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Why should open weights correlate with cost? Cost correlates with the expense of running the model more than it does to the expense of developing the model.

Social media in it's current form is already dying to the explosion in synthetic interaction but the internet could survive and reshape itself.

It would be so simple if businesses could choose their competition or simplify disallow modes of competition they found inconvenient. I can't imagine any amount of regulation would…

That was a typo... thanks. I wasn't suggesting that he or anyone else is 100% altruistic but he seems like he genuinely thrives on collaboration.

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You should really look into who Jack Conte is and why he created Patreon. He's a smart guy who relies heavily on maintaining a positive social image and is more emotionally aware a…

Even founders that don't naturally empathize with employees they need to cut encounter a process that is emotionally taxing. It's just not an easy thing to do. If you handle layoff…

The first time I saw a giant floating tv billboard at the beach was the first time I felt the urge to sink a vessel. I found it offensive but everyone else seemed to just accept it…

His organization is The Linux Foundation.

That sounds dangerously like your organization has overcommitted to AI, is hemorrhaging money and is squeezing their human engineers to make up the difference.

AI was always going to be geo-politically fragmentary. As soon as we started talking about it like a utility it was clear that every country was going to be strongly limited to the…

The developers of Prince of Persia still talking about the game more than 30 years later seems very bizarre to me. I remember a game called Flashback having very a similar graphica…

Reading the first few paragraphs of what he calls "the most sophisticated academic social science paper I have yet seen from an AI" does not impress as much as I hoped. "Posterior …

Gold bars are his top preference.

Now you're arguing against your own analogy? Hunter was ubiquitous position in human society prior to the domestication of animals. 50% of the workforce in hunter-gather societies.…

We don't need as many hunters because we've domesticated sources of meat. We still need ranchers, butchers... an entire supply chain to get meat to consumers. We didn't remove huma…

Languages have been reporting compile and runtime errors for decades. Additionally very few senior developers don't already have their minds wired to spot typos the way copy editor…

The capacity of the person prompting it to understand is the threshold they won't cross. They can squeeze the gap as much as possible by dumbing down answers or slowly ramping up i…

Glib is called for. The amount of information asymmetry that's still on the table as vibe coders and vibe engineers and vibe doctors emerge is staggering. Professional experience i…

The idea that anything can still be buried in a filling is equally ridiculous

Try loading the models up in a coding harness like Claude Code. There's a few docx skills listed on Vercel's skill index. https://skills.sh/tfriedel/claude-office-skills/docx

When was the last time you used Qwen models? Their 3.5 and 3.6 models are excellent with tool calling.

Good homogenous experience is the hallmark of good design. There are no surprises with good design. It just works the way you expect it to work. Good design should not generally ch…