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by taurath 25d ago
The Spotify model is basically just Amazon’s team-owned KPIs and independence, put into a UI so you can really see how much their app is conways law. This is why all the sections of Amazon.com are barely coherent. AWS does this too but it’s
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by taurath 25d ago
IME Claude gets worse about a week or two after a new model comes out, and then continuously a little worse as time goes on. It’s especially bad when a new model comes out. I assume it’s just to increase the delta so people will spend more
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by taurath 25d ago
> Not a role requiring Fourth Amendment dogmatism: We will teach you our regulatory agility as long as you can ship code faster than regulatory oversight. This seems like the kind of statement that should get a company’s founders and boa
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by taurath 25d ago
It’s so interesting that the example training given is game boy advance emulator as such a large task, when misalignments and task veering happen so regularly in smaller bits.
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by taurath 25d ago
If it’s on here, it’s automatically not cool enough to be the next thing. I’d bet that whatever the next thing is can and will explicitly exclude the VC tech crowd. Yall get that tech is considered like the evil empire to be toppled right?
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by taurath 26d ago
Fiduciary responsibility seems to mean that one has no choice but to follow orders if under threat - something that is worth remembering when it seems that corporate power is larger than state power. Also shows how a lot of people making mo
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by taurath 27d ago
There are arguments against rent control as an analgesic, but it being a disincentive for landlord/investor altruism isn’t one of them.
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by taurath 1mo ago
The size of the stick here is in direct proportion to your proximity to power.
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by taurath 1mo ago
To me it’s a purpose fit solution that does actually show what LLMs are capable of. Just in the best case, with the most well defined constraints one will be able to work with. It proves that with a sufficient spec, it can do a lot of work.
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by taurath 1mo ago
No, it was to build things that were good enough. I am watching initiative after initiative fail after a rapid PoC phase, the more in depth the LLM dependence the quicker the codebase becomes unmanageable.
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by taurath 1mo ago
> If all companies start using AI at scale the demand will skyrocket This is why ROI is so critical, and I’d argue that picture looks a lot less optimistic for it to pan out functionality wise today than it did in March, when everyone wa
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by taurath 1mo ago
Billing platforms for hundreds of millions of customers are hard. You’re also an AI bot trying to get engagement
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by taurath 1mo ago
Idk in my experience that’s the mark of someone whos not worked on complex or critical systems, or is wowwed by a bunch of PoCs.
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by taurath 1mo ago
LLMs and social media is 500+ PHD behavioral psychologists working together to make you do things at any price so they can make as much money as they can - in fact, if they don't try to make as much money as they can, everyone involved
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by taurath 1mo ago
> Is anthropomorphizing a real problem? Even tech companies are rolling out AI training which utterly anthropomorphizes it, and leads people to think its actually intelligence. This is part of the reason for the backlash - everyone under
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by taurath 1mo ago
People still keep using Instagram and X and until that changes there is no backlash. Customers and users have signaled over and over there is nothing that can be done to make them leave, so Mark and Elon get to do whatever they want.
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by taurath 1mo ago
I’m considering a set of skills that I can apply common lenses to PRs (metrics, error handling, testability + tests, architecture, security), and fetch the code and pr details via the GitHub CLI or an MCP. This seems like it might get absu
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by taurath 2mo ago
Next is no browser at all, like x and instagram. I don’t know where all the good posters are going to, maybe off social media entirely. We really need a reset after almost all the platforms became owned by the most sociopathic and out of to
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by taurath 2mo ago
> Or are we quickly approaching an apex where the people running these companies realize AI cannot completely replace human developers? The boosters are loud and the failures are made silent, until the failures become impossible to ignor
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by taurath 2mo ago
Cancelling a long term credit car can profoundly effect ones credit score sadly.
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by taurath 2mo ago
With pharmacies, people are emotional because their perscriptions getting filled can literally mean their livelihood, their health or their life. I hoard medications because my insurance will only cover 30 day fills, and often it takes 2-4
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by taurath 2mo ago
I find it hard to believe that patients like it given how sales work for these sorts of services - customer satisfaction is often the lowest priority given it’s ultimately a cost cutting service. I live in a major metro and there are no pha
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by taurath 2mo ago
Weakest negotiating position other than the customers. The funny part is probably a majority of pharmacies are owned by CVS or Walgreens each of which are insurance companies in their own right, and often people with company health insuranc
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by taurath 2mo ago
And even if the AI worked well enough (a claim to be proven by its proponents), companies wouldn’t give it access to be actually helpful. It’s all to save costs on routine calls, not enhance problem solving, the same way they’ve outsourced
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by taurath 2mo ago
If an AI representing a company I must do business with is trying to “empathize” with me to calm me down about not being able to access the services I pay them for, you better believe it’s going to make me and other customers much more upse
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by taurath 2mo ago
In his case, it could be called opposition research
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by taurath 2mo ago
That's a really common reaction to people first hearing about the delta between how society talks about the subject vs what they actually do about it. Its a bit like the fiction of the social safety net or strong institutions. The trut
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by taurath 2mo ago
> Hassabis seems to have been pushed aside. Yeah he seemed too reasonable to me, relative to the fervor. Whoever ends up in charge needs to do a lot of frothing to catch up to the ferver that would justify their valuations and investment
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by taurath 2mo ago
I truly believe if we took a measely $50b out of the LLM world we could create trillion dollar economies from basic research within 10 years. I personally know folks who have intuitive understanding of things that can't get funding to
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by taurath 2mo ago
> you instantly FEEL how smart and superior it is I felt taken by the change in the system model personality and writing style compared to opus, but I also found it to be much less impressive than I was expecting - let alone that the cos

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