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B56b
·17 days ago·discuss
yay?
B56b
·last month·discuss
The problem is that $1500/engineer/month would be a pretty modest amount of demand for labs. OpenAI/Anthropic are basing their $1T valuations on the explosive uncapped growth of unlimited agentic token spending. On so many levels of the industry this growth is now priced in. You don't think so?
B56b
·3 months ago·discuss
What, why? This is the web, so it has to be a solution that can handle old browser versions. Take away the old version and it's as small as it can be.
B56b
·3 months ago·discuss
This forum is oddly hesitant to accept good news, a weird feature of online communities.
B56b
·3 months ago·discuss
So just ignoring the link entirely, cool cool cool
B56b
·3 months ago·discuss
Ya, that sounds right to me. Coastal city housing is very supply constrained, part of why it's so expensive, but it is hugely in demand and provides tons of value to many by letting them live near high paying companies. Unless by "overinflated" you mean a constrained supply/demand curve?
B56b
·4 months ago·discuss
What's wrong with choosing to care about coding manually then?
B56b
·4 months ago·discuss
How do you reconcile this with Ed Zitron's reporting that just the AWS bill in 2024/2025 was more than their entire revenue?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/#how-much-did-anthropic-an...
B56b
·5 months ago·discuss
The problem with this hype cycle has always been that the hyperscalers are pouring unbelievable amounts of capital into a technology that hasn't proven it can generate the revenues needed to justify that.

Nvidia might have an ok P/E right now, but the question is if the industry can sustain buying over $50B of GPUs every quarter(or that it even needs to).
B56b
·5 months ago·discuss
The task isn't "make something that you could plausibly call a pencil". It's "understand every step of how a modern pencil is produced".
B56b
·5 months ago·discuss
That's the critical difference. You could always find some person who understood a particular piece of a complex puzzle. It's a very new, worrying thing to have pieces that no one understands.
B56b
·6 months ago·discuss
I actually do think that Dr. Haidt is a good source for getting a fair understanding of both sides of the issue. If you've read or listened to him you'll know that it's a huge part of his ethos.

Here's his rebuttal to that article: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/phone-based-childhood-cause-epi....

I think you'd struggle to find someone more earnestly trying to get an unbiased understanding of the reality of this topic.
B56b
·6 months ago·discuss
Social media being bad for mental health in childhood is one of the most robust theories I've ever seen for these kind of society-wide problems. You can peruse the After Babel Substack for the evidence if you're not convinced, but Jonathan Haidt has consistently done incredible work here.
B56b
·6 months ago·discuss
This hits the nail on the head. There's a marked difference between a JSON parser and a real world feature in a product. Real world features are complex because they have opaque dependencies, or ones that are unknown altogether. Creating a good solution requires building a mental model of the actual complex system you're working with, which an LLM can't do. A JSON parser is effectively a book problem with no dependencies.
B56b
·7 months ago·discuss
This is why: https://bun.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-install
B56b
·8 months ago·discuss
Not exactly, this article is expanding on your linked one.
B56b
·8 months ago·discuss
Oh you meant 0% of your usage, lol
B56b
·8 months ago·discuss
Explains why Sam was so panicked when asked about revenues recently.
B56b
·8 months ago·discuss
Why would that be?
B56b
·8 months ago·discuss
Seems more like a "mega" Marshmallow Test. Instead of putting off a snack for 15 minutes they're giving up an entire year of birthday gifts for a reward years into the future.