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by simonw 29d ago
$1M a year isn't a lot of money if you are paying for full-time employees.
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by simonw 29d ago
I hope Adam (and other Tailwind team members) got handsomely paid as part of this acquisition. Working on an open source project for 9 years and then getting a sizable bonus in an acquisition that keeps the open source project alive seems l
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by simonw 29d ago
If you release new versions without documentation it's easy for agents to generate that missing documentation.
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by simonw 29d ago
Here's some context on the impact AI had on the Tailwind Labs business model from January: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... > But the reality is that 75% of the people o
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by simonw 29d ago
> all requests to the Pro model will be routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at Flash's price If I'd carefully tested and optimized prompts against Pro I wouldn't be keen on this particular news. I feel like API model providers
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Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich(vals.ai)
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by simonw 1mo ago
They could explain how they use data from their users "to improve our models". In the absence of that, how can we make informed decisions about how to use their tools? (And "you can opt out" is a weak answer IMO, becau
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by simonw 1mo ago
The breakthrough was on August 15th, but Tristan and Levent had been working towards it (with the help of various models) for the best part of a year. I personally doubt that their work influenced the OpenAI result - OpenAI themselves say &
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by simonw 1mo ago
Meta AI's David Singleton has a thread about their security prompt injection defenses here: https://twitter.com/dps/status/2097404102468899131 > One threat we’re particularly focused on is prompt injection
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by simonw 1mo ago
It's legal. I wouldn't do that myself, but I guess that's why I don't train models for a frontier AI lab.
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by simonw 1mo ago
Anthropic too, and evidently others. Amazon were recently confirmed to be doing the same thing: https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-...
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by simonw 1mo ago
> When shopping, a one-time card number is generated at checkout so your real card is never seen by the merchant or your agent. That's sensible. Hopefully you can set a spending limit too? I'd be OK giving my agent a $100 limit
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by simonw 1mo ago
My point is that researchers and academics really have been doing this for decades - it's the reason projects like Common Crawl and LAION exist. I think it's notable that nobody was calling out those researchers for their lack of
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by simonw 1mo ago
How do you feel about the integrity of the machine learning researchers over the past twenty years who trained models on scraped internet data that weren't particularly powerful and didn't attract any attention?
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by simonw 1mo ago
> While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models . Once again, I'm no closer to understanding what https://openai.com/policies/how-y
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by simonw 1mo ago
The difference is memory bandwidth. The M5 Ultra that's coming out on 22nd September can do 1,200GB/s. The M5 Max you can buy today only has 614GB/s.
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by simonw 1mo ago
I don't think we even have a year. The current batch of LLMs are ferociously good at identifying vulnerabilities.
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by simonw 1mo ago
Got any leads on good tutorials on how to use a microkernel operating system on a VPS somewhere to host a website?
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by simonw 1mo ago
> Andrej Karpathy and AI systems engineering into a single hour. His core thesis: "You can actually delete everything… Delete everything, keep Graph." Yeah, that's not what that video is about either. This is weird!
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by simonw 1mo ago
I'm a little intrigued as to what is going on here. Searching for "Prompting is dead in 6 months" returned this video, the Hacker News thread, and a LinkedIn 15 minute extract from this video where the author claimed that it
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by simonw 1mo ago
This is a mislabeled upload of stolen content. The original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZoDsNmG_s - on the official Stanford Online YouTube account. It has the title "Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 |
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by simonw 1mo ago
The US can't even vote for universal healthcare. I have real trouble seeing a path for UBI.
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by simonw 1mo ago
I hope for their sake they bought all the RAM they needed to fulfill those Kickstarter orders at least six months ago.
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by simonw 1mo ago
The Kickstarter page makes that a little more obvious - it's hardware: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiinyai/tiiny-ai-pocket...
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by simonw 1mo ago
Yeah that one looks like controlled mouse updates. I wonder if they sped up the video?
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by simonw 1mo ago
Presumably to try and reduce the chance of a mass panic among their users.
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by simonw 1mo ago
I've been using Blender via Astra (and Sol before they) without any UI automation at all - Blender supports writing and executing Python scripts, here's how I'm doing that: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms&#
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by simonw 1mo ago
I think it's a genuinely good implementation of the concept. It looks good and plays reasonably well and captures what it needs to capture from the original. (Update: OK the sword fighting isn't good. As I got deeper into the game
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by simonw 1mo ago
I was impressed by this 3D version of Zork. Video: https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3muqcwa4j... Demo: https://zork-underground-empire.netlify.app Code: https://github
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by simonw 1mo ago
Thanks for saying that. For what it's worth, I kept engaging because you clearly had a perspective based on real issues and deep consideration.

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