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The argument the article makes is it's not that different. Jev's argument is that they have trained the model to better output probabilities (which is not necessarily a training object of LLMs but we don't actually know that)

Ultimately Jev claims to have a data advantage which is likely where the future lies. They'll have a unique edge in improving general purpose classification / decisioning.

The architecture changes and systems improvements being brought into LLMs is so awesome to see. It really feels like this is now a systems problem where a defined goal is set then systems optimizations are made around the model architecture to solve it.

Underlying it all is that any architecture can be trained to the same convergence just difference in compute utilization both in training and inference

What's interesting is that we still read AI's output and that's still the primary interface between a human and the AI. Implicitly that means that writing is important and I think we're already starting to see this with the complaints around how Claude "talks"

It's also interesting how Clickhouse / Starrocks can now also act as a query planner and executor on top of non-native formats (ex. Iceberg).

I assume the native formats will always be faster / more optimized but the need for Trino as a separate executor while running either of these databases seems to be close to gone.

It's very powerful to have ownership over a framework that many developers are familiar and like!

It might not be clear just yet what the path to monetization looks like but an easy example would be deeper integrations with the rest of the Cloudflare ecosystem (for example allowing R2 to be easily along with something like duckdb to live in a world of truly local analytics or something like that).

It seems like these great open source frameworks need to monetize by building a platform around the product but these days it's hyper competitive (ex. Vercel, Cloudflare) and it's hard to get started without an incredible differentiator. So, while monetizing independently as a company might be difficult, Astro can provide a lot of value to the rest of the Cloudflare ecosystem.

Astro is my favorite framework for static sites. It's hard to describe but it just "makes sense". You don't need complex build setups and you can get the best of all worlds with great SSG capabilities + can easily express things with React when needed for example.

I wish there was another path to monetization besides joining a larger company but I'm happy that the team will get to continue building out an amazing framework!

Usually there are nuggets of wisdom in lists shared like this but I feel like every lesson shared here has immense value.

> "remain skeptical of your own certainty" > "Model curiosity, and you get a team that actually learns."

These are two lessons that typically require battle scars to learn. For such big ideas to be summed into two sentences is pretty remarkable and puts to words lessons I wish I knew how to share. Amazing article, thanks for sharing!

It seems like this might be one of the biggest vulnerabilities in recent times...

The default react / nextjs configurations being vulnerable to RCE is pretty insane. I think platform level protections from Vercel / Cloudflare are very much showing their utility now!

if it increases topline metrics like watch time it's probably hard for them to justify removing it. a change this big seems like it was probably a/b tested and did move metrics significantly?