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[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

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[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@kumxem Life

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

Birla opus ✅
Every other opus waste of money

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

They have forgotten about sonnet. Haiku feels like the child who never was

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

I have to keep iterating b/w codex and claude.
Each become sloppy even at max xhigh setting

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@KanishkDilta @avataram @BangaloreRoomi @fmrbangalore Giving away? Really? Clickbait that you know is not

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

Wait till they rewrite the whole universe, your emotions, your relationships and everything in between in rust

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@Notavailablee18 My salary

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

Is it too early for bangalore? Or are we just way ahead of the curve @ad1tyabharadwaj

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

Tax and duty free import of gpus. Please god please make it happen

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

Sonnet 4,6 is a dumb token maxing model

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@amrnth0 FDEs JD has value prop if it is deeply product-adjacent and engineering-heavy.

The overlap with traditional consulting grows only once deployment patterns mature and the work becomes standardized.

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@amrnth0 There is a surface area overlap yes.
But value prop is diff. Claude and huggingface engs wont be so active on socials if FDE had no value prop.
FDEs value prop fails when the JD is deploy the platform for customers. Thats is not the case yet. There is solid engineering tbd

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@amrnth0 Platform company engineers are aligned to long-term platform success.
Service vendors are aligned to delivery contracts and billable hours.

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@amrnth0 And there is massive incentive and goal gap:
1. FDEs need to promote the company they work for in the company they work with.
2. Bad FDEs can lead to poor sales of your product and even bad brand
3. Good FDEs bring in better feedback for the platform they work on.

WITCH dont

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

Next up we will have 4D movie experiences as claude's end of ops report

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc.

More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage:

1) raw text (hard/effortful to read)
2) markdown (bold, italic, headings, tables, a bit easier on the eyes) <-- current default
3) HTML (still procedural with underlying code, but a lot more flexibility on the graphics, layout, even interactivity) <-- early but forming new good default
...4,5,6,...
n) interactive neural videos/simulations

Imo the extrapolation (though the technology doesn't exist just yet) ends in some kind of interactive videos generated directly by a diffusion neural net. Many open questions as to how exact/procedural "Software 1.0" artifacts (e.g. interactive simulations) may be woven together with neural artifacts (diffusion grids), but generally something in the direction of the recently viral https://t.co/z21CP5iQfu

There are also improvements necessary and pending at the input. Audio nor text nor video alone are not enough, e.g. I feel a need to point/gesture to things on the screen, similar to all the things you would do with a person physically next to you and your computer screen.

TLDR The input/output mind meld between humans and AIs is ongoing and there is a lot of work to do and significant progress to be made, way before jumping all the way into neuralink-esque BCIs and all that. For what's worth exploring at the current stage, hot tip try ask for HTML.

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@pcshipp Pain lovers economy go bust

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@PratikshaDake Interesting

[Chinmay @ChinmayRelkar]

@icanvardar Mpy npame ips chipnmpay