madrox

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by madrox 5d ago
This may come out of left field, but Dario seems terrified to be in charge. I don't get the impression that he ever had a desire to run a company like this. Now that he's a CEO, he keeps trying to make uncompetitive decisions and
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by madrox 5d ago
We should, which is why anthropomorphizing the lawnmower is bad. It misdirects you away from who built the mower and aimed it.
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by madrox 5d ago
It's a landing page trope, and I wonder if it emerges out of overtraining on the front door of web sites.
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by madrox 6d ago
I made this argument at my previous company a year ago and was shouted down by most of the mobile engineers. I have since departed, but knowing how much Shopify's engineering blog is worshipped there they will now say this is the futur
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by madrox 7d ago
I like to tinker with making games now and then, and I have learned that there are lots of game ideas I have that are more fun to make than play. A lot of those look like No Mans Sky. I feel like the devs fell in love with procedural genera
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by madrox 8d ago
I believe if react had made inline styling of components less verbose then tailwind wouldn't exist
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by madrox 9d ago
Statements from OpenAI about it: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310 https://x.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140 I tend to believe OpenAI on this. Their stated des
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by madrox 10d ago
The difference for most people against AI is that there is no world where someone with intent and skill can engage with AI to make anything approaching art. If your process includes AI, it is impossible to be an artist. Even engaging with t
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by madrox 10d ago
We are largely having a reckoning with whether a discipline is the process or the outcome. Music didn't enter the conservatory so much as the relative interest in various styles have changed over time. I get that the author was implyin
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by madrox 13d ago
There's a million ways a bad configuration can take down a network. Especially if the part that gets squirrley is a black box. Even if it isn't precisely this, the fact that no one is saying anything is quite surprising. Edit: I d
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by madrox 13d ago
This is the real danger of AI skeuomorphism. The drivers stop feeling responsible for the car. Maybe it's useful for modeling behavior, but it isn't useful for assigning consequences.
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by madrox 15d ago
There are a lot of things in my toolchain pre-AI that I did not own and relied on to make a living. Mobile developers are in even worse shape, and iOS developers doubly so. The idea we were somehow less beholden before AI, I think, is silly
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by madrox 15d ago
If you take away the cynical edge, though, if this actually happens we're talking about an age of mom-and-pop businesses in industries that have not traditionally had them. It can't/won't be all software, but mom and pop
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by madrox 15d ago
I think people who long for pre-Netflix era are looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Distribution was terrible compared to now without a lot of choice. Anyone who thinks that time was better and the quality was higher don't a
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by madrox 15d ago
That's honorable, but software has been used in no small way to disrupt traditional business. Uber. Doordash. Netflix. Tesla. Airbnb. Zillow. And yes, AI is coming for another round. It's a part of the culture. You can say that is
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by madrox 16d ago
When we've used software to disrupt other industries to deliver more with fewer people we called that a good thing. And it is, because consumers tend to win. Games are a hit-driven business, so they're going to feel the squeeze fa
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by madrox 16d ago
I am finding that I am now less interested in better models than I am in token budgets. My issue with Anthropic models now is that I don't feel like I can rely on them as a daily driver because they'll dry up before my quota reset
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by madrox 19d ago
I have noticed fads in rhetoric as I've gotten older and lived through many of these moments. The rhetorical fads are mostly about structuring an argument where to disagree makes you appear beyond the pale. What fascinating about these
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by madrox 20d ago
Reacting to the tone of the article
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by madrox 20d ago
There have been so, so many attempts to decentralize in my lifetime. I used to be a huge believer and worked on these problems, but have to admit I'm somewhat exhausted. The technology is not the problem. The problem is always quality,
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by madrox 20d ago
You misinterpret "want" here. My intuition is that you create huge problems for people context switching like this repeatedly for quick tasks.
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by madrox 21d ago
This is what I meant by full stack AI companies. I don't think you could get humans into the loop fast enough if they didn't have some idea of the type of task involved. I don't want people to be asked to fold a tshirt one mo
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by madrox 21d ago
It could require listing your credentials to get you the proper tasks: doctor, lawyer, or tshirt folder
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by madrox 21d ago
I'm unsure. If it does, it will be work that is too expensive or inaccurate or regulatory for current AI methods. For example, you want a doctor to sign off on some AI output on a diagnosis. However, I'm not sure a single platform
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by madrox 21d ago
Mechanical Turk had a good run, but not surprised it's shutting down. I'm sure the platform was getting flooded with people doing task arbitrage and using lots of AI anyway. I believe the issue is that this can no longer be a hori
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by madrox 21d ago
I have a lot of sympathy for the people working at GitHub trying to keep it going, but I do not have sympathy for GitHub. That's what they're paid for. I have things to get done, and it has no sympathy for me.
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by madrox 22d ago
I wasn't sure how specific to be in my comment, but I'm glad the people who knew him know who it is. Speaks a lot of the man. I'm also 100% ready to believe he was not a good roommate by the condition of his car ;) Cheers to
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by madrox 22d ago
A friend died of diabetic ketoacidosis. He loved technology and seeing people succeed. Thinking of him with this news. Miss you Dan. Grateful we're moving forward on so many fronts in the world.
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by madrox 23d ago
My alma mater, Cal Poly SLO, I think, already does a lot of this, and are working on getting better. They have the CIE, something I wish I had back in the day: https://cie.calpoly.edu/ I do wonder if entreprenuership would
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by madrox 23d ago
Ever heard of an MBA?

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