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revlsas··on RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
The implementation that can be achieved at a hackathon is trivial at this point

Enterprise is just fishing for other people's ideas that they can use as their own

If you truly had a novel and useful idea, someone else can just steal it and recreate it themselves

revlsas··on My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development
TDD is unnecessary bloat at this point

Just work with Codex to fill the gaps, and then get it to one shot the implementation

Do review afterwards if needed

All these md files will be increasingly useless as models improve

revlsas··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
openAI has how many employees and the chatGPT app has 1 billion MAU
revlsas··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
If someone has parents and kids themselves should they convince them to press blue as well?
revlsas··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Humans are conditionally cooperative

When we suspect some people are not cooperative then it gets reciprocated

revlsas··on Now is the best time to write code by hand
Just curious,

would that include lab grown animal products?

revlsas··on When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
How could it possibly be the rational choice if the ev doing so is so ridiculously negative?

Having student debt doesn't justify throwing away the rest of your residual income

revlsas··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
No because open source models are close behind

Compute costs will fall drastically for existing models

But it's likely that frontier models of the future won't be released to the public at all, because they'll be too good