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by dcre 7d ago
Worth noting they claim they did not choose the line of attack. Of course we don’t know whether that is true.
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by dcre 11d ago
“Not every one of those 11,970 carries the same weight, and the paper is careful about that rather than rounding it up.” AAUGH IT BURNS
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by dcre 14d ago
Here's the post that made it click for me. It works through a practical example in both git and jj. https://lottia.net/notes/0013-git-jujutsu-miniature.html
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by dcre 14d ago
I also used to use a GUI ( https://gitup.co/ ) for that reason, and jj has completely replaced it for me.
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by dcre 14d ago
It's great to use what you prefer, but I don't think most people would see that and think "ooh, convenient!"
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by dcre 14d ago
The CNBC report I linked, which appears to be the primary source, mentions growth in the second paragraph. It is the main characterization of what Friar said. “In an internal meeting with employees on Wednesday, finance chief Sarah Friar an
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by dcre 15d ago
A few advantages for me, even for the same 5 commands I use over and over: - undo - shuffling commits around with squash, split, and rebase is much better than git’s interactive rebase - make commits without having to come up with a branch
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by dcre 15d ago
Completely agree there.
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by dcre 15d ago
But you are using the misquote to do the thing Zitron does that you hate! I don't get it!
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by dcre 15d ago
She, and we do not have the direct quote. It's a paraphrase, and the report can't seem to decide whether they're talking about revenue or growth. If she was talking about growth, "the ARR growth in July exceeded the ARR
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by dcre 15d ago
You're broadly right but I think you're dead wrong about the CFO statement — I think "July revenue alone exceeded all of Q2" is an extremely normal thing to say when revenue is going up at an insane rate. For example, if
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by dcre 15d ago
No, you can't. The numbers are genuinely confusing, and Zitron actively works to make them more confusing rather than explaining what they mean because he needs them to sound as bad as possible. He also buries the numbers in thousands
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by dcre 15d ago
Yes, and his post about the exact same data was noticeably more confusing and less illuminating than theirs because he was primarily concerned to point to whatever the biggest number was and go "Ooh, big number!" https:/&#x2
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by dcre 15d ago
Macrofinance expert Nathan Tankus has an excellent post on why the financing situation around the AI boom is just not big enough to mess up the financial system. https://www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-zitron-ai-bond-issuan..
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by dcre 26d ago
Generating alt text for images in social media posts.
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by dcre 28d ago
No.
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by dcre 29d ago
Their quarterly revenue looks exactly the same. It's literally the same data. Annualized revenue can be gamed when it is fluctuating. It can't really be gamed when it is growing exponentially for three years straight. There&#x27
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by dcre 29d ago
It's hard for me to imagine how you could define "killer product" to exclude something that takes you from $9B to $65B ARR in 8 months. https://epoch.ai/data/ai-companies?view=graph&tab=revenue
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by dcre 1mo ago
I have seen people suggest we will figure out how to prevent all infectious disease.
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by dcre 1mo ago
Because it’s a web site.
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by dcre 1mo ago
This example disproves your point. And LLMs do not just do what we tell them to do. They are perfectly capable of asking “are you sure? this has X, Y, Z consequences you may not like.” They do it all the time.
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by dcre 1mo ago
Didn’t read the whole thing, but it starts out a lot better than I expected. Most critics are in denial about the state and trajectory of the technology. This critic is not, he just thinks it’s bad.
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by dcre 1mo ago
Ha! I have a heterodox view on the taste thing, which is that it’s mostly cope: the models apply something like taste in nearly everything they do, and these taste posts will disappear as that becomes more obvious. However, besides the subs
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by dcre 1mo ago
No! It’s garbage!
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by dcre 1mo ago
Heh whoops. I thought my other comment didn’t post so I wrote this one instead.
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by dcre 1mo ago
This post is awful! Annoyingly written and zero insight. Most posts about this taste concept are bad (and there have been so many), but this is below average.
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by dcre 1mo ago
This post sucks, and it was also written by Claude.
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by dcre 2mo ago
I feel like we need a name for this error. Pretraining fallacy? Coding ability is all about RL.
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by dcre 2mo ago
This is exactly what I mean. You’re thinking about the abstract conditions and not what it would take to secretly stage something like this.
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by dcre 2mo ago
Wish people crying “marketing” would think about what it is they’re claiming.

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