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It's too early to do a Social Network for OpenAI

I guess you just have a higher tolerance for inconvenience than me

Did you actually do 100 words? It wasn't two or three minutes. With good UX, sure. But I wasn't getting through 1 word per second.

Interesting concept, but 100 words is really quite a lot to get through... It's tiresome trudging through the easy words at the start, and I never got to see the interesting words before getting bored.

I've seen other systems like this calibrate far more quickly by assigning a sort of score and confidence behind the scenes. Confidence starts out low and increases over time - correct/incorrect answers rapidly adjust score at the beginning, then things settle down.

In practice this means you get a sequence of increasingly uncommon words initially, until you get one wrong, then you drop back to something easier until you start getting things right again, and eventually circle around words at your level.

Also - too many clicks per word. It's low stakes, just let me click the definition once and I'll live if I misclick (or add an undo button).

Makes sense, thank you. I am opposed to the age verification laws that we have introduced recently.

I don't know, I would expect it to come up in the pub or something if people were concerned about it, it's not like we have the thought police here

This has passed me by - can you give me some specific examples?

I personally don't feel limited in my speech, but I'm willing to accept that I may be wrong

Nobody I know in real life is talking about censorship or free speech in the UK

Are the sibling comments astroturfed? This seems like such a bizarre thing to be talking about in relation to an Anthropic model release. As someone from the UK, I don't feel like I'm living in an authoritarian country. And yet most of the sibling comments are insinuating that I am. Weird.

> I run the team at OpenAI that's responsible for the ChatGPT App Store, Codex plugins, and all things MCP.

> The reason MCP isn't dead is because practically ~every company on the planet is building an MCP server.

You have drunk the kool aid. No shot ~every company is building an MCP server.

There's really no evidence that OpenAI has shared everything they have.

It's not cut and dry to differentiate between the act and the wager.

One issue is that prediction markets provide financial incentives to perform actions in the real world. For example, if I want a head of state murdered, I can wager lots of money that they won't be murdered. If somebody wants to earn that money, they can simply bet against me and then murder them.

It's not an dispassionate wager like betting on roulette, it's a wager that directly influences the real world, at least a bit.

Of course you could directly hire an assassin, but that doesn't come with plausible deniability.

I wonder if the training data for some languages has higher quality code. I can imagine some niche languages having a higher standard than, for example Python, which surely has a bunch of random buggy scripts in the mix.

On the other hand, even if that were true, I don’t know how important it would actually be since LLMs can generalise across languages well.

It might be best to pick languages where it’s just harder to screw up, the canonical example being to prefer typescript over JavaScript.

This is a real Monet.

That's what I'd like to do in my spare time. My job has become intolerant of that slow pace though now they've drunk the kool aid. I work at a startup and we're expected to produce game changing new features every day.

AI agents have made me far more productive, but the work now feels like drudgery. The most intellectually stimulating parts of the job were automated away first, and I am getting increasingly sick of typing into a chat bot all day.

I got into software engineering because I was always fascinated by getting computers to do stuff, and I really enjoyed the manual task of programming. It's been a dream to earn a living doing something I would do in my spare time. I was pretty good at it too.

I'm not having fun any more, so I've decided to leave the field and become a teacher. I won't earn nearly as much money but I expect to feel more fulfilled, and I hope I can help make a difference to some young people.

I've had an extraordinarily privileged career, and many people never get the luxury of enjoying their work at all. But I'd rather try to enjoy what I do day to day than persist in something that's lost its spark.

Weekends are the untapped frontier. Still room to scale.

How far through did you get? I think it gets significantly better in season 2, and continues improving thereafter. Basically after they starting bringing in bigger overarching storylines.

I made a few false starts where I couldn’t really get through season 1, but after I persisted it was worth it.

The official Sony AI video, which is really interesting and has some glorious footage: https://youtu.be/FrGq8ltb-_E?si=PWm1Dv0T9UHUFw0t

This seems like an expensive product to subject to the HN hug of death.

The sample videos on the tweet are very very cool.

Unfortunately it didn’t really work for me, I’ll try it out in a few days when the traffic’s died down.

It’s hard to tell exactly how much of this is true and sourced vs hallucinated, since it all looks the same. How confident are you that this is largely accurate?

I’m not sure I buy the methodology of “Monitoring 39 public signals”. Claude just loves to make up stats. I clicked the Methodology tab but lost interest quite quickly after realising it was typical overwritten Claude bs.

Less is more. This is a rather overwhelming presentation for something purportedly simple. What exactly am I supposed to care about here, without sifting through screeds of text?

I would have thought that the list of entities with access to Mythos would be hard to get a hold of, and really the only source worth any weight is Anthropic’s own statements.

I kinda feel bad for the startups that were singled out here.

You actually believe that transporting _water_ from the moon to earth could ever be profitable, no, lucrative? Can you lay out the economics? Just so I understand.

I don't know, it just doesn't feel very scheduled to me.

> I'm about to loose thousands of dollars by the end of Monday 20th because of the automatic shipping deadline on Tindie and it currently being down. I've tried contacting support multiple times but they are not helping. Please respond before my business fails!

https://mastodon.social/@thereminhero/116432503640568650

> The goal of the current maintenance is to fix a lot of long-standing issues with the site. The underlying infrastructure was getting very fragile as technical debt accumulated over time. A team is working very hard right now to make sure that once the site is back up, it's on much better footing and will be solid and reliable for the long term. Despite the unfortunate amount of time this is taking, it will be a major benefit to the site in the long run.

If I were a developer there I would be feeling really not very good. Just minutes of downtime on the systems I’ve worked on gets my heart rate going.

It also feels like there’s a lot being left unsaid in this statement. Normally you would work on these things in parallel to production… so something is seriously wrong.

It had never occurred to me that somebody needed to invent polyhedral dice. There must be so many inventions in the world that I’m completely unaware that there was a point in time before which something didn’t exist and after that it did, thanks to somebody.

Wow, they look really quite dangerous. I wouldn’t want to pass out in one. Yeah you can pass out in a sauna too, but it feels easier to lurch for the door than to fight with a sleeping bag.

Wow, "magic e" just transported me back to primary school. And I had a little heart flutter fearing that I wouldn't be able to remember/explain it today.

Maybe each one is fine in isolation - what doesn’t come across from the sample is that every single one is practically the same. If you have Uber Eats, open up the app and look through the summaries for a bunch of restaurants and you’ll see what I mean.

And besides that, this just feels like something nobody asked for that probably doesn’t sell more food compared to, for example, more pictures.

I see things like 2 sentence menu summaries in Uber Eats that are completely off in tone.

A quick sample from my app right now:

“Authentic Caribbean Flavours. Jerk Chicken, Curry Goat, and more. A vibrant culinary journey awaits.” - local Caribbean place

“Customisable burgers with 250,000+ toppings. Hand-cut fries and rich milkshakes await.” - Five Guys

“Authentic Indian cuisine bursting with rich flavours. Perfect for late-night cravings” - local Indian

Everything is Authentic, or Rich, or whatever.

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They’re investing in the wrong bits of AI. I’m sure they’re AB testing these soulless often inaccurate blurbs but I just cannot see how investing money into them actually sells more product.

On the other hand, if they had a coherent product vision, and trusted their engineers to use AI how they see fit, then I’m sure they would be more successful, and it would be cheaper.

What has been most valuable for you?

It is hard indeed. I find it really quite exhausting.

Personally, I feel like I have always been a very competent programmer. I'm embracing the new way of working, but it seems like quite a different skillset. I somewhat believe that it will be relevant for a long time, because there is an incredibly large gap in outcomes between members of my team using AI. I've had good results so far, but I'm keen to improve.