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toddmorey

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Building for the web for 20+ years. Currently with amazing folks at OnMachina.

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4 points·by toddmorey·hace 11 días·1 comments

Ask HN: Who is honestly evaluating AI outputs and how?

2 points·by toddmorey·hace 7 meses·1 comments

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toddmorey
·anteayer·discuss
“Carlyn Beccia is an award-winning author and illustrator of 13 books.”
toddmorey
·anteayer·discuss
Also: load-bearing!
toddmorey
·hace 3 días·discuss
Thanks for your work on this!
toddmorey
·hace 5 días·discuss
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toddmorey
·hace 8 días·discuss
I value both great devs and great marketers because I’ve seen dev teams build awesome tech that never found its audience.

It’s the culture of the org and that decides how the ammo is used. What you want is good devs AND good marketers building and promoting great product.

Anyone in any role who works at facebook holds culpability. Marketers aren’t building all those user hostile features.
toddmorey
·hace 9 días·discuss
Does anyone use an agnostic TUI or harness for development tasks that can fairly seamlessly switch between providers?

I'm wanting local context in the spirit of "here are 3 AI providers available, for coding tasks use this one... and for writing prose use this one... and for generating images use this one..." etc.
toddmorey
·hace 10 días·discuss
I predict we all be using the hell out of fable until the next great model comes around and in two weeks we won’t be talking about the export controls anymore. We just don’t have the attention span.

Nobody should be putting loadbearing weight on Amazon or Microsoft with their ruthless monopoly ambitions, yet here we are
toddmorey
·hace 16 días·discuss
I think the AI companies are so motivated (desperate) it just puts all the existing rules and contracts at risk. The Apple supply chain has always had aggressive contracts and commitments... for normal times.
toddmorey
·hace 16 días·discuss
Well, I think from the technology side, the performance and capacity you can get in a personal computer (especially a laptop) is absolutely incredible.

It's just component suppl and that supply is being eaten up and re-diverted to data centers. Prices and availability will be in poor shape. Though I am wondering if GPU compute and memory start to diverge enough that AI companies begin using such specialized chips they stop threatening consumer devices. Maybe that's just wishful thinking.
toddmorey
·hace 18 días·discuss
counterpoint: I have an EV that I never drive more than 77 miles a day and I paid over $70k for it. Top speed would definitely be a limiting factor, but I do think there's a huge gap in the mobility market between e-bike and a traditional (and expensive!) car.
toddmorey
·hace 19 días·discuss
I’m actually amazed at the output since GLM doesn’t have eyes. If GLM 5.2 costs 1/5 as much, seems like it could be set up to reach out to a multimodal model for vision tasks when required. Closer to parity but probably still significantly cheaper.
toddmorey
·hace 24 días·discuss
For the curious, it looks like a PC with a RTX 5090 32GB graphics card will run you about $6,000.
toddmorey
·hace 28 días·discuss
I always imagine the model rolling its silicon eyes when it’s assigned a personality (“you are an expert growth hacker”) at the start of the prompt. Was that ever actually shown to be effective? Is it still?
toddmorey
·hace 29 días·discuss
I'm SO tired of subscription services that only offer the opportunity to buy more stuff.

  - Doordash wants you to subscribe
  - AMC movies want you to subscribe
  - Now Waymo wants you to subscribe
You can't buy anything now without being hassled for a subscription. I don't see any value here except for when they degrade the service for non-subscribers to make the priority pickups seem worth it.
toddmorey
·el mes pasado·discuss
Anthropic seems to agree with you as more recent Claude updates have it just building task specific harnesses as needed.
toddmorey
·el mes pasado·discuss
I fear it's a smokescreen to manage cost and capacity.
toddmorey
·el mes pasado·discuss
I'm interested in how it feels to use: whether there is any context leaking, as you mentioned, if it introduces latency, and whether there are any pricing implications? I know they weighed a variety of factors, including the smaller models, but cost had to be a big concern, too... I feel like Google is the only provider giving away so much AI inference for free.

This will further blur the picture about when and how consumers / employees are supposed to pay for AI services. For example, they showed consumer rather than coding tasks, but could you select five files and ask Siri to write a Python script or a small app? Will enterprises just disable Siri AI functionality, or will they be able to route it through their own AI auditing and providers?
toddmorey
·el mes pasado·discuss
I don’t know. Give me a 94x multiple and I can make any financial deal look brilliant. I think a better word is just opportunistic.
toddmorey
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Ok, not my favorite narrative, but assume asymmetric application of intellectual property rights was a big factor. Wouldn't the US exploiting asymmetric labor wages, rights, and conditions be the even bigger story? It still feels like a short-sighted own goal. The US abandoned its ability to manufacture. Maybe dark factories and robotics can bring it back, but manufacturing supply chains are just so much more advanced in Asia than in the US.
toddmorey
·hace 2 meses·discuss
It feels like the US for years has operated under the assumption that homeostasis for the global economy would always be “designed in California, assembled in China.”

Like there was something in the American DNA that was lacking in China and innovation would always need to happen here.

But China it seems doesn’t need the US to produce great cars, devices, robotics, or AI. We absolutely need China to help us build all of the above.