Douglas Gray

Visual Search, Multimodal @amazon. Here for computer vision, ML, IR, & NLP research.

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@oscardumlao Is it a flow/diffusion model, or did they just combine photoshop with a computer use agent?

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@hanlonbt @billclerico They closed the train station to keep those folks out.

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@kate_rouch Except this is a picture of the international terminal…

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

Internal corporate coms

2024: don’t trust AI, it hallucinates!

2025: stop putting confidential docs in ChatGPT, use the shitty internal version!

2026: stop using our internal tokens for personal use!

[Brianne Kimmel @briannekimmel]

@signulll Engineers using tokens for personal projects is the new stealing supplies from the office?

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@pigeon__s Yes, they time everything around CVPR.

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

https://t.co/Kt50ttQRMJ

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

This is crazy, nobody is legitimately using their monthly salary on tokens.

A few outliers are having agents do super low value work that would not otherwise be done.

They are doing it because of token leaderboards and other incentives to burn as much as possible.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

More and more engineers are now burning more money on AI tokens than their base salaries.

Tech companies are facing a brutal dilemma:
> let everyone tokenmaxx and move at AI speed
> add token budgets and kill the vibe
> lay off 50% of people and give the rest unlimited tokens

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

Mid-2026 and Gemini still can’t edit a google doc. Afraid they ngmi.

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@wow_tru Needs another bridge across the bay. Otherwise, perfect. Let’s do it.

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@beaversteever Patents are write-only documents. iykyk

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@mattparlmer I think we should just get rid of all the human drivers at this point. It’s only a matter of time.

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

100% wrong. Nobody outside the programming world wants to use a TUI.

[wordgrammer @wordgrammer]

The idea that agents need some custom UI layer is so silly to me. It’s obvious that both the chatbot and the TUI are interfaces that will never go away. Like infinite scroll, front-facing camera, clickable links, short form video, pinch to zoom, slide to unlock

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@doodlestein @Chrisgpt Doing him a favor by comparing him to LeCun. Put Beff there instead.

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

It wasn’t an “AI” leaderboard, it was specifically for using Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI, the internally developed harnesses.

The dashboards went away the same time the Claude code and codex bans did.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Amazon has reportedly scrapped its internal AI leaderboard as costs soared, with a senior executive telling staff: “don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI.”

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@zacharylipton “We offer no explanation as to why these architectures seem to work; we attribute their success, as all else, to divine benevolence” -Shazeer, N. (2020)

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@jsuarez

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@shagbark_hick Astrophotography allows you to see far more than the naked eye, but takes many hours of exposure. Days even. This is the logical conclusion. Same reason we have observatories on mountain tops. Just for amateurs.

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@swe_acc I visited Norway last July and almost every indoor space was unbearable hot. Seemed like only museums had AC. Is Sweden more civilized?

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@egrefen I assume you are referring to the non-stochastic parrots?

[Douglas Gray @de3ug]

@tszzl @localghost tl;dr