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> If all companies are using the same "frontier" LLMs, and if they are competitive The answer is that all companies will not be using the same frontier LLMs competitively This will…

Investors can be very generous if they see opportunities for market capture of the next big thing

TL;DR: AI generated blogpost on using personal AI productivity tools to develop personal AI productivity tools

Mobile support?

It is not obvious to me that determinism is a requirement for an abstraction

wheels are so much simpler that it seems much easier and more cost efficient to solve the "transporting a wheeled robot up the stairs problem" than it does to go fully bipedal.

Just like math is learned by solving equations, software engineering is learned by writing code Due to technological advances, solving equations stopped being a marketable skill, b…

You are not stuck between public API pricing for frontier models via Claude and self hosted. Remember that there are other LLM providers, open models, and previous gen models, that…

One token of GPT seems to go farther than an opus token in my experience, those books are a little cooked

If you're interested in keyboard navigation of websites, consider a browser or extension with link hinting support! It worked really well in my experience a few years ago, although…

We are discussing a gas tax, and there is a strong correlation between gas consumption and weight, which implies more taxes for trucks and SUVs

I think that this has the benefit of both raising a non trivial amount of money as well as reducing housing demand from the wealthy in a supply constrained market

I used to work with a guy who would always say "if you're looking for trouble, you are going to find it" When I hear that "we found X bugs using some new tool", where the standard …

Humans can certainly be self improving, both on an individual basis and in aggregate. In humans, it seems that improvement in a new domain seems to follow a logarithmic scale. Why …

Easy to say that! Some problems are legitimately hard to solve though. Github is likely seeing usage patterns that have never been seen before and I bet some of these failure modes…

> Could be. But 99% of the repos are static garbage with no PR nor actions. But the 1% of repos that do have PRs and actions are likely going to be seeing enormous increases in vol…

> If I can use an open source highly effective LLM locally, and have it do all of the things ChatGPT can do And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle! We are miles off f…

With a good CLI, an agent may be able to do something outside of the scope of it's skill fairly easily, by running help commands or similar. With even a well written API it is not …

I dislike that the conversation about wealth is increasingly tied to comparisons with the wealth of others. Just because I am not likely to join the class of billionaires, does not…

I totally agree that republicans are irresponsible with the deficit. But americans don't seem motivated by the deficit, they seem motivated by inflation. Inflation and the deficit …

Generally speaking, people thought that government spending led to massive inflation, and the republicans have stronger rhetoric around cutting government spending.

Whatever your political affiliation and thoughts on the war, I hope we can all agree that it would an awful thing to base our foreign policy on the US election cycle.