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by grensley 5d ago
The way I think of them is as a mulligan in a trading card game like Magic. Sometimes you have a hand you can't keep, and it's better to draw a new hand with one fewer card. Don't want to do that too many times, or you will a
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by grensley 7d ago
The Apple Vision Pro is basically a developer kit.
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by grensley 25d ago
I think the logo is pretty nifty actually. It's both "41" and "AI"
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by grensley 3mo ago
I have a number of theories for 4.7 onwards: - Post autonomous weapons / DOD mess, I think they made some changes to make it more suspicious of what the usage is, particularly for malware. They also knew the government would be watchin
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by grensley 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams
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by grensley 4mo ago
OpenClaw's github is a thing of nightmares. https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw So many MRs
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by grensley 5mo ago
The "only skills" people are usually non-technical and the "only CLI" people are often solo builders. MCP makes a lot of sense for enterprise IMO. Defines auth and interfaces in a way that's a natural extension of A
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by grensley 6mo ago
Absolutely textbook "Brilliant Jerk". Dude just whines and whines and whines. If you're so good, why can't you get anybody to work with you?
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by grensley 6mo ago
On the other hand, I've seen over-centralization completely crush the hopes and dreams of people with good ideas.
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by grensley 6mo ago
Same as it ever was: Either trade secrets or license files that are treated as suggestions.
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by grensley 7mo ago
Here's a list of Flock's investors: - Andreessen Horowitz - Greenoaks Capital - Bedrock Capital - Meritech Capital - Matrix Partners - Sands Capital - Founders Fund - Kleiner Perkins - Tiger Global - Y Combinator
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by grensley 7mo ago
Gemini really feels like a high-performing child raised in an abusive household.
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by grensley 9mo ago
A la carte in AI is going to be the name of the game for a couple reasons: - Avoids regulatory scrutiny (for now at least) - Nobody is actually entrenched enough for customers to matter - Weird "celebrity" culture in tech, and AI
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by grensley 9mo ago
I was always looking for them because I was the weird nerd pointing out proper em dash, en dash, and hyphen usage years and years ago. It's really only devs / engineers I see doing this, probably in some quest to create an indisti
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by grensley 9mo ago
I've noticed people using emdashes more in known non-AI text in what I assume is a smokescreen to maintain plausible deniability when they wholesale copy AI text. It's so interesting to me that human writing is subtly changing to
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by grensley 9mo ago
The transmission network is underbuilt, so it's mostly best to generate closer to where it's consumed (especially for data centers). We'll continue to see a mix though of Residential / Commercial & Industrial /
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by grensley 1y ago
Claude Desktop is one of the buggier applications I've ever used and one of our jokes internally is that it seems like it was very clearly vibe coded.
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by grensley 1y ago
More like they see the future as more multi-modal, and they're probably right to think that is the best value approach vs. throwing more money at large language models.
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by grensley 1y ago
I take screenshots because they're definitely going to forget to share the presentation.
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by grensley 2y ago
I agree with you, but in a different directions. Often the software is owned by the company, who are just renting the engineer's labor.
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by grensley 2y ago
> Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software. Very assertive, but almost always incorrect.
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by grensley 2y ago
I don't know if these statistics are even kept, but the current social environment in the US feels like a ripe breeding ground for cults. I've had so many people in the past couple years be like "I just want to farm with my f
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by grensley 2y ago
This site is basically the Target to 4chan's Walmart.
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by grensley 2y ago
> Batteries that can store the internet in them for when your connection goes down. This is now my favorite way to explain caching.
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by grensley 2y ago
I think there's a number of factors that make it work as well as it does for me: - Mostly writing React - Not using any obscure or new libraries - Naming things well - Keeping logic simple - Leaving a comment at the point where I'
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by grensley 2y ago
The KPIs of these people's own lives have failed to grow quarter-over-quarter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ
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by grensley 2y ago
If you're a Californian who disagrees with me, tell me where your parents and grandparents lived.
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by grensley 2y ago
Sometimes you just want to expend energy in a direction that doesn't have consequences. I hold the opposite opinion from you in that people ought to be able to turn off the "any non-productive minute of my life is wasted" min
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by grensley 2y ago
"C-Players" tend to keep "A-Players" out of legal trouble, so Jimmy might just now be learning their value.
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by grensley 2y ago
Some peak "Genius and Madness are next door neighbors" energy coming off Eric Schmidt from that talk.

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