toddmorey

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by toddmorey 9mo ago
I didn't understand this argument, either. I think the argument is that general purpose skills will likely continue to be baked into the LLMs, so we'll see less of the repos of "expert designer" and "python expert&q
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
Cursor if I recall actually started life as a VScode plugin. But the plugin API didn’t allow for the type of integration & experiences they wanted. Hit limits quickly and then decided to make a fork.
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
this age, feels like the most dangerous thing the Chinese government could do is sell that data back to our government.
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Ask HN: Who is honestly evaluating AI outputs and how?
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
Oh smart. This is good guidance. Yeah fascinating how longer running context causes these side effects, especially the repeated image with no changes bug.
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
I think that's the right approach and what I've been experimenting with. Diagram as code and then style transfer from output diagram to desired look. That's where I've had the most success.
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
I mean, one of its flagship features is to make precise edits to images. And it's really good at it... until it randomly isn't.
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
Yeah, that’s very well put. They don’t store black-and-white they store billions of grays. This is why tool use for research and grounding has been so transformative.
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
Confident idiot: I’m exploring using LLM for diagram creation. I’ve found after about 3 prompts to edit an image with Gemini, it will respond randomly with an entirely new image. Another quirk is it will respond “here’s the image with those
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
GitHub seems to suggest banners or “Also consider ways to notify the user in other communication channels such as email, notifications, or a push notification in the GitHub app.” On MacOS… emails and push notifications create… toast message
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by toddmorey 10mo ago
When async notifications arrive from background processes… How is the user notified? (Not defending toasts, just curious how to do it better.)
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by toddmorey 11mo ago
Wait I don’t get it. CF is free for your use case, but you are looking for a cheap CDN? What’s cheaper than free?
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by toddmorey 11mo ago
Everything in tech becomes ad-supported bullshit even if you pay for it. Tech knows no other business model with consumers besides devaluing the product to grow large enough to be another shitty ad platform.
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by toddmorey 11mo ago
I thought it was kinda funny that Google Slide’s own built in “beautify this slide” button converts the whole slide into an uneditable image.
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by toddmorey 11mo ago
In some ways, the fact that the technology will shift is the problem as model behavior keeps changing. It's rather maddening unstable ground to build on. Really hard to gauge the impact to customer experience from a new model.
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by toddmorey 11mo ago
We can't help but overreact to every new adjustment on the leader boards. I don't think we're quite used to products in other industries gaining and losing advantage so quickly.
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by toddmorey 11mo ago
The Apple App Store is full of scam apps. It’s all the disadvantages of a walled garden with none of the supposed advantages for users. In that way, the App Store itself is a scam.
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by toddmorey 1y ago
labelstud.io is also great, open source + highly configurable, and supports audio and time series data. I’ve been doing a project with it for video annotation.
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by toddmorey 1y ago
Yeah that's a bit maddening because this common usage is exactly why LLMs adopted the pattern. Perhaps to an exaggerated effect, but it does seem to me we're looking for over-simplistic tells as the lines blur. And LLM output dict
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by toddmorey 1y ago
The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
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by toddmorey 1y ago
Not a word or whisper about environmental impact, either. I mean at least do some hand waving or something. I feel like a habitable planet is a fundamental right.
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by toddmorey 1y ago
My understanding is it means half of what a subscriber pays is spent just on the compute required as you chat with the models. Which leaves the other have to be divided up among salaries, marketing, R&D, etc.
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by toddmorey 1y ago
50% margins would be actually low and concerning for a saas business. What makes software an attractive business is how well it scales. The standard for saas has been at least 80% or higher margins. Most all saas accounts require lengthy an
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by toddmorey 1y ago
I worry that almost all the 2025 startups I've seen are AI app builders. Where are the novel new applications? I get that codegen is currently one area where AI does well, but it also feels like we're struggling with other use cas
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by toddmorey 1y ago
Yes that's right. The inference costs in isolation are interesting because that speaks to the unit economics of this business: R&D / model training aside, can the service itself be scaled to operate at a profit? Because that&#
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by toddmorey 1y ago
Good grief, you can't even scroll that thing
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by toddmorey 1y ago
Remember in image editing, the source image itself is a huge part of the prompt, and that's often the source of the ambiguity. The model may clearly understand your prompt to change the color of a shirt, but struggle to understand the
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by toddmorey 1y ago
As others have pointed out, LLMs were not involved in the project from the article. But this transition will happen quickly—fast food chains are ruthless about efficiency and ordering from a discrete set of available options actually is som
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by toddmorey 1y ago
You may be right. But we have a Model S 85D from 2015 and basically everything was replaced (seats, all door handles, ac compressor, sun roof, glove box, gauge cluster LCD, main LCD, MPU) except the battery. That's been great, and 10
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by toddmorey 1y ago
I did laugh at loud at "They lift others up. Literally, in my case."

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