legendofbrando

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by legendofbrando 3y ago
In my experience if you give a time estimate, people make that the new metric to optimize to. So they spend 4 hours creating something that looks like 20 mins. Most articles like this focus on what is lost for employees at the whim of a car
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Building specialized agents is a great way to achieve what humans do through teams and organizations. For individual developers the benefits are dubious, but for ChatGPT, it’s obvious that the end game is letting developers/people buil
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
This is not hate. Langchain was a delightful way to get used to concepts and then it was easier, faster and better to reconstruct the elements I needed myself without having to dig into LC docs to try to figure out why X was acting weird so
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Would have been fascinating to see what names like Apple would have looked like on this list. Macro the trend is correct but I’d be curious to see how different it would look for what is commonly regarded as a more trusted brand. FB, Google
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
If you have the money to pay for these services, your children’s “success” (defined professionally by prestige roles) is preordained to be fine because they have a fallback cushion and it’s not that hard to buy your way into these professio
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
I’m curious about the nature of your business, $4M in profit in a year is really impressive. What business are you in?
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Just piping in to say how much I loved this piece. This is what the internet is excellent for.
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
This really speaks to me and my experience. It’s not AI’s ability to beat me in my own domain, it’s the ability for me to extend my domain to a different style to achieve the results I want. I think folks that underrate the technology are e
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
My primary use of langchain has been to turn text into a vector database with chroma and then query the vector database to return source materials to an LLM to use. I’d much prefer to move away from it because like the author I find LC’s ad
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Amen! I had the exact same reaction. Like the author I eventually threw my hands in the air and started rolling my own solution that is already getting most of what I was interested in done without the hassle.
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Amen to this
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
This is the kind of investigative journalism that I come to this site to discover. Bravo!
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Anything you think we could do to help people deal with it or in your view is this settled?
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
All of these arguments center on how different now is from “past” versions of transformative technologies and ignore that to past versions of people a radio show that you could tune into that was broadcast nationally likely felt as transfor
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
In 1800 there were around 1 billion people and today there are around 8 billion. Humans do seem to scale rather easily. https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Counter point: sure they are. Humans are highly adaptable and like other changes to information availability in the past they will adapt. This is what societal norms and cultural memes are for. “Don’t believe everything you hear” “Don’t bel
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
The goal ought to be as little UI as possible, nothing more and nothing else
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Running whisper locally on my iPhone back in December and watching perfect transcriptions pop out without sending anything to a server was a real lightbulb moment for me that set in motion a bunch of the work I’m doing now. Excited to see t
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
I'm interested in this as well and have been exploring similarly. Would be super interesting to chat if you're up for it as well. Sending you an email to say hello.
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
I agree - it's not that I 'can't' access Claude, it's that they're not really shipping the API at the same scale that OAI is.
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
I’ve been working directly with OpenAI’s access, are there any other advantages to doing this through Azure?
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
The problem with Claude is that it is quite literally impossible to get off the waiting list to use it. To OpenAI’s credit they actually ship the product in an accessible way to developers.
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
Yep. You have to have a product to get in the game and win customers and these are all examples of a killer product. And then you build a business serving a customer around them that - even when your features are cloned - create a sustainab
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
The fact that anyone at Google wrote this memo tells you more about Google than it does about AI (or anything). What’s the moat for Apple (after all, they’re all phones and computers)? What’s the moat for Microsoft (after all Google and ins
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
FWIW, I think one of the chief challenges over the last 5 years is that “tech” became a fashionable, prestige job. Both because of the earnings potential and because of some “it” factor/cultural cache. This led to an influx of people w
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
This is light years beyond any coding ability I have and was deeply enjoyable to read.
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by legendofbrando 3y ago
This was so cool to read
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by legendofbrando 4y ago
I appreciate Google’s research, but it does feel like they’re behind the bar on demos/products consistently. A landing page and a research paper aren’t the best way to demonstrate software.
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by legendofbrando 4y ago
This book was definitely one of my highlights. The number of times I exclaimed “I’m really not the only one that feels that?!” Was too many to measure. It really forces you to confront time in a way that I haven’t stopped thinking about sin
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by legendofbrando 4y ago
This is all true and I think mercurial is an excellent word. Spoken and written.

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