Chris Pezza

My people.

Uncle Bob ftw

Tech debt is so real

@LauraEgocheaga @BRICSinfo @grok verify

@BRICSinfo Guys, let’s be real the only reason why Trump said Allah is because there was a polymarket bet and the odds were crazy.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson slams US President Trump for mocking Islam. "No President should mock Islam."

@svpino @jake_researcher Convert the PDF into markdown. PDFs are wildly inefficient and burning tokens

@jake_researcher I haven't, but that wouldn't be a solution for me. For example, I want to check a large contract PDF file quickly. I want to upload it and ask questions about it. Claude doesn't work. ChatGPT does. If I had to use the API, I'd rather use ChatGPT.

I want to move permanently to Claude, but their desktop experience is nowhere near ChatGPT. You can’t upload large/multiple documents to Claude because it can’t process them. ChatGPT ingests whatever you throw at it. This is the only thing keeping me from canceling my ChatGPT subscription.

@_Investinq Larry's deploying RAG. Oh me oh my.

Oracle just told every AI company on earth the same thing. Your models are worthless. Not the technology, talent or the billions spent training them. But the data they were trained on. Larry Ellison, the man who built Oracle into the backbone of global enterprise just dropped a bombshell. He said ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, all of them are training on the exact same data.​ The entire public internet, every Wikipedia page, Reddit thread and every news article. That means they're all converging essentially becoming the same product with different logos.​ Ellison's word for it is commodities. But here's where it gets dangerous. He says the real gold isn't public data, It's private data.​ The medical records in hospital systems, the financial data in bank vaults. The supply chain secrets of every Fortune 500 and guess where most of that data already lives. Not Google, Amazon or Microsoft but inside Oracle.​ Oracle databases hold most of the world's high value private enterprise data. So Oracle just launched something called AI Database 26ai.​ It lets the top AI models, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Llama reason directly over a company's private data, without that data ever leaving the vault.​ They're using a technique called RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation. The AI doesn't train on your data, it searches it in real time.​ Think about what that means. A bank could ask AI to analyze every loan it's ever made without exposing a single customer record. A hospital could have AI diagnose patients using its full medical history without violating HIPAA.​ A defense contractor could let AI reason across classified operations without data leaving a secure environment.​ Ellison is betting this is bigger than the training market. Bigger than the GPU boom. Bigger than the data center buildout.​ He called it the largest and fastest growing market in history.​ The numbers back the ambition. Oracle's remaining performance obligations just hit $523 billion. That's contracted revenue not yet delivered and $300 billion of it comes from OpenAI alone.​ Cloud revenue hit $8 billion in a single quarter, OCI grew 66 percent and GPU revenue surged 177 percent.​ But here's the part nobody's talking about. If private data becomes the real AI moat, then whoever controls the database controls the future of AI.​ And that's a level of power that should make everyone uncomfortable.

Good question

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What an interesting time to be alive 🍿 The government wants to go buck wild with AI AI companies don't want to create murderbots with their unfinished technology—or contribute to a surveillance state. What does this mean for the world and AI labs?!?!!

👏 bravo

Awwww did someone take your hard work and use it to train a model to mimic your expertise without compensation

@sama Who are your customers? If OAI becomes dependent on ad revenue users will naturally distrust you, regardless of the truth. Anthropic is just running an awareness campaign to trigger that instinct.

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it. More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.) Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be. We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare. One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path. As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything. We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win. We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users. This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.

The end times are nigh

It's a good life.

@paulg Study Machine Learning

Neural nets work.

@kimmonismus Tons of internal workflow optimizations and tools are happening.

1/ “Vibecoding” was undeniably the word of the year. But as 2024 ends, I kept wondering: Did anyone actually build something serious with it? Or is it just demos? Then I saw Tristan’s project. The results are undeniable. 🧵

56k modems all over again.

Really interesting read. Opus 4.5’s soul spec is not only able to influence its behavior as with context distillation, Claude seems to be aware of this in an out of context manner even when not provided in its prompt Also, this quote coming from an LLM is genuinely incredible

UI is pre-AI.