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Yes, it is cool

Most of us could never afford a roadster in any form, and just like to see cool stuff on the internet.

It clearly does not look like a smaller Cybertruck though. You're just wrong there.

Not really that crazy. It’s just an ad.

Honestly I’d blend it more. Maybe reduce the contrast a bit and so it’s not the first thing your eye goes to.

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen headlines about SF AI safety workers intertwined in a sex cult, a crowdsourced Bay Area list of guys who committed sex crimes, and now this. What’s going on over there?

My team is in the agentic orchestrator phase. I like this software factory pattern in concept, but our biggest challenges in development are acceptance testing of anything UI-related. Mobile app testing in particular is still a huge bottleneck that requires a human. AI models really suck at identifying poor usability and jank, particularly because they only typically process snapshots of the app from an instance in time.

I know there are traditional testing frameworks that can detect jitter and frame drop to a certain level. We could potentially start having agents build that in.

If we had concrete designs and specs on every project, that would also be helpful, but in a fast-moving startup, that gets delegated to the builders. That puts a human back in the loop every time.

Curious to hear what anyone else does to fully adopt a software factory pattern.

I think Google/Meta surveillance just feels like something painless, benign, and invisible. You couldn’t see a reason a huge corporation would really want to target you or put you in danger. With Flock, your local law enforcement has access, and that feels like a much more real threat (warrantless tracking of your real-world activity with the ability to ruin your day/life), not to mention how it’s already been abused to track exes of officers, had be easily hacked in the past, and that AI face recognition matched the wrong people.

The U.S. leadership has a bad habit of starting conflicts that the bulk of the population doesn't want, which leads to large political costs and resulting half-measures. Our current leadership literally ran on "no more wars." Morons.

I wonder if this is a sign of things to come for dirt-cheap model hosting: no servers running old versions, only new versions. Just to keep costs down.

Dead link for me

Gemini is still my top choice within production software for typical data extraction from unstructured data. Gemini Flash Lite feels like a cheat code for speed, and it's really cheap.

Some other Chinese models are also fast and cheap, but a harder sell in a U.S. production environment.

Jesus Christ. This administration has no shame.

It’s an extremely consistent experience, and you can sit in the front seat (something I like personally). With Uber and taxi services, you never know what kind of driver or ride you’re going to get.

You really have to believe your own narrative to do well as a startup founder, even when evidence is initially scant. This likely also has a tendency to slide into self-delusion.

I'm tired of being strung along on these silly narratives. I can't wait for open-weight models to be deployed around the world just so people like Dario will shut up about the mystical levels of power these models have.