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Hey folks -- I created 10 Minutes A Day because I was spending too much time 'doomreading' in comment threads, in an effort to stay up to date on what was going on in the tech world. While I love Hacker News and other news aggregators for what they can teach me, I found myself often unhappy reading through hundreds of comments that while, entertaining, ultimately made me feel bad.

The concept of 10 Minutes A Day is extensible beyond just HackerNews, but the Hacker News dataset was a great place to start as it is often a go-to for news around technology and new projects.

It was built on top of Flask, React, OpenAI GPT-4o-mini (to drive down costs), and generally uses a few different prompting techniques to make things work as intended, because GPT-4o-mini can be frustrating to instruct.

10MAD is going to be extended across different news verticals in the future (once I have the time).

Thanks for pointing that out. It’s been driving me crazy that there’s all these sensationalist articles using that as the “smoking gun”, implying that Netflix specifically wants an AI product manager to produce television shows.

As somebody who has worked to create an AI-generated show, and who is also a PM at a big tech company that is using LLMs for non-creative purposes, I can tell you that the “PM” work I do with these LLMs is vastly different than the creative work I do with them. It’s an entirely different frame and discipline.

I’d start to be concerned once we see job listings that explicitly look for creators, with technical backgrounds in generative AI. The creator/creative talent part comes first before everything else.

This doesn’t help you probably, but the difference between 3.5 and 4 when giving it instructions to follow is huge. I encourage everybody to use GPT-4 when possible, the differences are night and day.

Sorry, I was non-specific. If you're using ChatGPT, you're basically using a "product" that OpenAI created. It has specific system prompts and prompt engineering to ensure that it stays on the rails. If you, instead, use the OpenAI API's for GPT-3.5/GPT-4, you aren't beholden to the ChatGPT "product". It's very easy to create a chatbot (not using ChatGPT, the product) that only produces JSON. It's just hard to get ChatGPT to do that same activity.

That's why everybody doing experiments in this space should either 1) be using the OpenAI Playground, or 2) using the API, and not using ChatGPT.

This isn’t reality. Using ChatGPT this way is fruitless, because there is a system prompt you’re fighting against. I can write a one sentence system prompt for the GPT API that specifies GPT to only spit out JSON, and it works fine. It’s a pretty funny series of image, though.

I’ve been a part of many organizations where the meetings are bad. I don’t think it’s that meetings are inherently bad, but rather how different companies and teams use them.

I generally only invite people to meetings who I know will have important input or need the context. The meeting should be about determining next steps for N period and provide clarity and direction to take those steps.

Any other meeting I mostly find to be a waste of time. But when you get the right people in the room, once a week, to talk about progress on a new product (for example), it can almost entirely replace documentation and is far more flexible and lightweight.

I love writing a good narrative doc or spec, but it leaves room for interpretation. Other people are also not as skilled at writing, and it leaves them without a vehicle to communicate what they want.

So, yeah, agree that meetings are the work/can be an optimal tool for achieving work, but they need to be done right.

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Hello! I’m the co-founder of Mismatch Media. We’re looking for a couple of talented and driven engineers and business folks with strong startup experience to come work with us. We are pre-seed, offering founding member equity. You may have seen us recently in the news (for better or for worse!). We create always-on, generative media.

If you’re interested in working on a new type of media, inventing things that nobody has invented before, and creating business models nobody has created before, feel free to reach out: skyler at mismatchmedia.com.

I’m just here to say woohoo, front page of HN bucket list item checked off!

I think you rightfully pointed out the "watchable" criteria. This is where we got to with 4 years of working on-and-off on it. The hard part is continuing to iterate over the structure to make it passable as a sitcom. The easy part is actually the language model stuff... we have an OpenAI integration, I just don't keep it on because it's a lot of $$$. We have lots of ideas about how to expand the show's structure, but it's mostly backend work that we simply don't have the resources to finish right now.

Luckily, our "goal" with this project was for it be nonsensical (hence the parody part), but I'd love to spin off a new show that focused on making it watchable for hours at a time. Our system is extensible enough that it wouldn't be hard to pop in new art assets and have a brand-new show in a month or two.