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by theptip 8mo ago
> An interesting question is if agents are much better at querying data than humans, do we even need the awkwardness of SQL, It’s an interesting question, my hunch is that for now “in-distribution reasoning” is going to be much more effe
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by theptip 8mo ago
> we moved from "AI is dangerous" There was never consensus on this. IME the vast majority of people never bought in to this view. Those of us who were making that prediction early on called it exactly like it is: people will h
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by theptip 8mo ago
> the market loves pay per use, see ”cloud”. Cloud goes on the books as recurring revenue, not one-off; even though it's in principle elastic, in practice if I pay for a VM today I'll usually pay for one tomorrow. (I don't
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by theptip 8mo ago
I think this is shortsighted. The markets value recurring subscription revenue at something like 10x “one-off” revenue, Anthropic is leaving a lot of enterprise value on the table with this approach. In practice this approach forces AI apps
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MNX: AI perps, futures, and prediction markets(mnx.fi)
1 points by theptip 8mo ago|0 comments
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by theptip 8mo ago
Not a silver bullet. When you use serializable you have more opportunities for deadlocks (cases which would otherwise be logic errors at weaker isolation levels). Serializable just means that within the transaction your logic can naively as
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by theptip 8mo ago
I’ve idly toyed with this problem as well, I think there’s a good opportunity to build a nice framework in Python with monkeypatching (or perhaps in other languages using DB/ORM middleware) so you don’t need to modify the code under te
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by theptip 8mo ago
Tough market. What’s your differentiator over Readwise? They are crushing it on the “power user feed reader”. Best of luck though, I think this is a very promising space. (But my bet is you can do all the interesting stuff in vibe-coded thi
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by theptip 8mo ago
Wat. RSS is back! https://x.com/karpathy/status/2018043254986703167
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by theptip 8mo ago
The whole premise is very unimaginative. It just takes one step on the infinite series and does not ask what the asymptote is (if there even is one). If every coked up SDR can build a tech stack, then every junior SWE can get superhuman SEO
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by theptip 8mo ago
I like the concept, but it seems like an obvious extension of where Anthropic is building with Tasks and Memory. What’s the moat? Cross-agent compatibility?
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by theptip 9mo ago
Personally I would be astonished if LLMs percolating through the global economy doesn’t give a 50bp bump from here on out. Even if scaling hit a wall, commoditizing what we have now would do it. We have so much scaffolding and organizationa
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by theptip 9mo ago
Right. Reader was not a case of apathy and failure to see the product’s value. It was Google clearly seeing the product’s value, and killing it because that value was detrimental to their ads business.
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by theptip 9mo ago
So is this a model baked into the VLLM layer? Or a scaffold that the agent sits in for testing? If the former then it’s relevant to the broader discourse on LLM generality. If the latter, then it seems less relevant to chatbots and business
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by theptip 9mo ago
I could believe that SMB SaaS doesn’t change much, but the vast majority of revenue is from enterprise. I think enterprise SaaS is where you’ll see big changes.
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by theptip 9mo ago
Possibly, but I don’t think it’s certain. For a SaaS to capture, you’d need a forward deployed engineer model. And then I would have ten different FDEs to liaise with, none of whom know my domain. Vs if I contract a shop, then I have a dedi
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by theptip 9mo ago
This may be true pre-LLMs, but I think you need to account for the baseline build-vs-buy tradeoff shifting. Companies in most cases don’t want to build SaaS because it is expensive to hire engineers to do it, not because they are allergic t
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Welcome to Moltbook(thezvi.substack.com)
3 points by theptip 9mo ago|1 comments
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by theptip 9mo ago
> AI-native. No installation wizard; Claude Code guides setup. No monitoring dashboard; ask Claude what's happening. No debugging tools; describe the problem, Claude fixes it. > Skills over features. Contributors shouldn't a
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by theptip 9mo ago
I think it’s pretty easy to write a law that doesn’t include email and sms. They have no engagement algorithms. Forums require a little more finesse - but a good starting point is distinguishing upvotes from personalized engagement-based al
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by theptip 9mo ago
Don’t guess; just get your vitamin D levels tested. It’s $20, you can just buy it à la carte. For some people even in sunny areas, 5000 IU might be needed to get you in-range. This is highly individual.
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by theptip 9mo ago
I’m confused by the “at last”, it’s been consistently covered on The Guardian: iran site:theguardian.com There is a narrative that has been floating around and it seems like a Russian psyop designed to sow discord (not accusing you of being
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by theptip 9mo ago
I think both can be true, no? Multi-agent coordination is obviously what's next. And, Gas Town itself might never amount to more than a proof-of-concept. Personally I'd put my money on whatever Anthropic build to do this job, rath
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by theptip 9mo ago
Of course, I should have been more clear, I meant that we are only now investigating these states with modern scientific rationalist/empiricist approaches. Eg the example I gave has apparently never been measured before the last couple
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by theptip 9mo ago
They were nowhere near 2400 in the time range I mentioned.
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by theptip 9mo ago
> easy projects with a very short time horizons (less than an a couple of days, I'd say). The example I quoted said hours, not days. But even taking your claim of days as estimable, I have seen much better. An example of weeks-long
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by theptip 9mo ago
Hi! “Did you read the article” is generally not in compliance with the HN community guidelines. Please don’t do this.
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by theptip 9mo ago
Nah, they were always chasing flash. I enjoyed using their products circa 2015-2020, but man they really leaned into the Pareto Principle. Every feature had rough edges, and they didn’t invest much in polish. It’s a tough trade-off for a sm
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by theptip 9mo ago
> This is, of course, false. As every experienced software engineer knows, it is not possible to accurately estimate software projects. This is a cop-out. Just because you can’t do it, doesn’t mean it’s impossible :) There are many types
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by theptip 9mo ago
Some of these esoteric states are really weird, and it seems crazy to me that we are only now investigating them. This isn’t just “energy” woo that can’t be measured, there are clear physical phenomena. Another good one is Niroda Samapatti

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