alextillman

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by alextillman 4mo ago
Right, but you still don't know that the big model has exactly the same "jargon" handling as you do. Plus it means that you can't use smaller models not trained on that jargon. That seems like a really limiting black box
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by alextillman 4mo ago
This doesn't resonate: Consider this prompt: Make sure that, whenever a job runs, we can tell where it started from, who triggered it, what settings were passed in, and what changed later. In the future, if something breaks, we want to
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by alextillman 4mo ago
What's old is new again. The solution RSS offered was structure for an otherwise unstructured challenge (trying to figure out updates on a site). That value grew exponentially when connected to AI (providing the signals of when do I ne
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by alextillman 4mo ago
Nothing mentioned here is specific to AI. EVERY SaaS service is designed to monetize engagement rather than provide the nest service. These services typically use dark patterns learned from casinos to know how to try and trap users and make
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by alextillman 4mo ago
"So the next time you get AI to generate something for you, be wary of the early output. Be critical, demanding, and opinionated on what needs to be improved. An amateur considers the 3rd iteration good enough; a pro takes it to the 30
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by alextillman 4mo ago
This does not seem remotely true in my experience. This seems like more “Bad prompt generated entirely predictable garbage results” rather than “We rigorously tested different scenarios here, and AI seems to ‘ignore' new concepts” Inte
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by alextillman 4mo ago
And those US hosted versions of DeepSeek etc. are still far cheaper than the big (frontier) US companies... just not as cheap as the Chinese hosted sites.
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by alextillman 4mo ago
Makes sense in terms of public information. But the thing is if you use a foreign-hosted tech, you don’t know what is doing with ALL data you signed up with. You can use Chinese models hosted on US servers (like a together.ai – there are ot
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by alextillman 4mo ago
This misses out on what AI (when used properly) can do. If I build my own CRM that uses off the shelf AI (collects form data, searches for relevant social media and company information, builds a dossier on the person etc – all fairly simple
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by alextillman 4mo ago
This is like a major highway. They get overloaded at rush hour, so they build lanes to accommodate peak traffic. But travel any highway at 2AM (outside of LA/NYC sized metropolises which can have rush hour at any time) and you get an e
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by alextillman 4mo ago
This is because the current AI approach relies on AI to be a glorified search engine – know everything about everything requiring enormous, ever growing models, and demanding search-engine like near instant responses requiring bigger more c
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by alextillman 4mo ago
The AI economic bubble is not because AI is useless. There was a paper recently that highlighted how AI is diagnosing pancreatic cancer patients years before humans do. This is not a one off (and not limited to science). Those who are getti