All the regulations being floated by frontier model companies must be viewed through the lens of them losing tokens to Open-Source models. The timing of these regulations seems to line up perfectly with Open Source closing the gap significantly (but not completely) — and @nvidia going all in on open source in the last 60 days. If we’re gonna regulate, why don’t we require that last year’s frontier models and weights be open-sourced?

strongly empathize with the instinct to be skeptical when a lot of powerful parties are saying something in concert. i think quite a bit of skepticism is justified, and the "verifiers" should themselves be verified. they will become enormously powerful over the next few years

Finally realized why it’s so exhausting and stressful to work with AI agents 8h a day. When delegating a task, you want to be assured it’s off your plate and you can forget about it, knowing it will be done completely and correctly. AI doesn’t give you that: you need to check it’s doing the right thing, it’s not forgetting anything, not taking short cuts etc. So it adds to your mental load, rather than removing from it.

Yep. Except: 1. This was about important internal tools. The team was stuck in some architecture nightmare of their own doing (writing it in rails but headless, with graphql api, and a SPA react app, constantly needing frontend engineers for changes). I call this kind of thing 'cosplaying an enterprise production app'. All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case. 2. I make calls like this all the time. Usually someone on the team asks me to. They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc. Sometimes this is jokingly referred to as Founder-mode-as-a-service here. 3. For ten years I’ve also run an internal podcast called Context, where I revisit decisions like these and explain the reasoning so everyone can learn from them. This is helpful to give people all the variables that were considered and why this was the choice made given the information available at the time. I want to teach how to make such decisions effectively without needing me. Sunk cost fallacy is a problem. 4. Any notions that Shopify is succcessful despite of me doing this, instead of because of it, will have a hard time making their argument come together I think 😄 the part of 'two weeks later tobi learns about...' is nonsese and the pivot of that project up there happens one of the more successful examples of interventions. But getting the company to work effectively with great architecture and low technical debt baggage into the right direction is literally the job, so guilty as charged I suppose. But there are always cope stories floating around like this because they are more fun, than saying 'somehow we needed tobi to stop doing silly architecture astronautics'. I can totally see that.

AI-lead coding doesn't really *feel* like work, like i can listen to music, talk to my friends, wait on the agent loops, steer them in the right direction occasionally but after a day of it, i feel just as exhausted, if not more, than with manually coding what gives?

YouTuber Alex O'Connor wants YouTube to "banish" Shorts to a separate app "I think if I were in control of YouTube's rules, one thing I would probably do is separate out Shorts"

aussie: i’m gonna take a year off. french: i’m gonna take august off. italian: i’m gonna take the summer off. british: i’ve got 6 weeks of holiday to use. german: my vacation has been scheduled since february. american: i’m gonna try to do a full week if i can.

if you love video games, stay off twitter lol

Uh, is this a typo or AI slop? Is it supposed to say VIP; that clearly says VIR & if it’s supposed to be vermin, that would also be a typo 😅 @pax @TychoBrahe