skybrian

Maybe ChatGPT could figure it out?

It seems unfortunate to become so sensitive to frame rate that you can only buy high-end equipment. I wonder how that can be avoided?

I thought that post was interesting when I read it over a year ago, but the startup seems to have gone dark since then.

They spent the tokens so you don’t have to. This is clearly AI-generated but doesn’t look low-effort, even with heavy AI assistance.

But if you’re sure it’s easy, why not give it a try?

Yes that's true, but if someone were to infer that there are therefore no retired GenXers, they would be wrong.

But see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement

In the US, there are a lot more rich people than there used to be [1] and they're often driving prices up because they can afford to pay. (Most obviously in real estate.)

[1] https://pages.skybrian.com/2026/us-households-by-income-band...

Sure, but are there any examples of hospitals where lowered costs for transcriptions are significant enough to affect their financial reports? How much of an expense was it in the first place?

On the other hand, contrarianism isn't a shortcut to the truth, either. You still have to investigate.

It seems like some kind of network logging would be useful? Even if you don't catch it, you'd want to know what it did.

Do you have a source for this? I'm curious about the details.

Such policies might not be legal in the US:

> The indefensible extension is that banks aren’t liable for defrauded customers. That is a potential policy regime, chosen by the polity of many democratic nations. The United States is not one of those nations. Our citizens, through their elected representatives, made the considered choice that financial institutions would need to provide extraordinary levels of safety in electronic payments. In reliance upon that regime, the people of the United States transacted many trillions of dollars over payment rails, which was and is very lucrative for all considered.

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> With a limited number of carveouts (e.g. wire transfers), Reg E is intentionally drafted to be future-proof against changes in how Americans transact. This is why, when banks argue that some new payments rail is exempt because it is “different,” the correct legal response is usually some variation of: doesn’t matter—that’s Reg E.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/regulation-e/

I wonder how terrible would it be to use DuckDB as the main database (running transactions) for a small project?

Another advantage of AI, though, is that it becomes easier to maintain more than one TypeScript compiler. Perhaps there's some benefits to having some diversity?

According to some people, AI will take most of those jobs anyway, so maybe it all works out in the end :)

It sounds like you're making a claim to someone else's profits with a very thin rationale for why you had anything to do with it. Basically, claiming something that never was yours and has next to nothing to do with anything you worked on.

Stealing labor itself isn’t actually a thing. Your wages could be stolen, except - what wages? Maybe the output from your labor could be stolen, but not if nothing material was lost. If you can’t point to a specific intellectual property violation, you have no case.

Did they steal Wikipedia? Wikipedia is still there.

I suspect that the mathematicians who adapt best to AI will treat it like astronomers treat a telescope, as a source of possibly-interesting data to be analyzed. Maybe it looks like finished output, but that doesn’t mean it’s ready to show.

If you mean publishing open source code, they didn’t steal it. We gave it away. Generosity has always been vulnerable to “exploitation,” but some of apparently understood that risk better than others.

This is getting causation backwards. Effective Altruism was a relatively small scene that attracted some people who understood the importance of AI early. It’s not all that surprising that some of those people went on to start AI labs later.

You can make a conspiracy out of it, but it’s sort of like thinking people who met in school had it all planned out from the beginning.

They buy a relatively small number of eggs at a high price, but the price of the transaction is an input into an index that the larger market uses.

The numerator on that is “Real Value-Added Output for All Workers” [1], which is based on revenue (subtracting some costs), and the denominator is “Hours Worked for All Workers” [2].

Anthropic’s revenue has seen enormous growth [3]. They have few employees. Obviously, as these things are measured, they are highly productive! It might be hard to reproduce that sort of productivity outside the tech industry, though. We can’t all be Anthropic.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTNFB

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOANBS

[3] https://pages.skybrian.com/2026/anthropic-run-rates/

A report doesn’t need to be discontinued if it’s automated. It’s just another graph on a dashboard. The cron job might put a little more load on the system, or the code might be a bit of a software maintenance burden, but cleaning it up can be put off for years. It’s there if you want it.

Number of CVEs fixed at an all-time high:

https://pages.skybrian.com/2026/kernel-cve-fixes/

It seems fairer to say that the Waymo fleet has >4,000 driverless cars [1]. There is still a long way to go, but it's rising.

[1] https://pages.skybrian.com/2026/waymo-robotaxi-fleet/

That analogy doesn't make sense. It's more like you drew up the plans for house, someone else built it, but you're refusing to pay the developer for the part they did, because somehow, only drawing up the plans counts.

Academic researchers don't get a vaccine approved and manufacture it at scale. They do experiments and publish papers.

For me, the visual design usually has problems the first time, and then I ask it to fix it. But the edits are still done by the AI.

Based on my experience using AI to build software for myself, I think this mostly depends on what you ask for, not whether you use AI to implement it.

How much electric sports car owners care about increasing range beyond 300 miles or so? It seems hard to believe that such a car would be obsolete.

The headline, at least, is making an comparison between shareholder benefits and public costs.

Why that particular combination? You could just as easily compare private spending and public benefits, and it would make about as much sense.

Maybe better to include both public and private costs and benefits?