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They were. The margin is not that much anymore; Claude Sonnet is the go-to model for devs nowadays.

The best video model is Google's.

Why is it obvious. Google is a much more powerful profitable entity that has equally good models. Facebook uses data from Libgen. Both are highly profitable companies who could pay for resources but don't.

Anthropic, the ethical fork of OpenAI doesn't do anything much different nowadays.

OpenAI may have had a head start, but the competition is not far behind.

https://x.com/backus/status/1878484938003034391

Why is Sam Altman singled out in these copyright issues? Aren't there plenty of competing models?

Did he try to get a job at all? Being from Canada and technical, I will say OP isn't trying enough.

https://digitalcareers.infosys.com/infosys/global-careers?lo...

https://ibegin.tcs.com/iBegin/jobs/search

https://www.epam.com/careers/job-listings?recruitingUrl=%2Fc...

I wouldn't call o1 a "system". It's a model, but unlike previous models, it's trained to generate a very long chain of thought before returning a final answer

https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1834641202215297487

I followed the saga as Jason was going through this. You may not have the same sway as large entities if you are an indie dev.

I will be happy to use a no-code platforms that lets me eject out into a standard application. Otherwise, I'm just learning and depending on a proprietary system.

Once you need something slightly complex, no-code becomes non-trivial. It requires serious commitment to learn all the techniques the designers came up with.

So most people who use these tools use them for for simple or short-lived apps and side projects, which they could now use web frameworks, but just want to try something new, because they know it's trivial.

2025: blog post announcing the end of idx.

Sarcasm aside, it's a good rule of thumb to depend on a Google service if it is part of their enterprise suite a la Cloud/Workspace.

Neeva jumped on the AI train after GPT3. The original plan was a privacy-focused Search. People don't pay for that stuff. I can't believe $millions was invested in that idea.

Personalized search - a search engine for all your content based on the data you've collected and visited and private would be something people might pay for.

Does this book really exist? Google search on Amazon shows no results for this.

Be careful out there when using Pinecone. The pricing seems to be confusing. https://twitter.com/Exploringfornow/status/16426070792852193...

His books are enjoyable, I'd recommend his most recent one "Four thousand weeks" and the previous one "The Antidote" as well. Especially if you're overwhelmed or gets hit with anxiety often.

It then follows that you don't want a dystopian state to control the discourse of your citizens.

In 1978 GE was the largest by revenue. They made 54B in revenues ~13B in a quarter.

In 2022 Apple is the largest. They made 124B in a quarter.

Revenues are up 1000%

The larger the capital you manage, the the higher the compensation.

Btw, I am not justifying, just trying to understand what could lead to this.

If you want to really understand why it is that way, you have to dig deeper, and you'll find they are much more deep-rooted and has tentacles everywhere. It's simplistic to point to one job function and call it out as unfair as the system is set up so some key positions accrue value.

Capital allocators are always paid top dollar. CEOs are only a small part of it. Wall street bankers are paid top dollar too? They find investment opportunities that can generate returns. Traders make a lot of money too. What value do they add to society? They help in the price discovery of assets. Are they paid fairly, who knows?

From a job complexity standpoint, CEO jobs are more challenging than bankers since they have to manage a real business to generate a positive return. Bankers have no skin in the game and yet make millions.

They lifted millions of us at least a class or more, financially.

Lower -> middle

Middle -> upper middle

Some even got rich.

In a caste discriminating society, they leveled the playing field.

Their business partners continue to do business with them. I remember an internal story, during the GFC, we worked on credit for a client who couldn’t pay their invoice($ millions). These companies are not angels, nor they only hire the best. But they’ve been the launchpad for millions of IT careers that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

This thread is full of generalized insults at a million people based on where they work. If someone did the same based on a different attribute of a population, they'd be banned.

I've worked at one of these companies but left over a decade ago. I know how we're looked at when we do client work (part of why I left). Some of my colleagues were less competent, true. But, some will wipe the floor with the client employees we did the work for.

To WITCH employees: If you are an employee at one of these companies, remember you are not the worst. Many of you come from humble backgrounds and are just learning the ropes. The world is cruel. It is a tough place, and you will be discriminated against. This is your fuel. You've already made great strides; keep going. You have to.

He was worth $130B. Now, $34B. Hasn't sold any significant piece of it while he knew there are risks with changing the direction of the company. That should count for something.

~No they aren't rebuilding Hydrogen in Remix.~ Edit: Spoke too soon on the above, sorry.

Remix raised funding. Ran out of money with no scope to self sustain or raise money. They downsized (see Kent Dodds. Perhaps there are others). Strong engineers that built the platform got acquihired.

dad, is that you?

Their infrastructure might very well be setup in a way that can't scale.

They don't need unlimited scaling for the entire site, just enough to scale for one particular plane.

They make money from ads and subscriptions. Any such business pays for user acquisition and a % of users convert to subscriptions.

Even if all this is spiky traffic, their site probably has now had millions of first-time users. When traffic dies down, they will settle back at a higher than previous usual levels.

In an era of unlimited scaling infrastructure, it's a shame they're struggling to capitalize on an exclusive superbowl scale marketing event. It was predictable days in advance.

The reverse is also true. At the beginning Airbnb employees will be making SF level salaries. As Airbnb continues to hire and churn employees, average salaries will come down since they won't be paying SF salaries for new positions. They might pay better than other companies, but won't keep SF as baseline.

If they did the poison pill they have to show strong results to prove that the company is more valuable than the offer and that they are better shepherds of the company. If Twitter announced weak results in the upcoming earnings call in these market conditions, their stock would fall hard. If his bid were to be rejected, Elon would sell his 9% stake which would be another blow. The current board can't survive this. They will be sued for not performing their fiduciary duty.

In a world awash with information and everyone optimizing to keep you and me engaged, aggressive defense of time and attention becomes a necessity to maintain sanity. No one deserves to gain your attention by default. If a tweet has > 50% chance to enrage me, I'd rather not see it. Important news and information will find a way to reach me.

Commuting is literally wasted life

Commuting is not the same as setting time on fire. The distraction endemic negates the advantage and makes it worse. The forced time in the car with limited options lets me use it somewhat productively, notably makes me do one thing. I spend that time thinking about work, taking phone calls, sometimes listening to podcasts and audiobooks. I have read zero books, but finished 2 audiobooks in the car this year. I find myself setting time on fire during weekends on social media. If instead of commuting the hours are spent on Netflix/Social media etc has gone up then the point is moot.

Who reads t&c? Gofundme exists because people fund campaigns they want to. They can point to their T&C and say hard luck. But they won't exist for long with that response. Existence of any business is not a law of nature. If they mess with their user base, they will cease to exist.

In the past if every city had one talented person, he would've been a celebrity. But no one felt bad since 99% of people around would've been average and there was one exceptional person. Now with the internet, we get to watch the talented person from every city and town in the world. Social media and google have become efficient in surfacing the most exciting/valuable content in front of us.

Given our window of attention is limited, what we see all day is excellence and we feel mediocre.

In short get out of your virtual world and go people watching in the real world to find that you are good enough.

Apple/Google have enabled mobile internet usage which has fundamentally enabled both legal and illegal activities. Safari is the way they do it. Still, in the absence of mobile phones, a lot of these illegal activities would slow down.

Every tech platform is enabling illegal activities. Glorifying Apple and Google here is a mistake this article makes.