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by jmathai 27d ago
LLMs add enough nondeterminism to a workflow. Swapping them without the user knowing adds substantially more.
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by jmathai 27d ago
I think an $18 billion dollar fine implies that they broke a law or two.
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by jmathai 27d ago
Really? There's so much information about how Meta targeted children with addictive design patterns. They paid the fine, and profited in the meantime. Do you really think they have any reason not to do the same in the future?
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by jmathai 27d ago
I trust Meta will keep those they don't want to access the data out. It's Meta that I don't trust.
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by jmathai 27d ago
> Your personal data is safe and secure That's from the article. I can't think of anyone I'd trust less with my data than Meta. Well, thieves, I guess.
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by jmathai 29d ago
I feel, many times, the way Bill did in that email. Seems most people don’t mind or care. I wondered how anyone successfully filed for unemployment a few years ago when I had to. But many seem to do it successfully. I tell my wife that I pa
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by jmathai 29d ago
I think this answer depends on age. For me, it was up until right around 2014. That’s when, I think, social media and mobile phones unlocked a number of generally unproductive behavior both personally and in business. The early 2000s were t
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by jmathai 1mo ago
Fine is quite an understatement. It was everything I loved about the Internet. I think jQuery was when I feel the Internet peaked. It was dethroned by corporate OSS(react, angular) and it has never felt the same.
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by jmathai 1mo ago
I recently posted that “Big Tech Wants To Br Your Bible Translator”. Each industry has its own challenges with AI. The YouVersion CEO is vocal about his belief that GenAI isn’t suitable for many use cases. I can see why they’d want to contr
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by jmathai 1mo ago
To avoid misquoting scripture it’s using a couple techniques including tool calls for grounding and a client-side parsing layer to find and replace citations. It currently uses deepseek flash. We’ll evaluate local models in the future.
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Big Tech Wants to Be Your Bible Translator(jaisenmathai.com)
3 points by jmathai 1mo ago|2 comments
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by jmathai 1mo ago
I would encourage you to explore professions that you might find more fulfilling. I had found myself in a similar situation as you. Some ideas that I explored were working for a church or non profit, starting an interior design firm with my
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by jmathai 1mo ago
I consider myself an AI optimist. From what I've seen, I think there's a lot of headroom for it to expand it's disruption. I also dislike the future that would result in. Heck, I want to go back to pre-iPhone.
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by jmathai 1mo ago
The chasm is wide between skeptics and optimists. It's as interesting psychologically as it is technically.
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by jmathai 1mo ago
Immich is such a wonderful piece of OSS software. I've replaced Google Photos with it. And then some. For the nerds... https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-pho...
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by jmathai 1mo ago
It's a tough predicament when the industry you're in is moving towards violating your personal preferences and ethics. I'm neither agreeing with or disagreeing with the author's stance. But this tension crosses the line
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Explore the Bible like Wikipedia(trysojourn.app)
3 points by jmathai 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jmathai 1mo ago
I have wondered this about an open source project I wrote about a decade ago [1] and still use. It's an order of magnitude less popular than Monica at 1.5k stars. The code base and logic is complex enough that it's hard to fix bug
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by jmathai 1mo ago
I've been pretty disappointed with "medium quality" slightly more expensive furniture from places like west elm and pottery barn. Now I will either get older recycled furniture for quality or pieces from IKEA for cost.
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by jmathai 1mo ago
I'm a customer of Stripe. But I prefer to pay using these in order - Apple Pay, PayPal, Google Pay, Stripe, enter card into site. The Stripe interface with Link and whatnot is slick but it feels like I'm giving my credit card ov
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by jmathai 1mo ago
Generally speaking, adoption for the sake of helping and protecting kids is quite noble. It's a fun fact about Eminem folks don't know about and the original submission is a post from Eminem.
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My AI App Measures Success When People Stop Chatting with It(jaisenmathai.com)
2 points by jmathai 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jmathai 1mo ago
I thought you were referencing Scott's Tots from The Office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0N2ZxQJYTw
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by jmathai 1mo ago
Many people know Eminem has a biological daughter Haile whom he includes in many songs. But he also has 2 adopted children - his ex-wife’s twin’s daughter (referred to as Lainey) and his ex-wife’s biological daughter. Rest in peace Dolly.
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by jmathai 2mo ago
Is there a way, like Google used to do before they started rewarding SEO spam, that good content rises to the top based on criteria. For one topic, I may want to read 100% human written content. Another topic, I may be okay okay with Human
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by jmathai 2mo ago
I think, any many parents I speak to, that raising children to be respectful and obedient feels harder than it ought to. There's a tear in our society's fabric around parenting. Too many parents silently wish their kids didn'
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by jmathai 2mo ago
It's not only PRs, my personal projects which used github actions were seeing more builds in a single month than all of the previous year.
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by jmathai 2mo ago
I’m listening to more and more AI music on Spotify. It’s got little depth but it’s very catch on the surface. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a very quick race to the bottom and we will long for real music written by real people.
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by jmathai 2mo ago
I think a better way to ask this question is if I was entertained by a computer more than by the company of friends/family. Of course I spend more time looking at a screen - it's my job description. It's never been different
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by jmathai 2mo ago
This may not be a popular opinion but I’ll say it anyways. I’ve done a lot of this and am sharing anecdotal information. The claims that AI writes inefficient code may often be right. If and when it’s an observed problem, you can use AI to

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