MisterPea

Some times I feel like a lot of people in tech independently go through the same things right around the same time with few people writing/sharing about it.

I am also creating this and enjoyed the post and comments all going through the same thing :)

This is a double edged sword for me, I've dabbled with the Antigravity CLI and it is better but I got a lot of LLM use out of google's chaotic decentralized quotas.

gemini-cli had it's own quota, antigravity had it's own quota, and ai studio had it's own free tier quota and I managed to make use of all of them super cheaply.

Now they're finally unifying everything and cutting down, which is less of a cognitive load to keep track of quotas but also fewer benefits

I exclusively use gemini models and this has been my experience.

I mitigate it by creating dense planning docs for everything and executing iteratively.

Lot's of time wasted on procedure unfortunately

Big side effect of these layoffs is that new talent is reluctant to join, even for more pay.

Stability is going to come at a large non-monetary premium these days

Stitch has been very good for me to prototype some designs, and the exporting design feature is great.

But jeez, is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times.

Complete shift in google's old engineering culture of high quality - they seem to be shipping quickly in favor of stability

The amount of RAM needed for this is crazy to think about. And then there's Youtube...

Silver lining of current RAM prices is that it changes the cost-benefit analysis of improving underlying software which (hopefully) gets implemented in open source.

thank you, will have to check this out

Interesting, my levels have always been chronically low and I feel no effects from daily 5000IU

I tried a 1000 IU vitamin D pills to no avail. Bumped it up to 5000 IU and still saw very marginal bumps in my blood tests

I think I might try daily 10000IU after showing my doctor how little it's moving the needle for me

Not really, this is just effectively a new supply side platform for advertisers. Retail companies will just allocate a percentage of their marketing budget to OAI instead of Google/Meta

I am still surprised many people trust him. The board's (justified) decision to fire him was so awfully executed that it lead to him having even more slack

I've heard it's only on mobile? I was using gemini for work on desktop for at least 6 hours yesterday (definitely over 100 back and forths) for work and did not get hit with any rate limits

Either way, Google's transparency with this is very poor - I saw the limits from a VP's tweet

I'm afraid they're going to lower the limits once Ultra is available. I use Gemini Pro everyday for at least 2 hours but never hit the limit

They're in a tough spot where the CEO does just enough to stay, but they need someone better.

They lagged in AI, but the new Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible. They built an incredible tool in NotebookLM but failed to market it

That's a separate problem which affects small to large players alike (e.g. ScarJo).

Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists

Vegas is the best destination for business conferences, but yes I agree with your point.

The line connecting NorCal to SoCal is so much more productive that any other line being prioritized is crazy to me.

Trucking - lots of agriculture and other transport shipped through 99

Every engineer of a company of this size says the same exact thing.

IMO more about growth of the engineering teams that lead to any specific culture deteriorating.

Just for another perspective, I've worked at a few companies including LinkedIn as a backend developer and I think LinkedIn is probably around 70-80th percentile in code quality.

There was significant emphasis on code quality at least on the team I was on, and an ever improving culture.

I did work on one voyager task though and I remember it being a nightmare

Cook's best trait is being reactive very well. What he lacks in the Jobs "magic", he has in the ability to react to industry incredibly well and do better than most.

I have little doubt Apple is going to be a major player in AI, especially in the non-Nvidia hardware space after playing around with MLX

Public funding ought to equal public results. Both to the claims, the paper, the raw data and the peer reviews.

One of my biggest gripes with academia. More and more are universities and those who run it act like private corporations than non-profit research institutions

Facebook's ARPU in Europe over the trailing 12 months was $69.72 or $5.81 per month.

Considering only the most dedicated users are going to pay for this, Meta is most likely losing money with Ad-Free version

Source: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_earnings/2023/q3/p...

I've worked in AWS before and also in a company that uses GCP.

Funnily enough, I would recommend AWS over GCP in every single category except for the two that you mentioned.

Although Snowflake is my choice for DW and it is cloud agnostic

MSFT generally has a hands off approach to acquisitions if the company delivers on financial metrics set by MSFT.

Conversation probably started by Satya asking the LinkedIn CEO to just reduce X$ expenses and the LinkedIn leadership made these specific changes.

Snap is the most clear counter-argument to breaking up Facebook/Instagram.

People think Zucc just acquired his way to the top when Meta has probably been the top 3, if not best, run company in the past decade.

Had Evan sold Snap to Facebook back in the day, I'm fairly confident it would be valued at least 10x what it is now.

I'm not sure this is quite relevant here, although I do love the link.

Meta's open source play I think comes back to regaining public sentiment about them after scandals/metaverse, and also making it difficult for established competitors to have much moat.

Given how much Snap pays their employees it was probably the right call.

Probably that Meta would rather lift small players to crush established companies (Snap has 330M+ DAU) than allow them to carve into Meta's profits.

Will be interested to see down the line how any startups nowadays will fare with Meta.

While I agree I think Von Nuemann is the worst example to use in any topic about intelligence. He's not really like the rest of us

I would argue it's a much easier blank check to write than for consultants. Software complexity over time is a major headache and new initiatives happen all the time.

Take for instance GDPR - in AWS it was a company wide effort to get all the services GDPR compliant and that was basically a non-existent pricing change to consumers.

Also the fact that I can call up AWS support and have them look into a bug immediately with real devs on the other end is invaluable when my business needs rely on a certain feature working.

Glad to see fountain pen enthusiasts here. I'm embarrassed to say how much I've spent on them over the years.

I agree with their recommendations, especially the TWSBI ECO Fountain Pen - would recommend that over the Pilot Metropolitan, but both are great.