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carlcortright··on Om Malik has died
I never met Om but I worked for firm in college that was close to him. He seemed like a very kind soul. This is very sad.
carlcortright··on Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
This is quite sad.
carlcortright··on Zed is 1.0
Tried it yesterday. HUGE fan of how the agents work and how the editor feels.
carlcortright··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
My first thought seeing the title: "always has been"

https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/Always-Has-Been

carlcortright··on I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
I built something similar and learned a lot about how useful a “receptionist” (advisor) is vs something that just immediately sends the user to the shop asap

The foundational product truth is you win business by saying “oh you’re car is broken, come in right now” then an actual tech or manager does the sale

Worth checking out at: https://wrenchdesk.ai

carlcortright··on Ghidra by NSA
lol
carlcortright··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
this is a very pessimistic take

could be, but the universe is odd in so many different ways

it's hard to be sure

carlcortright··on A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)
And to think we're all here building b2b SaaS
carlcortright··on Show HN: AI in SolidWorks
The craziest thing I learned clicking on this post is that solidworks has barely changed in the 15 years since I last used it
carlcortright··on FunctionGemma 270M Model
Very cool model! Congrats on the work!
carlcortright··on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
dammit
carlcortright··on Custom AI Emoji Maker for Slack, Discord, and Teams
Fun side project I made. Today I'm launching a teams package for HR / People leaders too: https://createmoji.ai/for-teams
carlcortright··on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
strong +1 - developers like him are heros
carlcortright··on A New Internet Business Model?
Immediate negative gut reaction to this - this is a disgusting stance from the CEO of a DDoS protection company trying to gatekeep an open internet.
carlcortright··on CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
This should come with a warning on how dizzy it makes you before you read it. Nuked my afternoon of productivity
carlcortright··on CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
this made me laugh out loud
carlcortright··on AI Driven Development (ADD)
Thought this was funny / insightful
carlcortright··on Input English, o3-mini-high reasons in Spanish or French, outputs English
Thought this was cool, and a bit strange

here's the other output but my share got flagged

https://x.com/carlcortright/status/1885788704247316657

carlcortright··on IQ-as-a-Service (IaaS)
This is just a message that you should play with the reasoning models and be curious, they're really cool
carlcortright··on Approaching the Event Horizon: On the eve of super intelligence
Wrote this mostly to try to explain what's going on to my family.

Hope this is good context and an explainer for folks

Also will post on bookface, think there are some second order effects for a lot of YC companies

carlcortright··on Winner of the SF Mistral AI Hackathon: Automated Test Driven Prompting
Added it!
carlcortright··on Winner of the SF Mistral AI Hackathon: Automated Test Driven Prompting
Yeah I'll do that now!
carlcortright··on Winner of the SF Mistral AI Hackathon: Automated Test Driven Prompting
(author) It's very similar. I think the extension of this is that we could build a frontend gui for something like this for prompt management. Love what they're doing
carlcortright··on Winner of the SF Mistral AI Hackathon: Automated Test Driven Prompting
Post Author: getting a lot of requests so scaling the backend. Standby.
carlcortright··on Winner of the SF Mistral AI Hackathon: Automated Test Driven Prompting
“Learning” by prompting, calculating the loss against evals, and updating the prompt
carlcortright··on Hidden Rate Limits: How Providers Throttle LLM Throughput During Peak Demand
Over the past few days we did an investigation of the main LLM providers, and have observed up to a 40% difference in average speed (tokens / second) from the leading LLM providers like GPT4.
carlcortright··on Generate Portraits with the Style of Fernando Botero
Wow this is pretty cool. I always loved Fernando Botero. Cool to have this model, hosting for it looks pretty slick too
carlcortright··on Shaking Buildings in the World’s Largest Earthquake Simulator
Somewhat related, there's some really cool history with other structures. Like rockets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V_Dynamic_Test_Vehicle
carlcortright··on Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code
Can someone do this for atom?
carlcortright··on Slack Calls: Now with video
This just made slack 10x better.
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