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eggbrain

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About eggbrain

Cofounder of Aho (https://aho.com) and TrueJob (https://www.truejob.com). Thoughts / opinions are my own.

Email Contact:

* Something aho related? scott |at| aho.com

* Something job related? scott |at| truejob.com

* Other things? me |at| scottgoci.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49101654

    You may need to select a smaller model, but an M4 with 16GB ram should work!

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    Comment #49098685

    DHH was not the point of my comment (in fact, I said if the author had focused on him they'd have more of a point), so this unfortunately feels needlessly attackative.

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    Comment #49098520

    This post does not feel like it was made in good faith. The general premise ends up being: - Matz is nice -> DHH / Tobias are "not nice" -> Ruby is doomed (because of two not nice …

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    Show HN: Writekin – fine-tune a local LLM on your own writing, on your Mac

    Hey Hacker News! I built Writekin over the past week because I was tired of AI writing that didn't sound like me, even though I had just used AI to clean it up, rather than wholesa…

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    Comment #49001254

    About the same thing I saw. I kept having to increase my bid every day, and even at $4 CPC basically saw nothing converting. As you said, it's also really hard to get visibility: m…

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    Comment #48819270

    > Can you imagine a venue refusing entry to former clients 2% of the time just because they’ve “improved their experience”? On the flipside, if a client enters enough venues that r…

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    Comment #48507062

    Gauntlet AI I believe is correlated originally with Lambda School (YC S17). YC founders I believe are able to post job postings on Hacker News, although this might stretch the defi…

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    Comment #48503781

    I feel we need a "proof of work by human" for emails. Something that could be signed that attests that someone took the time to write the email, not just sent a template / used AI …

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    Comment #48463982

    For those of us on subscription plans: * From today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost. * On June 23, we’ll re…

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    Comment #48338222

    > [...] People do not realise how much of a toll it takes on you if you actually care about the environment, exploited workers, theft from the people who can least afford it, the i…

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    Comment #48329835

    > [...] With organized criminals, you can't actually see what the abuse is 'worth' to them. Even without collecting events, you can calculate what the abuse is worth to you , even …

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    Comment #48328733

    To the end platform, what's the difference? Mitigation techniques largely remain the same, in that you make it more time / energy / money than what the end result of their abuse is…

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    Comment #48325823

    There will always be a subset of users whose goal is to not use your service, but to arbitrage your service into the maximum value for themselves. For example -- let's say you offe…

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    Comment #48325171

    The value of human interaction cannot be overstated -- and the writer did a beautiful job outlining how AI isolates us. But there are also hidden difficulties in human interaction …

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    Comment #48149902

    Normally, I separate the download filename (what the server / person chose to call the file) from my own organization system file name. So if I download or get sent "Book.pdf", I'l…

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    Comment #48124010

    > Stripe (their payment process) will handle adult content payments. It puts the account into the high risk category due to the high rate of fraud in those categories. Stripe _says…

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    Comment #48098861

    Lately I've been building Aho ( https://aho.com ) -- an API for verifying age, credentials, and identity using cryptographic proof from digital wallets instead of document inspecti…

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    Comment #47440019

    There are two opposite answers here, and I feel like I could argue either one: 1) Humans were never held accountable, really Outside of a few regulated industries, the worst that h…

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    Comment #47418829

    Your comment seems to imply AI is currently at a junior developer's level -- 12 months ago I would have agreed (like I mentioned in my parent comment, both near the end and about t…

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    Comment #47418625

    I find people over-rotate on whether we should be reviewing AI-produced code. "What if bad code gets into production!" some programmers gasp, as if they themselves have never pushe…

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    Comment #47233288

    Many of today's news websites (tech or otherwise) cashed in their goodwill / reputation / page rank to sell ads. The first shoe dropped when news websites realized they weren't gen…

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    Comment #47127574

    I'm curious -- are there any stories of projects that launched on Hacker News, Hacker News loved it, and it ended up _also_ being a big success? E.g. we have stories like Dropbox w…

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    Comment #45732540

    If we assume token providers are becoming more and more of a commodity service these days, it seems telling that OpenAI specifically decided to claw out consumer hardware. Perhaps …

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    Comment #45510893

    I’m glad someone called this out. “Let’s just use vanilla rails” — sure, except basically every version of rails for the past 5 years has decided to completely change how they do J…