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my spicy theory is that chinese ai labs keep winning because of culture, not talent or resources. chinese labs still have a deeply hands-on engineering culture. deepseek and kimi are flat organizations where science and engineering are fused: the same people move between algorithms, data, and infra, doing whatever it takes to make the model work. but sf tech bros have decided that “researcher” is the high-status title while infra is merely support work. every new sf ai startup calls itself a “lab,” every ambitious engineer quietly upgrades their title to “research engineer,” and the infra work is left to whoever failed to escape it. but at frontier scale, infra determines experiment velocity, and experiment velocity determines research output. at frontier scale, infra **is** research.

I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

Today we're opening up the DoorDash CLI in limited beta. `dd-cli` lets you order DoorDash directly from your agent: search stores, find the best deals, check out, and more. Early access for US/Canadian macOS developers by waitlist. Excited to see what folks build!

This is a pretty eye opening chart. By using frontier models as task managers and a sidekick to carry out these tasks, you can get Fable level performance for even cheaper than Opus 4.8 by a lot (40%)

best friend is a PM and is back at work after 5 months maternity leave she is shocked at how many coworkers / partners have outsourced critical thinking and now copy pasta claude “feels like they’re not using their brain, very frustrating”