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pmmucsd

55 karma · joined June 12, 2012

Co-Founder and CEO of Aligned Labs.

Former CoFounder and CEO of Stockwell and PM of Gmail, App Engine, Google Checkout and several Ads features at Google

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pmmucsd··on What we lost the last time code got cheap
Related (maybe the same thing): Whenever an agent is planning there are often architecture and product choices that it asks humans to make. None of this intent is captured in the code or comments. We started a decisions.md file and updated CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md to create an entry in the decisions.md file everytime it has to ask a human about what to do. It captures the intent so at least we have doc that describes why certain choices were made.
pmmucsd··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
Slack is a good example. When the cost of Slack is an unreasonable amount of your operating costs then it makes sense to clone and maintain. The product is simple, you can basically recreate the main functionality in a sitting. Why would you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for it?
pmmucsd··on LLMs as judges, new model comparison tool
New tool that uses a set of LLMs to judge the output of your favorite models and give you feedback about what ones to use.
pmmucsd··on Which AI models can write banger tweets?
Report: https://app.alignedhq.ai/demo/report/irl_social_media
pmmucsd··on Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
There are plugins for various IDEs that operate like copilot but let you select model you want to use, just supply your key. CodeGPT for JetBrains/Android Studio is pretty good. I think you can even use a model running locally.
pmmucsd··on Twine – Android Launcher with ChatGPT Assistant
I built this because I wanted a clean launcher that just showed me the apps I used the most. I also want to access ChatGPT from my home screen and have it do some simple things requiring deeper integration with your phone.

I would love any feedback.

- Automatically organizes apps on the home screen by usage - ChatGPT assistant on the home screen that uses tools to do simple things for you (create tasks, notes, remember information about people, search, directions timers, etc...) - Built with Flutter

pmmucsd··on An Everlasting Gobstopper
When everyone has the same ingredients, can developers keep their recipe secret and build sustainable mote on top of GPT-3?
pmmucsd··on City Does Not Exist
https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
pmmucsd··on Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire
That's exactly what they do. They buy products from suppliers and mark them up, sell the the products and take the margin.
pmmucsd··on Google Consumer Surveys: Measure site satisfaction in real time
The pricing on that page is for a different market research product that gets a representative sample of users across the internet. For the website satisfaction product, there is a free 4 question monthly recurring survey that is set up automatically. Custom surveys are $0.01/response.
pmmucsd··on Google Consumer Surveys: Measure site satisfaction in real time
One thing to consider is that some of the questions are open ended and ask about how your site could be improved or what users find most frustrating. Even with a handful of responses from a non-representative set of users you can get useful information to improve your site.
pmmucsd··on [dead]
There are two sides to the product. Website satisfaction surveys for website owners and an unrelated monetization product for news publishers.
pmmucsd··on Google Consumer Survey
GCS regularly conducts validation surveys which measure the incidence rates of common health issues like asthma, smoking and disability along with consumption of various media to make sure it's sample is representative of the population. It's pretty accurate. You can read more about it here: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/static/consum...
pmmucsd··on Survata (YC S12) replaces paywalls with "surveywalls"
Analytics and experiments will tell you 'what' but will rarely tell you 'why'. That's the data you can collect from quantitative and qualitative surveys.
pmmucsd··on Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
Majority of people surveyed who are familiar with Mayer think she will turn Yahoo around: https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=...
pmmucsd··on 14% of US Internet users have Amazon Prime
Looks like the US West was over sampled and they have the highest "yes" percentage so maybe the actual number is a little lower.

http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=y...