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This is a good example of where it’s important to be more up front about the role of AI in the making of a thing.

Making a language that compiles through LLVM is no small task and takes a lot of expertise. Most of the time people do it because they have a point of view and are highly technical.

Making a joke language via AI is an entirely different exercise. Not without value but not the same, especially when evaluating what it means about the author.

Granted, I have a perspective of a game dev, but this kind of repo defiling just gives me the willies. IMO instead of finding a common ancestor and altering it, just make the desired change upstream and merge it to where it’s needed. If you can’t do that then you have already made a deal with the devil and might reconsider your approach. KISS

My wife is a behavior analyst and I’m a game developer. We both watch people and try to figure out how why they are doing stuff and how to get them to do what we want.

One thing I learned from her is that if you want someone to stop doing something you don’t punish them, you ignore them. No response.

Move fast and break things is back.

Composer 2 is actually good. I don’t mind when I run out of tokens on the mainstream models.

Anyhing Meta loves is bad for us.

I’m not picking up how its git export feature maps to its scalability.

There was and still is a very nice competitor in this space called PlasticSCM. They were bought by Unity a few years ago. Unity has not been a good steward. They should have done what Epic is doing and open sourced it. But instead they chose to give it P&L responsibility. Curious what it's contributing to their financials.

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It really changed when the game went from "Build the best product" to "Get the highest valuation" and the means of doing so were specifically NOT about building the best product. VC money was a factor, public exits were a factor, but even more generally, the idea became that you could become a billionaire without making anything at all.

Just create enough FOMO among the monied and you win. This is not nerd stuff... it's psychopath stuff.

I didn’t understand what they were doing with Apple Foundation Models until this. It made it sound like they were training their own. Good strat tho!

I was hoping for that too

I find Google Drive desktop to be just fine on Windows. Gave up a long time Dropbox sub for it and I have been happy. Dropbox just got too bloaty and unfocused for me.

Yes, they played a zero sum growth game and seeked acquisition and stock price increase. That ended. That explains most tech layoffs in the past few years.

GLP-1’s are a weak counterpoint. Perhaps go take a look at that yourself.

Big Pharma refuses to believe that the gut microbiome plays a significant role in human health. They either don't take it seriously or think it's so complex that it's not worth working on. I think they're totally wrong and that the microbiome is the arbiter of not only Alzheimers but cancer and other metabolic disorders like T2 Diabetes.

I hate this and I hate that they think it's what they should be doing.

If Google can't see the difference between this and useful, moral AI tools then I worry for their path forward.

I thought this was Apple’s plan all along. How is this not already their thing?

great tip! i didnt know this.

The only reason they would do this is because some kind of research determined it would yield higher revenue.

It does blow my mind that advertisers pay to show ads and I pay to not show ads.

That my friends is a Business Model.

https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/19/childbirth...

Childbirth was extraordinaly dangerous. 6-8 births per woman and a 1-2% chance of dying per birth for the majority of history.

We have no idea what that was like. Rates today are ~0.013%.

I’m a little confused. So you got a VPS… was that just to host the result? Surely you weren’t running the models on it?

What were the models running on? It doesn’t matter a ton but would help paint the whole picture better.

I’m a Cursor user but I am not an agent maximalist. I just like having it work on code in an IDE with good inline diffs and a nice chat UI.

This change is possibly too big and unless all my existing usage patterns are maintained or improved, I’ll likely give CC a try now. Not optimistic.

Yep, Composer 2 has been quite good for me too. I only turn to Opus for major brainteasers.

It took SpaceX a number of goes to get their camerawork and streaming right. NASA just hasn’t done this frequently enough.

I support this. Having a boundary around tech is a great asset for a growing mind.

At the same time, get your kids a computer early so they can learn the basics. Maybe even keep it off the internet.

Skip phones and tablets altogether for as long as possible.

Intuitively, it just doesn’t feel like OpenAI has a trillion dollar moat.

Let’s just focus on how cars and car culture are reducing birth rates. Nobody wants to chuck their kids into the back seat without a carseat any more. Laws aren’t the problem.

Because now you need less programmers. It is self explanatory.