i discovered so much music i love to this day thanks to their scrobbling or whatever discovery service was.

i’m talking like 2000s

I put people who do some of the BS listed here on mute or block.

Life is better with people who actually engage and are curious about improving things human-to-human.

AI (LLM) responses are catered towards the lowest common denominator / average type shit responses.

The best use for AI/LLM agents is to do work I tell them to do, like a servant who obeys my orders and executes them.

A human using AI/LLM to respond to another human (who has already used AI/LLM to come up with a v1 he wants to discuss) is a moron and not worth engaging with further. Even if they're your friend, it is a good signal that you need better friends.

so… they’re conmen

confidence man

Codex compaction is way better imo.

I've had many long-running sessions and it doesn't suffer the same retardation (the act of delaying, slowing down, or hindering progress) that Opus does.

The quality stays consistent and it actually seems to follow the instructions, todos, etc. even after multiple compactions.

seems like cope.

you’re probably making like 500k TC

if you’re 30 and worked in tech you should have around 1m nw

if your partner makes 200-400k you can afford to have children

i see arab/muslims and mexicans here with like 3-4 kids. i live in sf, so somehow they’re able to do it without a high paying tech job.

i only use ai to help me shorten what i’ve wrote when i’m reaching out to prospects initially.

i want to be respectful of their time and when i write genuinely sometimes i write too much.

i like using AI to brainstorm how can i take what i wrote (maybe 500 characters) and make it concise (like 300 characters)

then i try to manually stitch it together

Is America an economic zone for people (who might be highly educated) to just come and make money, or is it a place for them to call home and be American?

I'll be honest as a naturalized citizen, I am shocked at how many people treat America as just a economic zone. They don't really consider this country to be their roots and don't assimilate into the broader culture. And I'm not talking about H1b, I'm talking about the O1s and L1s. They are so entitled and they are usually super well off in whatever country they come from.

It doesn't matter if they're a PhD or whatever, they might contribute via their employer or their own startup on a monetary basis, but I have also dealt with enough people who try to maintain one foot here and another foot wherever they're from.

We moved to the USA because the system of governance here and all the things it stood for were what motivated us to become Americans. It is our home and we have only our American passport.

Most of the so-called "highly educated" immigrant workers I meet have a spouse who won't become a US citizen so they can double dip in their origin country's low cost of living. It is kind of gross.

Just food for thought. I don't really like people who only seek to extract, if that makes sense. Doesn't matter if your TC is 1.2M or you raised 40M.

how would a llm help

maybe a little biological brain engineered to think it is a car with api access to the car hardware via the llm?

imagine you get into the car and in the center console you just see a floating brain in vat like fallout

The driving ML model will take care of the next 10 seconds of driving, in a fast loop deciding what steering and throttle commands to give.

The LLM will apply the high level reasoning needed to deal with longer time horizons and complex decisions, like deciding that the best way to reach the car wash 100 yards away is by walking.

Lmao what…

You sound like an econ prof: full of it and hand waving away with hypotheticals.

no way man i need to make my faustian pact AND gain salvation!

/s

also nobody in tech wants a union because we all burnout for a payout.

mids join fang so they can make 400k plus tc predictably. every 3-5 years they double their NW. most of my friends who still at fang (we are in 30s now) are making like 700k-1.5m and have huge spending habits too. none of them have been affected by layoffs yet.

some join unicorns and then get 10-30x or more on options. and then start our own companies.

there’s levels to this shit

why can’t we have ai doing everything else so human to human interaction outside of work is free of tech and bullshit