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by spprashant 4mo ago
I really doubt that 400M number. They try to get me to login to Threads see comments on Instagram posts. Technically I am monthly "active" user, but not really. I see more Bluesky links in the wild than Threads and they claim only
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by spprashant 4mo ago
The only thing scary is that federal government interns have discovered how to one-shot shitty web apps.
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by spprashant 4mo ago
I guess that first piece was important to me. I actually assumed, based on statements Musk has made in the past, that they are purely working off cameras and AI. Isn't that his whole pitch as to why Tesla FSD will scale out faster than
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by spprashant 4mo ago
I agree. With Altman at least it seems he is making the pivot because he thinks its better messaging. Amodei is just re-framing what he actually sees as the endgame here. He says 10x productivity, he means 10x less jobs.
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by spprashant 4mo ago
I love Sonnet 4.6 so much.
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by spprashant 4mo ago
If it spends 2x tokens to achieve the same result, that's effective 2x cost in a manner of speaking
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by spprashant 4mo ago
Looks like they land at the average number of 67% disagreement.
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by spprashant 4mo ago
Sounds about as sane as you could possibly be given the climate.
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by spprashant 4mo ago
So it largely sounds like many more people will be able to write software - and will use AI to do it. Existing software engineers will continue to automate their tasks away like they always did, but perhaps at a faster rate. The impact of A
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by spprashant 4mo ago
AI psychosis just a lazy term, much like Trump Derangement Syndrome. It sounds hostile while also removing any scope for productive discourse. Once you call someone a 'psycho', they are less likely to engage with you, and more lik
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by spprashant 4mo ago
Companies are also pivoting away from mere outsourcing to setting up entire GCCs in there.
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by spprashant 4mo ago
"offshore Indian devs" are no slouches. They have access to the same GPT models and likely cost a tenth of the median US salary. Businesses are always looking to lower marginal cost. They will hire 1 software architect in US to wr
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by spprashant 5mo ago
Have we perhaps hyped Jony Ive a little too much?
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by spprashant 5mo ago
As with many things, users will discover a happy medium. There is scope for a lot of productivity gain here if the C-suite is willing to understand the tech and work with engineers rather than whatever Dario Amodei is selling.
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by spprashant 5mo ago
538 was fun while it lasted. The podcasts were also a good listen. Things got worse after Disney had their first round of layoffs. Their problem was they weren't profitable outside the presidential election years when interest peaked i
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by spprashant 5mo ago
Good old Goodhart's law. https://xkcd.com/2899/
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by spprashant 5mo ago
Github just won't respond at all.
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by spprashant 5mo ago
I have never attempted something so ambitious with AI, but this feels spot on in terms of experience. As you cede more control to the model, you will find yourself losing control on things like code quality and performance.
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by spprashant 5mo ago
Why even bother announcing an hardware product if you are not even going to mention the specs? We are supposed to buy this because.. AI?
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by spprashant 5mo ago
Having type hints as a feature is not the same as using them.
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by spprashant 5mo ago
> Python is, thus, clearly superior to other languages in terms of ease of review. My experience has not been this. Dynamic languages make it harder to figure out things locally, unless someone has done the hard work of adding type hints
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by spprashant 5mo ago
I feel very lost in these threads. A lot of people talk about getting bad results from gpt 5.5 xH or Opus 4.7 xH. And here I am daily driving Sonnet 4.6 with medium or high thinking. I actually am thoroughly satisfied with the work it does.
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by spprashant 5mo ago
This seems kind of a critical point in time. I consider Cloudflare to be one of the more serious engineering organizations based on the quality of the products. Assuming they are not lying, them cutting 20% workforce citing AI signals there
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by spprashant 5mo ago
I d like to know what exactly Coinbase has shipped with this addition to productivity.
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by spprashant 5mo ago
Can you elaborate? I happen to know nothing about Banksy's political views beyond perhaps he is slightly leaning to the left, maybe anti-capitalist?
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by spprashant 6mo ago
Everything since that launch to this release has been a PR disaster for Anthropic.
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by spprashant 6mo ago
They are trying so hard to make AI do human jobs instead of focussing on opportunities where AI is special suited. Do you really want your super intelligent token muncher to be clicking browser tabs all day?
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by spprashant 6mo ago
I can't believe they are yanking tool access instead of just reducing the token quota or simply pulling Opus 4.7 access. To be fair even that would be poorly received, but at least people would have a choice of working within limits. C
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by spprashant 6mo ago
None of those seem like they had an capital investment equivalent to 1% of the GDP. Apparently railroad was the only technological investment that was higher than AI when measured as a percentage of the GDP.
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by spprashant 6mo ago
Yes. But unfortunately that domain suffers from ambiguity which LLMs are bad at. Medical treatment has never been about asking questions and getting perfect answers. Excellent doctors and nurse practitioners have a great intuition for which

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