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breadsniffer··on Half-Baked Product
Why do I feel like this is the story of the average B2B SaaS YC startup?
breadsniffer··on The AI Industry Is Losing
I’m paying $100 per month for codex, idk if that’s them “losing”….? Although idk about big enterprise cos keeping their unlimited token/tokenmaxxin usage though API req
breadsniffer··on How liminalism became the defining aesthetic
Turn this into an essay or something, cool ideas here
breadsniffer··on How liminalism became the defining aesthetic
+1
breadsniffer··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
They’re so disconnected from reality, living in their own bubble.
breadsniffer··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
gottem!!! Bad bot
breadsniffer··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
from perplexity deep research: "Colossus‑related gas‑turbine power plants have been run in ways alleged to violate the Clean Air Act, in already over‑polluted Black and low‑income communities near Memphis, and Anthropic has now become the main user of that infrastructure."

sources: https://www.tba.org/?pg=Hastings2025AIX (Tech, Toxins, and Memphis: Evaluating the Environmental Footprint of the xAI Facility)

breadsniffer··on Website streamed live directly from a model
Yeah very simple, but cool nonetheless.
breadsniffer··on Mamba-3
Mamboooo no. #5
breadsniffer··on VisiCalc Reconstructed
Anyone know what kind of departments/parts of business were the first adopters of visicalc?
breadsniffer··on This time is different
Facts
breadsniffer··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
can you expand on your workflow?
breadsniffer··on Show HN: Simulation of the Tech Industry in 2027
2027
breadsniffer··on Show HN: Simulation of the Tech Industry in 2027
I took inspiration from (https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20250812), which mentions: "Demand-Driven Strategies: Expand proven work-based learning models like Registered Apprenticeships and align education programs to career pathways in priority industries to ensure direct connections to employer needs."

I was surprised to find this coming from the current admin for sure...

breadsniffer··on Show HN: Simulation of the Tech Industry in 2027
Thank you for the kind words!
breadsniffer··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
Yup! People here are great hackers but it’s almost like they have their head up their own ass when it comes to AI/ML.

Most of HN was very wrong about LLMs.

breadsniffer··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
Let me guess, you’ve never tried them? This is the one substance no one should be talking about if you’ve never tried it. You can’t reason your way through it with first principles.
breadsniffer··on Youth and what happens when it's gone
I like this. It seems that those who value agency don’t align with the post. It validates letting time go by without doing anything to change yourself or the situation.
breadsniffer··on Youth and what happens when it's gone
Image to go along with Hokusai's beautiful bit: https://i.imgur.com/Q6khyva.png
breadsniffer··on Youth and what happens when it's gone
I love this mindset. I don’t buy the other perspectives. When you fall in love with the craft… time, perception, age, etc matter much less. You care more about adapting yourself no matter how old to perfect the craft.
breadsniffer··on I've Acquired a New Superpower
Wow. That’s insane! With the trick I can somehow solve them all!
breadsniffer··on Llama 3.1
I tried it, and it's good but I feel like the synthetic data used for training 3.1 does not hold up to gpt4o prob using human-curated data.
breadsniffer··on Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Interesting. How many companies need people to build things from the ground up vs maintainers/janitors of complex systems? I think the type of interview (leetcode vs system design) might depend on what category the job fits into.
breadsniffer··on Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
Here's an AI system that applies the pedagogy of George Polya: https://www.withmarble.io/

It helps learners understand, plan, and then implement the plan.

breadsniffer··on Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
This is basically the idea behind https://www.synthesis.com/tutor
breadsniffer··on How Might We Learn?
New windows PCs will come equipped with a co-pilot that can see everything on the screen. I wonder if this vision Andy laid out is more like a ChatGPT co-pilot that has all context of your screen/life, rather than a "learning tool". With this in mind, is it even worth building assistants that will behave similarly to ChatGPT?
breadsniffer··on Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork Lie Exposed [video]
There's still the cost of reviewing bad code. If the task was "completed" but you have to spend 20 mins looking over the code or the whole 1-hour-long process to "understand" what it did, it still failed.
breadsniffer··on Devin: AI Software Engineer
They're 100% shooting for being able to fire most engineers. That's the dream that allows raising a bunch of $$$. Just know there's a reason their product is a closed demo. Any working "agent" will require intervention. If a product requires intervention, you still need someone managing the AI and they just become software devs using a powerful tool.
breadsniffer··on Devin: AI Software Engineer
I've been using GPT-3 since its waitlist was out. Even then you saw demos like this claiming sentence -> full complete project. The demos will get fancier, but reality is much more complex than you think.
breadsniffer··on Devin: AI Software Engineer
This seems like it's something replit is better suited to execute. You will need human intervention at some point and at that point you're building a full-fledged web IDE
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