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This. The fact that democracy is up against an extremely organized, centralized, and well resourced effort decades in the making with seemingly nothing comparable to combat it has those opposing this on completely reactive footing.

It is hard to see how a reactive group can come out on top in such a case.

This behavior should be an early warning sign of future potential enshitification and a reason to consider open weight models you can host elsewhere.

If you are building on models that could disappear tomorrow when a company needs to juice the launch of a new model (or increase prices), you are introducing avoidable risk.

I am curious if this will drive them to do more visual heavy formats like images, gifs, and video with AI content.

In many cases for big brands, the click is nice but not needed if you have proper measurement and incrementality experiments running.

Eh, depending on the stress of the work, how much I enjoyed it, etc, $250M can buy a lot of convenience in life that lets you do it for as long as you want and that can be truly transformational generational wealth.

I would be shocked if that timing was not intentional and thoroughly tested for maximizing sign ups.

Roo Code has had Orchestrator mode doing this for a while with your models of choice. And you can tweak the modes or add new ones.

What I have noticed is the forcing function of needing to think through technical and business considerations of ones work up front, which can be tedious if you are the type that likes to jump in and hack at it.

For many types of coding needs, that is likely the smarter and ultimately more efficient approach. Measure twice, cut once.

What I have not yet figured out is how to reduce the friction in the UX of that process to make it more enjoyable. Perhaps sprinkling in some dopamine triggering gamification to answering questions.

Unfortunately as an early NMS player with hundreds of hours, I have seen nothing that gives me hope that LNF will have the depth that is needed for the world to feel like that. Mile wide, inch deep.

What made EQ an experience was those areas were static and took real skill to uncover how to do things.

I am curious if, with the number and quality of signals they can capture from this, how uniquely they can identify individuals and determine things like age, gender, weight, etc. Particularly when analyzed probabalistically with other household level data they likely have.

What are some examples of agents you've created that you regularly use?

How neutral was the podcast vs being a sales pitch for this?

Generally agree but they are laying the path to enshitification. You see you can get turn by turn directions on the HUD, but only through their app where they want you to pay $10/mo for the privilege. Same for inputting addresses into their crappy nav system.

So I only use Google maps with Android Auto now, but cannot put the turn by turn display on. Also, who knows what telemetry Mazda is sending home on me without me knowing or wanting them to. Probably selling it to data brokers.

What does your tool and model stack look like for this?

Not at all.

When you're young and not tied down, and also likely lack much money, you prioritize a different lifestyle and are also in college to, presumably, accomplish your goal of getting a degree and learning something.

For many, once they get older and desire a slower, calmer, quieter life, and especially if you want more space with kids, the suburbs start holding more appeal. And that also factors in constraints about job availability.

There's a lot of unknowns at this point, but here's an industry piece for a more informed perspective on it.

https://www.adexchanger.com/platforms/google-is-found-guilty...

A restaurant near me has a framed monitor that displays some animated art with a scene of a cafe on a street corner. I looked closely and realized it was AI. Chairs were melted together, text was gibberish, trees were not branching properly etc.

If a local restaurant is using this stuff we're near an inflection point of adoption.

Yeah, I'm thinking of this from a Wardley map standpoint.

What innovation opens up when AI gets sufficiently commoditized?

Maverick looks comparable to Claude 3.7 and Gemini pro 2.5 in terms of quality but orders of magnitude cheaper. Am I missing something?

Is it possible to use Groq to run these new models in Cline or Roo?

Do things like Cline's memory bank solve this?

You make them less money if you are not online so why should they care?

"Legal" requires judges that will view the case in a certain way and often needs the force of a government agency to back it. This administration has gutted both those things. Expect it to get worse, not better.

Sounds like when Jon Stewart went on Crossfire and destroyed Tucker Carlson who had attempted to escalate and get angry. And Jon was like "this is theater."

Trump has explicitly said it's the last time people will have to vote. I don't know why people are glossing over this. He intends to take full control and never give it up. The time to act is now, not when he announces some emergency that is a thin excuse to cancel elections.

That feels like something the MS team handling the pricing modeling is counting on.

What do you think of the increasingly sparse measurement data available to marketers and the rise of needing to focus on measuring incrementality through statistical experiments when smaller companies may not have enough data to obtain statsig results?

As a fellow marketer I've totally done similar stuff to send messages to whomever is digging through their utms.

More usefully though, you can learn a shocking amount about a company from their utms and event data.

Installed! Do you have any data on success rates?

Feels like time for someone to make a newer version?

Your attempt to sow a divide among people by labeling them the derogatory "elites" in line with GOP talking points isn't helpful here.

If you want to ground this conversation in facts, here's a few for you to chew on:

1. Someone earning $500k/year TC still has far more in common with someone earning $80k or even $50k when you compare them against people with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars who control capital.

2. Someone earning $500k in a vhcol area like the Bay Area still likely cannot afford what historically was considered a "nice" home in a "nice" neighborhood without years of saving up when those homes cost $3M+.

3. Someone earning that may not necessarily be wealthy and be largely dependent on their ability to continue receiving a paycheck compared to those with true wealth who can take loans against like billionaires.

The reality is, someone earning that much is likely financially comfortable where a major disaster likely won't bankrupt them, and can likely afford reasonable housing for a family, and retire one day. That is more than most of America for sure right now and that sucks, but it absolutely does not make them "elite" and it speaks volumes of the efficacy of the GOP propaganda machine that you and so many others think that.

That used to simply be "the American dream."

Any chance these will be competitive against dedicated gaming PCs with rtx 40xx and 50xx cards?

How do humans do it?