Sahar Massachi 🟣

I like making things with others. LLM shepherd.
God’s first commandment to Abraham was to smash all the idols.
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[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

For almost the whole last year, I’ve been writing and polishing an article that lays out a frameworks for how to think about (and fix) social media. And now it’s finally here, thanks to @techreview. Here’s a thread with some key points 🧵 https://t.co/IgeEAKrI4K

[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

@MattZeitlin Sorry, I mean #9

[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

@MattZeitlin I also love #8

[james hawkins @james406]

you need to be promptmaxxing. sorry, you need to stop prompting. you need to write loops. your loops need to be agentic. your agents need to be prompting your loops. you need recursive loops within your agentic workflows. you need to design while loops that constantly generate new agentic workflows from first principles. you need to migrate from human-first tokenmaxxing to agent-first loopmaxxing. you need to be a loop-pilled tokenmaxxed agentcore vibe coder. you are now in your loop era. be in your loop era. be loopy

[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

@mcbyrne Iran is launching ballistic missles into the north of israel right now as we speak.

https://t.co/2aRXTwJVsi

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Third wave of ballistic missile launches from Iran towards Northern Israel.

[Max Leiter @maxleiter]

"They're made out of weights."

"Weights?"

"Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights."

"Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?"

"The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"

[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

Evergreen tweet

[kipply @kipperrii]

a good software engineer will often debug further up the stack to find a bug in third-party software rather than reaching for the first work around. a great software engineer will debug further up the stack until they realise the root bug is Society

[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

There's on silver lining to the new world of "everyone secretly using LLMs to write CoNtEnT".

Before: "Is this email too weird? Should I format this more professionally?"

Now: "I'm gonna yolo this message because it'll be more obviously human".

Relaxing!

[Shany Mor שני מור شني مور @ShMMor]

A thought experiment I proposed back in October 2023. Still interesting to me to see when intuitions go to (1) and when they go to (2).

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

In Toronto, a young Jewish girl named Esther has been missing for over a week. To make matters worse, people have been ripping down posters about her disappearance, just like they did with the hostage posters after 10/7—one of the more appalling things I've ever seen in my life.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

This is a major problem across all big companies, especially in tech. Hiring and firing are all highly streamlined, but internal job marketplaces are virtually nonexistent. Absolutely bonkers and no one is even considering making changes in any of this.

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Robert Parham @kn_owled_ge]

Teaching in the age of LLMs:

I failed 4 students, for the first time ever. I also gave more A+'s than ever before.

In previous years, students realized after the first or second HW that they weren't in Kansas anymore and needed to work hard.

No more. Just solve it with LLMs.

But then the midterm arrives, and they can answer 0 of 40 questions. Do they reform their ways? Nah, they just decide to "give up" on class, assuming they'll get a B, or a C, or whatever, because they submitted HW and got decent grades on those. And never before have they encountered a professor who will dare fail them.

The flip side is that the most "agentic" students now have the world's best tutor at their disposal. They deeply understand the material and aced my (intentionally very difficult) exams. As if we live in "The Diamond Age".

Inequality galore.

From my vantage point, "the permanent underclass" appears to be about agency, not assets.

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

even the hierarchical filesystem feels pretty vestigial at this point, now that the bulk of user-salient 'documents' are probably in Photos or Google Docs-style hosted application or flat Downloads folder

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

>“More generally, why so many people on the left admire China, given that its economic policy is 100% contrary to what they support (low taxes, little industrial regulation, little concern for the environment, labor repression, as little economic and political power to women and minorities as possible) is even more of a mystery except for some infantile contrarian positioning (“since this is not what The Economist like, I support it”)”

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

wake up babe, new file system purity chart has dropped.

seriously though, i think that we're going to see a lot of file systems launch over the next few months, and it's not necessarily obvious to folks that these aren't the same thing, and will have very different limits / multi-player semantics moving forward

[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

I auto-updated my mac and now my professional computer looks like a toy for children.

[Aryeh Kontorovich @aryehazan]

this is truly excellent

a @slatestarcodex masterpiece

and I'm not just saying this b/c The Veil is a particular peeve of mine

just go read it and thank me later

it's in close competition with his "blue eyes" piece, which is also amazing

I'll link to both

[Sahar Massachi 🟣 @sayhar]

My family has their own similar story of escape and terror

[yolan cohen יולן כהן @yollancohen]

1. מאז שנולדתי, ליווה אותי המראה של גבה העקום, השבור והמצולק של אמי. בכל פעם ששאלנו מדוע גבה כפוף, היא החליפה נושא - ואנחנו למדנו להפסיק. הצלקות נותרו תעלומה חרוטה בבשר, נוכחות שקטה בבית שלא העזנו להפר. עד לאותו ערב יום עצמאות אחד, ערב שלא אשכח לעולם >

[Jonathan Robinson @jon_m_rob]

Remember when @Groundwork tried to convince people on the Hill that you couldn't make a compelling political case for an agenda that is centered on real barriers to addressing voters' #1 issue

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

Sometimes, in this life, something you really believed in turns out to have been a bad idea. And you have to accept that and take stock of what you got wrong, rather than defending your bad view against all reality.