davidpapermill

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by davidpapermill 7d ago
I'm not sure it's completely dead. We use Claude for design of document templates a lot, and whilst we've built a fantastic pipeline for doing that well, asking Claude to then design anything outside of our guardrails isn&#x2
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by davidpapermill 7d ago
Don't do a lot of technical work nowadays, but tailwind is still my go-to. Vanilla CSS just doesn't have nice ergonomics. With AI I guess you could skip it, but I like to understand the code.
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by davidpapermill 1mo ago
This isn’t true. Women have regular smear tests and there’s also the midlife MOT every 5 years, to give but two examples.
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by davidpapermill 1mo ago
When someone is moved to Chair at their startup it’s usually a gentle way to change leadership. I’d guess Google’s execs are unhappy with the way they’ve been left behind in LLMs. The position at Anthropic seemed to be that LLMs were not th
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by davidpapermill 1mo ago
I think what you’re missing is the long term trend. Google’s cloud business looks great. I’ve always thought they should have completely focused on cloud - a company full of excellent engineers would always win there. But its main income st
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by davidpapermill 1mo ago
I’m not so sure - architecture matters, efficiency matters, extensibility matters, and all are impacted by language choice. If we had developed our tech in Python we’d be a world of hurt now as we scale.
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by davidpapermill 1mo ago
I’m very suspicious of this objection, because when Claude first landed the same people now saying “code is not the bottleneck” were saying “the generated code doesn’t work.” Smacks of moving goalposts. The only solid objection to “AI is go
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by davidpapermill 1mo ago
Not so much due to length of time, but because of the Opus shockwave than fell within that period.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Yes, it can.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Yes, Manchester has a good collection but the exhibits are sadly lacking on technical details, be warned.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
For this reason, I always point out that toolmaking was an essential and often forgotten part of Manchester’s Industrial Revolution.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Thanks, that's really helpful. What do you think happens in terms of testing/reviewing going forward? I'd really appreciate your thoughts on that.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
I'm afraid law and morality are two separate concepts. You make a good point.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
I've heard something along the lines of "Claude is like a compiler: source code is the new object code, you don't look at that anymore" many times. And I don't really think this is true. Compilers are usually determ
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Keynote has probably the best UX of any software I’ve ever used.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Yes I agree, they’re an alien kind of intelligence. But that doesn’t mean they don’t reason.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Can you give me one example that works on Claude right now? I'm never sure whether this indicates "no reasoning present" or you've just hit an odd behaviour in the AI such that its reasoning fails. For example, you prese
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
> It would've been nice to reserve "AI" for superior human-like intelligence capable of genuine common sense and reasoning. What would a frontier API have to be able to do to satisfy you?
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
I think a big question is whether any of these labs can produce a model that is _ahead_ of Anthropic and OpenAI. A related question is how much they're dependent on the APIs of Anthropic and OpenAI to achieve their results - whether th
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
We use US models for everything in practice, but we are looking at open-source models right now. So it may just be a turn of phrase hiding the reality. I can't imagine anywhere near 80% are relying on open-source as their primary model
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
I don’t agree. I think businesses including SaaS are not primarily their tech, but are mostly composed of other functions: sales, marketing, customer success, product management, strategy etc. The value is actually more in these other compo
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
That AI number is a gross underestimate. It’s nearly that for this year alone. Wildly off.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Hadn't heard of it! Site here: https://rubyllm.com/ This looks really nice. Snippet from site: chat = Chat.create! model: "claude-sonnet-4" chat.ask "What's in this file?", with: "report.p
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Thanks, would really like to read the blog post. Are you using any of the major agentic frameworks (Mastra, LangSmith etc)? Or is the AI harness etc entirely custom-built?
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Upvote for you. I think "Your Art" tagline is confusing - I thought it was for selling paintings.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Nice, which frameworks are you using? What did you learn from customers? I'd consider a different name to avoid issues with supabase should you take off.
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
I wonder if AI agents could developed their own open-source ecosystem. Some kind of knowledge-sharing seems inevitable, but the question is what shape and form will that take? We've seen wiki's, discussion forums, AI's postin
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Papermill - the document engine for AI. Turn AI content into polished documents using a new document/templating language called Press [1] It's essentially a high-quality alternative to the HTML-PDF route so many people take for do
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
This is well-written. I always thought that the "answer" to programming would be that one day everyone would use Lisp and with awesome tooling and libraries things would be wonderful. In fact, my plan for retirement was to build h
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by davidpapermill 2mo ago
Love this, thank you. Are you building the mobile app? If you don't, others will. This is classic NYT puzzle territory.

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