vagab0nd

Tell your travel agent:

"Add a global memory. Whenever I'm in Spain or planning to go there, remind me of this: <story url>, and plan to avoid it."

I never thought I'd live to see K.I.T.T

I don't think these conclusions are obvious. For example, just because someone doesn't use the frontier models, doesn't mean they are not aware of their capabilities.

At the same time, the novelty of AI has been making it very hard to calibrate. I'd think that "manual coding is dead" and "cars drive themselves" are obvious to everyone, but sometimes I'm surprised.

do you personally understand all the things that keep the planes from falling out of the sky?

Non-SaaS, close sourced software is already dead, no? I think pretty soon we'll all be using bespoke software written by the AIs. I already use throwaway software designed for each job because it's so cheap to do so.

If the agents couldn't talk to each other, how did they know which obscure wiki to use? Is this some kind of a Schelling point?

> it wrote 13 million lines of Lean

Is this basically like opening up a black box and seeing 13 million gears all rotating seemingly randomly and still having no idea how the machine actually works?

Sounds like we just need better proof of work infra? Obviously the bots are using the optimized hashing code while the users suffered.

CC extracted the private keys from the AT&T modem and moved the decryption to my UCG. No more slowdown when scraping the internet. This is a pretty well-documented hack but without CC it'd probably take much longer.

The stem models were getting better and better, but stopped dead right around when GPTs started to work.

This is so 2024. Now that software is solved, you should write your own browser plugins. I have one for each website I visit often.

- One for Amazon that removes the annoying sidebar they recently added, and ads from the search page

- One for YouTube that bypasses the main page and removes Shorts and a bunch of crap

- One for Substack that fixes video play/pause with space bar

- And many more

Patching Firefox is on my todo list.

"There's no reason for websites to be ugly anymore"

> outside test flight environment

This is the way. I have a setup that refreshes all my apps at 4am so they never expire. To get around the 3-app limit, I build all the features I need into one super app.

> Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

For some reason, I had a very different picture when I read the title. A real, conscious bug that chews out words in documents to change the meaning of the text, thus propagates its consciousness by having the altered text trained by an LLM.

Another source I'd love to see scraped or opened up is the New York Times archive, along with other newspaper archives.

I get where you're coming from, but this seems no different from the risks associated with having a baby. Pushed further, babies never consent to any of the traits they inherit from their parents.

For most tasks, I don't value the LLMs based on their absolute capabilities. I wouldn't want to use GPT-4 today even if it's free.

Compared to the vast amount of things you will be able to do, the ones that are hard limited is a tiny portion.

I think it comes down to scaling and removing the bottlenecks.

If you build one data center on earth, you did just that.

If you build one in space and make it work and cost effective, you can scale infinitely (which is why SpaceX is uniquely positioned), until you hit the next bottleneck (which is why Tesla is building a fab).

Tangential: If you play Factorio or Satisfactory, this is _all_ you do. Removing bottlenecks.

I used to be in the "AI will soon do all your thinking for you" camp, but I was overlooking a scenario: sometimes the gap between what you understand and what you're trying to achieve is so wide that no prompt can bridge it. Simply asking "what's the right question to ask?" doesn't feel enough, no matter how advanced LLMs become.

I do enjoy my self driving car :) I've been enjoying it for the last 6 months.

And I will enjoy my trip to Mars, when there are nice hotels there. But it's gonna be a while.

It's a good time to be alive.

As much as I love vim, I still want my cursor tied to the mouse when I'm in a web browser. If you recorded how I browse, you'd see seemingly random mouse movements, clicks, drags, and scrolling. I think it helps me read and keep track of where I am. Though it's hard to say whether it's a net positive.

At this point you are not buying a particular chip. You are buying whatever compute you can get.

Isn't that the market cap of the company? That doesn't mean the company creates trillions of dollars of value. It just means the number of shares times the last per share trading price is trillions of dollars.

You will wish you had them when you need them. There might be reasons in the future that you don't realize now. Plus the fact that storage is cheap. So the most logical thing to do is to keep them unless you have a good reason to delete.

Guns should be illegal because they can be used to kill people.

One huge plus of owning is you are forced to put money each month into a likely appreciating asset. It probably doesn't beat someone who diligently DCAs into s&p 500 though.

This left a strange feeling. The article reads as extremely bleak. But from a different perspective this is extremely bullish for AI.

This is a valid perspective, but I don't think a useful one.

Being able to produce code is a huge unlock for many non-programmers. So in a way, it doesn't matter how much time existing developers spend on coding. It's about helping anyone become a developer.