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mattmatheuson Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'

There's a survey that pops up on Twitter/X every now and then asking about a specific brand and it always asks whether I remember seeing an ad for that brand... I usually cannot, but I'm going to assume that X knows whether it showed me an ad or not.

Completely agreed about being influenced without knowing it.

mattmatheuson The Amazon tax

Yes, if you can even get your product high enough on the rankings to make a sale.

The incumbent has a massive advantage, making it harder for a new (but better) product to get on the first page.

mattmatheuson The Tower Keeps Rising

Assembly programmers made the same argument. It seems that we revisit this same trope each time the practice of software engineering undergoes a paradigm shift.

Some have a harder time with the transition than others.

mattmatheuson 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

Indeed. It's very bad.

mattmatheuson GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

Quite a lot of people think they're far better engineers than they really are, myself included. I've gotten better over the past few years at realizing that AI writes better code than me, which has made it easier for me to stick to architecture and let the (working) code be what it is.

mattmatheuson 98% isn't much

I'm not sure this is a realistic use case to try and support. A 10 year old android phone likely has a battery life measured in 10s of minutes, and really isn't something we need to worry about.

mattmatheuson Claude Sonnet 5

I've been working to use the best model for the task for about 6 months and have found great success doing plan with the 'frontier' model but punting implementation down to a 'lesser' model. I'm using the Beads-Rust (a rust fork of GasTown's beads) as my issue tracker. So far, so good.

mattmatheuson Have you restarted your computer this week?

I've followed the same routine each Friday for at least the past 10 years.

- Install all updates

- Save tabs off to Obsidian (or Raindrop now)

- Reboot

Feels good coming in on Monday to a fresh session.

mattmatheuson Tidal AI Policy

Not sure about the stated principal, but I do think it follows the policy nicely. Yes, you can upload your AI generated music, but it will be tagged as such, and you cannot profit from it.

mattmatheuson Data centers trigger voter backlash

NIMBYism has been popular for a long time. People really do want datacenters (or at least, the things that having datacenters enable).. they just want them somewhere else.