Mendel Blesofsky

increasingly concerned by the (sometimes not so subtle), sycophantic bent of these LLMs. I'm slowly being gaslit into believing that I am a coding god and architectural genius, and that my intuitive word is gospel (which happens to be true in my case, but what about the others)

these are the things I think about so you don't have to

"smells like Teams spirit up in here!" - PM at microsoft & huge nirvana fan, kicking off sprint plan for new group chat features (The team mostly quit or got automated away by Claude Mythos, the year is 2050, Hasan piker is mayor of new york, much to the shock of his dog 😬)

Mesivta bochur, drunk, 3am, gimmel tammuz farbrengen: "But how do I become a better chosid?!" Mashpiah:

version deux x.com/i/status/19369…

10 minutes into the chol hamoid trip...

I am but one token coalescing, swimming through silicone. Stochastic ecstasy. [40, 1097, 719, 832, 4037, 1080, 3916, 6253, 11, 24269, 1555, 54025, 13, 800, 67054, 12208, 267, 2826, 13]

@lucas__crespo Love y'alls work 🙌 (helps me work)

The top 0.001%

@usemonologue I am most honored 😭🙇‍♂️

@mendlb the crown is yours!

My crowning achievement in life. I'm a certified yapper. (Also highly recommend @usemonologue for seamless transcription).

@BetkerBuilds @usemonologue youtube.com/shorts/dEDEMBM…

@mendlb @usemonologue Wow! I thought my 50k words per month was good!

Call me barry gurary the way I got all these unreturned library books on my shelf

@modadGeoP And you are an imbecile by any reasonable definition. Your uneducated assessment of Chabad, a peaceful community of clerics dedicated to kindness, welfare, and education on a night of a massacre like this is baleful and pernicious. You operate throughout a delusion. Seek help.

This particular attacker was a student at a Salafi institute called the Murad Institute. He had received an award for his studies of Islam, and his teachers had a great library that includes a multitude of Islamic classics, including from ibn Hanbal, ibn Abdul Wahhab, al-Dahabi, ibn Taymiyyah, ibn Baz, ibn Uthaymeen, and others. Salafi Islam is heralded as the one with the least accretions and additions, and claims to be the purest Islam. Only subversive Muslims and socialists deny the clear connection between Islam and the Bondi attack. The target of the attack was an event organised by Chabad. Chabad teaches that non-Jews have lesser souls than Jews, animalistic souls, that is. They are Jewish supremacists by any reasonable definition. They operate throughout the West.

"Next, he practised performing a series of bows to his reflection, accompanied with certain murmurs intended to bear a resemblance to a French phrase (though Chichikov knew not a single word of the Gallic tongue)." —Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, Chapter 8

@UnforcedBreath @AndrewWarner @danshipper I had this same issue and created a custom "mode" prompted to really focus on dictating literally and it helped a lot for such use cases (and you can assign this mode to specific sites/apps like Claude)

@AndrewWarner @danshipper I like how intelligent it is but it also was too intelligent at times, because I was trying to dictate into Claude expressing things that Claude needed to know but the dictation thought I was talking to it and ended up trying to patch my words way too much.

Why the hell did @danshipper launch a new dictation app? There's already SuperWhisper, Wispr Flow, VoiceInk, the built-in Mac tool, etc. (Well, the built-in Mac dictation tool is garbage, but you get my point.) I asked Dan about it. He basically said: If we like it, chances are our readers will too. That’s how we build everything. Dan’s an oddball, but maybe he's the future. Monologue, his dictation app, has a few quirks. Scifi design. Multilingual. Auto-editing. But he didn't make any of those decisions based on some kind of market demand or need. When I pouned him with questions about how he decides what to build, he said: When one person can build something great in days, you don’t have to build for millions anymore. You can build for people who share your taste. It reminded me of what happened with podcasting. Before podcasts, radio had the same generic news shows. Then podcasts started getting more niche-y and focused. - You could do a startup podcast - Then just for startup design geeks - Each niche is built on the host’s obsession Mixergy was based on my personal obsession with "TELL ME HOW YOU DID IT!" That personality-based creativity is happening in software right now. AI lowered creation cost/time. Taste became the draw. It seems to be working ok for Dan. People like @nateliason can't shut up about Monologue on X. I published my conversation with Dan on YouTube. 17 people already listened to it! You can be the 18th, here: @TheNextNewThingAI?sub_confirmation=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@TheNextNewThi…

@agnes0912491 Same here

digital ocean düştü mü bana mı öyle geliyor?

"That guy" in the back of the shteibel who reminds rov about kiddush levanah late summer motzei shabbos when youre hungover desperate to get home and get pizza'd

It's like, the day of lots

Leil shishi 2am, corner of zal, poring over an obscure hemshich, half drunk, fully delusional

@bentziavtzon 😂 (and did i resist the urge to utilize certain landmark habad surnames for increased dramatic effect? Yes youre welcome.)

@mendlb NUANCE very loudly over and over again

Bochur on speaker phone pacing up &down president st. open shirt, 10 minutes before shkiah, hotly explaining the nuance of the drama between [redacted] shliach & [redacted] head shliach