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@thinkingshivers The ego in these replies is crazy

I submitted a draft of my short story to Claude for copy editing. Sometimes he’ll suggest a re-write of a particular sentence. My version: “She was just a rich girl, with a carelessness about her that could only come from being born into privilege.” Claude’s suggestion: “She was just a rich girl, careless in the way only privilege allows.” It's a matter of taste, but I personally think Claude's version is better. It's saying the same thing but more deftly. But when I swap his sentence in then plug the paragraph into Pangram, it goes from being high confidence that it's human to low confidence that it's human. If I keep doing this, will it start to read like AI slop? If I keep doing this, is it even my writing anymore? So I'm keeping my version, the one I think is worse, and I'm disquieted by the fact that there could be a better version of this story that I now need to specifically avoid.

@_sholtodouglas It keeps telling me we've done enough for the day by like 10am

When do you reach for other models instead of Claude? What can we do better? Hit me with all of your frustrations. dms open. If you can give me detail (e.g. specifics/transcipts) - it'll help a lot in finding out exactly what we need to do to improve the next model

@emollick The way you phrased this is genuinely interesting, so I want to take it seriously

I keep coming back to this tweet. The phrase “the list” is doing the heavy lifting. The post deserves the weight. It is a load bearing post.

@tszzl @brianluidog I haven't tried this with 5.5, but with previous versions of GPT it just tends to confirm the status quo very strongly, like if you ask is the UN good it will make a few caveats but roughly say yes, and it's unfair to question that, Claude will give a bit more nuance

@brianluidog in what way is chatgpt woke?

It's interesting that Claude/Gemini are perceived as woke, but chatGPT is actually way more woke, Claude mostly is old school liberal and Gemini is a really committed centrist

@cheascake it is the ultimate neutral. just wait till the chip reader penetrates you

Tap to pay is a symptom of a feminized society. You should be penetrating the chip reader

@tszzl with all do respect roon, you work at a young company that ships

“fake work” and “bullshit jobs” has been fantastically wrong and misleading for understanding the modern world. a much better understanding is of a global economy where minor skill differences and improvements lead to monumentally different outcomes, and the marginal hour of work has never been more measurable or useful after the advent of even moderately effective talent allocation systems and the variability of reward based on effort and skill, people have engaged much harder in a red queen rat race across the world. this is why the Chinese ‘cram schools’ exist and why ‘yuppie striverism’ is a thing and why people trade off later family formation for working more so often. while overall work hours are slightly down, they are actually up for high earners (nber.org/digest/jul06/w…) I see it in the marginal effect with my friends now after the advent of claude and codex: they are actually working harder now than they ever have before. this is due to a personal Jevon’s paradox where they see that the value of their time has increased dramatically, that they can get a lot more visible work done towards goals they care about than they used to after requests from their customers the labs are doing things like inventing dispatch which lets you monitor work and manipulate your computer from your phone, on top of prior changes like having always on communications (slack). You hear about people launching codex jobs from their phone the moment they have an idea and reviewing them later no clue how long this lasts but the most immediate impact of co-existing with the machine state is higher productivity and higher visibility which leads to more work hours

In retrospect 2025 was the year of the harness not the agent. If we have a year of the agent it's going to be 2026

This is why you all are addicted to OpenClaw

update: the bot detection is detecting me

its valentines day and im reading about playwright bot detection evasion

@tszzl Google is way more autistic now, encroaching on the vulcan territory

none of this has changed in two years

@riley_stews @vikhyatk They're all hiding I guess

@nauru @vikhyatk Bro there’s like 100 other flowers growing here

@DougDougFood FWIW react will be pretty easy to pick up if you know JavaScript HTML and CSS, there's a reason it's everywhere

Yo developers: I’m teaching myself web dev, what are tools you think are super high value or will make my life a lot easier? Goal is to make small self-contained games and apps like neal.fun. Currently know basic JavaScript, CSS, HTML, been using Vite Vercel Redis

@tszzl Well then Roon why hasn't anyone made a hamburger factory

a very simple heuristic that works 99.9% of the time: everything made in a factory gets cheaper. everything else gets more expensive

Code was the killer app for AI cause it verifies really well. Linting, unit tests and instant feedback for frontend make it so outputs are verified in real time. If you want to think about what gets automated by AI next look at the verification mechanisms. We’re seeing this start in fields like math and biology which have excellent verification systems. Art went quickly because you can instantly tell if it’s good enough. All of this is still maturing but the rate at which the industry matures is directly related to how fast the verification loop is. Medicine and law will have a p99 problem and take forever to diffuse. What’s next? Probably accounting and finance since they’re super easy to verify.

@allgarbled this would change the game

Through the power of weather modification, we will bring winter to San Francisco.

@signulll @samtayyari And Instagram sucks...!

@samtayyari instagram has evolved more than any other platform..!

youtube is the only social platform that still refuses to let you, you know, be god damn social. there are no dms, no native sharing, no way to toss a short to a friend without escaping into some other app like a fugitive. they’re sorta leaving so much on the table cuz the share loop is literally off platform. tiktok, insta, almost all of their competitors have insane viral loops in app. adding this would likely cause watch time to spike immediately. if i were a VP at YT this would be the first thing i’d ship. if they do ever ship this, the youtube ceo should at least throw me some damn stock for stating the obvious. at least a god damn tote bag. but preferably stock. someone tag him… although i doubt he reads x.

@ashleybcha @cursor_ai Your attitude is so much more positive on it than mine :)

Always amazes me how fast @cursor_ai can ship. I see this multiple times pretty much every single day

@growing_daniel They can't all be bangers

The kids thing was bad enough, now we’re finding out the president of Harvard was trying to have sex with a manatee