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Rebuilding the SWE lifecycle from first principles for agents.

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Is consciousness simply what computation feels like?

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@pmddomingos Some humans can't do this.

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Man it has been a wild couple of months since I ghosted. Cooked up something that might trigger vacuum decay, if it happens I apologize in advance.

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@DanielW_Kiwi Gatekeeping

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@brian_armstrong Founder-to-founder, are you sure this is the metric you should be optimizing for? It feels like there should be more specific metrics to use for benchmarking code quality than human vs. AI-generated.

Unless you have internal metrics you don’t want to share publicly, get that.

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@garrytan Disclaimer: I’m pro law enforcement/this tech in the abstract.

Great until it starts solving crimes that shouldn’t be crimes. Or selectively enforcing laws based on the whims of those that control it.

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@xctlot I think it’s flipped. There exists some mapping between reality and language, which is what the LLM has learned. The LLM is intelligent-approximating (as-if intelligent, if you like).

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@eshear Great until you need to build something truly novel.

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@Rahul_J_Mathur slop

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@0xluffy It reads as an AI thirst trap.

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@paulg Great perk of working on deep tech

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Just moved to Austin; anyone know where the deep tech meetups are here (esp anyone else working on AI infra)?

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@paulg Probably confounding factors like those that ride motorcycles are more risk-taking/tolerant.

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@unusual_whales Essentially proof that @elonmusk was telling the truth, and Trump is on the list.

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@amasad Smart. I’ve been rolling this myself in Cursor for a while. I’ve been experimenting with lots of good ways to improve workflows using docs folders full of markdowns for various elements of the project.

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@pmddomingos In the limit, it probably accelerates until we eventually reach some limiting reagent in the laws of physics, or until we kill ourselves from something stupid.

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@robj3d3 What about 95% vibe-coded though?

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Anyone notice how OpenAI hard-pivoted their public messaging from “AI good but scary” (slow model proliferation) to “AI unmitigated good” (accelerate model proliferation) as soon as their moat changed from model supremacy to data supremacy? Probably coincidence.

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@elidourado No offense but this didn’t age well.

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@kimmonismus And GOOG is trading at 20x earnings. It’s bonkers people don’t understand they’re still in the lead on AI.

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@norabelrose Evidence?