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speakingmoistly

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    Comment #49147007

    I always find the idea that a solo founder + AI being a whole company would be a good thing to be a bit wonky. I'm sure it's very popular in circles that see employees as cost-cent…

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    Comment #49146331

    Sans paywall: https://archive.is/NIw0Z

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    Comment #48774159

    The CD joke aside, there's something weird abouta large, recognizable entity using such a nondescript MS form and collecting names and addresses, only to send something to a very s…

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    Comment #48731476

    At the very least, I would imagine you'd read and think about the error, parse through and clean it up for unneeded bits if the whole thing isn't relevant and write around it to pr…

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    Comment #48569305

    I'm also not confident this is something that will stick (and survive the acquisition), which further weakens the idea that companies would set up expensive migration projects to i…

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    Comment #48327719

    Is the goal to build something and learn something from the experience, or try and build something with adoption in mind? If the former, the answer to your question is always "yes"…

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    Comment #48247522

    Sans paywall: https://archive.is/NuLls

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    Comment #48236321

    Not too long ago, a recruiter reached out for a confidential client that turned out to be ClickUp with a posting that felt off (600-900k + stock and bonus compensation), I was left…

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    Comment #48236295

    > Maybe this unlimited character count tweets change was a mistake. The real mistake was CEOs feeling like they need to be visible on social media and opine on things in the public…

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    Comment #48150280

    I'm a bit confused about the offering here, it feels like Amp is positioning itself as a reseller of sorts. Couldn't the startups just purchase compute directly from AMZ/GCP/Azure?…

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    Comment #48064229

    How does this compare to YAML and TOML? It feels that both of the above would be in the same bucket of "fewer tokens than JSON/XML and generally easier on the eye", with the benefi…

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    Comment #48027489

    To add to this, it's much harder to turn back while confidently wrong than it is when you know you are building on flimsy assumptions. By the time you turn around on bad data, much…

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    Comment #48003050

    Taking this with a massive grain of salt given the absence of sources and the "unfiltered news followed by Elon Musk" Twitter account.

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    Comment #47986098

    > When an agent spends money or creates liability, who's responsible? Whoever is operating it (as in, you or the entity providing you the service if you're using someone else's thi…

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    Comment #47985840

    The whole account is pretty wacky and seems to exist to share right wing slop and sell some "grow your online revenue" online classes.

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    Comment #47982669

    A hot take: it's hard to take a privacy-first claim without a large grain of salt when data at rest is hosted and processed in the U.S., an increasingly-rogue actor with no meaning…

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    Comment #47982249

    This is an interesting rabbit hole, but animal actors are not eligible for Oscar nominations [1]: > [...] Only roles credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed…

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    Comment #47905895

    Given that it's a pretty niche thing, a link or post context wouldn't hurt. That being said, I would assume that like most DIY things, part of the purpose of it is the creative jou…

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    Comment #47897217

    https://archive.is/ggXiB

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    Comment #47877395

    I have yet to read into the actual announcement, but I would bet dollars to donuts that the check is really "run the plan through another LLM whose system prompt is prefixed with '…

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    Comment #47861966

    > Maybe the root issue is that Anthropic is operating at a loss on their subscriptions I'm pretty sure all of the LLM subscription businesses operate at a loss when it comes to fix…

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    Comment #47861647

    The people selling those services have worked really hard to get everyone else to think that more AI usage inevitably leads to more success (and inversely, that too little of it is…

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    Comment #47843860

    "You get a raffle entry with every 10 minutes of active usage."

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    Comment #47838455

    I'll definitely be deterred from reading further once I get a smell of it being AI-generated (or too heavily AI-assisted) and would be less likely to read from whoever published it…

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    Comment #47801827

    > Appreciate the insight on a possible standard lack of synchronous versions. Looking closer at the commit and release history, it looks like poor release hygiene, really. Commits …