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by condiment 14d ago
This point of view has more to do with your information diet than it does with reality. Companies un-merge and spin out all the time, for many reasons. Mergers and acquisitions are more interesting because they are often associated with a g
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by condiment 21d ago
I think it's the hierarchies of agents summarizing each others' summaries before presenting a final answer to the user. The principal agent has the full context from all its workers, but when it distills this down to a message to
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by condiment 1mo ago
Very cool interface and reminiscent of figma/excalidraw in the way they provide an infinite 2d canvas for shapes and figures. Most tools of these types tend to implement layers as well, which might be loosely analogous to multiple desk
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by condiment 4mo ago
In an age of malicious agentic AI, this level of access is negligent. A lack of engineering controls preventing this from happening at all means that a simple phishing or supply chain attack could easily have resulted in the same outcome or
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by condiment 5mo ago
This sort of conversion gets coverage every once in a while and it's been neat to see old frames getting chopped onto new electric drivetrains. I spoke with one of the people interviewed in this article[1] a couple years back about con
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by condiment 6mo ago
sounds like a good opportunity to bring back "letters of marque." These were less about authorizing ships to fight back against pirates, and more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels with the e
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by condiment 7mo ago
For the skeptics here, this is the exponent thats driving the development of datacenters in space. The data has utility but it will be stuck in orbit. Space-based storage and processing makes a lot more sense when you consider that getting
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by condiment 7mo ago
I agree. I've been researching a lot of this tech lately as a part of a C2PA / content authenticity project and it's clear that the math are outrunning practicality in a lot of cases. As it is we're seeing companies capt
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by condiment 7mo ago
You seem to have missed requirement #3 -> tracking and identifying reuse. An 18-year-old creating an account for a 12-year-old is a legal issue, not a service provider issue. How does a gas station keep a 21-year-old from buying beer for
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by condiment 7mo ago
We are missing accessible cryptographic infrastructure for human identity verification. For age verification specifically, the only information that services need proof of is that the users age is above a certain threshold. i.e. that the us
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by condiment 7mo ago
Maybe code is free, but code isn't all that goes into building software. Minimally, you have design, code, integrate, test, document, launch. Claude is going to help mostly with code, much less with design. It might help to accelerate
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by condiment 7mo ago
At 16k tokens/s why bother routing? We're talking about multiple orders of magnitude faster and cheaper execution. Abundance supports different strategies. One approach: Set a deadline for a response, send the turn to every AI tha
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by condiment 7mo ago
I agree completely. It's a mistake to anthropomorphize these models, and it is a mistake to permit training models that anthropomorphize themselves. It seriously bothers me when Claude expresses values like "honestly", or say
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by condiment 8mo ago
I've made many business cases for internally-built SaaS tools, and they always rest on the idea that our probability of success is higher if we staff a team and build the _exact thing_ we need versus purchasing from a vendor and attemp
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by condiment 8mo ago
100% of my LLM projects are written in Rust - and I have never personally written a single line of Rust. Compilation alone eliminates a number of 'category errors' with software - syntax, variable declaration, types, etc. It'
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by condiment 8mo ago
If software engineers can agree on anything, it's that LLM experiences are wildly inconsistent. People have similar inconsistencies. We have different experiences, intellects, educations, priorities, motivations, value systems. And in
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by condiment 9mo ago
At current rates of emissions, we’re only about 20 years away from people needing to install CO2 scrubbers in their homes. Soda lime, or calcium hydroxide, is the current state of the art. We use that in an anesthesia and in saltwater aquar
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by condiment 9mo ago
This approach kind of reminds me of taking an open-book test. Performing mandatory verification against a ground truth is like taking the test, then going back to your answers and looking up whether they match. Unlike a student, the LLM nev
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by condiment 11mo ago
Trains and airplanes are fundamentally different from cars. A car accident is unlikely to kill you. A plane crash will. A car accident is unlikely to kill your entire family. A plane crash will. The standard is higher for these modes of tra
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by condiment 11mo ago
This is not a controversial take, the evidence already exists. There's a website tracking deaths associated with Teslas, including 61 autopilot fatalities. This has not deterred people from continuing to use autopilot, because using au
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by condiment 11mo ago
I don’t disagree with including user attestation in addition to hardware attestation. The notion of their being a “analog hole” for devices that attest that their content is real is correct on the face, but is a very flawed criticism. Right
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by condiment 11mo ago
Jacked up prices isn't what is happening here. There is a psychological effect that Heroku and other cloud vendors are (wittingly or unwittingly) the beneficiary of. Customer expectations are anchored in the price they pay when they st
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by condiment 11mo ago
It's GPU performance. Spin up ollama and run some inference on your 5-year-old intel macbook. You won't see 4000x performance improvement (because performance is bottlenecked outside of the GPU), but you might be in the right orde
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by condiment 11mo ago
Modern video codecs are what broke the telco monopoly on content and gave us streaming services in the first place. If the cdn bill is make or break, the service isn’t going to last. And there’s no transfer of effort to the user. Compute co
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by condiment 1y ago
The 'cost of a bad hire' is received wisdom that needs to go away. The first order effects of your team's time investment are easy to see and make good content for your engineering leadership blog when you're aiming for
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by condiment 1y ago
I pay for Kagi for search, my family uses Kagi. I pay for NextDNS to block ads, all of my family's devices use NextDNS. I pay for credits on OpenRouter and host an OpenWebUI instance, all of my family's AI is private. I pay for t
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by condiment 1y ago
What makes node supply chain attacks so dangerous is the CI/CD pattern whereby all dependencies are downloaded from the internet every time a build is created. NPM attacks move fast . I previously worked in an environment where our ci
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by condiment 1y ago
A talented chef might cut vegetables at 25hz, while the blade is moving at 44khz. So whatever cutting improvement is conferred by the ultrasonic tech will certainly be applied towards fast cutting. It seems that the main benefit for fast cu
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by condiment 1y ago
The article is hyperbole and this only impacts ARR for consumer services, which tend to be either month-to-month paid in arrears, or annually prepaid. It doesn't change anything, but if your gym membership goes high-tech it might be ea
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by condiment 1y ago
This is a terrific article the synthesize is several of the trends that have been at play the past five or six years. One interesting phenomenon of AI is that university enrollment and computer science is already falling. A lot. So if the A

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