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> The attendant would put air in the tires, check oil, top up fluids So today it would be mainly just busywork, I’m doing those like twice a year, but need to put gas in my car onc…

And even ignoring the token costs, that is just not true. Sure, for some cases, the cost is going down. I and others on my team "one-shotted" impressive features in an hour of agen…

I think it's the scientist version of "I vibecoded ten apps this weekend (at one point I'll have real users too)" . Because it's math, it's all mysterious and genuinely impressive,…

Was anything else needed to be added to the product? I was fine with meetup.com in its original form: it had the community of people wanting to go to events, it let you share your …

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But some worker in Italy bolts on a zipper in the end so it’s actually Italian, believe it or not.

> The best case is it does no harm. No it’s not. The best case it gives you energy (it’s in the name!) to do whatever you want and it does no harm. Assuming it actually does no har…

> it produces some extremely crappy code that would've NEVER passed a code review 1 year ago The 10x speed up comes from the fact that we have all given up on properly reviewing ea…

If we do it, it's training a model. When they do it, it's distillation attack. - Anthropic

they wanted someone click “ok” before firing off bombs to a thousands of, partially hallucinated, targets? They are my resistance heroes.

Fable ends up in a confusion loop for me all the time.

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It's basically supply and demand?

At least some of it (not all of it) will leak from devs pain to users pain... Untidy unaesthetic unreviewed code will sooner or later introduce inconsistencies, poor performance, a…

You have no idea, to slop-circle is getting more common. In 2025, sometimes I decided to put a slop LinkedIn post to ChatGPT (back then) to deslopify. Now, the slop circle is every…

“You found it didn’t you?, then we weren’t actually hiding it, so please stop looking into our finances too much”

the only thing that point into you being in a bubble is thinking that credibility matters? In the end, companies will buy the best models for their use case based on capabilities, …

Developing the thing they say will cause the end of the world? Look, if I was worried about nuclear bombs, I wouldn’t work on a nuclear bomb developing research center. It’s all fa…

How is RPE relevant if they are spending hundreds of billions on compute and data centers?

Hah, I used to tell my agents “eli5 (this task)”, then I started to worry that it will actually explain things as you would to a 5yo… It’s just an irrational fear I have, in the en…

I don’t think they need the hardware to become affordable (as a regular end user). They need their models to be good enough and cheap enough. Then the rest will follow. Companies w…