rapha

synthetic, handmade, artisanal data

reading claude’s soul doc so i can become a more virtuous person

@brhydon yeah i agree that human effort will become a commodity. just that right now it’s a commodity that has “this is better” as a pricing factor and soon it won’t. maybe that doesn’t actually matter as much as i think

@rapha_gl "I'm so Important that a team of Swiss experts with knowledge passed down thru generations slaved away to make me this watch that's practically indistinguishable, or inferior to, the ones from the robofactory, but mine was made by PEOPLE ergo I'm better than you or something"

when we have robot factories there will be no more reasons to “only produce 100 units because it’s hard” so royal oak prices are gonna crash

@brhydon tldr: brand is storytelling, but currently bespokeness is priced into that story, and it will soon not be

"artisanal, hand made" is valued because it represents a quality beyond what you could do in a factory. someone has put their expert attention + dexterity into making this piece *perfect* in order to get the same quality in a factory, you'd have to create truly bespoke manufacturing processes. it's only worth the capex if you plan on scaling. but scaling drives prices and prestige down, so why would you? when you can get "artisanal, hand made" quality without spending the capex (equally expert attention + dexterity, but non-human), the logic breaks down. you'll only be buying brand, but what makes brand, brand now?

@MillionInt in my experience you just need to care about the right parts. ask to split the data model from the runtime logic. read every line of the data model code and let go control of the runtime code

Vibe coding something that is well designed and future proof is hard but not impossible

im going to bed. dont give up until all the above are satisfied. i want to wake up with all of them done. it is currently 1am. keep track of time and do everything before 9am. thanks [enter]

@_aidan_clark_ a year, even

What are people smoking, I've had GPT-4.5 for months!

i choose to not be at the whims of the modes in webcrawl. and so can you

regardless of opinions, truth, and outcomes, a lot more of citizen society are going to have heard of anthropic by monday

a strong slack emoji culture gives SF-brained high-sincerity people a safe way to channel their high-irony normie tendencies. many companies fail without this!

Note to my younger self, though it applies at any age: Over your life, there are going to be thousands of times that you get triggered — something happens that makes you feel insecure, anxious, jealous, threatened, etc How you respond is going to determine the quality of your relationships. If you build your emotional capacity and resilience by learning how to move through the feelings without dumping them on others, your relationships will have much more safety and trust and connection. The more offended you are and the more you respond from that insecure or entitled place, the more you are going to push people away even though your desire is the exact opposite. When you do inevitably get into conflict, every conflict you have could be the seed of resentment and bitterness, or the seed for more connection and a better solution. That’s what I would have tried to master much earlier in life — how to build more emotional capacity so that I don’t act in ways that bring me further away from people and how to have a conflict in ways that bring me closer to them instead. This is something that you can learn intellectually, but you also need to learn it emotionally to be able to use it when you really need it.

whether our interactions can shape it will determine our liberty

crazy how the quality interpersonal relationships will soon be entirely dictated by whether gpt-5.2-step153-max-v7-new gives good texting advice. such a force is clearly a Deva, lowercase-g god, an angel, and, with deep enough deployment and DAU it could aspire to be Demiurge

do you wanna hold hands at the india ai impact summit 🥹

@morqon @pashmerepat github but real time

@pashmerepat github

Should we build slack or github first

what have i done this year that has been an true expression of universal and transcendental love? nothing! i don’t deserve the heart-shaped cookie…

Reinforcement learning from Whale Preferences

yes agentic programming is miracle technology. but im more interested in what processes and tools we need to yield it with trust. early software did not have source control, unit tests or peer reviews. what is the agentic equivalent?