siliconc0w

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by siliconc0w 8d ago
I think the problem is the parallel construction and lack of warrant
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by siliconc0w 12d ago
My hot take is that open models don't really save you money and introduce more router complexity and security risk (because you're now sending your company data through more less trustworthy providers). Look at cost per task not
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by siliconc0w 14d ago
We should just progressively tax monopolies. Companies will break themselves up to compete, no decade long DOJ case needed.
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by siliconc0w 16d ago
Agreed It's not just malicious software ads, they also sell ads to entities mitming every government service.
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by siliconc0w 16d ago
Seems like lead-generation for Vanta or other agentic-security tools? I tried to signup to take a look at the MCP and am forced to "Become a contributor" and supply a bunch of details to continue.
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by siliconc0w 28d ago
I like 1-2 days in-office if the team is actually local but the problem is that companies can't decide what they want (in-office vs cheaper LCOL labor) and it ends up being the worst of both worlds where you drive into the office just
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by siliconc0w 28d ago
I call it 'agent speak' and it's pretty exhausting. Another pattern is it'll emit dense enumerations of a possible answer and then emit dense enumerations of what isn't the answer. It's still helpful to hel
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by siliconc0w 29d ago
Competition and Open models will keep AI providers more honest - Google and Amazon are monopolies so they can enshittify and users have no recourse.
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by siliconc0w 29d ago
I'm hoping AI will disintermediate most retail and we'll finally get an aggregator that isn't going to add a tax on both sides of the market. "Buy me the best Air Fryer" -> finds the best given my preferences and
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by siliconc0w 1mo ago
Enterprises don't just send their data to any company with GPUs - they need security reviews, contacts, etc. They're assuredly using BYOK - not the marketplace.
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by siliconc0w 1mo ago
I don't really understand the value -add, so far "smart" routing currently produces worse results at higher cost and static routing can be done yourself trivially. Plus the risk of sending the most sensitive data you have to
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by siliconc0w 1mo ago
What I like to do is to go back and forth on the spec, break it into very detailed tasks and milestones, and then set a /goal to complete the milestone and verify. Each task is verified with 'fresh eyes' or a clear context.
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by siliconc0w 1mo ago
That is more FOMO and maybe some end-game where SpaceX essentially owns a vertical slice of ISP+Datacenter+AI+application stack.
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by siliconc0w 1mo ago
Competition keeps service quality high and pricing low - even if you aren't using Grok, the mere existence of Grok keeps pricing for whatever provider you use lower and service faster and more reliable.
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by siliconc0w 1mo ago
There are cost externalities that generally unaccounted for- maintaining an underclass paid subsistence wages or using disposable products that as a society you eventually have to grapple with.
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by siliconc0w 2mo ago
There is a tipping point between procedurally generating everything in SVG to maybe giving them tool access to something like 3dsmax (or having them build and then use a tool to do the thing vs doing the thing).
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by siliconc0w 2mo ago
DSLs for AI doesn't really make sense- they were trained on existing graphics libraries and are pretty good at them. Maybe a long term play would be putting this out and creating a "graphics bench" to entice the labs to overf
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by siliconc0w 2mo ago
Built in replicated database and filesystem is pretty rad. Fly leaves this as an exercise for the user. You should license the backend to enterprises that want a cheaper/lighter weight option to kubernetes for the surge of agentically
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by siliconc0w 2mo ago
I do wonder why not just use cheaper models like Luna or Grok instead of dealing with routing. DeepSWE has Grok at 54% for $2.42 or 67% for $3.03 for Luna. Tokenless Pro is 6.67 for the same performance as Luna.
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by siliconc0w 2mo ago
I don't think it changes much for good managers. It should always be able setting people and processes up so the team can land durable measurable impact. The managers that thought the job of software engineers was to write code were
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by siliconc0w 2mo ago
A few things: 0) big companies already are very comfortable using contracts to trust other people with their data. Maybe if they're inflexible on the 30-day requirement for fable some orgs will opt out but by-and-large it's alrea
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by siliconc0w 2mo ago
Seems like rationalization - PE firms establish regional monopolies and jack up rates. They do it with every type of service. Just accept that we're all serfs under the billionaires who extract rents over every aspect of our lives.
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
Google pays their oncall a % of their full-time base salary depending on the oncall tier (5 min response time vs 30 minutes). This should probably be required - there is a different mindset and set of restrictions when you're expected
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
What are the odds this is going to become another avenue for grift - magically any companies the trump family invests in are going to get access. Any companies that aren't sufficiently 'loyal' to the regime will have to wait
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
The reality is that there is no escaping management. A high level IC is pretty much just an unofficial manager. You are responsible for a large technical area - it's your job to meet with stakeholders, design the roadmap, build dura
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
Randomly I was thinking about how to "prove" you are a distinct engineer who works at a company without revealing your identity. I feel like labor organizers should offer employee verification as a free service to get people to si
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
I don't see how more advanced models won't get gated to specific known KYC'd entities. Classification-style guardrails will never be sufficient. Distillation attacks too are really hard to prevent. Open-source models can
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
I had a similar experience after a recent job search and started working on a 'kube-lite' that just uses object storage for coordination and normal cloud primitives like auto-scale groups (skiff.pages.dev). I ended up in a differe
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
Remember when the admin tried to kill anthropic with a ridiculous national defense supply chain order that the courts blocked - I'm not sure why anyone would believe them credible now
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by siliconc0w 3mo ago
The market is supposed to do that. Once an opportunity is identified there is a rush to compete and margin disappears, so the people still get the new, better thing, but for much cheaper. What can happen though is that companies figure out

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