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I was about to say the same thing! Yet another blog post with heaps of navel gazing and zero to actually show for it. The worst part is they got simonw to (per
by ares623 9mo ago
I was about to say the same thing! Yet another blog post with heaps of navel gazing and zero to actually show for it.
The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them.
And $1000/day/engineer in token costs at current market rates? It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
But we all know what they're going for here. They want to make themselves look amazing to convince the boards of the Great Houses to acquire them. Because why else would investors invest in them and not in the Great Houses directly.
- simonw 9mo agoThe "social engineering" is that I was invited to a demo back in October and thought it was really interesting. (Two people who's opinions I respect said "yeah you really should accept that invitation" otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone.) I've been looking forward to being able to write more details about what they're doing ever since.
- ares623 9mo agoI will look forward to that blog post then, hopefully it has more details than this one. EDIT nvm just saw your other comment.
- ucirello 9mo agoJustin never invites me in when he brings the cool folks in! Dang it...
- oidar 9mo agoIs this the black box folks you mentioned?
- simonw 9mo agoIt's the dark factory people, yeah: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117#46801848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117#46801848
- shimman 9mo agoYou don't see why a company would gain to invite bloggers that will happily write positively about them? Talk about a conflict of interest, the FTC should ban companies from doing this.
- simonw 9mo agoAre you saying that because I have a blog I should be banned from going to meetings or demos of anything, for any reason?
- enraged_camel 9mo agoThis reads like a total joke.
- alsetmusic 9mo agoSomeone call the FTC! John Gruber has gone to a private event hosted by Apple. In fact, he's done it more than once! The scoundrel must be locked up.
- navanchauhan 9mo agoI think this comment is slightly unfair :( We’ve been working on this since July, and we shared the techniques and principles that have been working for us because we thought others might find them useful. We’ve also open-sourced the nlspec so people can build their own versions of the software factory. We’re not selling a product or service here. This also isn’t about positioning for an acquisition: we’ve already been in a definitive agreement to be acquired since last month. It’s completely fair to have opinions and to not like what we’re putting out, but your comment reads as snarky without adding anything to the conversation.
- Game_Ender 9mo agoCan you link to nlspec? It is not easy to find with a search.
- navanchauhan 9mo agohttps://github.com/strongdm/attractor https://github.com/strongdm/attractor
- simonw 9mo agoThat's in this repo: https://github.com/strongdm/attractor https://github.com/strongdm/attractor
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- blackqueeriroh 9mo agoWhy will you be destitute? Consider this: how do billionaires make most of their money? I’ll answer you: people buy their stuff. What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff. Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer. There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
- yojat661 9mo ago> The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them. Lol. Any time I see something ai related endorsed by simonw, I tend to view it as mostly hype, and I have been right so far.
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- fragmede 9mo agoCan you give an example? His writing seems pretty grounded to me. He's not out there going on podcasts claimed that LLMs are going to cure cancer, afaik.