theplatman

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by theplatman 15d ago
why aren't mentioning their failed rewrite from 3 years ago? https://www.monicahq.com/en/blog/chandler-is-in-beta/
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by theplatman 28d ago
would encourage you to read up about how the rest of the world has solved this
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by theplatman 29d ago
are they? given this has been happening frequently over past year and there's been minimal clear communication on their end on how they plan to address this
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by theplatman 4mo ago
biggest thing i wish was present in more discussions about models is people providing more specifics on their setups vs. vague descriptions of harnesses
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by theplatman 4mo ago
more future proof except for the fact that these guys are infamous for breaking changes i really don't think after there's much interest from the larger community after multiple annoying RR breaking changes -> Remix -> Remix
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by theplatman 5mo ago
have always wondered about this especially post Cambridge Analytica where Meta imposed really stringent requirements for API use even for personal things while it was blatantly obvious that internally it was a different story
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by theplatman 5mo ago
they are essentially Lyft in early Uber vs. Lyft days. They are marketing themselves vaguely as being "better" because they're "more ethical" but their actions make it clear that they're not much better than OA
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by theplatman 5mo ago
you can use claude code with these other providers
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by theplatman 5mo ago
so we're trusting the guy who created tech to make it easier for bots to exist on the internet to then sell us the solution to fix the problem he made worse?
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by theplatman 5mo ago
do we know whether Microsoft could have been selling secondary shares as part of various funding rounds? my impression is that many of these "investments" are structured IOUs for circular deals based on compute resources in exchan
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by theplatman 5mo ago
when i realized that sama isn't that much of an ai researcher, it became clearer that this is more akin to a group delusion for hype purposes than a real possibility
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by theplatman 5mo ago
open source projects are usually creating something for themselves so it's much easier to know what to build when you are the user whereas, commercial software has a disconnect between who are the users and developers are
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by theplatman 8mo ago
that ship has sailed along time ago
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by theplatman 9mo ago
Engineers say they want to work on hard problems then complain that they can’t solve something because it’s too complex
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by theplatman 9mo ago
working class people are predominantly using public transit to get around nyc this claim has been debunked many times and anyone with eyes can see who the private drivers in NYC are
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by theplatman 9mo ago
the problem with ETH at its peak is that the gas fees made cost of doing anything real too costly if there was a real use case it would have manifested itself at this point i think the abstraction needs to be much higher to end user for thi
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by theplatman 10mo ago
With all due respect, engineers in finance can’t allow for outages like this because then you are losing massive amounts of money and potentially going out of business.
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by theplatman 10mo ago
there are high trust societies where you still cannot take people at their word because it might not be a culture of being direct to others. thinking of japan which is high social cohesion and trust, but still difficult to navigate business
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by theplatman 10mo ago
i cannot imagine how they are going to be able to meet their obligations unless they pull off a massive hail mary at this point via a bail out or finding someone to provide tens of billions of dollars in funding.
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by theplatman 10mo ago
i agree - it shows a remarkable lack of creativity that we're still stuck with a fairly subpar UX for interacting with these tools
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by theplatman 10mo ago
open ai is at risk of complete collapse if it cannot fulfill its financial obligations. if people willing to give them money don't have faith in their ability to win the AI race anymore, then they're going out of business.
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by theplatman 10mo ago
can't comment on west coast but from perspective in NYC, i think the market for SWEs willing to work in office here is very good. might be different since there's lots of different industries hiring for SWE roles in addition to ty
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by theplatman 1y ago
For awhile now I’ve felt like YC has turned into another badge for the type people who are obsessed with prestige. It’s all about checking a box and not about the substance of what they want to do. This is evident in how disappointed certai
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by theplatman 1y ago
There is a balance between getting to market as fast as possible and avoiding an architecture that will immediately make it hard to iterate after MVP. The problem is that a lot of engineers don’t know how to not over engineer and waste time
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by theplatman 1y ago
philosophy is probably a bad example to use because i think it's actually one of the "liberal arts" majors that's actually very applicable to skills you need in the corporate world. the skillset you get from philosphy ma
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by theplatman 1y ago
This is crazy. I have worked at some large orgs and never experienced that level of bureaucracy to deploy to test/qa environments. I’ve seen in sensitive apps needing an approval to go to prod but it’s async and didn’t require a meetin
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by theplatman 2y ago
BigInt shipped because financial organizations needed it for certain applications.
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by theplatman 2y ago
Yeah I definitely agree that they’re doing some great engineering work in the company. It’s a strange place because it’s fully owned by Mike Bloomberg without any board or other group of shareholders that oversees his decisions. There is a
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by theplatman 2y ago
If you’re the type of person who won’t just move on from an idea when you’ve been repeatedly told no that indicates you’re probably a difficult person to work with in other ways. That kind of behavior is less welcome in enterprise environme
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by theplatman 2y ago
And we can also see ample evidence that overly controlling kids has a detrimental effect on them as they grow older.

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