jason gallagher

@AviSchiffmann 🎯

No one tells you when you go into marketing that tweeting isn't the job. Meetings and docs are the job. Tweeting is the fun little hobby they let you have in between meetings.

@fattybagz Jealous!!!

@heyjson Oh, they only let you try 6o-PRIME? I'm using Claude 69.666 - GAMMA-Pi Worlds above

This is a real thing that happened

Always a good time to revisit this

@fattybagz GPT-6o-PRIME. Got early access.

@heyjson which model?

we are looking for an iOS developer for a super exciting new project. Needs graphics & audio experience DM me cc @Restless_Egg

@raihan_ @boreta .@boreta rules. incredible opportunity

Great project. Go work with my lads @boreta and Dean.

Tech bros will never have taste because taste evolves from liking things purely for their own sake, and tech bros cannot conceive of value that is not tied to profit or clout

@yungcontent me

who else tryna bring linkedin back

@bmontxna every day

bro have you ever thought about like how everything we do is just data collection

@notannelisa Claude's me fr

claude be complaining a lil too much for me sometimes lol. like "wow! that's a big task!" ok???? and????

@hemeon Agree. All of the tools I've tried feel very rudimentary.

I'm manually designing a deck this morning and it's taking me about 2 hours by hand. Spent all afternoon yesterday trying to make it with AI and wasted way more time typing than just making . Don't forget you can just design stuff with your mouse.

@notannelisa JSTOR has its own integrated AI Research Tool, but I don't think you're going to find one by a third party. They have an API, but I'm sure it's locked down, unfortunately. Would love to see them open up access to one of the LLMs.

@heyjson yes but need an ai tool that has access and uses this!!!!!

is there an AI tool that exclusively references academic research?

@notannelisa Sorry for goofy wording, I was multi-tasking 🤣

@notannelisa Looks like best way is via a university or student with access. Looks like they do have limited access via JPASS subscription. support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/artic…

@notannelisa Ah, something like JSTOR? I'm pretty sure those are paywalled.

@heyjson yes but thoughts: - are the papers only free ones? looking for that database college students used to have access to (can’t remember name) - i wish that toggle was forced on lol

@0interestrates Woah. I need to try this.

we're making it easy to generate data reports in Julius with a single click you can now turn any analysis into a presentable report with charts give it a try! would love to know what you think

AI is very weird for me because normally I'd be the guy who'd argue that it's crazy we're not more excited about this miracle technology, but I completely get this sentiment. AI companies have clearly botched telling the story. That's a big piece of this. Telling people, "We built this thing that is definitely going to take your job and hopefully we can figure out how to give you handouts or something on the other side, or come up with even better jobs or whatever, say thank you" is clearly terrible messaging. Part of the issue is that what you need to say to raise tens of billions of dollars is very different from what you need to say to get the public excited. "This is definitely a better Google, it does some other cool stuff, too, and we think it's going to really help make you and your loved ones healthier" doesn't fund data centers. Then there's the gap between hype and the average person's experience with AI. Models are getting more useful for a small number of people - if you're a coder or a mathematician or someone who wants to make software but never learned to code, the last few model upgrades have felt really big. That's like ~5% of people, maybe? 2%? If you just want it to answer your questions or do your homework, it's gotten a little bit better, but it's also gotten better for everyone else, so it's not like you have a magic A+ machine all to yourself. Meanwhile, that very small group for whom it's more useful (or who at least say it's more useful because they don't want to be the one who admits it's not) is flooding the zone telling people, "If you don't use these tools as much as / as well as I do, you are completely screwed. You're going to lose your job to me and my army of bots. You (and your kids) are going to be part of the permanent underclass." If you dare question how incredible it is, you are told that you just don't get it, either because you're not smart enough, are too low agency, or don't pay for the latest paid models, which are the really good ones and don't even bother with the free stuff, you dumb poor. And you hear stories like the guy making an mRNA vaccine to fight his dog's cancer, which is awesome, and you're told that everyone will be able to have personalized medicine like that in the future, which sounds great. But like, are you, who can't even make a website with Claude Code, going to start using AlphaFold to whip up your own peptides? Are those dickbags telling you that they're going to be so much richer than you also going to live so much longer than you?? Plus, you hear creepy stories about AI encouraging people to kill themselves, and you know those people were probably unstable anyway and that AI is just a tool and it'll tell you whatever you want, but is it worth the risk? Pretending to be afraid of it might be the best way to stop it from taking your job, which, remember, all of the leaders at the big labs are promising it will do, unless you want to go be a plumber or something, work with your hands (they will not, of course, but you, you should probably seriously consider getting your hands dirty). Or maybe you're not pretending about being afraid, you actually are, which would be totally justified because the leaders of the big labs have told you to be afraid, that they're afraid, that these things are like nuclear weapons in the wrong hands and that there's a 10%? 25%? higher? chance that they'll kill us all, but it's worth the risk, because this is how society progresses. There's no turning back. "We have achieved Recursive Self-Improvement!" they squawk. "This is the big one! Humans are really and truly useless meatbags now! Ha ha!" And you're so confused, because most of the AI you actually encounter is slop. Poorly written social media posts, fake images, etc. Some of it is very funny, but if this is the stuff that's definitely going to take your job and then probably kill you, you don't quite see how? Are you that replaceable? Would you be more excited than concerned? Or would you be more concerned than excited? Personally, I'm excited, because I think LLMs are overhyped. We'll spend bajillions of dollars on inference in a Red Queen's Race, the slop will runneth over, some people will certainly lose their jobs, but a lot of things will genuinely improve, and a lot of people will end up being able to do more at their job than they can now. Plus, the non-chatbots, the models that power embodied AI and help crack biology, are showing early signs that they're going to be magical. In the past week or so, Travis Kalanick, Bob McGrew, and RJ Scaringe all said they're going to be building AI-powered factories. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for world models to accelerate AI's impact on the physical world. Robots can play tennis now. We'll all have personal tennis coaches or coaches who teach us anything we want when we're around, and spend the rest of their days making our beds, doing our laundry, cooking healthy, delicious meals. The near future is going to be insanely cool, and different in all sorts of ways, some of which we can predict, and some of which we can't. But my god you weirdos need to stop shilling your dystopian fantasies to the people if you ever want them to feel more excited than concerned.