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by mikgp 3mo ago
"You can absolutely write bad Pulumi code. You can over-engineer it. You can create abstractions nobody understands. You can make something simple feel clever for no reason. But that is not a Pulumi problem. That is a software design p
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by mikgp 3mo ago
Right, but if your real assertion is “we have no idea”, it seems you should point your skepticism significantly more towards the people betting $100 billion dollars that self-driving cars are coming next year than the ones who aren’t.
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by mikgp 3mo ago
I don’t understand the analogy you’re making, or maybe I think it’s wrong. This is the first time ive ever seen someone say you should outsource your thinking to an LLM, rather than say idea generation. No one thinks you shouldn’t do 8 dig
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by mikgp 3mo ago
How is EFF asking to police or restrict users use of technology? The only thing they seem to be asking here is for X to continue to generate reports in how they use (or misuse) PII. The concerns on Grok seem pretty specific: to not take fo
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by mikgp 3mo ago
I’ve started blogging about my experience with AI. I’m not special, my workflow isn’t supercharged. I’ve just started writing about a guy(me) interfacing with these tools as if I was leaning any technology like a programming language or a
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by mikgp 3mo ago
We're a few days out here, but I don't agree that a FAANG company will come out of AI, and I think this is a fundamental error to think there will be. FAANG is rare/hard. It feels like, we've forgotten there's this
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by mikgp 3mo ago
Me or OP? I'm 100% finger-generated. AMA. How can I do better? I can learn. Do you have any thoughts on the content of what I said?
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by mikgp 3mo ago
The attached video did a good job I think explaining the range of problems, and I could definetly see the value applied specifically - But like - year or two ago now, Satya Nadella I think outlined this idea as all the things, and I think i
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by mikgp 3mo ago
> AI companies have a runway. The question isn't whether they can fly, but whether they have enough runway to get liftoff. This misses I think what is becoming my thesis is that competition from each other and open source models dri
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by mikgp 3mo ago
I feel like this gets at something, but we’re not quite there yet at understanding the language to use: “I shipped code I didn’t understand” Suggests to me that it didn’t follow the Vercel rule of: “Would you be comfortable owning a product
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by mikgp 3mo ago
Ok, so one last question - I think folks like Ed Zitron are too much I. The bear camp, he’s “AI is useless” and I’m not there, I do think AI changes the game. But everyone has been comparing OpenAI and Anthropic to the dotcom bubble, but i
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by mikgp 3mo ago
I assume Pritzker’s goal wasn’t necessarily to pass a bill, so much as to get everyone talking about how Pritzker is taking on big tech.
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by mikgp 3mo ago
Is this really for comparable models though? Will folks at scale continue to choose Anthropic frontier AI model if OpenAI releases a similar generation at a 90% discount with comparable capabilities? It feels like the fungibility assumes
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by mikgp 3mo ago
But now you’re describing a commodity, and the competition will erode profits, and their valuations are bananas, unless someone can find a business model that truly differentiate and creates a moat.
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by mikgp 3mo ago
This doesn’t solve the problem because (tautologically) the more AI prices go down the less money the companies make. If right now today the companies are operating at a profit and a price war causes the API costs to sink 90% next year, an
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by mikgp 3mo ago
Was everyone collectively lying over the past fifty years of software development when they repeatedly said more != better? For specific use cases, performance and security and all sorts of tuning it could be truly amazing. But maybe loops
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by mikgp 3mo ago
The James Patterson point is spot on and - to expand on your point, the internet arguably took the tastemakers / gatekeepers down a peg, AI could be what brings them back.
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by mikgp 3mo ago
This is basically the entire story of the Industrial Revolution.
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by mikgp 3mo ago
Wouldn’t this be an amazing outcome of the legislation and prove politicians understand exactly how and why the internet was built? I don’t think people have a problem with “social media” per-say, it’s a problem with algorithmic feeds contr
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by mikgp 3mo ago
I have a theory there’s a more nefarious problem that AI changes the incentives around what work is easy to do, in a way that can affect how work hits the bottom line. Aside from the slop problem- people create more documentation more peop
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by mikgp 3mo ago
This is interesting but I was recently in England at a country house, which should be a pinnacle of architecture and it like I assume many of them were just added onto over and over again over the years leading to all the problems described
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by mikgp 3mo ago
What is the mental model folks have that “just do ads” is easy, like only two companies have figured out how to make money from ads and I imagine they won’t take the competition lying down.
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by mikgp 3mo ago
What are folks doing with agents the requires agents touching production at 2am? Is this an issue of scale im not working at?
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by mikgp 3mo ago
We need like an international plagiarism body to give you a stamp of approval when you write your dissertation so this doesn’t come back to bite you 20 years later. A lot of times when I read certain plagiarism examples (Claudine Gay for in
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by mikgp 3mo ago
> It will happily recreate the same function in several different places for no reason. And that really doesn't matter anymore. Does it not though? Once maybe, but at scale? All code is tech debt. The more duplication, the bigger
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by mikgp 3mo ago
I think it depends on a lot of things, not the least of wish is, this could be the worst their financials get, or depending how competitive this whole thing is, it could be the best: https://www.reuters.com/technology/o
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by mikgp 3mo ago
Kubernetes is so ubiquitous that yeah, as long as you're not trying to run it yourself, a small Kubernetes cluster just isn't all that much to manage. I think it's been so long, people forget how annoying it is to manage ser
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by mikgp 3mo ago
> Code becomes precious when it is the only place knowledge lives. It seems like a lot of people amidst this AI revolution want to flip "Working code over comprehensive documentation" on it's head. And, maybe I'm not
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by mikgp 3mo ago
50-75m sounds quite low. Where is that stat coming from? This seems to suggest 75 million are under 18. https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/united-states-population-...
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by mikgp 3mo ago
I had an interesting interaction with Claude Code. I was trying to write this tool to process metadata from a website, and the websites API’s had rate limits so I was slowly downloading website metadata 1 api call at the time. I told Clau

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