Best books I've ever read:
1. Divine Comedy - Dante (1320)
2. Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky (1864)
3. Hamlet - Shakespeare (1601)
4. The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway (1952)
5. The Prince - Machiavelli (1513)
#1 is the best piece of art ever created by a human being imo
I am very sure that @googlefinance new version was vibe coded by business people. There is not a single feature that works anymore. I've never seen a product get so destroyed in a version update, truly incredible
@NewsFromGoogle@Android very buggy and very bad. my beta version doesn't even have this 'Edit' button... many features missing for me right now. Sent a lot of feedback, hope it doesn't go live this broken.
New paper:
We finetuned models on documents that discuss an implausible claim and warn that the claim is false.
Models ended up believing the claim! Examples:
1. Ed Sheeran won the Olympic 100m
2. Queen Elizabeth II wrote a Python graduate textbook
Michael Saylor's advice for young people:
1. Focus your energy
2. Guard your time
3. Train your mind
4. Train your body
5. Think for yourself
6. Curate your friends
7. Curate your environment
8. Keep your promises
9. Stay cheerful and constructive
10. Upgrade the world
@tunguz I miss the 'It's over' narrative. Yea, most companies will not be significantly affected by AI. Most processes are human and have no need for AIs.
the pattern i've been seeing is: devs do work faster and things really come out sooner.
But everyone is still bottlenecked by POs and PMs who delay the teams bc they demand to participate in Plannings and Approavals and so on, and they already have too many meetings. Human side of products... it is not just the implemmentation.
It's probably accelerating from here. More code, more software engineers. More apps, more SaaS usage and revenue. More cloud consumption. And a whole lot of tokens through it all.
If the cost of hiring software engineers was previously a bottleneck on software deployment, then making it cheaper to ship code means the entire software ecosystem will start to grow faster.