reed

@tech_sista they aren’t empty, the windows are tinted

How does Waymo pricing even make sense at this point where it’s 2x of a Lyft and I see so many Waymos go empty on the street all the time.

the best technology blends seamlessly, invisibly, with your life

SF learns basic supply and demand

@MinaGawargious claude is so good but the limit is smothering. codex is very capable and unrestrained

I’m seeing so much Codex praise on the timeline. I may have to try it out again. Claude Code has been my go to because it’s so good despite how fast I hit my limit. Gonna switch sides for a bit and report back

@brianwilt soldering is fun, definitely the way to go. @ifixit has a nice usb-c iron

Anyway here we are an hour later and we’ve at least ordered the $2 part. I sort of convince myself I’ve saved a few hundred dollars and learned something along the way

A knob failed on my electric drum set. I kind of struggle with decision making on - Send to Roland, ask them to repair, guessing costs $100s and takes months - Order new board for for $100s and just drop in board - Identify and re-solder the encoder piece

he’s a 10 but he doesn’t say hi back to the waymo

@wongmjane @creatine_cycle cooked, damn

i was too social for partiful. i was too corporate for luma

@itsmwong 😅

Made it to SFO. Still have my luggage. 🙃

Waymo vehicles have a 13x lower rate of serious accidents than human drivers. Six generations of hardware. Thousands of innovations in AI and software. 170M+ fully autonomous miles. For 20 years @Dmitri_Dolgov has been focused on making driving safer. While dozens of companies have come and gone, Dmitri persisted. He knows that getting to "good" is easy, getting to "great" is hard and getting to "super human safety" is extreme. Dmitri chooses extreme. My favorite part about him? He’s extremely humble about all this and remains focused on what's next: scaling. We're grateful to have hosted Dmitri and his @Waymo team at @sequoia AI Ascent last week. Full video here: 00:00 Introduction 01:25 Origins 02:45 DARPA Challenge 04:18 Google Self Driving 05:44 Startup Grind 07:11 The AV Hype Cycle 09:47 Waymo World Model 12:41 End-to-End 15:28 Gen 6 Hardware and Scaling 19:53 Safety Stories and the Future

@wholemars many such cases

Just tried to book a ride a few blocks away in SF Uber: $11 Waymo: $27 (I picked the Waymo)

@jefferinc @samsheffer @Waymo yes

@samsheffer @reed @Waymo Still tiny compared to in 3 years and total market in 3 years

500K @Waymo rides per week is astronomical

@Andercot @chris_j_paxton who is building anti bot tools?

So I guess we are collectively on the cusp of seeing a billion humanoid robots enter every aspect of our daily lives huh

@JusDayDa @itsmwong that’s weird I wonder why

@reed @itsmwong Tesla has not quoted LiDAR in 10 years and does not realize it’s cheap… (And Tesla doesn’t want to operate its Robotaxi during sunrise or sunset… aka “rush hour”) …which is when Livery is needed most…

Someone please explain to me like I’m 5 why Tesla doesn’t need lidar for FSD, but they use lidar to map…

@ethanmckanna @wholemars it can’t be skipped and the options aren’t random order so the data will be very skewed

Current UX is horrible. Looks like something an engineer made lol Maybe there's constraints I'm not aware of but feel like it would make more sense to have optional audio prompt, transcribe, and then use an LLM to categorize. Would allow for much more nuance and consistent bucketing of issue type

Would be great to have AI just categorize all the interventions But that might eat up a lot of compute and not be as reliable as just asking humans today

@beffjezos @Waymo lol

@reed @Waymo Wen Boston plz

portland @waymo incoming

@TheStithLord @Waymo pls don’t smash the robot

@reed @Waymo Will be fun to watch the residents smash the robots

@tnertz @Waymo por que no todos

@reed @Waymo I can’t wait until you announce which Portland

@ChargerHunter @Waymo will come soon

@reed @Waymo Need my Highway Miami driving 🤣