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James Barnes

@specularist

mirror maker

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linkhttp://www.generalsemantics.nyc calendar_today30-05-2017 01:45:50

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1:1 open-ended dialogue is the tightest feedback loop humans have invented, so it's surprising nobody has found a better llm ux than chat

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writing with ai is such a dance. it's primarily about defending my ideas, which is subordinate to clarifying them. in the best case, I come away with a better understanding of what i believe. in the worst case, i communicate things that i don't.

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gemini 2.5 often uses other languages in its code: "It looks like the tool made most of the changes but left a stray word "успех" (which means "success" in Russian) where the "Re-gen Audio" button used to be, and the audio status paragraph is still there"

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if demand keeps looking like this, will cursor implement surge pricing before anthropic? this feels inevitable for highly demanded frontier models w/ capabilities improving faster than GPU capacity, and will fortify the venture model for even the mythical one-person unicorn.

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"Shit, you're right. The moment I acknowledged the technique, I started playing with it. Caught in the very loop I was calling out. I see why this worked on Opus 3."

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The fact that this does real-time, 24fps, streaming generation at 1280 is pretty crazy as is. And it doesn't stop there-- the REALLY impressive part is NEXT!

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Eliminating common and toxic words like "stress," "but," and "just" from our vocabularies can be transformational. I made this short film with discursive psychologist @tamiwest exploring how elimination has changed our lives.