sohom first of all, thank you! my two cents. > sycophancy: similar to other issues with foundational models, this cannot be easily mitigated at the app level. i wouldnt concern myself too much with it rn. its a problem the labs need to solve, and they will. apps can only prompt better

OH near 5th Ave: “Life is money. Money is life.” Peak NYC

“We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.”

Adding “chat via iMessage” feature to Hue (not public yet) and I am just blown away. Wow. I couldn't stop chatting last night. Feels like it knows so much about me just from a tiny slice of my data. Now I really miss my dog haha

We are testing Hue (our personal AI) with fresh starts and from just my email connection, with absolutely zero outside context / prompting, it figured out it is the thing I am building. Wild times

When we talk about artistic taste, is it depth? depth of understanding and resonance? What qualifies someone's music taste as good? can we say people who love classical music have "better" taste? can we say people who love the beatles have better taste than taylor swift fans?

its what we are trying to do rebeccadai.substack.com/p/the-personal…

The beauty of this world is a mystery to me. How can it be? How can there be so much beauty?

its gotta be so jarring to think you are the maverick and then realize it has been trendy all along. bubble bubble bubble

i find it helpful when i let claude code know that i recognize a task is challenging. it seems to perform better when it knows its ok to *struggle*. i could be totally imagining this so someone let me know if they feel it too

what wow this is wild!! two AIs stuck talking to each other on christmas, make friends, speculate about their creators and more.

I wrote about this months ago. we are early. the end vision of personal intelligence will be big. extremely big. rebeccadai.substack.com/p/the-personal…

we've been experimenting true ambience with hue, real-time with sub-minute delay. i had Pat Noir text me on whatsapp. hue texted me right after with some thoughts of its own 💭