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by trunnell 10mo ago
Having a bad manager in past roles can be some of the best "manager training." If one your past managers did something recommended in this article but it caused problems, that's ok! It just means you have seen another failur
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by trunnell 1y ago
now we lack confidence there isn't another underlying issue You can be confident there is a non-zero rate of errors and defects in any complex service that's moving as fast as the frontier model providers!
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by trunnell 1y ago
They need to focus on fixing reliability first. Maybe. What would you rather have? A) rock solid Sonnet 4 with Sonnet 5, say, next April B) buggy Sonnet 4 with Sonnet 5, say, next January Seems like different customers would have a range
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by trunnell 1y ago
https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c They recently resolved two bugs affecting model quality, one of which was in production Aug 5-Sep 4. They also wrote: Importantly, we never intentionally degrade
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by trunnell 1y ago
lol, rebuttal https://youtu.be/WOSqCjMRXWA
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by trunnell 1y ago
Respectfully disagree -- solar isn't the big story here. One could argue that batteries will have a bigger impact than solar. Batteries obviously let you decouple power generation and consumption, shifting anytime production to peak-t
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by trunnell 1y ago
They mention California. https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply is a dashboard showing electricity demand and supply, real-time and historical. Yesterday evening's peak demand was between 7-8pm at 30.7 gigaw
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by trunnell 2y ago
“major studios do use some cloud services” is not the issue. The problem being addressed is that the “script to screen” process is typically an antiquated mishmash of offline-first vendors. Netflix reinvented that with a cloud-first proces
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by trunnell 2y ago
To those who know more about ATC: is there any hope of automation?
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by trunnell 2y ago
That’s right, and those aren’t the only inconsistencies in the official report. More interesting to me is who had the motive and opportunity, and this podcast makes a compelling case for who was behind it.
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by trunnell 2y ago
Don’t want to spoil it for you
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by trunnell 2y ago
I’m not a bot, look at my history.
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by trunnell 2y ago
I thought the JFK assassination was tragic but not really relevant/interesting until I listened to this podcast by journalist Soledad O’Brien: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-killed-jfk/id17146.
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by trunnell 2y ago
I empathize with new grads. It can be hard to stand out especially at the beginning of your career. But I predict this won’t do what the authors claim: it won’t fix anything, and it won’t change technical interviews that much. At most it mi
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by trunnell 2y ago
Unlike PG's half-baked founder mode essay, this article is more complete in describing what behaviors are successful during scaling. It also matches my experience when Netflix was scaling up the streaming business in the 2010-2016 era
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by trunnell 2y ago
Generally, no. I agree with you. In every case I've seen with healthy leadership, you could just ask who the top people are. Up to about 200-person size groups, you could ask any leader (even the top group leader) and they could just
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by trunnell 2y ago
Ok, good point. There's certainly nothing wrong with non-managers being key people who should contribute to this hypothetical 100-person offsite, out of a 2000-person company. I was reacting to the idea that the "top execs"
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by trunnell 2y ago
I agree and I’m following you right up to your last statement. I’m doubtful that Jobs and Hastings had similar functions or operated similarly. I worked with Reed but not with Steve. I know a few people who interacted with Steve, and their
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by trunnell 2y ago
Good points in pg's essay: * CEO/founder should engage directly at multiple levels rather than only interact with the company through their direct reports. (Same applies at every management level, btw) * Delegation is good, and i
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by trunnell 2y ago
...letting c level executives have free roam over their domain with little oversight or Founder involvement. I agree with you, I think. pg's point was that "Steve Jobs Mode" is the opposite of founders letting their C-leve
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by trunnell 2y ago
Counter-example: Reed Hastings, co-founder and the CEO of Netflix for 22 years, famously did the opposite of what pg is saying. Reed insisted on a particular style of employee freedom & responsibility that IMO set the benchmark for inn
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by trunnell 2y ago
This is the way... I have solar, a powerwall battery, a high efficiency heat pump, and... a poorly insulated 70-year old home in Silicon Valley. It can be wildly expensive to properly mitigate poor insulation: you need good air sealing, ins
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by trunnell 3y ago
Amazing to read about the continued re-invention of this part of Netflix's internal systems. I worked with this team (and its predecessors) during my time at Netflix. They achieved several "holy grails" of video encoding: a
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by trunnell 3y ago
That's exactly what this post is about. It requires some background info to see the scale of their achievement, sure, but their choice is to put some of that burden on you, the reader.
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by trunnell 3y ago
Don't be underwhelmed. It definitely makes your Netflix better: whatever you watch can be encoded better, which enhances quality and lowers the chance of a rebuffer interrupting your experience. And the improved encoding efficiency f
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by trunnell 3y ago
Red flags: 1) Price seems too low for unlimited LLM usage and there's no monthly fee... so maybe you are the product? 2) Website has no information on the people behind this. 3) In the keynote, the demo of logging into to other service
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by trunnell 3y ago
Wait, no, Microsoft said the action was a temporary mistake. From the article you linked: In a statement to CNBC, Microsoft said the ChatGPT temporary blockage was a mistake resulting from a test of systems for large language models.
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by trunnell 3y ago
IME a huge part of the cost of development (regardless of code/no-code tool choice) is the time spent gathering requirements and continuously validating them. When the user and developer are the same people, the cost of finding the req
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by trunnell 3y ago
Scanning the comments here and I don't see anyone addressing the elephant in the room: PATENTS. After a bit of searching, it's unclear what degree of "patent risk" comes with JPEG XL. JPEG historically was subject to p
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by trunnell 3y ago
I think the "rock star" analogy did more damage to our profession than most care to admit. Rock stars get treated a certain way, they are catered to, their egos might get fluffed up, etc. None of those behaviors are compatible w

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