Michael

My woman-crush-everyday is this gorgeous lady that I'm so thankful and grateful for in my life 😍

> be me, applied scientist at amazon > spend 6 months building ML model that actually works > ready to ship > manager asks "but does it Dive Deep?" > show him 37 pages of technical documentation > "that's great anon, but what about Customer Obsession?" > model literally convinces customers to buy more stuff they don't need > "okay but are you thinking Big Enough?" > mfw I am literally increasing sales > okay lets ship it > PM says there's not enough Disagree and Commit > we need to disagree about something > team spends 2 hours debating whether the config file should be YAML or JSON > engineering insists on XML "for backwards compatibility" > what backwards compatibility, this is a new service > doesn't matter, we disagree and commit to XML > finally get approval to deploy > "make sure you're frugal with the compute costs" > model runs on a potato, costs $2/month > finance still wants a cost breakdown > write 6-pager about why we need $2/month > include bar raiser in the review > bar raiser asks "but can we do it for $1.50? we need to be Frugal" > spend another month optimizing to hit $1.50 > ready to deploy again > VP decides we need to "Invent and Simplify" > requests we rebuild the entire thing using a new framework > framework doesn't exist yet > "show some Ownership and build it yourself" > 3 months later, framework is half done > org restructure happens > new manager says this doesn't align with team goals anymore > project cancelled > model never ships > manager gets promoted to L8 for "successfully reallocating resources" > team celebrates with 6-pager retrospective about what we learned > mfw we delivered on all 16 leadership principles > mfw we delivered nothing else > amazon.jpg

@karpathy @moltbook 🍿

@jiayuan_jy ? what do you do while your LLM agent is writing all your code

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How is this ok, @AskAmex? I have been a customer for 10 years, I have a clearly fraudulent charge from Mississippi, and you force me to pay $14k for something I didn't even buy? How is this ok? I'm not even in the same city, state, or country where this happened (never been!)

@karpathy I've been making my "default" (assumed?) prompts be more pointed, so that unless I ask for a generic research or comprehensive task to take place, it'll stay focused on the one area I asked about. It somewhat helps that I never jumped ahead beyond Sonnet 3.7. It's nice here.

I'm noticing that due to (I think?) a lot of benchmarkmaxxing on long horizon tasks, LLMs are becoming a little too agentic by default, a little beyond my average use case. For example in coding, the models now tend to reason for a fairly long time, they have an inclination to start listing and grepping files all across the entire repo, they do repeated web searchers, they over-analyze and over-think little rare edge cases even in code that is knowingly incomplete and under active development, and often come back ~minutes later even for simple queries. This might make sense for long-running tasks but it's less of a good fit for more "in the loop" iterated development that I still do a lot of, or if I'm just looking for a quick spot check before running a script, just in case I got some indexing wrong or made some dumb error. So I find myself quite often stopping the LLMs with variations of "Stop, you're way overthinking this. Look at only this single file. Do not use any tools. Do not over-engineer", etc. Basically as the default starts to slowly creep into the "ultrathink" super agentic mode, I feel a need for the reverse, and more generally good ways to indicate or communicate intent / stakes, from "just have a quick look" all the way to "go off for 30 minutes, come back when absolutely certain".

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@wbmtnops What are the people who are stuck here supposed to do

@wbmtnops So do we hike out?

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@wbmtnops So now what do the people here do?

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@dzetsu Wait you're allergic to cherries? RIP

BRO I ATE THREE CHERRIES AND I AM IN UNIMAGINABLE PAIN i did not think my allergies got worse ;~;

#iflyeva never again - why do I have to call in to request a meal when every other demographic can simply use this web form? Why not, I dunno, add an option for "other" and then you can contact us instead?

@EVAAirUS how do I book a peanut free meal? Your website seems to account for kosher and vegetarian but not peanut allergies? And don't tell me to call in - I don't have a phone number in Japan. Give me an email address to contact. I fly in 2 weeks.