very expensive ($1-3k) …

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    Comment #48302781

    Hmmm. I have a game on steam that has almost entirely AI-generated graphics (and AI-generated animations/code that move them), but we pay someone to do our promotional videos. Wond…

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    Comment #48199879

    Weirdly phrased, but yes, I would watch a movie generated with an LLM by a person passionate about the movie they're creating.

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    Comment #48185508

    What is the benefit of deleting a PR over just closing it? It seems like closing has the benefit of signaling what kinds of PRs aren't acceptable, which deleting would lose.