@MuddledLearning

Tired mathematician and programmer running on papers and obsession. I work in industry as a ~serious~ VP, this is my oasis. Drop a line.

NYC
Joined May 2022
1/ The core issue with building agents that actually work together in a meaningful way is that we limit them to our way of communicating. Machines don't need to reason like us (arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769) and they don't need to talk like us. I believe that the true solution going
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the moat is literally just caring about your work and being proud of your output and holy shit it does not seem to apply to 99% of people
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Yeah this has been my experience for all of the frontier models tbf
Replying to @Sauers_
opus 5 accounted for every millicent in the ledger of the $2 word embedding experiments budget 😊
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Who is hiring for an ex-mathematician with experience in ML modeling for human patient data, now focused on generative model applications. I am tired of working at my current org where I’m pushing a team of devs to the limits with lesser strategic input due to restructuring.
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I really should have gotten rich pre-LLMs so I could burn money like this. What in the hell.
my software factory uses 5-10B tokens a day 24x @DevinAI SWE-2 Max 6x Codex Astra Ultra 2x Claude Code Fable Max running in @zeddotdev
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all these fucks are so creative, i should keep a thread of them
Koi fish pond on my portfolio
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I love how important this tiny lighthouse feels in my 1-bit city builder
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been there, embarrassingly often.
I'm very sensitive to this feeling, cause I've been there. Someone does something cool, gets a lot of attention, and you're frustrated cause you already did it, a while ago. It's not enough to do things, you must also tell people. Maybe it's not fair, but it's true
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Staff Engineer is the worst position. 20% salary bump, 100% expectations bump.
they don’t tell you this, but when you become a staff engineer they expect you to perform 1 miracle a year
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I am not trying to be cryptic, but as my life goes on I try to remind myself of how thankful I should be for everything that I have. The irony is that as I lose things, as problems pop up, I find pockets of feeling more thankful.
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It's not dissimilar to when I think randomly "oh shit nice, my stomach doesn't hurt" or "at least I'm well fed and have a good job". Idk why I'm thinking of this, just am.
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lmfao my agent is manifesting good outcomes, amazing
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It’s variable, which is the larger issue. Software engineering relies on software which can be verified as working, efficient, etc. I’m not saying a proxy can’t be found, but the comparison is (at this moment) unaligned.
HN drops truth-bombs.
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hire algon!
I am Algon. I am broke and jobless. I wrote bangers such as "Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems", "Maybe Social Media Algorithms Don't Suck", and "Stars Are A Rounding Error". I was AISafety.info's project lead. I have a physics masters. Hire me.
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this is the biggest issue nerds cant comprehend nobody cares about what you say you can do show me if you aren’t showing up with an mvp you already lost and should give up
Sitting in some meetings where AI agencies are trying to sell themselves to the execs is hilarious. "We are going to build you a second brain" "We will start on one workflow and save you $100,000 per year" "Our AI audit assessment is only $1k and it will be credited into the bigger project later". Then they try to charge $50k for one workflow with a $5k monthly service retainer?? Zero sales skills. Zero tech skills. Yuck
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about to put an open source version of JEV in a work dev project, wish me luck
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taught a senior tech lead that's 10 years from retirement how to set up VSCode. no, he was not using vim or emacs.
Why am I teaching a “senior engineer with 20+ years of experience” how to set an env variable how did you even get here
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