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by rglover 2y ago
The reality of a project like this is that to get it right (which is by the creator's standards, no one else's) takes time. Add on top of that Blow and Thekla are building games with this to dogfood it which takes time, too. Sadly
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by rglover 2y ago
This is a great deal. Switching to Kagi was like getting OG Google search back. I'm also blown away by how good it is. I used DDG but was never really happy (always had to go back to Google for certain things). Love that for $25/m
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by rglover 2y ago
Yup. The people who fit this role well will be the types that do this work for fun anyways, purely out of enjoyment or curiosity. I don't expect those types to completely disappear, they'll just be incredibly rare (i.e., the Paret
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by rglover 2y ago
Like I said, in the short-term this will sound false, but in the long-term I expect it to be frighteningly accurate. > I literally can't distinguish between reddit commenters and HN commenters. No need to condescend. I have a fair a
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by rglover 2y ago
Really enjoyed this post. > Putting aside existential risks, I don't see a future where a lot of jobs don't cease to exist. I'm personally betting on the plateau effect with LLMs. There are two plateaus I see coming that w
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by rglover 2y ago
Is it? This is the crux of the problem with a lot of institutions. There's little to no professional accountability for bad moves anymore. It used to be that doing a good job and taking pride in one's work was all you needed to do
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by rglover 2y ago
I speculated a ways back [1] that this was why Elon Musk bought Twitter. Not to "control the discourse" but to get unfettered access to real, live human thought that you can train an AI against. My guess is OpenAI has hit limits w
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by rglover 2y ago
> His entire thesis that a single hyped company, that has no moat by the way, is some kind of single point of failure for the entire tech sector. It's a perceptual/psychological point of failure, not an actual one. If OpenAI (t
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by rglover 2y ago
Okay and now what? Throwing out empty platitudes like this in the face of legitimate criticism is only going to expedite what I said above.
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by rglover 2y ago
Yet another piece of rushed technology that's being heralded as "the way" which will most certainly be discarded when the next hype-able acronym comes along. The only upside to these technologies being shotgun implemented and
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by rglover 2y ago
Possible, but far less likely. This would require real humans being involved to verify each new account (after getting invited, you're dropped into a queue to be approved by admins). Honestly, I think the "but anything can be circ
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by rglover 2y ago
We need to go back to BBS. Ideally those that are invite only with no means of having "blind" signups. Social media is and has been dead for real engagement for nearly a decade.
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by rglover 2y ago
True, but this particular style was born out of a region where people are largely known to be smug and arrogant about their intelligence/"betterness" than other people. Not sure I'd call it a moral failing as much as a m
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by rglover 2y ago
Because they think it makes them sound Smart? Because it's safer to fit in with the crowd than to Not? Because having a genuine personality is Difficult?
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by rglover 2y ago
Depends on the topic/goal. If I need concrete info, I'll use Kagi, and for more general questions ("should I be concerned about my cough"), I'll use an LLM.
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by rglover 2y ago
IMO, it's wiser to focus on RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and utilizing vector db's as MCP is essentially an abstraction on top of that idea. In essence, MCP is the next esoteric acronym that can be hyped/used to get a
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by rglover 2y ago
"Rushing makes messes." - Uncle Bob Martin
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by rglover 2y ago
AFAIK this is one of the first times that a significant downward move in the stock market wasn't also seen in the price of Bitcoin. Usually they're correlated.
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by rglover 2y ago
Those are not my prompts. Those were the headings it put above the code it generated in its responses. Even if my prompt was low-quality, it doesn't matter. It's confidently stating that what it produced was both tested and workin
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by rglover 2y ago
Yep. Last night I was asking ChatGPT (4o) to help me generate a simple HTML canvas that users could draw on. Multiple times, it spoke confidently of its not even kind of working solution (copying the text from the chat below): - "Final
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by rglover 2y ago
Aside from the other points about understanding human psychology here, there's also a deep well they're trying to fill inside themselves. That of being someone who can't create things without shepherding others and see AI as
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by rglover 2y ago
It's deeply frustrating that these companies keep gaslighting people into believing LLMs can think.
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by rglover 2y ago
> Given the intensifying competition within AI, teams face a difficult balance: move fast and risk breaking things, or prioritize reliability and risk being left behind. Can we please retire this dichotomy? Part of why teams do this in t
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by rglover 2y ago
You're right. I think it will be less of an employee-employer relationship and those types will be hired guns on retainer (i.e., you don't need a lawyer until you do but it helps to have one on retainer if you're a big entity
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by rglover 2y ago
This post is spot on. It will be incredibly lucrative to be one of the "ones who knows" in the relatively near future. What's scary is what happens when those types cease to exist (due to retirement or age) and all you'r
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by rglover 2y ago
Working on a new version of the deployment service [1] for my full-stack JS framework [2]. [1] https://cheatcode.co/push [2] https://cheatcode.co/joystick
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by rglover 2y ago
Charles Lieber [1] or Houston Chinese Consulate vibes [2]. [1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/harvard-university-p... [2] https://abc13.com/fire-chinese-consulate-documents-being-bur.
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by rglover 2y ago
> And people are like, "Wah, it can't write code like a Senior engineer with 20 years of experience!" Except this isn't true. The code quality varies dramatically depending on what you're doing, the length of the
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by rglover 2y ago
Never underestimate the momentum of a poorly understood idea that appears as magic to the average person. Once the money starts flowing, that momentum will increase until the idea hits a brick wall that its creators can't gaslight peop
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by rglover 2y ago
The data has already been sold off to the real customers (i.e., not you and me) [1]. You can (and should) request a deletion, but the damage has already been done. [1] https://gizmodo.com/23andme-is-selling-your-data-but-not

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