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enterprise contracts. ARR is almost definitely juiced by counting future contract value

That's probably more a personal preference than objective measurement. A lot of people already spent most of their dev time in the terminal, so for someone like myself that uses neovim claude code or codex cli are much easier than using the GUIs.

mac studio 512gb versions are entirely sold out for this reason precisely

trusting a startup to accurately report its revenue in this market is about the dumbest thing you can do

that disqualifies like 80% of papers lmao

you're probably overcomplicating it; as the paper says, it's embarrassingly simple: given a problem set, generate a response for each problem with a fixed temperature and truncation - then fine tune the model on the generations.

Their hypothesis as to why this works requires a bit more knowledge about model architecture, but basically when a model generates code some positions have only one right answer and some have many valid options - but the model has to use one global confidence setting for both. Sampling with a specific temperature + a garbage-token filter, then training on those outputs, teaches the model to internalize 'be precise where there's one answer, stay open-minded where there are several' — without anyone labeling which is which.

Note that there's a lot more nuance to this and I simplified a lot.

Too true. I won't say who it was but a prominent partner in my batch referred to, essentially, a lack of morality as a "competitive advantage". I went back to the east coast after lol

this is really mind-boggling to me as someone who grew up on the (old) internet.

I think the reward factor is also a large part of it, for most of the last 10 years young people have seen that unethical behaviour results in success. For a developing brain, it's easy to see how that resulted in the current state of SV.

it's definitely a little of both. Founders my age (18-25 range) have spent the last 10 years of their life seeing that morally reprehensible behaviour is rewarded. Whether it be Trump, Musk, whoever - the reward circuit in their brain sees that being a scumbag results in success. The people who don't act that way keep their mouth shut or get publicly executed (metaphorically). It's funny that people still criticize Jobs for being hard when he was 10x a better person than 99% of AI founders.

the behaviour that was one socially unacceptable in Silicon Valley has become mainstream. The woke stuff went way too far and, like everything, the pendulum swung back the other direction with equal force. VCs are largely the problem as they set the tone. I have a lot of personal acquaintances that work in VC, and legitimately all of them fall on the spectrum of morally dubious to outright reprehensible.

sadly this behaviour has become largely encouraged by YC

Using predictions of past events as the benchmark where the LLMs have already been trained on the results seems quite flawed to me

what the actual fuck is going on