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by richardw 28d ago
My shorthand is builders vs extractors.
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by richardw 2mo ago
And a whole universe of random tests got baked into the AI’s training data. Websites of antelopes driving trains and hammerhead sharks swinging in a tyre swing were created. It was a short while until AI became so focused on animals that it
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by richardw 2mo ago
The AI labs have been subsidising. When they try turn a profit, people will move to the fast followers. The only people that won’t are those that compete on leveraging the very latest models and even then, once spend and scale goes to the c
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by richardw 2mo ago
If the US companies need trillions to barely beat Chinese companies spending billions, despite a multi year head start...
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by richardw 2mo ago
If I had to summarise Google’s effort it would be: stay close but let the others burn themselves out. Position for the long game until you see something worth betting the company on. Apple similar, without the “stay close” bit.
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by richardw 3mo ago
I made something to ping an AWS service to tell me the uptime of my internet connection. The idea was to sprinkle them around our area, connected to various home WiFi’s, and get a better triangulation of outages. Eg is whole pipe out, just
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by richardw 3mo ago
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape for me
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by richardw 3mo ago
How much do you think it’s holding them back? Market share seems to be surviving the lack of quality vs the other players. Or possibly: they’re focusing where it matters?
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by richardw 3mo ago
I think Google just needs to keep its foot in the door and let the other two spend their way into oblivion, channeling “AGI or die trying”.
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by richardw 3mo ago
The benefits were in communication and relationship arbitrage? Surely both of those can be automated over time. This is just one aspect but it’s still useful. Many people want to see a house and say “please help me make that”. In Australia
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by richardw 3mo ago
There’s probably a massive Chinese bot net scraping models from within the US already. If not there soon will be. Anthropic: your next ad writes itself. Nobody else is worth restricting.
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by richardw 3mo ago
I generally accuse LLM’s of having no sense of value. The machine will make a complicated plan but entirely lose sight of eg the fact that response time matters to humans. Not always, but enough that I consider it a thing to fire in a direc
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by richardw 4mo ago
I assume the bet is that as you swap humans for machines, this pays for itself. Swap entire devs and teams and frankly, managers, and you make up a lot of 5%’s fast. If it works. And I’m not sure who is going to buy the stuff the machines p
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by richardw 5mo ago
Hard problem. I find myself adding in filler to stop the thing from jabbering. I also think it spends most of its iq on sounding good rather than thinking about the problem. “Yeah absolutely I can see why you’d like to…” etc. This is likely
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by richardw 5mo ago
Not sure if you remember this chess game. 1 man vs 50000. Quite an amazing outcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World
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by richardw 5mo ago
> The easiest way would be a straight tax on AI usage, and using that tax to pay a universal basic income Problem for jobs is that there are 200 countries and all the earnings will go to a few. Universal basic income for everyone? Or jus
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by richardw 5mo ago
That’s how I do side projects.
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by richardw 5mo ago
The cost between an A500 and a VGA-enabled PC in 1987 ($699 vs $3500-ish?) would have put them in such different categories and customer segments that they would rarely interact. I remember seeing a PC one of the rich kids brought to boardi
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by richardw 5mo ago
I’m moving away from Claude for anything complicated. It’s got such nice DX but I can’t take the confident flaky results. Finding Codex on the high plan more thorough, and for any complicated project that’s what I need. Still using Claude f
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by richardw 6mo ago
I did ~this in the 200X’s for a C# todo list, not nearly as polished but it was still So Much Work. Filed under things that should just work already.
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by richardw 6mo ago
Daniel is a very impressive guy. Well within the realm of “fund the people not the idea” that YC seems to do. Got a few bucks from them and probably earning from collaborations etc. Odds of them not figuring out a business model seem slim.
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by richardw 6mo ago
I have this as a skill Claude created to run the rest. It mentions each skill in turn, see below. It’s not deterministic but it definitely runs each skill and it’s raised a bunch of issues, which I then selectively deal with. Where I can, o
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by richardw 6mo ago
$200, over December it was doubled. I tried my best in between family time and friends to burn a hole in it. Never got near doing so.
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by richardw 6mo ago
I found that when I have “infinite” tokens my behaviour changed. 3-5 tabs so I’m not waiting, free side quests, huge review skills over whole codebase, skills that wrap 10 other skills. It’s like going from expensive data to uncapped. I thi
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by richardw 7mo ago
“In December, Gemini traffic increased by 28.4% month-over-month, while ChatGPT traffic decreased by 5.6%” https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-vs-gemini-web... "What's you number one piece of hiring adv
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by richardw 7mo ago
And China is likely to do to Tesla robots what they’ve done to the cars. I assume the bans will be incoming, because the US can’t have millions of Chinese kung fu robots sitting about pouring tea, waiting for critical mass. https:/&#x
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by richardw 7mo ago
Every so often my YouTube logs out and I’m exposed to the view a “random visitor” would see. Instantly visible because it’s filled with stupid content and sexual provocation. I manage the shit out of FB and YouTube. You need to block a few
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by richardw 7mo ago
Got a friend who is in the high frequency trading industry and uses both Java and C#. I asked about GC. Turns out you just write code that doesn’t need to GC. Object pools, off-heap memory etc. It won’t do the absolute fastest tasks in the
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by richardw 7mo ago
> I view LLMs akin to a dictionary …If every time you looked at the dictionary it gave you a slightly different definition, and sometimes it gave you the wrong definition!
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by richardw 7mo ago
Totally. Surely the IDE’s like antigravity are meant to give the LLM more tools to use for eg refactoring or dependency management? I haven’t used it but seems a quick win to move from token generation to deterministic tool use.

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