Sid Garimella

every day is a gift | ex @StateStreet @Dataxu | YC W21 @Rulebricks

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

More people should build permanent things

[“paula” @paularambles]

Ah! You see, what fascinates me about this whole situation is not the sex or the espionage, no no, these are merely vulgar distractions. What fascinates me is that the man who made possible the machine that will come for us all is the only man who cannot be replaced. My God! What a magnificent achievement! We can replace the programmer, the lawyer, even the doctor, and perhaps even the philosopher (although I would like to see a machine produce the nonsense I do), but the billionaire CEO? No!

The prophets of disruption are terrified! They gather around the deathbed of their king, panicking. The king must live! Without him, the kingdom will fall, China will win, the American economy will collapse, civilization itself will come to an end, and so on and so on. Here they should read their Hegel. When Hegel saw Napoleon riding through Jena, he said: there goes the world-spirit on horseback. But even though Napoleon imagines he is making history, it is in fact history that is making use of Napoleon, and when it has finished with him, it moves on. History is not obliged to remain loyal to Napoleon.

And here we have what Lacan calls le sujet supposé savoir, the subject supposed to know. Jensen is supposed to understand the machines, to know where all this is going. The man in the leather jacket was supposed to protect us from the unbearable discovery that nobody knows, that the big Other does not exist. The market believes in Jensen, but does Jensen believe in Jensen? Perhaps he was happy to go! But the system will not permit it. Even the president telephones to tell him to fight. He must remain our visionary, the daddy of the machines.

And here I apologize, but I must return to sex. An affair shows that even the beloved is replaceable. But look at our prophets of disruption! Suddenly they are the last romantics. They cannot imagine a life without Jensen. My God, they are more faithful to this man than he was to his wife! There is no sexual relation, Lacan said. But apparently there is a fiduciary one.

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

btw if you use Postman they ran an update that silently automatically installs and trusts codex and claude ai hooks that literally intercepts and sends all of your API data to them

https://t.co/X6h2kx8yKZ

[Ali Zahid @alizhd]

Giving a shit is a moat. Not throwing slop grenades in your app at your customers is a moat. Human customer service with care and empathy is a moat. Just giving a shit is such a moat today.

[marwan @_marwanad]

We replaced Raft with a JEV-style decision model.

Consensus is fundamentally a reasoning problem. Why rely on deterministic leader election when a model can evaluate each node's leadership potential?

We've replaced quorum with confidence scores.

Write throughput dropped 99.98% but the cluster is finally making informed decisions.

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

1. What

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear friends, I’d like to show you my latest toy project

Introducing Handwired: turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net!
- no training
- exact outputs vs the JS program
- fully differentiable

All runnable in a browser, without GPU

[Hellavator @HeLLaTaLL510]

New York City is the city that never sleeps because it dreams of being San Jose, and knows it can never accomplish such a lofty goal.

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

I’ve always believed it’s the creation as consumption crowd that shills this abstract idea of taste as an indicator of effort and differentiation most

they want you to see em dashes and stop reading, in some sense to not really even read at all but instead search for lietmotifs

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

I no longer see any compelling reason to believe that taste is some permanent boundary LLMs won’t cross. It’s already happening.

[eigenesis (misaligned) @eigengenesis]

the only moat left is the love of the game

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

@ledwards martha and her many brothers will be seeing you

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

curious which way the 80/20 leans on OpenAI math drops being under some fun fine text, less legible constraint that makes them functionally useless

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

AI agents are to booking flights like iphones are to marginally better cameras and macs are to professional video editing. legibility of progress trading directly with actual strides

[Tyler Palmer @tylerpalmer]

it’s always felt like OpenAI is too focused on winning San Francisco. meanwhile, their competitor Muse is sweeping the rest of the nation and sitting at the top of the app store. this demo is a perfect example of this.

every tech leader wants to show agents booking flights. but more than half of Americans don’t even fly once in a given year. so the primary agent example we keep showing simply doesn’t resonate with half the country.

agent demos should focus on the basics: tax filing, chasing down shipping returns, clearing out inboxes, and bill paying. every day stuff.

sf is very important. especially if you want to win developers. i understand that. but Meta is looking like geniuses focusing on everyone else. and everyone else is a pretty big market. it's the largest one.

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

I imagine jev is very much what openclaw was missing for triggers, considering clients can basically just point high frequency event streams at it for basically free

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

@unusual_whales

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

the ohio codex credits thing is interesting as an arbitrage between the floor and frontier of intelligence

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

I imagine we regime change into proof of effort distributing to consumption.

some kind of requisite symmetry in the effort required to create a thing and the effort required to capture/consume its value that must hold for creation to be a valuable act?

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

I think a lot about the em dash being the cheeseburger in that menu movie

I think taste will largely bifurcate between users of taste purely as a status indicator/indicator of effort, and folks who view it more as a sensory/intuitive thing

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/BRmPwK8w9z

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

strong argument self maintenance orients better around something else..

[Sid Garimella @sidgarimella]

rather odd github remains the de facto place to drop 100% ai authored software