FinnLobsien

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I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain–until I met him(cailey.substack.com)
72 points by FinnLobsien 3mo ago|21 comments
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by FinnLobsien 3mo ago
I don't think it's just that, I also think it's "be someone I want to help"
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by FinnLobsien 3mo ago
I think there's a big difference between putting people's houses next to the local paint factory and saying that you could have mixed-use neighborhoods where you have local businesses and recreational activities close to where you
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by FinnLobsien 3mo ago
I literally wrote a similar comment to this. I think the core differentiator is whether they want to solve the problem or whether they want the problem to be solved. Is this person actively solving the problem, tried a bunch of approaches a
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by FinnLobsien 3mo ago
The problem here is that most points are about how to formulate your ask. I think the biggest thing is that you're much more likely to get help if you show you're doing the best to solve it yourself. There's a big difference
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by FinnLobsien 3mo ago
I agree with the problem, and I think it stems from a few core issues: 1. Societies are heterogenous, and some groups are always benefitting from the status quo, which will then rebel against any potential changes. For instance, in Germany
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Bernie Sanders unveils $7T plan to give Americans control of AI industry(arstechnica.com)
13 points by FinnLobsien 3mo ago|10 comments
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
I think the problem is that the companies mostly don't make money, period. They may have better unit economics on underused subscriptions, but I don't see a world in which OAI/Anthropic don't heavily tighten the screws
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
The problem space has a few aspects: 1. We're still in the "$5 airport Uber" era of LLMs. They're heavily subsidized, and everyone still complains about costs. 2. There hasn't been a real incentive to work on cost o
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
Whether they’re over-valued and over-resourced is a big question. I think that will be answered when eventual price hikes happen and people shift which AI they use and/or what they use it for. We’re still in the “5$ airport Ubers thank
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
I think it’s pretty clear why they’re abiding by this: -the US is the only place where you can raise the kinds of money you need to run a lab like this. -a government that won’t let you sell products to customers abroad will probably object
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
I agree with this take. If we think back to the origins of cooking and food preparation, it was never about exact measures or precise ingredients. The point of a ratatouille is not that it has precisely bell pepper, eggplant, tomato, and zu
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Our Kubernetes Operator Didn't Scale, So We Rebuilt It(infisical.com)
4 points by FinnLobsien 4mo ago|0 comments
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
I think both sides are true. Of course, there's a certain irony in proclaiming one's escape from the yoke of Big Tech on the very Big Tech platforms one claims to be escaping. It's also telling that the most popular videos ar
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
It was one of those weird “licensing deals” where Nvidia got some of the tech and the founders joined Nvidia, but the company continues to exist independently. So I assume this is the non-Nvidia Groq.
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
It’s gambling, and the house always wins.
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Groq Raises Another $650M(groq.com)
17 points by FinnLobsien 4mo ago|6 comments
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
Yeah I agree. I think whether we see more or less AI-written code is very much down to where. Adding a new filter option for in-product analytics (assuming that data is being captured) is something AI can do reasonably well. But things like
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
A good way to understand how much we thanklessly rely on some professions, Google pictures of any garbage disposal strike
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
In a way it’s good that the equation is so lopsided. A massive part is that software can be replicated infinitely for free. This is why the scale of the value created is so giant. I definitely do think it’s crazy that someone whose software
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
Sure, but I also feel like at the higher level, you’re not necessarily looking for implementation alone, but for “what should we be doing in the first place?”, which AI can’t help with
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
The value created vs value captured equation of OSS must be one of the most lopsided things ever. If you’re at Google and invent Kubernetes you might still capture 0.000001% (probably less) of the economic value created by Kubernetes, but y
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
How would you enforce that? I'm genuinely curious. It's nearly impossible to conclusively prove someone rewrote your codebase with AI.
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
If you have a hobby project like writing a blog, crocheting, or almost any other creative hobby, you can dip in and out however it suits you. If you deal with major life events, sicknesses, etc., you can leave the hobby and come back. Nobod
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
There’s one thing that I find interesting about this. I can’t judge whether this is a good product, whether it’ll work, and what it’ll add to the medical establishment, or whether more data is always more useful. In general, I think we shou
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
Private Equity is engaged in buying artisanal semi-businesses, turning them into businesses, propping up the numbers while destroying them —then, hopefully, destroying itself. -Nassim Taleb
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
I agree and I think some of the comments here have shifted my perspective on this, especially given the age. I think with teaching anything, there’s always going to be a difference between teaching the tactics (e.g. how to use AOL) vs the f
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
Yep good point. I’m not defending using AI to do homework.
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
Fair point!
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by FinnLobsien 4mo ago
I would disagree that they’re adjusting fine. So much of the stuff we see now is full AI slop clearly created with the first output of ChatGPT. It’s like saying we don’t need to teach kids about the internet because older generations grew u

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