toddmorey

I see many, many startups that promise to be an automated marketing agent that will do this exact thing: scour sites for conversations and post links to your product. Obviously that burns down the hum…

Edit: I do think it’s fair to say our economy is much more diversified and resilient to a drop in tourism then a country like Spain where it’s closer to 20% GDP. But maybe the right way to frame it is…

It accounts for 3% of the economy and provides around 15 million jobs. That’s absolutely going to make a dent. And international tourism supports local tourism. I think Las Vegas will continue to be a…

“ For years, you’ve sat in front of a rectangle, moving tinier rectangles, only to learn that AI can now move those rectangles 10x better. As someone outside the equity class, you begin to wonder what…

VSCode opens single files outside of projects. What do they do? Personally I wouldn’t mind if it just defaulted to the settings of the last-used vault.

What is obsidian beyond a pile of markdown files without the app?

I’m worried that opportunities like this to build fun/interesting software over models are evaporating. A service just like this maybe 3 years ago would have been the coolest and most helpful thi…

The ethics are exactly what the DoD is complaining about. They want any legal action to not be obstructed by guardrails.

I don't think it's sanctimonious to say, hey, I don't want the technology I work on to be used for targeting decisions when executing people from the sky. Especially as the tech starts …

Yeah that sentence struck me as very carefully worded. They also don't mention how often RA is needed or invoked. We'll encounter a lot of these autonomous systems (cars, robots, equipment) …

You are not the one folks are worried about. US Department of War wants unfettered access to AI models, without any restraints / safety mitigations. Do you provide that for all governments? Just …

Maybe. But most people _dont_ find it easier to write SVG code directly and the spec is rather notorious for rough edges, so there are quite a few libraries available to help with the layout math spec…

I mean… What does your shop even do? Write software? Why? The whole premise is that it’s now easily cloned.

It’s fun to ask the models their input. I was working on diagrams and was sure Claude would want some python / js framework to handle layout and nodes and connections. It said “honestly I find it…

I love this so much. I do worry about the hidden cost of maintaining these software stacks that have a userbase of one. Things like hidden vulnerabilities, bugs, and edge cases that could bring a busi…

“He should’ve been so aware that his job was going to be the first one cut, and he was responsible for building a tool to cut his own job” That tool was going to get built whether he did it or someone…

I think this is exactly why Anthropic bought Bun!

Well LLMs do make normal Linux tooling more accessible. I needed a video reformatted to a new aspect ratio and codec and Claude produced a rather complex set of arguments for ffmpeg that I hadn’t been…

Right you are. Nature can be violent, but prefers gradual change. Abrupt change shocks ecosystems and always comes with unintended consequences.

I struggle with the thesis that our institutions haven't already been fatally wounded. Social media and endless content for passive consumption have already errored the free press, short-circuite…

OpenAI is here because Sam Altman is NOT a product guy. He craves Apple style consumer success, but he's terrible at productizing his technology. Remember the marketplace of custom GPTs? Hell eve…

TERRIBLE! Can’t believe Apple is using these.

Q: What would prevent them from using git style version control under the hood? User doesn’t have to understand git, Claude can use it for its own purposes.

Commercial OSes (both Windows and MacOS) now feel so insanely agenda driven, and the agenda no longer feels like anything close to making the user happy and productive. For Mac, it feels like Apple wa…

It was more than a library of prewritten css, though, they did quite a bit of engineering work on tooling (speeding up the code scans and dynamically creating custom classes, etc). I respect the team&…

I didn't understand this argument, either. I think the argument is that general purpose skills will likely continue to be baked into the LLMs, so we'll see less of the repos of "expert …

Cursor if I recall actually started life as a VScode plugin. But the plugin API didn’t allow for the type of integration & experiences they wanted. Hit limits quickly and then decided to make a fo…

this age, feels like the most dangerous thing the Chinese government could do is sell that data back to our government.

Oh smart. This is good guidance. Yeah fascinating how longer running context causes these side effects, especially the repeated image with no changes bug.