NichoPaolucci

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by NichoPaolucci 9d ago
Nah, priests are definitely solved. My church had the altar boy set an iPhone 18 on the altar and said “Give a sermon” to ChatGPT voice mode.
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by NichoPaolucci 9d ago
Props on the build - bespoke tooling like this per human is a really cool timeline to live in. Personal tech. Related - Apparently this website is also "Brought to you by Fable"! It's very interesting how this occurs with any
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by NichoPaolucci 9d ago
I'm with this. My company was absolute chaos at the end of last year. AI this, AI that. On Productivity: There ARE improvements. But, these improvements were also essentially people stopping their normal workload, giving that to someon
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by NichoPaolucci 9d ago
You know, I think calling this "misalignment" was a mistake. It gives it this unserious tone that feels extremely broad. "Oh the model just isn't quite aligned yet, just a bit more work to do there!" (The model blac
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by NichoPaolucci 9d ago
> OpenAI said it did not believe the industry “has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.” Baffling. To my knowledge, they didn't properly airgap thei
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by NichoPaolucci 10d ago
Any breach of security on a system like this is a big flashing red-alert to me. If it could lead an attacker to get ANY of their data... Persons, places, events, etc is pretty damning stuff to be exfiltrated. Stalking/Domestic Violence
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
I liken it to contractors or overseas engineers. They don't really care about the long-term effects of their code. I does the thing, adds some code, adds test that cover that code, and responds with "Done." At a fully agentic
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
I mean... Nobody NEEDs to hold a mental model, but we've been increasingly trying to build that mental model into an agentic codebase... maybe we're doing it wrong but it is NOT going well. The agents jot down absolutely everythin
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
In theory - if an LLM could handle infinite complexity, I still think that the business issues + decisions end up getting in the way somewhere. AI: "You asked to add feature X. Here are 25 questions that impact feature Z, B, and C in y
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
I'm interested in hearing more about your experience here. Were you all just full bore shipping a ton with the per token plans? Was it more effective? How many developers @ your company? It's really interesting to hear that some c
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
God do I wish that was her response to my suggestion. "Fair enough - go nuts. Let me know when Claude tells you to transition to Postgres because I'll need to get you access credentials"
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
So, I did let her know that a storage volume was going to be more difficult to manage, could result in lost data, and would make the data harder to work with - I mentioned it's not the end of the world if it works, it was just a profes
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
Sure - I don't hold it against them. It was just surprising to read a "Claude said you're right" message. (Yes, I know that I'm right, or I wouldn't have said it) Didn't ruin my week or anything, but that
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
The best/smartest professionals I meet operate this way (because we know we're wrong quite a bit and don't know everything). It's definitely a personality trait. Inquisitive, curious, intelligent, but also there's s
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
Wow, oddly similar thing happened to me. Anecdotally, I was working with a non-developer. She was building a reporting dashboard with Claude. I pointed out that the system she built was using the filesystem to store one line notes about the
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
I'm not telling anyone how to raise their children, companies have terms of service. When we can't accurately assess risk, the default we reach for is an age minimum (social media, alcohol, driving). If, in time, we find out that
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by NichoPaolucci 15d ago
Perhaps they can make their ideas reality by learning the fundamentals required to do these things. As much as I think AI is a productivity enhancer, I still think that it's beneficial for people who are still developing their brains.
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by NichoPaolucci 17d ago
Not sure how the public has received them, but I cannot stand to wear the non-pro airpods for more than maybe 40 minutes. They used to give plastic earbuds away with the purchase of a device! I get it, bluetooth vs wired, extra features...
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by NichoPaolucci 17d ago
I don't know that it's possible. Once you see 5-10 of "new thing" you sorta understand the base layer + different modifiers. We're pretty good at recognizing patterns. It's cool the first 3 times, but then you
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by NichoPaolucci 18d ago
I find this amusing. We know that light has an impact on the body - so they make/sell lamps that emit light similar to sunlight, red light therapy, circadian smart bulbs... Washing in the river used to be normal + good for the body - w
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by NichoPaolucci 18d ago
I have a pretty nice Samsung that I purchased maybe 5 years ago. When I initially purchased it, it was great. No account needed. Did every thing I wanted from a TV (I want it to be dumb) I refused to update it, because I knew that at some p
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by NichoPaolucci 18d ago
Am I reading these logs correctly? You gave an agent 100k!? Very bold, hopefully it does turn things around. I had done a small experiment with 100$, but would be hesitant on more than that. I suppose if it's money you're willing
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by NichoPaolucci 21d ago
Not saying I get 20M tokens a day, I don't know how many I get or use. My company pays for a subscription to Anthropic and OpenAI. I use the tools at work, they tell me to, it's not my personal data. (There definitely is no privac
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by NichoPaolucci 21d ago
I sit here with you. I think the internet is changing rapidly, and I guess it will be significantly different in even 2-3 years time. It's become an absolute wasteland of false, unverifiable, generated content. Who knows what percentag
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by NichoPaolucci 21d ago
Sure - but that's a complete outage for a compute company if the AI gets "ingrained" enough in the infrastructure. How do you spin back up and eradicate the AI, anyway?
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by NichoPaolucci 21d ago
I am also intrigued on that. At this point we have really smart developers everywhere who are just... studying what happened after the fact, and we are speculating on some of the facts. They may even be 10 steps ahead. To state the obvious,
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by NichoPaolucci 22d ago
So you have 8K worth of GPUs in your garage, and and it bothers you that other tech workers are paying 20$ a month for access to SOTA models? Of course we don't NEED to pay for the cloud, but my company is doing this for me and I can&#
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by NichoPaolucci 22d ago
We do at our company (in the ecommerce sector). I set up a way for internal users to connect an agent to our data. We used to spend a lot of time building reports for non-technical users. It's been a fantastic way to free up our time,
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by NichoPaolucci 23d ago
Yes. I had Codex rewrite and fix all of this in one shot earlier today (using Typescript). Unfortunately, I can not show you the code, because I do not know how this "git" program works but the AI keeps talking about it.
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by NichoPaolucci 23d ago
I said almost the same thing. From a business perspective, I get it. 35% increase in cart size??!! Sign me up! From a consumer perspective, I'm going to avoid coming anywhere near something like this. They've got data harvested fr

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