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Grok 4.5 14 days ago

That Amazon story is a misnomer. They just saw an opportunity with the tech and hardware they had to make a new offering for customers. It's not like they could just offer their spare capacity, then eg at peak US time snatch it back for the retail site

Of course spinning up a hello world of anything is easy. Now introduce monitoring, change controls, version upgrades, multiple environments and regions

It's not that it's necessarily complex. But if you don't need it, don't use it. The business could use your time elsewhere

It's not just Norway. Here in Australia many modern style schools were leaning hard into the digitized classroom era in the 2010s. Now slowly they're realizing their mistake

The problem is, a lot of the parents have bought into the digital parenting age too. They were told ipads etc were part of getting the best education for their kid. Now they're fighting hard on rolling it back (not least because they can't comprehend that it's a problem, that their child can't focus 5 minutes without a device)

What's the actual verdict on who reported it?

The article is writing as if Amazon did a complex analysis and then reported it.

But the latest reporting id read was it was not a jailbreak, and reported by the ceo (not the old technical CEO btw, the new bizdev guy)

Thanks for all your work and books, Lean Startup was invaluable to me starting my career in 2017 working in a feature factory.

You've probably talked about this before, but with AI speeding up product "delivery" (especially prototypes), what changes have you seen to the lean startup methodology? Is it possible to supercharge the build measure learn loop?

And what good uses for AI have you seen to keep teams "building things people want"?

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

It seems way more keen to do stuff without checking with me. So far the results are good, so I'm not complaining, but was definitely a shock.

I usually have 5-10 sessions open so am used to getting some investigations going, coming back 5 minutes later and checking recommendations. This time I just got the fixes. Like I said, so far so good with the results, but it's a mental model shift.

Might need to tune claude.mds if it gets annoying

Also this is going to cause serious whiplash when they remove it from the subscription plan in a couple of weeks. I know I'm not going to suddenly move from $200/m to usage credits

maybe i'm just pedantic. it's possible you could only build models like these from scratch until a few years ago for that reason, but isn't that an (illegal,unethical) early mover advantage?

to me ladder pulling would be:

- web scraping for model training becomes illegal, with heavy punitive penalties

- training models above a certain compute threshold requires government licensing

- expensive third-party audits are required before deploying models above a capability threshold

also curious. On the claude code $200 plan, get close to weekly limits but don't usually hit it. to me just about any small reduction in performance would not be acceptable, the cost of redirecting and getting stuck during long runs without me are too big (like when I tried gemini cli for a few days).

if it's 99.9% comparable performance for less money I'm interested, but I'm skeptical it's there

Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

aren't you conflating being 10x as smart with code that is 10x more complicated?

the relationship should be the opposite, the smartest people can write the most readable solutions

Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

anyone else's claude code (native install) not able to update to 2.1.154 to get 4.8?

edit: nvm was just my library network