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by cmiles8 5d ago
So Uber took this into forced arbitration to avoid the courts and then the arbitration blew up in their face. Sorry, but there’s some strong schadenfreude there.
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by cmiles8 8d ago
His son isn’t running the company, he’s just the board chair which has fairly limited power on its own.
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by cmiles8 8d ago
The evidence here is quite damning for OpenAI and Microsoft is clearly trying to distance themselves from OpenAI’s behavior here.
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by cmiles8 9d ago
AWS has a history of making hand wavy explanations on the robustness of its infrastructure that were misleading at best. See comments about how regions are truly independent only for everyone to find out if us-east-1 goes down you could sti
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by cmiles8 9d ago
This interview with an AWS leader isn’t aging well, from CBS Sunday morning: Pogue asked, "I don't mean to give anyone ideas, but let's say I figured out that one of these unmarked buildings was an AWS data center, and I blew
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by cmiles8 10d ago
The reaction folks had is OTT, but it does look like AI slop. One group of folks is trying to say we basically have AGI. The other group is pointing to AI that remains very limited and where lowly humans can spot anything it’s created from
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by cmiles8 10d ago
But Instagram ads are just billboards in digital form. The idea of influencing an AI is a whole different ballgame.
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by cmiles8 10d ago
It’s like a lot of these big SaaS platforms that lock people in to big contracts. They promise the world with all sorts of features and integrations but most customers don’t use that and get locked into buying a very expensive solution to a
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by cmiles8 10d ago
Salesforce has turned into the monolithic messy bloatware it set out to replace. Please VCs stop with the AI FOMO and find a few good startups to just go destroy Salesforce and give folks a simple inexpensive replacement.
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by cmiles8 10d ago
You can do that now. The problem with ads in an agentic environment is the AI would just ignore the best options and make up shit about worse options because a loss good restaurant with a big marketing budget paid it to say that. The whole
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by cmiles8 10d ago
Well to date when this has come up it’s been the company that put the AI in from of their customers that’s held liable in the first instance. See Air Canada case where an AI made up non existent policies that courts ruled Air Canada even ha
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by cmiles8 10d ago
Who actually wants this? I guess we’re about to find out if this helps put out the massive pile of burning cash that OpenAI is trying to deal with, but I know nobody that wants this. OpenAI claims we’re near AGI and this is the best strateg
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by cmiles8 10d ago
And how does that make you feel?
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by cmiles8 10d ago
Not giving you what you want != unreliable. It’s been extremely reliable for folks that want other things.
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by cmiles8 10d ago
No, it’s like Elon. He happens to be CEO of multiple companies but they are separate and independent companies (for now).
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by cmiles8 10d ago
A) Would never happen. B) If it did happen, the US would just say “give us the same deal or you get cut off” and Europe would capitulate immediately.
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by cmiles8 10d ago
Dreamforce, wake up. You’ve overslept!
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by cmiles8 10d ago
I hear you, but the US is hardly the only country on the planet that’s had a few disruptive elections, including the EU BTW. Making generational decisions over one presidential cycle is rather short sighted.
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by cmiles8 10d ago
This would be Canada getting down leveled to the minor leagues. Yes there are a few issues with the US, but Canada is vastly better off playing on the world stage under the wings of the US than it would be as the EU’s “associate member.” Th
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by cmiles8 11d ago
The liability question is one of the biggest things people are looking for in the S1. If you sell a dangerous product that harms people or businesses you’re generally liable. It’s as of yet unclear how the big labs intend to account for pot
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by cmiles8 11d ago
As companies realize that data, not models, are where the moat is at then more and more valuable information sits in walled off gardens. The open internet is increasingly just becoming a cesspit of AI slop feeding on AI slop.
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by cmiles8 11d ago
Amazon cares about this because it’s a huge threat to its profitability as an enterprise. It makes almost no money from selling and shipping stuff to you. It makes a ton of money selling advertising to influence what you buy on the site. If
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by cmiles8 11d ago
The appeals courts overturning of Amazon’s initial win (injunction) here is interesting. It’s basically like liability in reverse. If a user is responsible for what an AI agent does on its behalf then the other side of that equation can’t s
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by cmiles8 12d ago
I also find it really annoying that it answers nearly every question with the same rote template. “That answer has two components, but the first is where the real meaning lies.” It uses some variation of that format all the time.
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by cmiles8 12d ago
The Indian offshore firms are scrambling because of the opposite happening. If all this work was just flooding to India then the panic that’s happening there over the industry imploding wouldn’t be occurring. The sort of work traditionally
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by cmiles8 12d ago
Canada was already much cheaper than the US for tech. I was shocked to find out how little colleagues in Canada in the same role are paid relative to peers in the US. If the issue was cost the jobs would already be in Canada. If the issue w
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by cmiles8 12d ago
A lot of companies are starting to run towards open models on walled off infra. There might be a moat to be had in really good infra-as-a-service for hosting models, but there’s zero moat to be had in the models themselves. Which is a probl
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by cmiles8 12d ago
Agree… the article doesn’t make it clear that he’s really back, just that he has taken control of key company assets like the company Slack and is saying he’s back. I don’t think this is over until the board releases a statement. CEOs can p
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by cmiles8 13d ago
And people were really buying electricity too. The WSJ recently reported that there’s around 3 trillion in off balance sheet liabilities floating around in AI. It’s very unclear where the $3 trillion to pay those bills will come from. Nobod
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by cmiles8 13d ago
The legal reality is that you can’t sue an AI, you have to sue whoever built and/or was running it. All the present fun and games here will come to a halt when there’s a real hack that causes material damage to a major company and that

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