jeffrwells

Nice try Dario.

Alignment is a real and valuable discussion topic. The GP fake tweetstorm is not the correct approach, is my point

I doubt this is a real person. Screams of propaganda. Sama saying GPT-2 is too dangerous to release…all over again.

He joins Twitter for first time in 2026 with a nonsensical username unrelated to his real name, and follows 14 people but is somehow embedded in tech enough to work at Anthropic. I haven’t used twitter since 2014 and even I follow more people.

His morals tell him to walk away from tens of millions in unvested stock due to moral concerns with absolutely no real tangible examples. No reprisals. Fear mongering to juice the stock.

Nice try Dario.

I’ve had a lot of success in the past with fine tuning STT using synthetic data.

I was doing it for Veterinary (ambient recording -> SOAP notes) which has tons of complex domain-specific language AND it is critically important to get right.

“CPR” transcribing as “see pee are” just doesn’t cut it in that industry.

HN highlighting a lot this year, is all

According to ccusage I use about $5k of tokens on my $100/mo Claude Max plan and only hit 5-hr windows where I have to switch tools for a couple hours about once a week

I think a lot of this “research” is a bit overhyped, when even at Anthropic it’s become “please bro find me publishable research”

eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088205

On the other hand, I have a custom harness agent running an ecommerce business 100% autonomously at this point, but have very little to benefit from trying to “publish” anything about it - and without a Stanford or YC stamp, I doubt anyone would care much anyway

Writing code has never been the hard part.

Writing code has never been the hard part.

Not for Bob, not for you.

In the age of agents, I’ve found the headline claim is even more true

I acquire and operate ecommerce companies, and build a lot of workflows with openclaw-like agents (my own stack).

When it’s working really well, there’s literally no interface needed besides iMessage and email. I’ve built a SaaS app interface style largely to show it off for demos because invisible tools don’t make for great demos

Here I had Claude rewrite his post into a 300 word version without all the filler.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d49d81d6-7aab-4730-9c3c-4...

Which I’m sharing as a meta point…I think self help books are declining because there’s a better way to get the information without all the filler. But filler makes the books thick enough to sell at the airport

Also - aren’t LLMs the ultimate choose your own adventure version of the information?

that future is here!

I set up my claw to be able to do that and it’s infinitely better than searching through hours of content myself.

I set it up as experts on topics I already know and like to reduce noise. So I can say “ask [NAME] what I should do about XYZ” and I get back contextualized info and cited video clips

He's not talking about malware awareness. He's talking about a bug i've seen too which requires Claude justifying for *every* tool call to add extra malware-awareness turns. Like every file read of the repo we've been working on

Another way to think about it: every single user of Claude is paying an extra tax in every single request

Reminder that 4.7 may seem like a huge upgrade to 4.6 because they nerfed the F out of 4.6 ahead of this launch so 4.7 would seem like a remarkable improvement...

Anthropic has become a PR vaporware company

I started building a similar project for myself, a terminal PTY running through a desktop daemon: https://youtu.be/6KY-HCn3SaA

The fun part being it worked on mobile too: https://youtube.com/shorts/CmemwDGwpx8?si=xzAJBb8ha7DLIDmY

It was more of a tool for myself but some interest from others inspired me so iterating on it. People interested in this kind of thing should join my slack! https://monetworkspace.com/terminal

I built this entire app on ios + website without opening an IDE.

https://www.gophergolfer.com/iphone

NextJS, Rails, GraphQL, React Native

Certainly wasn't one-shot for all of it but case in point it has dozens and dozens of "features" all LLM implemented

Could I ask, what did you love about programming that you now don't find this agent thing fun at all.

I'm genuinely curious, I feel very differently and excited about this agent thing.

Asking because unlike a lot of other commentary, this struck me as being more about the act itself than being depressed/anxious for financial reasons, etc

I think his point is that an even better close friend is…a close friend

OpenAI hiring BCG alumni is all we need to know

As someone who writes a lot of Ruby and has for a long time, I have never thought the metric Ruby optimizes for is “intuitive” (I think it is, but been doing it too long / too close to it so it’s intuitive to me)

The stated optimization from Matz (who created Ruby) is “developer happiness”

The important optimization for me is “fidelity to business logic”, eg less cruft and ruby syntactic sugar means you could sit at your computer and read your business rules (in code) out loud in real time and be understood by a non-dev

LOC or code golf is indeed not a metric to optimize to 0, but hating on importing libraries is a bad take.

As CTO at Redo do you demand everything written in assembly? Does your entire company’s code run in one file or do you use abstraction to simplify?

I’m not quite clear on how expressing a really complex and paradigm shifting approach of agents in a more concise way is a bad thing

Why the us vs them mentality? How is that productive? Did people who love Ruby do something to you?

Pretty hard to grow and learn new concepts if you immediately label anything you don’t understand yet as “super dumb”

> And, it will be doing all of that under new leadership. Badri Rajasekar, who had been CTO and CPO, is taking on the role of CEO from founder and current CEO Johnny Boufarhat

Johnny made his $200M and got out.

https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1518988096976551941?lang=...

I took a year off building a startup that went nowhere. I was incredibly worried this hole in my resume would hurt my job prospects and it didn’t at all, even in this market. No one ever asked.

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Congrats on taking the initiative! It’s hard.

I have ADHD and I eat healthy and track macros semi-successfully. Here’s my advice:

Ignore 99% of advice out there.

Personally, I try to cook as little as possible. Some people enjoy cooking, that’s great! Even I do sometimes. But for most meals, the slog of buying groceries, preparing, cooking, then cleaning is no fun and I end up throwing away food and eating out.

Things like meal prep can be extremely taxing for a neurodiverse person — I’m sure you can do it but it’s probably harder than it is for most people and you can put all of that incredible creative energy into something more productive.

Find a few healthy snacks that you like and buy those. Healthy = not junk, don’t overthink this part. These are just to curb cravings. Baby carrots, lettuce + deli meats, chickpea popcorn, watermelon, whatever. Set up a recurring order from an online grocery delivery or Amazon and call it a day. Eating these when you’re hungry will make all of your other food decisions more deliberate.

Get all of your groceries delivered. Safeway has it, FreshDirect, Instacart, many other options. It makes it quick to reorder the same things, you avoid indecision in the grocery store, and you save lots of time.

Buy healthy microwaveable food. I use The Chicken Pound [1] or you might like Freshly [2]. Trader Joe’s and other grocers have pre made stuff that’s pretty good too. Don’t cook rice the 45 minute way on the stove, buy microwaveable rice.

All of these could be healthier: watermelon has sugar, pre made has extra sodium, etc. If you get to the point you have extra time and space to optimize for these things then go for it, but to start out, the only thing that matters is calories + not eating junk.

Probably just not eating junk will make a world of difference, but if you want to dive deeper, track calories. Figure out what your baseline is using TDEE Calculator [3] and choose the slow loss. I use Keto app [4] for tracking (I don’t do keto) because I like searching by barcode and voice.

There are lots of rabbit holes to dive down and I anticipate if you get the basics on “easy mode” then you might view some of these smaller optimizations as actually fun!

But ya, as someone with ADHD the biggest thing for me was just letting go of the shame of not being able to meal prep like a normal person. Instead, I spend some extra money on premade and grocery delivery, set myself up to be 80% healthy on autopilot, and then spend my energy on much more engaging and productive (and high leverage / high return financially) activities.

[1] https://thechickenpound.com/ [2] https://www.freshly.com/ [3] https://tdeecalculator.net/ [4] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keto-diet-app-macro-tracker/id...

No need to be rude smoovb, I was genuinely curious

Can anyone explain in layman’s terms why stablecoins need to exist?

What can you do with a stablecoin like tether that is not possible with USD?

All of the use cases I read about seem to say “trade tether for Bitcoin” etc, but you can trade USD for bitcoin.

In the case of Brave, genuinely curious:

Is there any reason this needs to be on a public blockchain? What are the benefits? Why is this a better solution than Brave keeping points/payments data in their own database?

Totally agree on the ability to vent or show weakness.

Your therapist is the only person you know with no agenda