The nightmare scenario is AI companies have discovered that "smart enough you don't leave + dumb enough you keep talking" is where max profit lives.
Ross
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Interested in open data, machine learning, and distributed systems.
Not your model. Not your agent.
@allen what are your thoughts on STRC?
“The open question is if everything that’s unique about you can fit in a 10 kB CLAUDE.md. If that’s true, we have a pretty sad future ahead.”
speaking of local models…..
the singularity is nearer
tiny corp’s product – a training box
Our new Hong Kong office.
Don’t be surprised when the debate jumps directly from “what is intelligence?” to “what is life?” as if the first question just resolved itself.
The things that make PKI unusable for humans disappear when the users are machines.
Shout out to all the "it's just next token prediction" folks this morning.
You know a new platform is on the verge of breaking out when all of the "this is nothing special, I could have built this" comments start to increase.
AI is not replacing developers.
Developers are multiplying.
Gatekeepers in disbelief.
That discomfort you feel is the gap caused by reality changing faster than your mind can model it.
We build cathedrals to capture the patterns and man sits in awe.
We build machines to animate the patterns and he shudders.