Not a VC

their minds are filled with big ideas, images, and distorted facts. - bob dylan

[Not a VC @not_a_vc]

@v21 I love reading the fine print on Amazon boxes — usually the logo for the company that built the box, maybe with a slogan or some random copy — and think about the people who spend all day sweating these details until it just works and becomes invisible

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@theojaffee Never see this again

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@emollick Also in the era of reasoning models the length of the prompt has nothing to do with how many tokens it burns. “Solve navier stokes” vs 250 words about finding a good restaurant rec for this weekend

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@taimurabdaal These things really went out of favor after all the Cornballer lawsuits

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@wongmjane I only really understood the appeal of worktrees when I didn’t have to deal with managing them myself

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@viticci There’s a fourth one!

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@StoicYield @Austen Right? I’ve conducted hundreds of eng interviews and couldn’t imagine caring if someone brought in an iced coffee, unless they showed up late or something

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@lulumeservey It’s also the reason his base tolerates all the friendly, productive meetings with Trump and doesn’t consider him a sellout

[Yesh Ginsburg @yesh222]

Rick Rescorla. Every American should know his name. He single-handedly saved almost 10,000 lives that day, while sacrificing his own trying to save even one more.

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@clayboycarti_ Trump understands what Hunter doesn’t: get political power first and then soak your supporters

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@ryderkessler NIMBYs: You can build anything you want as long as you built it 50 years ago

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@ryderkessler NIMBYs: You can build anything you want as long as you built it 50 years ago

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@alexframegreen

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@snopes Same feeling as checking in on your silly old buddy from high school and find they’ve pivoted into hard racism

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@mpopv Dario: “That’s genuinely on me — and you were right to push back.”

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@Davidimel That deadlift bar was load-bearing. I should have spotted you — and that’s on me.

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@sourceryy @rabois @Gladwell I kinda feel some connection between this and the McDonald’s philosophy

[gabe @allgarbled]

I have this new LLM sycophancy eval I came up where in the middle of a random conversation I just say “I kinda feel some connection between this and the McDonald's philosophy” and so far it never fails, it turns out that’s always “genuinely an interesting framing”

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@saranormous I asked what it thought the solution to the fermi paradox was and got downgraded to opus

that’s the point I switched to sol

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@vocalcry Came here to post this. Their chicken pesto sandwich has to be like 2000 calories but so good

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@thsottiaux Make it easier to prompt Pro as part of a project workflow

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@sensho I have a theory that the slop style is partly to save on output tokens

Exactly one time with Opus 5, I asked it a really hard question with max effort and it wrote a long reply in 4.6 style

I think it’s still got that dawg in it