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Wow your brand is huge. Crazy growth. i wonder how much these subtle mentions on forums help

• TeMPOraL 3y ago
  They're the only one commenter on HN I noticed keeps writing "smol" instead of "small", and is associated with projects with "smol" in their name. Surely I'm not the only one who missed it being a meme around 2015 or sth., and finds this word/use jarring - and therefore very attention-grabbing? Wonder how much that helps with marketing. This is meant with no negative intentions. It's just that 'swyx was, in my mind, "that HN-er that does AI and keeps saying 'smol'" for far longer than I was aware of latent.space articles/podcasts.
  • memefrog 3y ago
    Personally, I associate "smol" with "doggo" and "chonker" and other childish redditspeak.
  • swyx 3y ago
    and fun fact i used to work at Temporal too heheh.
• swyx 3y ago
  i mean hopefully its relevant content to the discussion, i hope enough pple know me here by now that i fully participate in The Discourse rather than just being here to cynically plug my stuff. i had a 1.5 hr convo with simon willison and other well known AI tinkerers on this exact thing, and so I shared it, making the most out of their time that they chose to share with me.