datadrivenangel

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Author of Virtual Power: The Future of Energy Flexibility
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Comment · 9 minutes ago
It's just email! Works perfectly boringly.
Comment · 1 day ago
fraud, not a heist
Comment · 1 day ago
move fast and break things.....
Comment · 2 days ago
It's not about blaming a person, it's having a person or organization that has reputation to lose or gain and resources to fix it. Responsible AI coding usage increases both velocity and quality, but it's very easy to have issues become the responsibility of nobody.
Comment · 2 days ago
Making a custom household object requires time, effort, and expense. Especially if you want it to be nice.

A lot of DIY AI software is going to be the equivalent of home built workshop / shed furniture: it works fine, but it is janky and built from whatever they had at the hardware store. There will be a place for professional assemblers and designers and engineers at the furniture store / factories.

Comment · 2 days ago
A business ending software failure or security breach can occur from a single feature flag variable or 'minor' parsing bug. Usually its a long sequence of these, but it only takes one.

I've personally experienced week long incidents because someone didn't understand how a system worked and a couple of low impact shortcuts and convenient approaches and minor mistakes all came together to internally DDOS important systems. All reasonable individually, resulted in the majority of the ops team pulling a 70+ hour week and doing live prod cleanups in the middle of the night.... Agents do this faster. Also, they're labor competition, maybe.

Comment · 2 days ago
For FAA purposes this is 100% not a plane.

Regulatory arbitrage is part of the value.

Comment · 3 days ago
Postgres I assume.
Comment · 4 days ago
Github outages are pushing people away from it, AI maximalist software swarm coding is pushing people towards a bigger way.
Comment · 4 days ago
for political ones they often get volunteers who are just pushing a send button nonstop...
Comment · 4 days ago
> Sonnet max actually beats Opus max.

What are you smoking and can I have some?

Comment · 5 days ago
Except Sonnet is slower, more expensive, and worse at reasoning levels above ~medium. Opus on low is faster, cheaper, and better at doing things.
Comment · 5 days ago
Sometimes this tier is faster, and getting a good enough result in a few seconds instead of a better result in ~15-30 seconds is a meaningful result.

I think it's also a fake lever to give to finops / it teams to try and keep costs down.

Comment · 5 days ago
"our management might be stupid" is a risk that people have been sued for before...
Comment · 5 days ago
Yeah, everyone I know paying enterprise prices is really looking at them wondering if it's worth it. Most of them think it is, but they're also looking at alternatives...

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