tedmiston

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by tedmiston 4mo ago
I generalized the statement from one cloud to big public clouds categorically to show by hyperbole that ... what difference does it make?! [One can find analogous critiques of Azure, GCP, etc.] Last year, AWS did ≥ $100B in revenue acr
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by tedmiston 4mo ago
"Anyone who uses < public cloud computing > is hypocritical" is a pretty insane take, even for HN. All technologies have benefits and costs — choosing and using a technology does not imply the nonexistence of tradeoffs. One
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by tedmiston 4mo ago
Make Neo-Luddism Great Again! /s
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by tedmiston 4mo ago
> I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI. Author: Goes on to demonstrate superficial (mis)understanding of the technology by proliferating misconceptions peppered with
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by tedmiston 4mo ago
Reads like a post straight from r/iamverysmart.
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
> I’m terrified that there’s going to be a doctor’s office sometime that does the same, with more serious consequences. they can send scheduling info, appt reminders, etc via SMS but (1) they must allow opt out, and (2) they cannot send
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
> From my quick research online, it seems they've gone digital-only for season tickets because they don't want people just reselling them to turn a profit. They want actual season-long fans, so now if you transfer too many game
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
RatGPT
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
> And as for the critics, tell me I don't get it > Everybody can tell you how to do it, they never did it > —jay-z
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
sure, but undo isn't the only path to a newer better version of the code it's easy to see how the product (claude code) could be abstracted to spec form and then a future version built from that without inheriting previous itera
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
ehh, as long as the overall starting architecture is decent, it's not hard to do tiny refactors across components claude code, the app, is also not some radically complex concept (even if the codebase today is complicated) but hey, tha
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
they prioritize bugs based on what impacts the largest amount ($) of customers — fixing every bug of a huge complex project rarely makes sense if the impact of the bug on revenue is tiny
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
i think you are conflating anthropic (the startup) with claude code (the leaked source of one of said startup's products) i.e., the claude code codebase doesn't need to be good right now [^1] — so i don't think the as
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
> ... but I have to push back on the idea that Anthropic will be acquired. Their most recent valuation was $380B, and even if they wanted to be acquired (which I doubt) essentially no company has the necessary capital. isn't that pr
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
we really need some more precise terms here to make that line clear: something like "black-box vibe coding" vs "gray-box vibe coding"
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by tedmiston 6mo ago
perhaps i'll have to try writing them in plaintext form like "---" [^1] [^1]: proof that i'm not ai lol
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
i'm not sure personally, but maybe this is a factor in the openai / anthropic IPO race. but the biggest investor in openai is microsoft — 1 billion is nothing when your market cap is ~2.75 trillion. if we are talking about the mos
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
this is probably a nit, but i have avoided using the "…" most of the time because the way it renders on iOS is so smushed to me vs "..." i truly wish the ellipsis just rendered like "dumb ellipsis" does
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
> Have you ever given a generative AI model a short input, been really pleased with the output, and felt like you accomplished the result? I have! It's probably common. i mean, you did . becoming good at writing succinct and cleve
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
eh, that's a leap of faith assumption without knowing one's own dosage and personal effects. someone who has 5 drinks a week and 5 drinks a day are going to have radically different longterm health consequences. but here we do no
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
the notion that "contains —" ~= "AI generated" is a really dumb popular misconception: dashes have existed for hundreds of years. just because many people use them incorrectly or treat the hyphen as if it's some un
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
critical thinking is alive and well
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
AI guardrails continue to make safety improvements — comparing a rapidly evolving advanced technology to a drug is a broken analogy to me. One gets safer over time; the other gets more dangerous. But also, the risk profile and statistics a
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
> b. related to a, how even small tidbits combined over time can build a pretty accurate picture of who someone is. that's basically why clickstream analytics is so powerful
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
is your idea of granular control (roughly) a group of agents in separate containers writing back to their own designated store each sufficient, or more control than that?
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
Moltbook Valuation & Funding Deal Type Date Amount Raised to Date Post-Val Status Stage 2. Merger/Acquisition 10-Mar-2026 - - - Announced Startup 1. Early
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
comparing an acquihire of two people by analogy to a $70B investment is a bit egregrious... this event is pocket change to big tech.
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
it's high talent acquisition, the service is just a byproduct. this reads like an acquihire.
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
it's just a fancified key talent acquihire of people on the edge. with the amount of cash in LLMs, i expect to see more of this given the pace of innovation in that field. the story does sound ridiculous ostensibly, but that's th
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
now give them The Orb

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