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The majority of people that drink espresso drink it with milk.

This is private equity 101 no?

There's no ethical consumption of... ad supported content.

Surely this just uses state funds to train a pipeline of people to be immediately poached by frontier labs?

I like Cursor as a product but the add on cost of $0.25/M tokens is just too expensive on top of the models.

> Hans Boehm built a Java library for this in the 1980s and 90s

Hans is such a prolific programmer that he wrote a Java library before Java was even invented?

The crunchiness of the software rendering from that era is embedded in my memory like visual dial up handshake noise.

I mean that kind of seems like exactly what's happening for AI to me.

I'm not nearly that sick.

Asked it to review some of my own blood test results and it immediately turned itself off and went back to Opus. Pretty disappointing.

It's always worth understanding the consequences of non compliance before you'd decide to comply (and vice versa.)

The quality of AI doomerism takes is matched only by the quality of AI boosterism takes. Ed's kind of interesting as a temperature sensor but I don't feel like you can really take anything he writes seriously.

Human systems are not good at rapidly adapting to change.

AI could be absolutely perfect and we'd still struggle to deploy it in a value generating way simply because it will exceed our ability to adapt.

So tokenmaxxing might be the wrong thing to do, but only because it's focussing on the wrong problem rather than because it doesn't actually work.

I wonder how the LPs in the fund felt when they heard they lost out on this?

As a post modernist I must grant you the right to interpret what I wrote however you want to but it feels like you're probably just rage baiting yourself for lulz.

Not exactly a problem for cloud gaming.

Radical does not just mean untraditional. It can also mean "advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs". Which do you think I meant?

Nvidia would have to ship game ready drivers for H100s but it could work.

This all comes back to Dualism. A radical and dangerous ideology that is fundamentally unscientific but all too common.

Basically all op-ed level pieces on AI make me feel like dialectic materialism really needs to make a come back. Public discourse has given up on engaging with the physical constraints of the world in a meaningful way.

Also don't smoke or do any of the other things this study didn't control for but do correlate with caffeine consumption in the general population.

Alzheimer's has quite high heritability. A family history seems like sufficient explanation.

I don't think the unit economics are too terrible. Expensive, but not impossible.

200m knowledge workers in US and EU. Total salary around $15T/year.

$1T/year in token spending is about $5k/year per person. A big number, but not totally mad. That's the low end for office space per person for example. Probably close to the existing SaaS spend per person for a lot of roles.

We are still early in the deployment cycle for these tools so I would expect them to get better and also cheaper too.

I disagree. Lots of people are so laser focussed at only the close to the code aspects of programming they are unable to leverage the enormous increase in scope it can offer them.

There is absolutely room for head count reduction while companies restructure around this.

Photoshop (and many traditional SaaS products) solve hundreds of different use cases. Most users probably only care about a handful of them. You don't need to do every use case to kill SaaS if you have a tool that can allow users to solve their 2-3 use cases on their own with custom tooling.

I read all the code I generate with Cursor and some of it smells a bit weird but is easily fixable and most of it is as good as what I would write or better.

Culture wars are not worth anyones time participating in. Stop it.

The current state of the technology is that you must read at least some of the code, but everyone keeps shipping tools that are focussed on churning out more and more stuff without giving you any affordances to really understand the output.

Claude Code in particular seems really uninterested in this aspect of the problem and I've stopped using entirely because of this.

> it's a sort of red pilled book that teaches you how to manipulate people.

This is not an unfair view of the book IMO. While OPs excerpt is lovely, the core of the book is all about getting people to say yes and do things you want them to do.

Carnegie is just so good at this, he's even managed to convince you that he has your best interests at heart by trying to teach you how to do this to people.

I'm sure lots of people felt this way about steam power too.