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Joined August 2020
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Ben Backus retweeted
boris cherny goes on a podcast every three months and says something like “i’ve stopped breathing now i just wrote a breath.md” and the next day everyone in sf stops breathing
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new greptile mascot just dropped! check it out : npm i greptile
introducing the greptile CLI. a full greptile review for your local changes, right in your terminal. 1. npm i -g greptile 2. checkout your branch 3. greptile review 🦎
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Me asking claude to explain the difference between prod and staging after it ran a query on prod again
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"So you do know the difference"
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There are cathedrals in a few very specific places for those with sufficient savings and PTO to see
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The Catholic Church is a supply chain risk
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas." Read the full text of his remarks: anthropic.com/news/chris-ola…
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“He could’ve joined any of the frontier AI labs like Apple, Microsoft, or Facebook.”
I simply cannot fathom this move Dario doesn’t look that charismatic to me atleast from his interviews Andrej could have joined 1/ Elon 2/ Zuck 3/ Google 4/ Apple 5/ MSFT Everyone would have given him a blank check and much bigger role and platform How was Dario able to hire him ?
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Take so dumb it must be engagement bait
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“No, this is crazy news. This guy could join company in the world and it’d instantly become a unicorn. And he joined Anthropic. It’d be like MJ joining the 1999 Lakers. Oh you don’t know the deal with the 1999 lakers? MJ won his sixth championship in 1998—”
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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Hear me out, Animorphism
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Hear us out, balloonmorphism
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Damn it feels so vindicating that @TaylorLorenz of all people is calling out the data center hysteria.
This man is single handedly calling out so much insane disinformation being pushed about data centers by the media right now. No wonder people are so terrified of these things, they’re being promoted hysterical misleading slop about technology all day.
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May 16
Replying to @nathanwangliao
@nathanwangliao This slide (and others) from the @greptile folks at @aiDotEngineer SG certainly makes Devin look good haha
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“Subsidize tokens for three more months so everyone switches from claude to codex, then pull the cord.”
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he's become fully reliant on LLMs to code. now increase the price by 1000%
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@sama pls don’t tho
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i just generated a tweet in the style of a @SHL0MS tweet using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real @SHL0MS tweet
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i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting
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Some day you’ll need a driver’s license to use frontier AI models
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"In 6 months companies are gonna have to hire back all the original engineers to fix all the bugs caused by AI" buddy, AI can fix bugs too. Do you really think the solution to bugs caused by vibe coding is to hire a bunch of decel engineers who'll take 3 days to fix each bug
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