Benjamin Trom

@henribonamy a toddler with a vocab size of 262144

llms feel like coding superintelligence until you're every so slightly out of distribution and instantly it's like talking to a toddler

@henribonamy @Yuchenj_UW beautiful != taste

@Yuchenj_UW taste is kind of verifiable. people generally agree on whether a website is beautiful or not probably true for art however, because it's beauty comes from unique ideas

AI will solve coding and math first, because the outputs are verifiable. AI won’t “solve” art, because art has no unit test. There is no single definition of good or bad. And by art, I don’t just mean paintings or music. I mean designing a great product, building a great company, and anything where taste is the moat.

y combinator should rebrand to GSpot at this point

i'm pretty sure that a claude codes outages has a measurable impact on birth rates

@qtnx_ akshually it should be a skill.md that explains to claude code how to build the exact harness you want - making cc the internet explorer of harnesses

i don’t think a CLI coding agent should be over like 5k LoC

@qtnx_ release SOTA model

any good way to fix brain fog? don’t say sleep 8 hours a day

@BenTheEgg @qtnx_ same xp; always bounced back after two days of using KDE every time I tried

@qtnx_ Something that killed me with kde to be honest is that it has always been a bit buggy, it's like "normal". I was around during the kde4 transition long ago, beginning I thought "ok, big change so bugs are expected". We're at 6.5 and release notes are still a lot of bug fixes

anyone tried COSMIC as their DE? is it good yet?

@qtnx_ but no vscode uwu

fine, i'll give it a shot

@qtnx_ call me old school, but I use this

it was so worth it to import a zojirushi rice cooker from japan (they don’t sell them in the EU) this thing makes the best rice i have ever eaten

@MaxMynter @MistralAI welcoooooome 🎉 lesgo

Today I signed with @MistralAI as a Research Engineer. Hard to put into words how excited I am.

is reverse acquire VCs reverse moat 🙃

only in SF: my Uber driver casually mentions he’s just here for the weekend... because he works in private equity and "just here to check on some houses to buy"

@qtnx_ i give you a phd Honoris Causa from the university of Tromford

i need to stop the voice in my head telling me to do a PhD

@maximelabonne But they gain back a few places on my "model naming" tier list

Updated frontier model rankings: guess who lost a few places

@MaxMynter the one in the embarcadero center

@BenjaminTrom The salesforce one?

A few months ago: "French founders lack grindset - Station F empty after 6 pm" SF reality: WeWork closes at 5pm 😏

@qtnx_ You could also see it as a variant of Peter's principle. Ppl get promoted to influencer until they reach their incompetence level and stay there

is there a name for the effect where the influencers or generally loud people in a community will always be at best mediocre while the most talented will stay on the down low as they don’t have time to do that not really duning kruger i’ll dub it the redditor effect

I'm in SF & San Jose Aug 10–19 (SJ evenings Tue–Fri), meeting founders, ML/eng & builders. Tag someone I should meet.

@samsja19 @giffmana pydantic-settings is so intricate to use, I feel like we should have frameworks for it, like web devs have with JS

@samsja19 @giffmana Let's create a pydantic for ML fanatics club

That urge to write a new, stupidly simple, pythonic library for ml codebase configuration...