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These are relatively contained private credit markets though. We’re not looking at anything 2009 level. For scale, total US mortgage debt peaked at $9.3T ahead of the subprime mortgage crisis, 73% of GDP at the time. We’re talking here about ~5% of GDP.

But this assumes Chinese models will not achieve token cost optimization. Intelligence needs are fairly flat for many tasks, and the Chinese models have caught up on this front. Next they achieve greater token cost efficiency and we don’t need OpenAI.

I've used RLAIF to build out heuristic based non-LLM models for various decision systems and achieved like, 95% F1 on certain projects. We're in a place where models can be used to fine tune a lot of stuff via loops.

LLM architectures need to fundamentally change or inference needs to be used in constrained trusted environments. Nothing surprising here. Filtering and sanitizing, relying on tags around input strings that can be intercepted and replayed is like, childs play security theatre. As long as prompts accept abitrary user input nothing is changing here. Non-deterministic security is never going to be acceptable.

I'm quite certain that Google's AI services are likely the most used in the world right now by virtue of having the widest distribution. It's in the search box. It's on your Android phone. Just because they aren't the preferred coding or research agent does not mean they are losing - that's a pretty small slice.

Would love to see this benchmark tested on more perceivably LLM friendly frameworks/ORM (e.g. is NestJS or Drizzle / Kysely more performant than their choice of Sequelize) and more frontier model vs just GPT 5.2.

Anyone read whether these tests include any validation loops? What happens if the models get back test failures, for instance? Understanding how many turns to hit full passing behavior suite would also be interesting. Great methodology in the study though.

This is fairly standard practice for device fingerprinting. LI is probably using this to protect its platform from scraping etc, and extension lists have sufficient enough entropy to help identify users and form a useful component of a fingerprint.

The worst has been the post-covid assignment of seating and QR code driven ordering in bars. So few opportunities to mingle. I miss standing in bars, talking to bartenders, chatting with random patrons. This has recovered much better in large cities but I find that restaurants and bars in US suburban environments are deeply impersonal now. It’s no wonder singles are stuck meeting partners on apps with so little unstructured social opportunities left. Not to mention no one is going to bars anymore anyway.

I'm still stuck on superpowers. Can't seem to get better plans out of native claude planning - superpowers ensures I have a reviewed design that actually matches my mental model. Typical claude planning doesn't confirm assumptions sufficiently for my weak brain dumps/poorly spec'd tickets.

Mycelium has been shown to colonize some of the most unexpected substrates - cigarette butts [1], sawdust, you name it.

https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/en/good-practices...

I think that, for possibly a very long time, AI will just increase the quality bar and scale of expectations when we produce things. We might take the same amount of time (or longer) to produce something, but with significantly better outcomes. Ultimately human preferences and tastes prevail and the world is full of problems that are not simple I/O, that are not repeatable, and that require human taste to improve. The people who will immediately survive economically are the ones who leverage AI to produce stuff that wasn't possible before.

I've tried all the Q&A skills, confidence meters and little hacks to get agents to clarify and propose better solutions. Clarification and planning has gotten a lot better using some skills (e.g. obra/superpowers), but counterproposals and negative feedback are rarely up to snuff with something a staff level colleague would come up with - this seems to be amplified when you already have an extensive PRD or plan together. If a plan is already fleshed out but is inefficient or contains some anti-patterns, I've had better results just throwing these out, taking what I've learned and summarizing tradeoffs in a brand new chat.

Once you have a comprehensive plan together, or a fairly full context window, agents have a lot of issues zooming out. This is particularly painful in some coding agents since they're loading your existing code into context and get weighted down heavily by what already exists (which makes them good at other tasks) vs. what may be significantly simpler and better for net-new stuff or areas of your codebase that are more nascent.

Yes, we're in for more headless interfaces and there are existing products that will struggle to serve these new interaction models due to organizational constraints. But I don't think it's as simple as asking "are they a system of record" as we think about the companies that will adapt and thrive and the new ones that will come. Enterprises are investing AI spend into improving core processes and responding to competitive pressure, not saving money and introducing risk into areas they have historically delegated to vendors. AI is going to give us more software, and increase spending as firms seek efficiency in new areas, and they're going to continue to knock on doors of vendors to do it as they always have. Not to mention the demand for auditable, repeatable workflows is still there and always going to be there and dedicated systems are needed to solve this in each problem domain.

Yeah, I guess this take is tempting for a technologist, but Gen Z is buying iPods and walking around in wired headphones because it's cool and nostalgic, not because of usability. Cycles of nostalgia are well understood to be getting smaller. The creative industry is creating new things less frequently and referring back sooner (the old 20 year cycle of fashion repeating itself is contracting). There is an element of disenchantment, of wanting to disconnect from the present, but that has always sort of been there as people reached for vintage cameras, record players, and old clothes in the niche cultural movements that have preceded the current Gen Z 2000's obsession that's happening.

see https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1081115609/from-tumblrcore-to...

This is a fair cautionary tale but it's worth understanding the specifics of the situation – Windsurf maintained a relatively easy to replicate product with no moat, and employed a bunch of attractive talent. The company got gutted of these employees and lost its valuation because no suitable buyer thought their IP was exceptionally valuable on its own. Just because this was the outcome for Windsurf does not mean there are no longer opportunities to join startups building sticky customer bases with valuable IP and walk away wealthier when they exit – yes there is a liquidity problem[1] but let'a be honest with ourselves about the specifics of the case for Windsurf.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/11/us-startups-have-a-liquidi...

This take doesn't really highlight the fact that the most competitive foundational model companies are innovative application builders. Anthropic and OpenAI are vying for consumers to use their models by building these sort of super applications (ChatGPT, Claude) that can run code, plot graphs, spin up text editors, create geographic maps, etc. These are well staffed and strategically important areas of their businesses. There's competition to attract consumers to these apps and they will grow more capable and commoditize more compliments along the way. Who needs Jasper when you can edit copy in ChatGPT, or an AI python notebook app, or, now, Cursor?

I'm not sure that's the "core problem", it sounds like companies should do diligence on a data asset if that's what they're after.

ISPs / other middlemen can monitor and modify unencrypted traffic. In Egypt, Syria and Turkey for example ISP’s injected malware into unencrypted sites that led people to install spyware when attempting to download legitimate programs (link). Other state actors have changed the content of news media, etc. Without HTTPS you lose the ability to trust the integrity of a given webpage.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/turkis...

It could be interesting to host several isolated versions open at different times, maybe a Nine39, a Five39? But you can only sign up for one.

There is still a vast web of international niche electronic music scenes and artists, and elements of electronic music as well as the instruments used to produce it have been used in popular music for many decades (Donna Summer, 80s new wave bands, Madonna, etc).

I once drove across the US-Canadian border during a snowstorm. On the Canadian side, the road was a slew of white slush that had us hydroplaning on and off. But as soon as we crossed back into the States, it was like a switch flipped. The road went from a slushy bog to a pristine surface with zero snow accumulation, just a slight gleam of moisture.

As far as I understand they're talking about the internal storage mechanics of ClickHouse, these aren't user exposed JSON data types, they just power the underlying optimizations they're introducing.

Isn't this what happens to every free quick tunnel product? Was kinda just waiting for this to play out. ngrok had nice zero friction tunneling when it came out but then they had to put everything behind a sign-up flow due to the same sort of abuse.

As a designer, one eventually thinks not about what they liked in other people's work but why it worked. You can derive a design out a compendium of some things that you've seen that you like, but ultimately, to be successful you need to know why what you're copying made sense for its purpose. Perhaps you need to even encounter the same problem; it takes a bit of maturity to copy effectively.

Paris Baguette was contextualized to me by friends as a sort of Korean parody of a french patisserie. It seems there's a lot of this throughout east Asia, e.g. burgers / American style southern restaurants in Japan, although some of these seem more authentic than Paris Baguette.

Or better yet, join the buy nothing group of the closest affluent local area.

How are the OSS contributors, who initially provided IP under the premise of it being open source dealt with in these cases? If I were a major contributor to a package like Elastic or Redis and it was moving to a more commercial model, what stops me from suing Redis or Elastic and going after a share in the profits?

I guess the standard approach here is to release a new version with the new licensing model, and take all of the open source contributions and package them into a new commercial product. And anyone, perhaps even a contributor could do this, but the company is best positioned to do so and extract value from a bunch of free work that was contributed under an entirely different premise. Maybe there's room for a new OSS licensing model that prevents this from ever happening.

https://archive.ph/lzPrA

Ones they ship to countries that haven't signed the American export-control regime, e.g. Singapore and then send off to China.

Perhaps because the high sugar foods that occur in nature contain nutrients we don't get elsewhere and help us fight disease. These sugars are also naturally packaged in a way that makes them behave quite unlike added sugars, they don't lead to the same insulin spikes or high blood pressure, and consuming fruits like berries alongside more processed, artificially sweetened foods can even reduce the insulin spikes of those foods.

https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/what-about-all-the-sugar-in-...