all the best founders use `rm -rf` without fear or hesitation (not a metaphor)

I fine-tuned mixtral to do a specific task at a GPT-4 level at 3% of the cost with 10x the speed, that said according to the Internet, I am stupid because fine-tuning is dumb Q.E.D.

we fine-tune because we are poor, we are poor because we fine-tune

Announcing the next phase of Strut—the complete workspace for writers. Strut now brings all your writing tools together into one simple app. Capture notes, organize projects, and collaborate with your team. All in one place, supported by AI. Here's how it works👇

Graphical user interfaces are good, actually.

Rails. HTML and a bit of JavaScript when needed. Everything on Postgres. Incredible productivity. Turns out you can wind back the clock about 10 years ago and realize that most new stuff is just unneeded complexity. Thanks DHH for the reality check.

Tried Cursor six months or so ago, didn't really seem like a huge upgrade over Copilot, especially since I get Copilot for free. Tried it again today, basically instant subscribe. It's that good.

How does SWE-bench control against contamination?

Zig when others zag.

For context: 90% of the issues in this eval are estimated to have a human-solve time of <1h, and 100% of the repos are virtually guaranteed to be in the training set.

I'll be sticking with Gemini Flash, thx.

With LLMs, there is truly no excuse for leaving out delightful little flourishes in your product. Fun animations, twee bits of whimsy, a splash of pizzazz — all achievable now with barely any effort. Have fun out there, folks.

merge conflicts are especially bleak when your only colleague is yourself

The amount of indirection involved in writing a Chrome extension is my job security against AI.

With incremental model updates, you appear to receive more intelligence for just changing a few characters around in a string. The reality is that you almost always need to tweak your prompts to accommodate for new idiosyncrasies.

If our post-AGI future comes to pass, much of the economic rationale for immigration disappears, eliminating a bulwark against base nativist impulses.

"We don't know what role money will play in a post-AGI world. We just know that we'll be rich." - OpenAI

I really like this brand acct, who's with me?