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Happened to me last year. My wife always taunted me because I have been anti-Apple since they hermetically sealed their iMacs so you couldn't stick in RAM with talking to a "genius…

These seem like the obvious tweaks akin to "using a cheaper hosting platform". I think the real savings come from careful context control for programmatic agents, careful tool awar…

Exactly. From my arts background, I'm not scared of LLMs as a replacement for human art because anything good that LLMs produce exist somewhere between "found art" and mechanically…

Nice write-up of the webhook data consistency problem - I've been bitten by some of those Stripe issues myself. I agree that webhooks should come hand-in-hand with a "records updat…

Oo, I like that header font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Germania+One?preview.scrip...

Let's assume advances in harnesses, models and efficiency continue to rapidly improve. Let's say we only run on solar power. The concept of "waste" completely shifts. Like in 1990,…

Some schadenfraude because of AWS's lack of a hard spend cap, which has screwed countless little fish and individuals over the years.

Giogle sunsetting has reached its final form...

I assume it is like the 70s wood-paneling - signifying some vague commercial sense of ruggedness and nature while completely missing the mark.

The entire concept of publishing as a validation step for actual science has been declining for decades, fully co-opted by pay to play and virtue signaling for academic hiring. AI …

It is just like coding. If you are on top of the AI, it is a powerful tool for exploration of ideas, organization of thoughts, bridging connections, outlining, filling in gaps. But…

This is the black and white perspective that literally every other human-creative industry is wringing its hands over. But I think it misses a key difference that is already painfu…

Be careful if you expect a dot com fallout - that was retail investor driven and took a long time to unwind as people sat through painful drops. Ai is much more of a private invest…

I've never seen this before, it's like a modern 2600 - deeply technical, scattered topics and depth, all very hacker-curious - and beautifully designed to boot.

Yes. Cursor is significantly better at understanding context without needing a 5 page spec or burning a truckload of tokens. And it's debug mode is top tier if you haven't tried it…

Depend what your company actual does. More relevant tasks I have seen involve 2D arrays or transforming data from a Python dict, or parsing JSON. The idea is to test the ability to…

Insightful point, but we should also consider we are in a very transitory period where were are adjusting every level of these tools (how verbose? How sycophantic? What should it i…

I think the hand-wringing is a bit premature. Some mathematicians (like SWEs) view AI as a boost to their ability to explore and understand possibilities - it is a great tool. Othe…

Recalling "They're Made of Weights"

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There are 6 floristic kingdoms in the world, and Fynbos can only be found in a tiny section of Africa. When I was there it was wild to see a completely different array of plants an…

I do think they are going to stretch their lead in value if Anthropic doesn't wake up and stop YOLOing tokens. Kimi is an amazing achievement, but it has the same (or worse) kitche…

I am sure he did the minimum effort needed to communicate what he wanted to communicate. If you are offended by his math gifs and feel that the widely regarded best mathematician o…

It's a series of tubes

That's 100x productivity right there.