jtfrench

I dunno man, as someone who’s worked directly with him and seen him in the flesh many times, it’s painfully obvious why Steve Jobs was an amazing (and flawed) human being that had people flocking around him. To act like someone has to be perfect in order to be admirable, that we don’t all have our thorns and warts, is in my opinion, a disingenuous take on the human condition. He did a lot of shitty things, like all of us if we go digging through our respective closets, but the man was truly a rare type of entrepreneur who even today completely stands out from the typical tech CEOs of Silicon Valley (many of which are also douchey, amoral, island-affiliated people, yet people still want to work for them). If this isn’t obvious to you why, my only guess is that you haven’t seen as many sides of him, or you’re not being honest about what it means to be human.

That brought me back! The Intel Core 2 Duo was the “Apple Silicon” moment before Apple Silicon.

How did you make the UI menus? The UI feels right!

This is ultimately the core issue with the games industry right now. We still haven't cracked game discovery at scale. What are the current approaches currently missing?

That’s the exact vibe it gave. That also extends to most startups focused on making one shot prompt-to-game tools. It shows a lack of understanding or respect for how the best games are actually made, and a focus on low-depth generic games.

Interesting. Is that a unit he invented or is it just a reference to his last name that stuck?

It'll be very interesting to see how the dust settles after this window of AI IPOs and acquisitions closes.

And that "Attention is all you need" applies to financial markets as well.

My guess is their tech can be used for spatial reasoning training environments, which gives a value beyond just output of a 3D scene.

Excel gone SIMD

I wonder how many parallels there are between CUDA's Tile abstraction and that of Metal.

The good news is your attention to actually reading and understanding documentation will differentiate you more and more as others (short-sighted, IMO) outsource understanding to an LLM.

Land, chickens, and private local AI running sustainably on the farm sounds like the least dystopian version of this AI future!

The more code writes autonomously, the less intuition the human owners have about that code. Loss of intuition is a seed of technical debt that grows with time. Over a long enough horizon, it can make looking at your own codebase feel like the first day on the job (sometimes at a company you started).

Luckily, there are ways to mitigate this and essentially translate those human intuition of how the codebase “should” be into guardrails for the agents. But without that, your setting your sails in a stochastic sea where each wave looks nothing like the last.

LifeLog wins again.