Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: openai.com/product/gpt-4

Just hired a 21yo for their first job. What basic professional advice do they need? Here's what I tell all my new staff, but perhaps you can add. I'll start small. 1/ Use an online calendar. Have a foolproof system of reminders, so you never forget a deadline or obligation.

2/ Use the calendar to schedule intensive work time, not just meetings. Some kinds of work (like research or coding or writing) benefits from long, uninterrupted blocks of time. Most people schedule meetings only, and don't schedule these long blocks. Do both.

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Night and day difference

People getting clapped. I told you so many times.

All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb

15 years ago, at every software conference, NoSQL was offered as a solution to SQL "scaling problems". While SQL has its own limitations, scaling was actually the reason why FaceBook, UBER, Pinterest, Shopify, and Airbnb use MySQL instead of NoSQL databases.

I’m disappointed that trump admin placed the 25% tariffs. I’m disappointed that this is our governments response. I love Canada and want it to thrive. I built Canada’s biggest tech company here because I know it’s a special place. Canada thrives when it works with America

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The Democratic Party still doesn’t realize how many Americans they have alienated with their shady, ironically UNDEMOCRATIC tactics. Against the wishes of their electorate, they stopped Bernie from being the candidate several years ago, then trashed RFK very unfairly and then

Prisma 7 is here! 🦀 Rust-free Prisma Client as the default 💪 90% smaller bundle size & 3x faster queries 🔌 Direct connections to Prisma Postgres We've been building towards this for months, so let's see what's in this release 🧵

I know I made a joke earlier but this is seriously concerning. I am not convinced it's ai, I think it's just accelerating this trend. The enshitification has been marching forward for years now and I hate it I know the rage is all about how you should do no typing, you should

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I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

This video is the quintessential representation of what's happening to Western civilization.

The 2nd edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann and me, is finished and sent to the printers! Ebooks available next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)