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greatpostman··on AI agent benchmarks are broken
Benchmarks aren’t broken, the models can learn anything. If we give them true real world data (physics engine), they will learn the real world. We are going to see artificial general intelligence in our lifetime
greatpostman··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
300 a month is cheap for what is basically a junior engineer
greatpostman··on We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew
Why was this downvoted
greatpostman··on Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing
Theres alot of really rich crypto people in nyc that are up to no good.
greatpostman··on A Research Preview of Codex
Way higher chance
greatpostman··on N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams
I’m suspicious about n8n being able to abstract properly to allow for dynamic agentic workflows. Anyone have actual experience?
greatpostman··on The side hustle from hell
Yup. You get Bucketed and there is no growth
greatpostman··on Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think
Once the business hits a certain level of revenue, the mvp is finished etc, whoever is the face of the company, I.e. CEO has way more power. CTO if they have shipped a complete product that’s getting paying customers can be replaced with an engineering manager. But not before

Getting the product to some level of completion is a monumental lift

greatpostman··on AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think
Honestly, o3 has completely blown my mind in terms of ability to come up with useful abstractions beyond what I would normally build. Most people claiming LLMs are limited just arent using the tools enough, and cant see the trajectory of increasing ability
greatpostman··on Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think
Living in NYC, I have been around a TON of venture backed startups with the classic non technical CEO, technical CTO. Some HUGE percentage of startups see the CTO fired once the tech stack and revenue are stabilized.

The incentive from the CEOs perspective to remove a contender as well as claw back the equity is huge. Early stage the CTO is the most critical, but after real traction they can be replaced far easier than most want to admit.

My advice for technical founders is to always place themselves first, from a legal and organizational perspective. For a technical founder with social skills, a non technical founder brings very little value relative to their vesting in the early stage.

greatpostman··on An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us
Calling everything a bubble is low iq. People that cannot understand society, or accept change, run with the bubble narrative at every turn
greatpostman··on Would You Rather Have Married Young?
I’m pretty sure as you get older your emotions are more blunted, and you don’t form the same level of bond as you would with someone when you’re 22
greatpostman··on In S3 simplicity is table stakes
I can guarantee you, nothing is simple about S3. I bet engineers spend months on a single configuration change to the underlying subsystems.
greatpostman··on OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
Engineers at ai labs just come from prestigious schools and don’t have technical depth. They are smart, but they simply aren’t qualified to do deep technical innovation
greatpostman··on Introducing deep research
Have pro, can’t see it yet
greatpostman··on Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
There won’t be massive ai layoffs. Companies will just stop hiring
greatpostman··on Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
Same, tried to fall back to sonnet 3.5, ended up just logging off
greatpostman··on New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years
Most FAANG teams are grid locked with gatekeeping engineers.
greatpostman··on U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group
The value of a college degree is in the toilet
greatpostman··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)
This is probably correlated with so many other cofounding factors, like employment/stress/substance abuse
greatpostman··on Why Is Elon Musk So F'ing Successful? And how do we do more of it?
I can’t stand people that won’t accept that Elon is exceptional
greatpostman··on Ask HN: Are developers at risk of depression after a major software release?
The real bummer is building An elegant system and then leaving your job. All that effort, owned by someone else.
greatpostman··on What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy
Never build a product for some random non technical founder
greatpostman··on The Threat to OpenAI
Even more bullish from me, they have something
greatpostman··on The Threat to OpenAI
No but I would be very bearish about consistent mediocre releases
greatpostman··on The Threat to OpenAI
Lack of releases from OpenAI make me more bullish on them. Clearly they have something big they’re working on, they don’t care about competing with current models
greatpostman··on Which software jobs will AI take first?
Front end will go first. Designers will become front end engineers
greatpostman··on The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
Ai negativity clickbait
greatpostman··on XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
Alternative data is passed into time series models. They are features.

You don’t know as much about this as you think

greatpostman··on XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
The best deep learning time series models are closed source inside hedge funds.
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