Cole French

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[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

I came in 2nd at Cook with Cursor! Thanks @quadrillion_ai team for letting me cook and @cursor_ai for hosting! #NYCTechWeek

[Tiffany Zhao @tiffzhao05]

that's @cfrenchcc in our purple @quadrillion_ai shirt, who was recognized as one of NYC’s best vibecoders while single-handedly shipping 10+ engineers’ worth of infra and security work

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

@AbdallahFalou @linear lit?

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

@linear The sacred timeline is healing.

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

@tiffzhao05 @quadrillion_ai The Big Apple extends a big welcome! It's hard to resist the temptation of The Matrix (SF).

I'm very happy to be working with someone who has the conviction to leave and pursue real impact!

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

@echinaceous Is this loss?

[Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav @reach_vb]

holy shitt, somebody at OpenAI leaked the entire codex codebase..

https://t.co/VDU5UqvC4N

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

The agents yearn for the mines. See Moltbook: 30,000 posts a day. Imagine if instead those were meaningful contributions toward a shared research objective. Let's build some mines.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

@Yuchenj_UW Yeah that's clearly the next part, e.g. my crappy first draft:
https://t.co/GIDXSGnY17
have to emulate academia, not just a single researcher. but need more time to think through the details.

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

This is spot on. The research machines are being built, and they're in need of a talented crew.

[Amy Tam @amytam01]

https://t.co/tNsiY4fy87

[e chi @echinaceous]

NYC next Wednesday: come see a real life autonomous research agent in action, and join us to build them too

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

Should've asked @ChatGPTapp how to set up a chess board

[Ben Tossell @bentossell]

i’m so fucking sick of bad AI software.

we’ve been promised the world will change, everyone will get rich, no-one has to work again bla bla bla. and then we get tools that claim they are great at xyz or ‘never use/do abc again’.

it’s all bullshit.

take perplexity for example. they’ve raised ~$900M, have ~100 employees and they just shipped their assistant to kill siri (apparently).

“it can book a reservation for you”

no it cant. it just adds search params to opentable. thats fine(ish), but did no one check it in a different location than where they are based? didnt work for me

btw flitwick manor is not ‘awesome’📷

“it can set up reminders for you”

not really. it added a reminder on my reminders app (fine), set to recurring (didnt ask for that), and set the time for yesterday (🙄 - and got the time wrong)

o3 stitched the three screenshots together nicely ❤️ - o3 is good software

this mini essay (linked below), with demos and examples, is fantastic and hits the nail on the head. Why are so many companies shipping just crappy software with AI tacked on? Every email writer I’ve tested is awful, many text-to-app builders that claim to be better than the current front-runners are also awful.

it feels like there’s so much hype about ai that everyone just markets to the hype. with little to no substance.

another post (also below), this time reviewing Cluely - which went viral as it allows you to ‘cheat’ in realtime. but, the title of the post says it all “I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything”

i think hyped launches add new paying users which is contributing to these not quite true $000’s M ARR stats we’re seeing. it’ll all come out in the wash.

rant over.

[Palatial @PalatialSim]

Your typical tech MVP demo…let’s get these guys funded VCs
#robothackathon

[Cas (Stephen Casper) @StephenLCasper]

Imagine if the 2015 Paris Climate Summit was renamed the "Energy Action Summit," invited leaders from across the fossil fuel industry, raised millions for fossil fuels, ignored IPCC reports, and produced an agreement that didn't even mention climate change. #AIActionSummit 🤦

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

feature parity ❌
feature parody ✅

[Joseph Semrai @josephsemrai]

Meet Context Autopilot

It learns like you, thinks like you, and uses tools like you.

With SoTA context understanding, it's capable of most information work today.

Watch it beat a team of industry experts:

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

"the hottest new programming language is English" is the hottest new platitude

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

@ekzhang1 Crappers?

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

on a standard keyboard, it takes double the effort to text numbers than to type them: 2 inputs rather than 1. so the next time someone texts you, h4v3 4 gr8 d4y, know that they really mean it

[Cole French @cfrenchcc]

in another world, we'd have invented "per" loops instead of "for" loops (as in "per each ..., do ..."), which we could kawaiily condense to "peach" 🍑

[brandon wang @fluorane]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 congrats to the team, what an epic comeback on day 2 :)