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gandalfgeek

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About gandalfgeek

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    Wow. Jeff and Sanjay both departing. Truly end of a golden era. There is an entire cohort of work-optional very senior engineers for whom one of the last reasons for hanging on was…

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    "2. AI misses important nuances. Better prompts could help." My experience has been very different: I give it a ton of personal context (positions, portfolio, account balances etc)…

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    wow -- "Let's take something off your plate" just copied word-for-word from the Claude Cowork UI. And it is above the fold in their hero image!

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    Big jump for sure, but definitely comes with a giant grain of salt lacking open-sourcing the harness itself and measuring performance on the held-out set.

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    6 months ago when Mag7 was overperforming everyone was worried about it being too high a fraction of the S&P500.

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    (ex-Googler, spent 18 yrs there) Memegen is a key part of the culture. Its default mode is over-the-top mocking, of course, with a grain of truth. Nobody and nothing is spared. C-l…

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    > About a year ago, Groq announced a $1.5 billion infrastructure investment deal with Saudi Arabia. They also secured a $750 million Series D funding round.... Then in maybe one of…

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    > Government agencies in general are largely insulated from politics. This was obviously false during the pandemic when these “health” agencies did what the White House wanted, fro…

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