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by jdross 1y ago
It looks like they did the first one. And are already on the platforms. What’s stopping you now? For us, we’ll probably try it for workflows that don’t currently work with 4.1 or 4 sonnet
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by jdross 1y ago
I'm not saying this doesn't hold, but this includes every first-run first-model car from Tesla (5-10 years old cohort), and decade+ old refined models from every other brand. Admittedly just a hunch, but I suspect the data for the
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by jdross 1y ago
True story: My great uncle was a secretary to General MacArthur during world world 2, and one of his jobs was to source and procure ice cream to the front for the general and the troops.
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by jdross 1y ago
They already have 400 million daily users and a billion people using the product, with billions of consumer subscription revenue, faster than any company ever. They are also aggregating R&D talent at a density never before seen in Silic
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by jdross 1y ago
Many people who would otherwise love public transit – like me, hi, I grew up in NY and rode Muni & BART my entire 10 years in SF – avoid it in places like SF or the bus in NYC because increasingly over the last 15 years "the public
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by jdross 1y ago
In my life this has been replaced by group chats on WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal etc
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by jdross 1y ago
I am tech founder, who spends most of my day in my own startup deploying LLM-based tools into my own operations, and I'm maybe 1% of the way through the roadmap I'd like to build with what exists and is possible to do today.
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by jdross 1y ago
The pace of notable releases across the industry right now is unlike any time I remember since I started doing this in the early 2000's. And it feels like it's accelerating
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by jdross 2y ago
My friends aren’t working on USAid they’re in departments doing work that has no political storytelling like cutting a bunch of redundant $2-10M contracts here and there every day. Remember that it’s been like 2-3 weeks — what has your esta
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by jdross 2y ago
For what it’s worth two of my friends did have to get appointed positions including these clearances
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by jdross 2y ago
These are people I personally know working “at DOGE” (appointed in departments, but under DOGE umbrella)
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by jdross 2y ago
“These kids” I’m talking about are in their 30’s and 40’s and making recommendations to department heads which almost all seem to be approved
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by jdross 2y ago
I’m just telling you what I know from personal friends doing individual work in specific departments. The mandate is “find $X million per day” and they do, and it’s a lot of work, and it doesn’t happen overnight like big PR things
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by jdross 2y ago
Honestly it seems to me like a shock and awe PR campaign combien md with a daily grind. It’s been like 15 days, what thoughtful work do you think it’s being announced that happens that fast from a cold start (including hiring!)
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by jdross 2y ago
I realized I’m treading in extremely hostile waters here, but the stories I hear from folks working in DOGE are closer to “I spend 8am to 2am with the leaders of department X going through all contracts and outflows and identifying what is
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by jdross 2y ago
Arguably it was designed explicitly for the chief executive having control of the executive branch we just haven’t had executives with this level of interest in making major changes in 40+ years. Was somewhat common to shake up the scope of
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by jdross 2y ago
I know a number of them but they’re rightfully not looking to be especially public about it now on the internet — life is hard enough just doing the job they’re trying to do. Which is frankly a lot of banal accounting and auditing type work
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by jdross 2y ago
It would be nice if anyone would state a law being violated. A lot of people seem to be making a lot of assumptions too about what DOGE/Elon are doing vs what the president or directors of the agencies (for instance) are doing
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by jdross 2y ago
because working with poor performing coworkers is soul crushing, and having a bad boss even worse
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by jdross 2y ago
How does this compare with commercial OCR APIs on a cost per page?
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by jdross 2y ago
In these bigger companies it is very time consuming and difficult to fire someone. In some it is nearly impossible for a manager, and they can't replace the headcount until they do. There's a real tradeoff between employment stabi
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by jdross 2y ago
which they have also massively refurbished and could have handled themselves if not for regulations around creating a launch site. there aren’t many technical issues to pouring concrete in a good lat-lon
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by jdross 2y ago
By definition people are not very aware of their blind spots
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by jdross 2y ago
Yes, but the problem is that I don't want to be recorded without my consent by you at all times. And I don't want to have to negotiate you removing this device that is recording me every time we are near each other.
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by jdross 2y ago
i agreed with you but the chat is what shines. gave me SOTA answers to how i should solve a set of tickets and problems i was interested in on my codebase
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by jdross 2y ago
personally? - writing and refactoring code. probably 50 times a day now - improving documentation across the company - summarizing meetings automatically with follow ups - drafting most legal work before a lawyer edits (saved 70% on legal b
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by jdross 2y ago
This is so obviously good. It's also such a clear political win that I'm shocked that Newsom of all people took this long to go after it
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by jdross 2y ago
For those not in the know, these are two of the most highly regarded operators in the Valley (if not as well known). Sarah was thought of as the person who "ran" Square, and Kevin is thought of as one of the strongest product lead
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by jdross 2y ago
Threads must have had very little meaningful usage from customers to be able to shut down and delete all data within 2 weeks of the announcement with hardly a mention of how this might impact their userbase
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by jdross 2y ago
Because - the situation is like a week old, legal cases and settlements can take months+ - they already put forward their side of it in both a blog post and a WaPo leak Do you think this is like an episode of a TV show?

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