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I am not defending the US LLM industry or the government, all I am saying is it's similar to an arms race. I did not suggest anywhere that what China is doing is illegitimate. Chin…

What makes the Chinese models this good? I don't believe it's distillation alone. This from OpenAi's Head of Strategic Futures "Some observations on Kimi: It's a very good model! I…

The pushing problems around under the guise of solving them for political gain is what corporate and government malfeasance is all about. The better you are at the game the higher …

More noise than actual speed.

Why are you assuming that the machines or their masters will be benevolent? All actions so far have been contrarian.

This is a rather optimistic take in my opinion. My take is more Orwelian, given how the folks in charge of shepherding AI have behaved so far

Most people are not good at articulating their thoughts into words, let alone writing well. Now, AI has given all these Linkedin psychopaths who did not have a voice because of the…

Microsoft, Amazon are all building forward deployment engineering teams - to increase AI adoption. It will take time, but it will happen.

Very few people have their finger on the pulse of a paradigm shift as it's happening - and he was there to capture it at the right place and the right time. Excellent read!

I was really hoping that they Ipoed this year, so we can see their stock shoot up and down in flames, and we're really done with them and Sam Altman, once and for all.

It's all about enjoying the journey.

I listened to a couple episodes and concur, the overt-criticality and smugness was off putting.

I think there are more nuggets of wisdom in great fiction than these self help books. Maybe if someone put together a list of fiction books that correlate strongly with self-help c…

All the writers that I love to hate - hariri, gladwell! Will give it a listen

More often true than not!

Unfortunately this can work both ways - if it's a low politics environment yes, it will work to the engineer's advantage but in environments rife with politicking, people will be q…

What is stopping the US government from stepping in and nationalizing these companies? They've already talked about taking a stake - https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-…

As someone who worked remote for 8 years I can see a few reasons - Really hard to get juniors up to speed when they are remote, when I started out as a junior I sat around a bunch …

Big red flag - definitely identity theft there!

Sorry OP you had to go through this - not knowing your circumstances, but golden rule, once the interview starts getting invasive, please cut it short and move on. Recently I had a…

Plenty of competent engineers - who are clearly builders have also been let go. Enough with your trite analysis.

Coursera used to have good quality courseware, now I get better stuff via a simple search on youtube. Youtube killed these two companies, well Udemy was garbage from the get go.

That's how characters are named in "Steal a Brainrot" , a Roblox game.

I think AI is the final nail in the coffin of meaningless slop that started pervading our lives after covid. I see people tiring of this brain rot, especially Gen Z, there are more…

Next couple weeks - financial and insurance services announce layoffs!