Gentry Underwood

What would spontaneous coordination look like? Could software create a collective consciousness that requires no central control or hierarchy? If you take cost of collaboration to zero, apparently yes. (via All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace ep 1 by Adam Curtis)

HTML is the new markdown. I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me. This is why.

i feel like i don’t think linearly enough for speech to text prompting. i frequently change wording as i write so the pressure of having to voice the right prompt first try is frustrating

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You can't earn a billion dollars. Ilana Glazer: That's right. AOC: You just can't earn that. Glazer: That's exactly correct. AOC: You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. Glazer: Yup. AOC: You can pay people less than what they're worth. Glazer: Yup. AOC: But you can't earn that, right? Glazer: That's right. AOC: And so you have to create a myth that -- since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.

You can build interactive applications with gpt-realtime-1.5, so users can control app state more naturally with voice. Hi Chappy 👋

I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many entry level roles typically filled by young employees. The technology would then work its way up the organization and eventually reduce the total number of jobs in a company. The data is saying something different, so when I get new information I am willing to change my mind. The number of software engineers being hired has been increasing. The number of open software engineer roles is growing. The number of new college grads who get hired has increased 5.6% over the last 12 months. The unemployment level for people aged 20-24 years old who have a college degree has fallen from nearly 9% to almost 5% as well. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote “AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as Head of AI and AI engineer.” And I am starting to see companies throughout our portfolio aggressively hiring to keep up with the demand for their products and services. If AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact, then companies are going to want as many productive units of labor as possible. This is a key reason why I am changing my mind. AI appears to be a magical technology that will make companies more productive and more profitable. The net result will be more corporations, more startups, and more jobs. All three are big, positive wins for the American economy.

most of tooling around llms was built for a world that largely doesn’t exist anymore RAG, GraphRAG, Multi Agent Orchestration, ReAct frameworks, prompt management/versioning tools, LLMOps tooling, eval tools, gateways, finetuning libs, etc all obsoleted in in the last 3 months