Formerly Engineer at Facebook/Meta, Netflix, and Microsoft
Joined October 2008
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ChatGPT Work is so confusing. I can point a Local Work project to a local folder, and the agent can intelligently load relevant files into context. However a Cloud Work project cannot do the same when provided with a folder in my Google Drive. Skill issue?
Does the Fable block mean the only sustainable business model left for @AnthropicAI is to close access and use its short-term intelligence edge to disrupt other businesses? Why sell Goldman tools to find market edges cheap when you can it yourself? Door #2: Nationalization.
Astonished that using @GeminiApp to quickly ask questions about the YouTube video I'm watching has roughly 2x'ed my learning rate. Gemini's privileged integration w/ Google's apps seems like a massive competitive advantage on Android.
Thanks to the new @ChatGPTapp image generator I can finally create the comic I've wanted to make for a long time.
I know it's the big cliché to complain about Apple hyping up innovations that Android has had for years, but... I've been enjoying an OLED tablet that's only 5.5mm thick for a few years now. Can confirm reduced thickness and weight are a big deal - worth the extra $
WH now pushing devs to use safe languages. As software continues to eat the world, devs need to acknowledge we have a broader obligation to take security and privacy seriously. New privacy laws mean we need to expand notion of lang. "safety" beyond memory and concurrency safety.
Got an email about a class action against @Shudder for VPPA violation. Can't single them out. So many privacy laws now exist, and yet industry has invested so little in PLs/tools to enable compliance. Safe to assume most corp. software you use is non-compliant. Reckoning coming.
Developing new successful programming languages is almost impossible ATM, because initially there won't be enough training data to enable LLM-assisted coding. This bootstrap problem means PLs need to be 100x (not 10x) better to attract broad adoption. Good luck :-(.
Code-first #graphql servers simplify your life by leveraging your PL's native features to express GQL concepts. Code-first #graphql *clients* can do the same, provided your PL is expressive enough. Example: Zeus expresses GQL queries as JS exps + TS types github.com/graphql-editor/gr…
Excited about the JS AsyncContext proposal which introduces an analog for threadlocal in JavaScript's event loop-based concurrency model. While I was at Meta we had some big use cases which would've benefited from this proposal. @littledan
Ahhhh friends, I’m going through a personal renaissance on multiple levels. And for the renaissance that’s most relevant here….my God, what a time to be writing software for the web. Finally caught up on this talk, & holy smokes…
youtu.be/WJXoSsLTD70
Recently rented two bikes with day passes from @BCycle in Austin. I was surprised to get an email saying one of the bikes was not returned! Their docking stations are pretty unreliable. Been getting the run around on the phone for an hour now.
On sabbatical been playing with available AI apps to get a sense of their potential impact on non-technical users today. Takeaway: Post-Gemini, NotebookLM is a good *free* alternative to custom GPTs. Big UI bugs that cause content to disappear during scroll may hurt usage though.
I built a #GeminiAI-backed NotebookLM for the fantastic @RationalRemind finance podcast, and it has been a very useful companion resource while listening. Also great for quickly citing scientific studies when friends/family/advisors propose "creative" investment strategies.
One of my favorite things to do when visiting family is revitalize their slow, unsupported, virus-ridden PCs by installing @ChromeOS. It reduces e-waste, reduces exposure to viruses, and the OS is capable enough for most people. What's not to like?
I'm here for all of the alternative TVs like Samsung's Freestyle and LG's suitcase TVs. Smartphone users are demanding more from their screens. However to reach their potential, TVs can't be hobbled by proprietary OS's like Tizen and WebOS. Ship them with Android and take my $$$.
Based on my experience I think you could eliminate a large percentage of scams on Facebook marketplace with a very simple ML model which gives the prospective seller a warning that the inquirer might be a scammer.
Disappointed that the web browsing feature of ChatGPT Plus was been disabled because people were using it to bypass pay walls. It just got about 80% less useful to me. I don't think it's the right policy to nerf AI just because it might disrupt existing business models.
I expect LLMs like #ChatGPT will accelerate the move to the cloud. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud will offer customers the ability to tune LLMs on their proprietary data. Tuned LLMs will significantly reduce the company's labor costs, and force their competitors into the cloud too.
Using LLMs like #ChatGPT to produce code is the sweet spot between statistical and symbolic approaches to querying. Natural language is so expressive, and using it to write code produces answers that are explainable and can be audited for correctness.