benjaminwootton

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by benjaminwootton 9d ago
It’s thought to be because it’s a private company but it’s very well cited.
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by benjaminwootton 21d ago
Of course they have a say in it. It’s bordering on neglect to give a 10 year old that junk.
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by benjaminwootton 1mo ago
It’s been on the long slow decline for a decade. It used to be filled with interesting content and made it easy to access interesting people and get your message out. It’s really in the dregs now but I still open it and post to it more ou
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by benjaminwootton 3mo ago
Every big business in the world biases towards risk reduction and cost reduction over getting an edge.
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by benjaminwootton 3mo ago
I was lucky enough to start my career sat on the next desk across from Kirat. Genius programmer and nice guy! He later went on to found Beacon platform which was the same again, as a cloud hosted service.
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by benjaminwootton 3mo ago
You can vibe code a clone of Trello in 30 minutes.
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by benjaminwootton 4mo ago
Brilliant framing. If you understand a domain and understand software architecture then you are in an extremely strong position right now.
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Deploying Agentic Analytics in Financial Services(benjaminwootton.com)
1 points by benjaminwootton 4mo ago|0 comments
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by benjaminwootton 7mo ago
They need something like this as it's hard and flaky to automate Google apps with AI. However, step 2 drops me to a fairly technical looking page where I have to configure Google Cloud. If they had a one click installer to automate G
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ClickHouse Agentic Data Stack(youtube.com)
3 points by benjaminwootton 7mo ago|3 comments
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by benjaminwootton 7mo ago
A demo of using an LLM/agent to analyse data stored in ClickHouse. This stuff is getting really good!
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by benjaminwootton 8mo ago
I’ve been saying the same and the same about data more generally. I don’t want to go and look, I want to be told about what I need to know about.
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What's the Point of Clawdbot?
3 points by benjaminwootton 8mo ago|3 comments
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by benjaminwootton 9mo ago
I wish I knew the difference. I’ve ran or been close to tens of businesses over the last 20 years and we’ve always paid the Google tax, but I’m not sure it’s ever had a positive ROI.
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by benjaminwootton 9mo ago
The AdWords platform is extremely complicated nowadays, and try as I might I can’t get any impressions from it. I then went through a period with an AdWords specialist from their team who also couldn’t get any impressions. It’s like they
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by benjaminwootton 9mo ago
It’s yet another way for investors to screw early employees whose face doesn’t fit.
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by benjaminwootton 11mo ago
The bigger issue is that LLMs haven’t had much training on Q as there’s little publically available code. I recently had to try and hack some together and LLMs couldn’t string simple pieces of code together. It’s a bizarre language.
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by benjaminwootton 11mo ago
There is some truth in this. I fit into a few of these buckets and I don’t think I could ever recommend their enterprise stuff after having my favourite consumer products pulled.
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Note to My Present Self(yewjin.substack.com)
2 points by benjaminwootton 1y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
The public markets are hitting all time highs every week. It’s going to be painful if that pops.
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
This has pretty much ruined TV for me. I watch with a remote control and constantly turn it up and down. It breaks the immersion.
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
You are correct but with Venmo or PayPal there’s a middleman charging fees who can lock your funds. A decentralised PayPal is appealing.
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Comparing Claude and Gemini for SQL Analytics(benjaminwootton.com)
3 points by benjaminwootton 1y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
Try Claude Code. You’ll literally be able to automate 90% of the coding part of your job.
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
I think there is a third and distinct model which is AI that runs in the background autonomously amd over a long period and pushes things to you. It can detect situations intelligently, do the filtering, summarisation of what’s happening an
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
Yeah, I spent some time researching this crowd and most of the ones I found have the playbook of selling to indie hackers and talking about how successful they are with fake MRR screenshots.
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
I’ve always dwelled over $5 a month subscriptions for iPhone apps due to subscription fatigue. I find myself signing up for $200 AI subscriptions without a moments hesitation.
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Using Gemini and Claude for SQL Analytics – A Bake Off(benjaminwootton.com)
2 points by benjaminwootton 1y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminwootton 1y ago
I do agree, Claude Code absolutely changed the game. It is outstanding.
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Using Gemini and Claude for SQL Analytics – A Bake Off(benjaminwootton.com)
2 points by benjaminwootton 1y ago|0 comments

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