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by mbesto 7mo ago
> With a range of ~1000km this seems to crush these results The 1000km range likely has more to do with the efficiency of the drivetrain and the aerodynamics of the car more than the battery tech. kWh is an absolute value that is fungibl
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by mbesto 7mo ago
> Getting LLMs to have a reliability rate that is on par or superior to human performance is very very achievable. Source?
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by mbesto 7mo ago
> You need to think in terms of a probability of a successful hallucination or prompt injection. I would venture to say that an ACID compliant deterministic database has a 99.999999999999999999% chance of retrieving the correct informati
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by mbesto 7mo ago
I believe you can use a virtual number/VOIP (like Twilio or Google Voice), but I want to be able to eventually use SMS where WhatsApp can't be used, so I do know some services identify "non residential" SMS phone numbers
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by mbesto 7mo ago
> The whole point of OpenClaw is to run AI actions with your own private data, your own Gmail, your own WhatsApp, etc. There's no point in using OpenClaw with that much restriction on it. Hard disagree. I have OpenClaw running with
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by mbesto 7mo ago
The number of times i realized half way that I probably posted the wrong password and so I vigorously type the 'delete' key to reset the input is too damn high
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by mbesto 7mo ago
LLMs by their nature are not goal orientated (this is fundamental difference of reinforcement learning vs neural networks for example). So a human will have the, let's say, the ultimate goal of creating value with a web application the
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by mbesto 7mo ago
But you said "it's not great code" and then said "i don't know", so your idea of it being "not great code" is purely speculative and totally unfounded.
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by mbesto 7mo ago
So do you expect it not to be free of bugs because you've run a comprehensive test on it, read all of the code yourself or are you just concluding that because you know it was generated by an LLM?
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by mbesto 7mo ago
> and that is not great code When you say "is not great code" can you elaborate? Does the code work or not?
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by mbesto 7mo ago
> Its shocking some people don't give it any real instruction or way to check itself. It's not shocking. The tech world is telling them that "Claude will write all of their app easily" with zero instructions/guid
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by mbesto 7mo ago
Not sure your point, but... > PE firm also puts their own money up plus money raised through LPs (hence “leveraged”) This is not true. PE firm individuals put their own money in a fund, which also has LPs money. That fund is used to acqu
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by mbesto 7mo ago
> And we have seen example after example of these LBO's ruining otherwise functioning businesses. It's happening. All over the place. Your anecdotes and the anecdotes in media are no statistical evidence for "this is happe
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by mbesto 7mo ago
Guy who works in the PE market here (not a PE shop myself) - this comment is correct.
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by mbesto 7mo ago
So what conclusions have you drawn or could a person reasonably draw with this data?
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by mbesto 7mo ago
A decision to cut 1600 jobs doesn't happen overnight.
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by mbesto 7mo ago
> Layoffs because of AI make no sense to me. That's because these layoffs aren't about AI. They're about firms that overhired and Wall St is (finally) having a sobering moment of their (profit) growth potential.
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by mbesto 7mo ago
The H100 and H200 are not.
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by mbesto 7mo ago
We literally do not know because it hasn't been 5 years yet...
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by mbesto 8mo ago
Kagi + Perplexity have all but eliminated the need for Google search for me
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by mbesto 8mo ago
I really don't understand the notion that a company owes you a job for work that doesn't produce a financial result for them.
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by mbesto 8mo ago
> Doesn't YC have some code of conduct or legal/ethical guidelines? Sorry but lol you must be new here.
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by mbesto 8mo ago
> The list of PE-owned retail chains that have filed for bankruptcy or liquidated includes Toys “R” Us, Payless ShoeSource, Sports Authority, Gymboree, rue21, The Limited, Barneys New York, and many others. Once again, you can't lum
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by mbesto 8mo ago
> This also depends on your definition on "smartest". Which the parent conveniently left out a definition of. I sort of ignored that implication and went straight to the point - which is it doesn't matter if the PM is the
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by mbesto 8mo ago
> if it's complex: it's going to the smartest person in the room. That has never been the PM. Yet the PM always has the last say on what goes in the product, NOT the engineer. Funny how that works... None of your conclusions ar
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by mbesto 8mo ago
This sentiment is going exactly against the trend right now. AI coding is making technically minded product manager's MORE powerful not less. When/if coding just because your ability to accurately describe what you want to build,
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by mbesto 8mo ago
> Now that actually writing code has less value than prompting, and prompting is lower skill than writing code, in what world do you think that the pay will remain the same? Don't you think people said the same thing C and Python? I
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by mbesto 8mo ago
Woodworking is still a thing despite IKEA, big box furniture stores, etc.
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by mbesto 8mo ago
This is incorrect. Visa's processes ~$14T in transactions. At 0.2% thats roughly ~$28B in revenue (VISA posted ~$40B in revenue in 2025) versus 2% is $280B in revenue. EDIT: The 2~3% you're talking is the payment processor fees wh
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by mbesto 8mo ago
The word miracle itself is hyperbolic in nature...it's meant to enchant and not to be used literal or concretely. No need to be pedantic here, there is a large cohort of the population that seemingly never thought a robot would be able

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