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by DrewADesign 13d ago
You could make the monetary motivation argument against anyone involved— much moreso Altman, et. al. What specifically about the criticism do you find stupid? That’s a very general dismissal of some pretty specific criticism.
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
> Why is that the most likely outcome? Listen, very smart people are very enthusiastic about other very smart people using AI to help AI learn to fix AI. Pretty much open-and-shut, IMO.
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
Speaking of “I use arch btw”
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
Do you know anyone whose understanding of the LLM business has remained static for the past 10 months? Would it be a positive trait?
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
No, the cornerstones of his thesis are: - LLM’s potential and capability are dramatically overstated - Business leaders are either driven by the Emperor’s New Clothes effect, or the legitimate fear of stock price or valuation drops, to admi
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
Maybe librewolf, but Waterfox is a drop-in replacement. Same extension “store”, gets updates quickly, install on every OS I’ve tried (which is usually windows unfortunately) is equally as smooth as Firefox, compatible profiles, etc, etc, et
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by DrewADesign 15d ago
I use Waterfox or Librewolf
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by DrewADesign 15d ago
Sure, but Firefox doesn’t have to be Chrome to be unacceptable, and Chrome isn’t the only alternative. I reject the idea that Firefox can transgress as much as they want as long as Chrome has gotten worse. And fuck then for buying and killi
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by DrewADesign 15d ago
> The OpenAI-HuggingFace incident showed a bunch of instances of the same model (or at least models from the same family), controlled by the same vendor, pursuing distinct yet related objectives, cooperating to do something no human want
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by DrewADesign 16d ago
The common denominator is cargo cultism. AI coding is really just trying to make cargo cult coding sustainable.
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by DrewADesign 17d ago
Not necessarily. Interface design is a communication medium. A skilled designer can often communicate to multiple types of users solving different types of problems. When an interface is “dumbed down,” it’s usually because a non-designer wa
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by DrewADesign 17d ago
It’s funny. The only people that regularly, seriously discuss skeuomorphism in software design are software developers. It was a big conversational topic among designers around the time Apple ditched the faux leather padding at the top of t
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by DrewADesign 17d ago
The thing is that good interface design is basically invisible, so most people, developers notwithstanding, take it for granted. In the late 90s, there were entire books published on using popular email clients like Eudora, but a literal ch
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by DrewADesign 17d ago
Well, software doesn’t exist for its own sake, the sake of the people that made it, or the sake of some kind of exclusive smartypants club. The purpose is to solve problems or accomplish tasks for people— some of whom are not cognitively gi
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by DrewADesign 17d ago
Because it’s not even twice as long as what you wrote? If you’re dead set on not knowing something, I can’t stop you. PEBKAC.
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by DrewADesign 17d ago
A developer sees an application as a toolkit to help them solve a problem. The more flexibility and power, the better it is. They’ve become comfortable with complex tools on the computer, over the years, because they enjoy learning about an
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by DrewADesign 18d ago
> a common way for regular people to interact with a system is they just... don't have a model. None at all. Like, they click a thing and see what it does, and if it doesn't do what they expect they shrug and click something e
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by DrewADesign 19d ago
You’re right. I didn’t really dig into huggingface specifically even though they’re obviously different from the examples I used in my mental model. I’m not going to say I’m wrong because I haven’t personally looked into it, and regardless
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
At some point, the idea of cost/benefit analysis in the software business turned into the benefit analysis. The amount of money going into the frontier LLM model game is fantastically ridiculous. Being much better than the free
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
Yeah the people that say things like this aren’t looking for valuable companies, or to create value, or for sustainability — they’re looking for short-term growth.
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
Ah so it sounds like they might be closer to a regular SaaS.
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
With all the spending and valuations in the AI space being so reasonable and grounded in reality, sure. Huggingface will surely be exactly like GitHub and Instagram with their extremely low and stable per-user overhead, and large, extremely
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
Why I don’t think it’s sustainable to run a compute-intensive business on low monthly plans? If they’re like OpenAI and Anthropic, monthly plan users can spend many times the amount of money in a month than they pay, and unlike regular lowe
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
I’d be curious to see how much that’s subsidized. Maybe they’re different, but when I see ML and monthly plan in the same sentence, I see zero sustainability.
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
Yes, that’s true. Of course, I didn’t put it there, and I don’t know them, so there’s not much I can do about that, right?
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by DrewADesign 20d ago
Sweet, thx.
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by DrewADesign 21d ago
Talking about profit is so passé in the new economic paradigm. The rules have changed— it’s about how much a company is worth. Get with the times. –Some guys in every bubble I’ve witnessed.
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by DrewADesign 21d ago
At least they’re ripe! I hate unripe customers, rife with astringency, sharp vegetal notes, and an unpleasant, unyielding texture.
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by DrewADesign 21d ago
It kind of reminds me of those fake tech ads those guys put up in the NYC subway: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bT...
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by DrewADesign 23d ago
If you’re talking about people with the technical sophistication to consider software services based on their technical merits, then sure. Your average user couldn’t even tell you the first thing about which non-content-based criteria might

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