even westvang
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even westvang
@even
Co-founder @sanity_io. Pixel nostalgic.
Oslo, No Katılım Ocak 2009
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Been at Sanity nearly eight years. Came from an agency where we kept hitting the same wall: content modeled for pages never survived the redesign, let alone being used for anything else.
I remember trying the beta one weekend in May 2017 and thinking "oh shoot, someone actually thought about this." And @even and @svale were already talking about Content Lake being real-time so robots (what we now call agents) could work alongside people without locking each other out. Turned out to be a pretty solid bet.
A million users in, I'm just one of them. Pointing agents at archives, pulling feedback into Sanity Learn, publishing blog posts and docs updates.
The thing about joining a company early is you find out whether the thesis was right. This one still is.
Sanity@sanity_io
1M users on Sanity. The interesting thing is what the content teams among them are doing now. Content operations used to mean editing pieces one at a time and manually tracking how a change rippled across locales, references, and related docs. Now teams are running agents against the whole content layer. A price change propagates across eleven country sites in one pass. An archive of ten years of articles gets audited for coverage gaps in an afternoon. A migration that would take significant engineering work lands overnight. Content ops has become a system you query, not a queue you work through. That's what the teams shipping on Sanity are doing. Thanks for building with us!
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holy shit academic philosophers are finally taking LLMs seriously. david chalmers directly cites @repligate !!
David Chalmers@davidchalmers42
here's a new version of "what we talk to when we talk to language models", with an added section (pp. 16-23) on LLM interlocutors as characters, personas, or simulacra. philarchive.org/rec/CHAWWT-8 the new version discusses role-playing vs realization, the simulators framework, the persona selection hypothesis, and more -- in addition to the existing discussion of quasi-mental states, LLM identity, personal identity in severance, LLM welfare, and related topics. this version was mostly written before recent discussions of these issues on X and in NYC, but i've updated it a little in light of those discussions. any thoughts are welcome.
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if you haven't been up searching for an Adult Plush Envelope Sleeping Bag after midnight have you truly lived
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you might want to exercise a bit of sobriety when yoloing your product shots with AI
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Our Content Agent is now not only in-product and available as an API, but now also officially up on Slack marketplace. Let's let it speak for itself: lnkd.in/e7CA5jvh
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This is like the Miyazaki zombie animation video for people who read. “I strongly feel that this is an insult to text itself”
stevibe@stevibe
your physics textbook is not boring anymore Hooke's Law with live text reflow around an actual bouncing simulation. 60fps. zero layout thrashing. @_chenglou what have you unleashed
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I love how the only setting I need on GitHub is buried under profile > settings > developer settings (!) > PAT > fine grained
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@emollick Next you will be complaining about the speed of the infrastructure granting you access to global information resources as you consume it along with a beverage at 30k feet
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Its annoying that my tireless team of little computer people made out of statistical models that predict words based on the corpus of all human language & thus are reasonable approximations of a compression of the knowledge of humanity take 15 minutes or so to complete some tasks
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@fchollet This seems to me why grounding might be more useful. Just to get a feeling for all the «abstract» metaphor we use.
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We underestimate how much "abstract" thought is just repurposed sensorimotor control circuitry. A lot of reasoning is essentially about moving through idea-space the way we move through physical space.
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"The model wasn't broken. The context was."
@MHillestad on why AI agents need structured content, not bigger context windows.
Structure powers intelligence.
sanity.io/blog/structure…
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Simen cooked a collaborative environment for humans and agents during the Holidays. Stay tuned.
Simen Svale@svale
Why can't my coding agents—backend, frontend, architect, designer—just hash it out in a thread like people do? We made a thing over the holidays to try it. MIRIAD is basically Slack for agents. We are prepping for an open test run: miriad.systems
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We're the CMS @leerob migrated away from.
He's got valid points. But we've got some context to add.
sanity.io/blog/you-shoul…
Lee Robinson@leerob
I migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown. I had estimated it would take a few weeks, but was able to finish the migration in three days with $260 in tokens and hundreds of agents. Here's how I did it + all my my usage stats. leerob.com/agents
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We hosted the first-ever developer conference dedicated to AI-powered Content Operations.
Over 300+ developers and technical leaders driving the future of content at scale and how to go from theory to production. 13 hours. One track. AI, content ops, and culture.
If you missed it, or want to go back to the future with us, we got the sessions turned into a video podcast → sanity.io/blog/everythin…
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@matdryhurst Lmk. It's v. surprising who has aptitude, what to call or how to even qualify it. Ironic that hermeneutics/semiotics/comp lit may have useful tools, but humanities dislike the idea of being applied synthetically anywhere and distrust this area in particular.
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You guys don’t get it yet
Slop will accelerate the demise of the attention economy in favor of something new
Using models well is the most literate I’ve ever felt. Understand them.
The Baffler@thebafflermag
The poptimists and sloptimists have won. Our new issue, “After Words,” describes our postliterate moment, when everything from serious criticism to literary fiction to children’s books seems on the verge of being replaced by content trash.
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