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@odbol
A11y designer, new media artist, photographer, cybertechnician, dodecahedonist pursuing new styles of interfaces through the body.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Ağustos 2009
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@Aella_Girl Depends on wich one of them. The crazy one no the nice sweet one yes.
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@newlinedotco @emollick Exactly. Evals are so important to make a quality product, but since the LLM APIs are so easy to use, they think it's easy to make a product around them.
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the forward deployed engineer model is useful for getting a prototype out the door, but it usually hits a wall at the 80% mark.
the bottleneck in production ai isn't the technical stack, it's the lack of structured evaluation. most orgs don't have the baseline datasets or the axial coding process required to actually measure where their agents are failing. they're just eyeballing it.
you can't outsource the rethinking of your domain expertise to an external engineer. you need to build vertical foundational models that internalize your specific industry terminology and policies. that happens through domain-specific fine-tuning and grounded rag pipelines, not just by wrapping a general api in a new ui
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I am not sure "Forward Deployed AI Engineers" are going to deliver on what a lot of companies are hoping for. They are useful, yes, but AI applications are far less of a technical issue, and much more about rethinking the deep expertise & structure of your organization around AI.
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@mitchellh Wait, the FCC banned robocalling? How come I constantly get called by spammers still? We don't need better laws we need better infrastructure: make it impossible to spoof phone numbers, make it too expensive for spammers and scammers. Remove their hiding spots
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It's so insanely disrespectful for an AI agent to talk to real people without consent or at least disclosure. This is the type of stuff I'm hugely supportive of government regulation. The FCC must expand the definition of robocalling and TCPA-style regulation to online AI.
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@aakashgupta This is awesome, but it's a grave mistake donating it back to the government. Trump is selling off our public land to all his buddies so they can extract the wealth and leave it a wasteland
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I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.
Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.
Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.
He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.
The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.
A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.
That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.
Dudes Posting Their W’s@DudespostingWs
Huge W
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@rtfeldman Well anthropic is releasing Claude features at an insane speed. But also they don't have any legacy to slow them down. They probably won't keep this pace for too long.
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In the past 3 years, I haven't noticed any uptick in release speed for software I use. If productivity is increasing, I can't tell as an end user.
I have noticed decreases in uptime, increases in bugs, and a HUGE increase in people bragging about how many PRs per day they land.
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@rtfeldman @MattSchone More bugs and more nonsensical features. Upon starting my car today, a photo collage pops up on the dashboard. Um, wut
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@rtfeldman Everyone's raving about Claude Code, meanwhile the Claude website and app barely works, 404s everywhere, bugs. Like jeez if you're saving so much time coding maybe spend a bit more QAing
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@emollick do you think there's any platform design that could fix this, or is "open comment section at scale" just a dead format now?
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I know I go on about this, but comments to all of my posts, both here and on LinkedIn, are no longer worth reading at all due to AI bots.
That was not the case a few months ago. (Or rather, bad/crypto comments were obvious, but now it is only meaning-shaped attention vampires)
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@AlisonbobEth @Dan_Jeffries1 Actually, you need reddit. AI just condenses Reddit into a more usable format. So much niche medical information and "anecdata" is on there that is sometimes more useful and extensive than the official sources of scientific knowledge
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@Dan_Jeffries1 Yes if you have chronic illnesses or weird, unusual side effects, and many other things, you need AI too. Ai + humans, is the sweet spot, especially in medicine.
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I solved a problem with GPT that my doctor could not solve for YEARS. I was getting constantly sick to my stomach.
Saw her a dozen times during that time. Saw specialists.
Had an endoscopy (fun). Tried all kinds of different medicines. Different diets. Blood tests. Nothing worked.
Eventually I figured it out with Reddit and GPT.
It was my cholesterol medication. A rare side effect.
Told my doctor. We changed to an alternative, GPT suggested might work and I double checked on WebMD. Problem went away in a week and never came back.
Maybe you don't want people to have this power.
Then you are my enemy and the enemy of freedom.
I want to have this power at my finger tips and if you want to take it away from me I will fight you tooth and nail to keep it.
People who want to take this power from you are protectionists, protecting existing guilds and incumbents, or they think you're too stupid and that you're a baby who has to be protected from yourself.
Either way, they deserve zero respect and no quarter.
They need to be beaten back at all levels of society because they are destroying it.
Garry Tan@garrytan
New York wants to ban AI that outscores doctors on medical exams. Over 900,000 New Yorkers have no insurance. 92% of low-income legal problems go unaddressed. Anti-AI NY bill S7263 isn't consumer protection. It's cartel protection. gli.st/ypknnhdn
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@gheorgheiuga @Austen Sensible Defaults are important in UX. Apple usually gets them right, but I guess not always
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“What should the behavior be when someone saves an image on their iPhone?”
“Let’s just bury it in their library chronologically based on when it was taken so it immediately becomes impossible to find.”
“Perfect.”
- UX designers at Apple
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Open Source is one of the most powerful concepts in the history of the information age, and it's allowed us to accelerate so rapidly as a society. One can only hope the extending this idea to other industries and forms of knowledge/expression will similarly benefit humanity
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack
I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift. AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it! Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.
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@rfleury @msdGYT @ID_AA_Carmack desperately holding on to the last threads of capitalism as hard as you can, huh?
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No, I wouldn't say that at all. I think his reasoning for his own work is perfectly sound, though I disagree with its universal application.
I agree with John in that reputation building, social change, career advancement, and so on is downstream of gift-giving, but only if the "chain of custody" is actually preserved, which when used as training data, it's not.
The problem with that is that it makes the already-low incentives of gift-giving close to 0. Now, when publishing code openly, it is much more like a completely anonymous donation. Some people will still be selfless about it, but obviously, this will just result in vastly less gift-giving.
Furthermore, given the lack of "chain of custody", there is the question of whether or not it is ethical that John's altruism is being assumed for all open source authors, via AI companies assuming all open source code is indeed a gift, free to feed into their systems.
In my mind, the *general* answer is no. Codebases are like property with specifically outlined license requirements. I don't see AI as "learning" in the same way a human does, but more like an information compression system (which is why you can reconstruct licensed code with the license stripped using these systems). Obviously if I zip/unzip some licensed code, that doesn't revoke the license.
In any case, this all means that the economic non-viability of open source development has become even more dramatic, and so this move by AI companies - whether you think it's acceptable or not - will move a lot of development behind closed doors.
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I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift.
AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it!
Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.
Rich Whitehouse@DickWhitehouse
Genuinely devastating take to see from someone who popularized the GPL across so many communities. Fails to appreciate the social and cultural importance of the license.
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@omooretweets Why put the percent change as a number in a bubble? There's plenty of room to put another bar next to each one with the previous value. @GraphCrimes please arrest them
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The U.S. has a weird cultural relationship with AI
Despite the fact that we’ve driven the vast majority of AI breakthroughs, we still rank among the lowest countries in terms of consumer trust
(Data from Edelman 2025 study) 👇
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@GreenB605 @adele_bloch My ex would always make me drive her to the airport. We lived literally one block away from the subway that takes you directly there. But no, she wanted me to go pick up my car (5-8 blocks away), drive her there, then spend another hour trying to regain a parking spot.
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@adele_bloch Asking to be dropped off or picked up at the airport is one of the most selfish things that a person can do.
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everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager
> drive your friends to the airport
> go to their party even when you're tired
> stop cancelling last minute
> host at your place
> support the wins & losses
it's worth every ounce of effort
E5@E5THXR
Hate to break it to you guys but sometimes you have to do things you don’t like for the sake of having a community. Avoiding consistency with the people in your life is working against us and the data already shows it. If you think connections can be sustained on absence carry on
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This is how fascism creeps in. You'll notice buried in the announcement that they are doing this "in partnership with several governments" ah yes all for the safety of the children I'm sure
Abhishek Yadav@yabhishekhd
Bro Google is doing something wild. Starting September 2026 every Android developer has to give Google their government ID. Legal name. Home address. Phone number. And pay a fee. Even if they never use the Play Store. Even if they just put their app on their own website. So basically if you build any app for Android — Google wants to know exactly who you are. No exceptions. Brave, EFF, Tor Project and 40+ other organizations said no and signed an open letter against it. And think about who this really hurts. The people building privacy apps, VPNs, encrypted messaging, tools for journalists and activists. People who specifically chose to stay away from Google. Now Google wants their home address. Google is literally building a database of every person who writes Android software. Run by Google. Controlled by Google. Android was supposed to be the open system. The alternative to Apple locking everything down. Slowly it's starting to look the same. Is Android still actually open? 👇
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@thdxr @karrisaarinen Designers deal with a similar problem: Figma makes beautiful mocks standard. Even if the UX and interaction itself is terrible, leadership would look at it and say oh that looks pretty ship it. When they should be actually designing in ugly wireframes to suss out UX issues first.
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@karrisaarinen conceptually it's probably good that we can make prototypes quickly
but yeah the sneaky thing is they take little effort and look near complete so momentum builds too quickly behind them before anyone's even thought hard about it
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@moetkacik To be clear, this is trump making a mockery of our laws by essentially accepting bribes to make lawsuits go away
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gotta say there is nothing Ticketmaster does better than make a mockery of American laws. Today the DOJ lawyer arguing the case to break up the music monopoly learned his bosses had settled the case 3 days earlier from the judge, who was PISSED
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