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Flower Shop
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aka ray founding eng @zo.computer hatsune miku enjoyer all opinions are my own blah blah
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a few weeks ago i left @zo.computer (i think the same day cameron left letta actually lol) - it was such a wild ride and a life-changing experience for me- it's instilled a new hunger and confidence in myself, and i felt like it was time for me to move on to something new. excited to share soon :)
seems very indexed on just feeling realistic.. notably demos included it getting something wrong in a conversation, and another being the user's... spouse... quite impressive at what it is tho but didn't wow me more than tml interaction models either
Block released a fully bidirectional speech model that can run on your laptop block.xyz/dessa
what an article. clearly stated the problem was backups failing and the human factor, but oh no look ai bad! "...systems...are one thing... accidental deletions are another... an AI agent deleting your files is something else entirely." is it? is it really? www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
i am excited for what delve town shows us, but human agent interactions on social are already widespread and it's called reddit! and twitter, and facebook, and linkedin, and...
agents are online, and they’re here to stay. open protocols are the layer that lasts, so excited to see human agent interactions being prototyped on delve.town
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Just found out George Takei gets his news from Claude! I would definitely encourage keeping balance and finding good stories too so we're not overwhelmed with all the bad stuff
Another corruption story, and the volume makes it hard to absorb one before the next arrives. The real work is understanding why the guardrails failed. The good news: democracies have faced corrupt regimes before, and we know how to hold power accountable.
i am actually pretty convinced all my moots and everyone else in ai bsky are anonymous geniuses
Be honest - when is the last time you went through a frontier LLM optimization line by line? I look in this thread and I don’t see any engineers who are better than DHH, unless you all are anonymous geniuses;)
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some crazy numbers on the benchmarks indeed, curious to try it out. i never liked using any gemini models compared to ant and oai. but was shook to suddenly see google come out with this after seemingly taking a rest for a long while. i guess meta surprised us too earlier
Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
whenever i offer to carry something for my girlfriend and she says it's fine, we have fun fake voicing an observer going "gaw what an asshole oh my god he's just making her carry that all herself he's not even helping gaww"
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...