Tony Garvan

Building Ex- eng lead @adhocteam, ex @18F. I've been called emotional.

[Tony Garvan @anthonygarvan]

📢🎉 Some personal news–Friday was my last day leading the https://t.co/Jdh34aSRUY engineering team. Today I start a new, foolishly ambitious adventure: backed by @southpkcommons, I'll be making a new, super-fast, super-awesome spreadsheet for businesses: https://t.co/EUNaUpigHC

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@venikunche Millennial parents are really crushing it. The world is going to be blown away by how mature + well-adjusted gen alpha is. Great job!

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TFW your are trying to build a god-like superintelligence but still can't nail the CSS

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@fwiles I remember desperately waiting 3 days to download the demo for Wolfenstein, had to restart multiple times. It was like a 15 MB file I think lol.

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All successful companies have a niche, but vast majority of niches cannot support a successful company. So advising a company to "find a niche" is true, but worthless advice in aiding what is fundamentally an exploratory process.

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@ibogost More examples: veggie mac + cheese w/ ham, homemade clam chowder, thai green curry, butter chicken, spaghetti w meat sauce, etc.

TL;DR— learn to enjoy cooking, make big batches, buy single-portion microwaveable containers & freeze.

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@ibogost Cook twice a week in big batches & freeze it in 2 cup tupperware containers. Food stays good for months so you'll have endless variety, low cost, easy, satisfying portable meals. Example dishes: chili w/ rice, butternut squash ravioli with sausage, sage orrichieti, etc.

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There may still be big job losses / shock if demand doesn't match the output of the newly efficient white-collar workers, but IDK if people's demand for things was satible we'd probably all still be farmers.

[Tony Garvan @anthonygarvan]

GPT-4 might be a chemistry / coding genius, but it has less willpower than an amoeba.

Realizing how often when I want to engage w/ people for work, I am not looking for their intellectual output but rather the force of their will.

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My gut is this wave of AI will provide huge efficiency gains for jobs that are intellectually constrained, but we will still need & want a human in the loop for the foreseeable future.

Also I think ppl tend to overestimate how many jobs are truly intellectually constrained.

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@adityaag Yeah totally wild to be living through this. Also it's clear there was a "step function" in emergence somewhere between GPT-2 to GPT-3 scale LLMs. Will there another level of emergence / phase transition that will occur past human intelligence (e.g., at 5x or 10x human level?)

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@adityaag See you tonight!

[Tony Garvan @anthonygarvan]

"I know not with what technology GPT-5 will be built, but GPT-6 will be built with regexes."

-Albert Einstein

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@simonw We actually just shipped an AI powered scraping chrome plugin last week: https://t.co/Yr8QHPLnc5

(haven't promoted it at all yet, but it works really well!)

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@villi When incumbents lose, it will be to products that compete by cutting across their business model or org structure in novel ways.

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@kmages Sorry to hear that Ken :( She was a great dog + a great friend.

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@jamesclift This is very cool, congrats on the launch!

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@emilyst There's a Paw Patrol joke in the new DC Superpets movie and the under 10 crowd was in stitches 😂

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Bromance sparks flying w/ Abhilash during my XFinity outage this morning.

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@fidmart85 Congrats Fidel!!

[Tony Garvan @anthonygarvan]

My happy place is "sunrise reflecting off cappuccino"