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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by [deleted] »

prodigycorp wrote: post #184
alfonsodev wrote: post #175

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And it makes a lot of sense, doesn't?. There are things that you can only explore and learn in those places, for obvious reasons. I don't know his personal life goals but he's a great communicator and educator, if this decision makes him more up to date, and allows him to create even more relevant content then is something everyone will benefit. I understand the risks of being bias toward one company and not the othe…

i meant everything out of respect for andrej. it's no different from how a visiting scholar can be great marketing for an institution

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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by Jarred »

CAP_NET_ADMIN wrote: post #192
orliesaurus wrote: post #160

Anthropic is on a roll: - best harness overall (well maybe until like a month ago when gpt5.5 and codex came out) - acquires bun - acquires stainless for SDKs - deal with Elon for compute - karpathy what else did I miss?

1. Best harness? It ranks the worst with Opus in terminalbench: https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0?models=... 2. Mixed for the entire bun ecosystem, especially with the Rust, Anthropic-focused rewrite 3. Good, because Anthropic's SDK was one of the worst ones to use. 4. Deal with the guy that has a shit ton of compute around wasting money because no-one uses Grok and was frequently calling Anthropic…

> the Rust, Anthropic-focused rewrite

Nope. That's 100% me.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by imtringued »

joe_mamba wrote: post #496
wodenokoto wrote: post #487

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Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? It might be Elon who went and said that and said they don’t need lidar, but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features.

>Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? That I also want to know. He bailed out of Tesla right when the limitations of his "LIDAR-less cameras only self driving" system were becoming obvious, and nobody asked him about the hindsight of this obvious fuckup. >but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features. Exact…

>Although I doubt Elon forced that idea on him, since he's the one who was confidently claiming that vision only is better since Lidar pollutes the sensor fusion data.

How do you get a labeled dataset for your ML model? Obviously you use lidar, except the engineers had to do it in secret because Elon has fired engineers that used lidar even during the development process.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by farzd »

OkWing99 wrote: post #480
raincole wrote: post #230

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Name three things they destroyed?

1. Figma (in progress) 2. Most entry level jobs for current graduates in white collar fields. (See hiring rates for these positions) 3. Thousands of layoffs (mostly attributed to AI use, while not 100%, the Anthropic's specific marketing push has a huge influence on this - unlike OAI and other labs) 4. All low-code products/startups 5. Web agencies who did small websites for local businesses While AI industry push is…

Please explain how Figma is in progress of being destroyed?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by cryptonym »

slyzmud wrote: post #530
ElProlactin wrote: post #528

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I personally know several digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build. So much of what you'd previously pay a "real" freelance developer or web "agency" to build is no less "garbage" than what engineers would call the average vibe-coded web app. Claude in particular is today really surprisingly good…

> They'd prefer to believe that there's something special about their craft that means something produced by AI isn't good enough. I know I can code and get better results than most people can with an LLM but I've came to realize that it doesn't matter and people just want to see results (even if they are kind of wrong). In other words, with the website example, I've realized that even if the agency can do something…

Just like most industries, masses are looking for the cheapest solution with ok-ish perceived quality.

If you are looking for purpose, find a niche or do something else. If you want a job, embrace the slop.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by ElProlactin »

utopiah wrote: post #590
ElProlactin wrote: post #561

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I'm not talking about static websites. I'm talking about tech-savvy non-engineers who have been able to build fully-functional dynamic websites (with user registration, dashboards, integrations with third-party services, etc.) using AI. I think way too many engineers underestimate the ability of tech-savvy non-engineers to use AI to build quite sophisticated applications today. Would these scale to millions of users?…

> dynamic websites (with user registration, dashboards, integrations with third-party services, etc.) What do you think a CMS is?

I'm not trying to get into a semantic argument. By one definition, almost any web application can be considered a CMS.

I'll reiterate my point: tech-savvy non-engineers are using AI to build the kind of dynamic web applications that many engineers don't want to believe can be built by non-engineers using AI.

One marketer I know built a sales-related application for a niche industry with Claude Code and and has been able to attract a handful of paying subscribers in just a few months.

I'm sure an experienced US or Europe-based freelance developer would have charged tens of thousands of dollars to build something similar, and an "agency/shop" double that. And I'm not sure anything they would have built would have been significantly "better".

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by latentsea »

stingraycharles wrote: post #489
ollin wrote: post #246

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Specifically it looks like he's planning to extend the ideas from https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch into a larger effort towards recursive training improvement [1]: > Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I can’t think of anyone better suited to do it — looking forward to what we build together! [1] https:/…

Am I the only one who wasn’t particularly impressed by AutoResearch? If you looked at what the agent was actually doing, it was just tuning parameters mostly, not really trying different novel approaches. I couldn’t help myself but consider this mostly a very inefficient variant of hyperparameter optimization, but someone correct me if I’m wrong, I may be looking at this too pessimistic.

I was impressed that I was able to take the same basic idea and apply it to anything that a Claude could construct a metric for. It's nice being able to just run /autoresearch and speed up your test suites, and shave time off your builds etc.

It's a decent tool to have in the toolbox.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by alfonsodev »

prodigycorp wrote: post #184
alfonsodev wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it makes a lot of sense, doesn't?. There are things that you can only explore and learn in those places, for obvious reasons. I don't know his personal life goals but he's a great communicator and educator, if this decision makes him more up to date, and allows him to create even more relevant content then is something everyone will benefit. I understand the risks of being bias toward one company and not the othe…

i meant everything out of respect for andrej. it's no different from how a visiting scholar can be great marketing for an institution

Alright, is just that your previous comments and some others sounded to me a bit too judgy, I had to re read these with a new interpretation:

> i wouldn't be surprised if he just becomes a glorified marketer for anthro.

> im also going to guess that whatever research he does ...

At first sounded like unnecessarily prejudging a person and his future efforts.

But if you say you meant everything out of respect for him, then I have to re read what you said , more as skepticism towards Anthropic than picking up on him at a personal level.

I guess what's behind is the sentiment that big companies are going to (or have already) cross ethical lines when it comes to survive and making revenue, and I can share the same concern easily. I think in this forum the majority would do.

I would just make that more explicit and separate the person from his choice, and his future work from how the company could use it, that would be a more respectful way in my view.

But is just my opinion! and I'm aware I'm might be picking on nuances that don't matter or being overly polite :D

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by 0xpgm »

OkWing99 wrote: post #480
raincole wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Name three things they destroyed?

1. Figma (in progress) 2. Most entry level jobs for current graduates in white collar fields. (See hiring rates for these positions) 3. Thousands of layoffs (mostly attributed to AI use, while not 100%, the Anthropic's specific marketing push has a huge influence on this - unlike OAI and other labs) 4. All low-code products/startups 5. Web agencies who did small websites for local businesses While AI industry push is…

There's a lot of deception going on with job numbers. Everyone knows there was a hiring spree during the pandemic and companies have been gradually shedding off excess weight since then. AI of course is just another excuse to shed more numbers.

I'd prefer it if people looking at hiring numbers would compare it with the pre-pandemic levels.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by dukeyukey »

sneak wrote: post #350
dukeyukey wrote: post #344

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Europe is not a monolith and I don't know why people think it is. 2 years stints are not unusual at all in London.

London is economically, politically, geographically, and culturally fairly distinct from continental Europe.

Then people should say "continental Europe" instead of saying "Europe".
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