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The pictures of people touching the screen are incredibly ergonomically cringe

good. i'll get it to drive my 4 runner

Imperfect but certified classic

I've spend the last ~20 years inside tmux/vim — and the last month almost exclusively in the Codex desktop app, and increasingly am just doing remote control from the ChatGPT app on my phone.

Ghostty rocks and it brings me no pleasure to say this, but it seems unclear how much longer this world will exist?

BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!!!

Highly recommend the extremely good multipart documentary All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis for a fun and wide ranging if slightly silly look at the nexus of Greenspan, Ayn Rand, Silicon Valley, computer technology etc

looks really beautiful, amazing job

Finally

Being able to cycle to and from work across a nice university campus, through fields and trees and in good weather, makes me feel as rich as any human who has ever lived

by what metric has it not improved in the last 3 years?

The training process literally ingests the majority of text on the internet, including a huge volume of SEO garbage, and seeks to create a self-consistent compressed model of that. This is totally imperfect of course but is also likely more truthful than the median Google result, because of the incentive for self-consistency and coherence that is created by the reward function as well as during RL.

Imagine that you had 1,000 years to read every Google result on a particular topic, and literally infinite patience. You would read a lot of rubbish but ultimately you are a smart person, you would figure out the underlying truth and likely produce something that is more valuable than the average or even the sum of the parts.

So far the wonders of claude/codex have been mostly constrained to applications that are built within the boundary conditions of existing libraries -- the models make direct use of the good work that humans have done to date to build Python, `requests`, `ffmpeg`, you name it.

But I'm excited for the (I think inevitable) stage where the shoggoth starts to reach outside those constraints -- rewriting, patching, renaming, rebuilding libraries, DLLs, binaries -- and we move into a regime where the libraries dissolve, the application floats on top of the shifting sands of an ever more efficient, secure, unified and totally inhuman technology stack.

Obviously this is a horrifying idea in some ways (interpretability, security etc), but it's also not obvious to me that it can't work, especially if there are dedicated, centralized efforts to do this. it's also not clear that interpretability is necessarily mutually exclusive with full slopification/machine rewrite of decades of foundational, incremental development

Journalists are so funny man. "Last week we told you that AI is fake and fraud. But we just learned something fascinating. A few months after everyone else was talking about it, we uncovered an amazing scoop: the companies which raised a lot of capital, are also doing tens of billions of dollars of revenue. So now we're starting to thing it might not all be a scam! Tune in next week for when we say it's all 100% fraudulent again."

I think that was true when you could rely on good old Moore’s law to make the heavy iron quickly obsolete but I also think those days are coming to an end