Day 2 of guess the tech CEO author 💫

good! a tenet of educators is “do no harm”, and Austen Allred / Lambda School has probably done more harm than every other coding bootcamp combined.

Racists/con artists should never be allowed to run education companies

화목한 하코넨 가족🎀💕

Claude 3 Opus has gotten way worse... :(

PSA: Cash App Taxes >> Turbo Tax
- Free to file state + federal
- Doesn't reward Intuit for lobbying to keep the US tax system needlessly complex😌

Worried about max refund? Fill out in Turbo Tax to confirm you're getting the same refund in both apps then file w/ Cash App.

Interface innovation is a common good.

Hard to monetize in the short term.
Bigger pie in the long term.

i think gemini 1.5 pro is actually S-tier

- being able to *understand* longform audio and video is a legit gamechanger
- best model for coding
- best model for knowledge retrieval

weaknesses
- sucks at writing / anything involving creativity
- dev experience is subpar

Making tool calls a first-class citizen in the OpenAI API was a mistake. JSON mode can do everything tool calls can and more, and is conceptually simpler.

Traditional input methods work because they're being used to choose from an array of options you can see:

Mouse = aim at features on screen
Keyboard = choose from available keys

Voice is seemingly unbounded (say whatever you want!) but functionally restricted by (1) what spoken…

second earthquake in NYC??