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Find my exists for a reason. Idk when the last time I had my phone not on mute is. Years? How often do you hear ringtones in public anymore?

I don't think the marginal new user is anxious about approving messages - I think they're quickly annoyed by permissions prompt they don't understand and quickly get in the habit o…

Yeah - the whole Claude did it thing here reads to me like blaming a grammar issue on an LLM. Yes they have their issues but this isn't one of them - they're not deterministic they…

Ai revenue or datacenter/compute revenue? There's a lot of circular financing right now and there's a pretty obvious bubble for sure but I haven't been able to figure out what exac…

Tbh I appreciate knowing immediately that no effort was put into writing an article and that no effort is worth being put into reading it. I genuinely (hah) think it's good that di…

Shout-out to anthropic for having their models have such a strongly distinct writing style and personality that you can recognize their work instantly! It's quite nice to have such…

There are some claudeisms here (it's not x, it's y) but it does read like they did at least one human pass on it. Or maybe this is opus 5 writing which is a bit less distinct idk. …

Liquid gasoline does not have anywhere near the energy of TNT, or even a battery for that matter. It contains basically zero releasable energy. It needs oxygen or another oxidizer …

Jfc Claude's writing can be really intolerable sometimes. Trying to parse wtf this post is saying - I guess the author is trying to make a harness for local models, and tried to ha…

It's a good quote from Feynman. I think you'll find if you measure your paper against that honestly, you'll see where it continues to fall short, as far less falls out than goes in…

More directly the stuff about ranking different cultures on a scale of musical sophistication that ends in western harmonic music and dismissing obvious counterexamples as cultures…

Awfully dismissive of non western tonal harmonic systems for a universal theory of music? The whole idea that musical traditions that use less harmonic structures just haven't unlo…

This paper is from last year

I would be stunned if there was a single line of hand written code in the entirety of Claude code lmao. Or if more than 20% of the code had been read by a person at any point. Why …

No what I'm saying is that this is a case where one person already does have a hell of a lot of influence over every downstream project already and that has consequences

Yes? Dynamic workflows are incredibly powerful - especially for massive rote migrations. They're also particularly nice when you want to stretch an expensive model like fable and y…

Yeah. Just like how half the Internet shuts down every time there's an AWS outage, or how nothing gets done if the power or Internet is out

I mean - the models are impressive but also they're not perfect by any stretch. The fact that they're improving means there's room to improve

Then why are fable form anthropic and the 5.6 sol line from openai so much more token efficient than other models? I really don't get this take at all - they're supply constrained …

Unfortunately the one thing they seem to keep not letting their competitors our play them at is coming out with really damn good models. Not consistently mind you - openai had a re…

IMO firm wording against non generative uses of AI or lightweight uses like tab complete will go beyond just influencing good faith actors to reduce llm usage - it'll just influenc…

The wording of "written with ai tools" implies generation, as do all the concerns about copyright etc. it would be beyond insane to attempt to ban asking a chat bot or an agent que…

Yeah there's a brand premium. Like literally with apples the ones with trademarked names can cost more. And the ones with trademarked names have an organization behind them that pr…

The idea that humans have undergone high selective pressure for genes related to immunity in some way during a recent 5000 year period in which massive urbanization lead to a truly…