ahmadyan

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OpenAI has bought back $7B worth of shares in a secondary employee tender(bloomberg.com)
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by ahmadyan 1mo ago
well, visual studio isn't free. Code is free, and at some point it got so good that folks didn't feel the need to pay for the main suite.
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by ahmadyan 1mo ago
in my experience, tools usually have a longer shelf-life than models/labs. e.g. terminals and IDEs have been around for much longer, and people tend to stick around with their preferred IDEs for much longer (years/decades). One ba
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by ahmadyan 1mo ago
i see your point, in that light what herdr is doing here make sense. keep some part open (e.g. runtime or whatever that means, or the front-end, or the user-facing logic, etc) and move the business-logic/etc to proprietary. So you get
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by ahmadyan 1mo ago
Congrats to Can on the pre-seed funding. genuinely wishing you all the best. The terminal multiplexer / multi-agent coding space is getting very crowded. YC alone has funded many competing startups in this space: herdr, Superset, cmux,
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by ahmadyan 1mo ago
> Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones? Well, i'm trying to do the later, and it is very hard to position the product and differentiate
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by ahmadyan 1mo ago
how? OpenAI did not launch any hardware (yet), and I don't think their IPO pricing hinges on them launching an iPhone competitor. To me, it looks like Apple wants to launch a similar AI hardware and is slowing-down the competition to b
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by ahmadyan 2mo ago
We used to call b the Disney/LEGO clause. Disney was famous for litigating any GenAI product for copyright infringement if it was able to recognize or god-forbid generate any of their IPs. So the lawyer cats would slip that clause int
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by ahmadyan 2mo ago
Nicely done Geoffrey, I think we are coming full circle, instead of porting projects to different languages (for whatever) like going from zig -> rust -> zig, now we can also add additional hops like zig -> rust -> curse -> t
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by ahmadyan 2mo ago
git worktrees are managed by git, not the IDEs. e.g. at agentastic.dev, we use git's worktree command to create them, and they should be portable to any other IDE or app.
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by ahmadyan 2mo ago
Also Unreal Engine is not free, it cost 5% of revenue, or $3 per game sold (assume $59.99 msrp). for small studio, ok, but for Microsoft's Scale? i don't know. IIRC Doom Dark Age sold 3m? copies, so it would cost $10m in Unreal En
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by ahmadyan 2mo ago
Google is your friend: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/ Apple M3 Ultra chip 819GB/s memory bandwidth They have 96, 128, 256, and 512GB variants my friend.
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by ahmadyan 2mo ago
Same spec Framework costs $4k+ today, this is actually cheaper (albeit not as upgradable as framework).
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by ahmadyan 2mo ago
He is making things up. It is the same bandwidth as DGX Spark (256 GB/s vs 273 GB/s) and far behind M3 Ultra (~819 GB/s)
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
Its MXFP4
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
agentastic.dev is a multi-agent multiplexor with built-in ghostty support.
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
the majority came from random claws running on cron. They get a heart-beat, wake up every 10mins, reads all internal-posts, emails, gchat messages, diffs, and decides to post some random message to the workplace so other claws can also regu
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
a well-design IDE should abstract that away, i.e. run the agent in the headless VMs while give you an abstraction that you would feel like you are running the agent locally with all the benefits (editor, browser, diffs, debugger, etc)
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
They report YT's earnings, iirc it is about 60B (40B ads + 20B subs) annually, with 10% YoY growth. They don't disclose youtube's profits outside of Google Services (which has ~40% margins), so yes youtube is a money printing
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
still doesn't feel integrated, like it could have been built by any other company, e.g. Microsoft could have built Microsoft Design and it would look better integrated. For example, it writes the whole front-end twice, once is claude d
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
As a hacker, I kinda like naom's code. I was had to implement a TC MoE kernel, and stumbled upon his code from [tensor2tensor]( https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor/blob/master/tens... ) and i
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
Congrats to the Specs team for launch. Specs have come a long way since cimagine and looksery, spectacles days. And kudos to Snap for keep pushing. - The price is actually competitive. They want to compete with Meta's Orion. However th
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by ahmadyan 3mo ago
Little did you know, LC-style question is never about grinding LC. Algorithmic puzzles are one of the few legal ways of measuring candidate's IQ without directly asking. Companies are looking for a way to hire smart people, so they rel
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by ahmadyan 4mo ago
Some of the FAIR people moved to Thinky, and they also started doing encoder-free MM-LLMs. Now Google. This seems to becoming a trend working at small scale, but the difficult part is scaling. Standard approach for training MM-LLMs is we tr
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by ahmadyan 4mo ago
[web.archive.org]( https://web.archive.org/web/20260526100726/https://www.nytim... )
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by ahmadyan 4mo ago
that is a fair point, everything i said above was in my experience. * in our experience, in our evals and codebase, 4.6 was a bad model. This is over 60k developers, so statistically significant.
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by ahmadyan 4mo ago
pretty spot on. In my experience, Opus 4.0 was fantastic, major jump from 3.7. it was creative, super slow and expensive, and would sometime forget what it was doing, but it was getting the job done. 4.1 they made it much faster, so a lot o
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by ahmadyan 4mo ago
I feel bad for Jony Ive, no amount of lipstick on a pig is going to save that horrendous car.
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by ahmadyan 4mo ago
If you are in the bay area, i'm happy to buy that M3 Ultra from you, i've been unsuccessfully looking for one and can't find any.
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by ahmadyan 4mo ago
Google is still very good, just get rid of evil stuff on their homepage to get the old google. https://www.google.com/search?&udm=web&q=hackernews

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