cmiles8

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by cmiles8 1mo ago
You’re missing the point that 98+% of the use cases for AI don’t require the latest greatest model and are far better positioned to use the fast-follow distilled cheap models. OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting to win a race (build the bigge
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Have tried this a few times. While AI has been helpful in talking through component choices and other topics, it’s consistently been a spectacular fail each time in actually designing the board. I’ve had similar results asking AI to design
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Honestly not. Most big corporates have arrangements were all the major models and now open models are available from the same API endpoint. It is literally one line of code to edit in most cases, even more so in big companies.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Yes… and as the article says folks are still leaving some work to the big labs. But the big money is to be made at scale and those use cases don’t require OpenAI or Anthropic. The crazy setup here is that even with that fraction of the pie
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Bad comparison. 1. People buy Apple because of the broader ecosystem of products and the “it just works” aspect of that ecosystem. Other companies make phones with features that are objectively better but folks don’t switch because the Appl
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Not sure who you’re talking to but the NYTimes reporting clearly refutes your statements that nobody is doing it with clear facts. It’s been a tidal shift in attitudes over these last few months and the messaging back to OpenAI and Anthropi
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Yes, but changing models, even across providers, takes about two seconds and one line of code. It’s literally the least stickiest thing in the history of tech. Which is a big problem for these companies.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Fair assessment. The challenge for OpenAI and Anthropic is that they need sizeable margins to pay for the massive costs incurred. Market forces are driving things in the opposite direction and fast. When your competition has a tiny cost bas
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
But most commodities are the same way. It’s super expensive to drill for oil. I need oil and I’m in no position to mine my own because of the massive capital investment. But it doesn’t stop it from being a pure commodity. I couldn’t care le
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Corporate America has been using open source for decades, and it wasn’t anywhere as slow as you portray. This argument simply doesn’t hold water. Besides, in their present rather dire financial state there isn’t much to sue these companies
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Every larger company I talk to these days has an active project on moving away from OpenAI and Anthropic to open models. And they’re actively shifting, as the article says, so the threat is far from theoretical. Unless they both dramaticall
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Thinking that the folks objecting are mostly grumpy retired people clueless about markets isn’t helping the perception that Silicon Valley is grossly out of touch with reality.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
You tell everyone AI is going to put them out of a job and then you’re surprised when working class communities say “no, please leave” when folks want to build a data center in their back yard. There are times when Silicon Valley looks out
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Honestly by modern “standards” all parents from probably the 90s and earlier would be just be thrown in jail. Pre cell phones kids of all ages would just disappear for the whole day and show up back home for dinner. Nobody knew where they w
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Sure, but that’s the case for basically all acquisitions.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Not sure why this is news again this week when it was already announced previously. NYTimes was also reporting this like it was news today.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Well he has done that on Rx drugs which is equally a hot mess. So he has credibility in this space. He’s not just some blowhard billionaire with an opinion. He’s really legit shaken things up in Rx and proven it’s a racket.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
It annoys the heck out of much of the rest of the world but the truth is that Americans are staggeringly wealthy compared to nearly every other place on the planet. The US GDP per capita figures do translate into significant wealth for a la
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Well I think your experiment more shows that while Open AI is trying to position this as a viable marketing platform, in reality folks with marketing dollars do spend aren’t buying what they’re selling so you’re able to win at pricing far b
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
True :-). Probably more that from an ROI perspective that’s probably the “least worst” vs the best.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Yes, ChatGPT ads are a heaping pile of garbage. I feel sorry for anyone that’s wasted perfectly good marketing spend on such nonsense. Outside a captive platform like Amazon, most ads are garbage and a total waste of money. If I’m on Amazon
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
I just made a figure with Claude and fed it to the tool, which told me there was no evidence it was made with Claude. So… this utility appears to be pretty worthless.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
“Let me show you how this works in a real demonstration. On the left, I’ve hooked up a power supply to the tracks, putting a voltage between the two rails. On the right side, I’ve attached a relay.” The problem with publishing “articles” th
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
This plus AI just citing AI slop. Theres a real downward spiral unfolding with the quality of information available on the internet.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
The article is a bit disingenuous. Steve’s main claim to fame was Apple 2.0 when he brought the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. He had almost no choice but to take radical bet-the-farm bets as the status quo was the company goes
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
The combination of its speed and universal acceptance across Japan makes this by far the best system anywhere. Despite being decades old, it’s still better than “new” systems being rolled out elsewhere. Want to buy a drink while waiting for
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Amazon / AWS went from boasting about how they never killed off products to just going on a steady binge of shutting things down. That wouldn’t necessarily be bad if they were replacing this with better stuff, but most of the new launc
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Not defending it, but that’s an intended feature and not a bug of the situation.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
Congrats to the team. I have a strong feeling this will go down in history as one of the last great exists before the bubble bursts. 12-24 months from this acquisition will likely look like a crazy burn of capital and cash.
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by cmiles8 1mo ago
While the full details aren’t publicly known these sort of “exits” are generally not home runs for most team members. They’ll get some payout but hardly life changing and will get absorbed into BigCo still needing to find a new job if they

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