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That was a touchdown, that was pass interference, that was holding (x45)…
Still, if #1 Miami had shown up in the first half instead of… whatever that was, it would have been a much different game.
Refs absolutely had a big impact on this one but you can’t blow off the first half and expect it to work out anyway. ND had it the whole way.
I’m pissed but it’s not the end of the season. I hope this team learned a lesson.
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Mike Glass retweeted
November 3️⃣ College Football Playoff Selection Committee Rankings
1️⃣. Miami Hurricanes // @CanesFootball
Apps used to be fun.
I’m a practical minded guy, and I’ve always made software that attempts to solve problems and make work easier first, that is legitimately important to me.
But apps used to be fun too, and I do miss that.
When iOS Uncs (like me) talk about software being better 10-15+ years ago we mean it
Here's Twitter for iPad from 2010
teapawt.net/luciascarlet/status/21…
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Right now, I’m completely okay with no baseball next year. I have no interest in going through this again.
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This is the best game I’ve ever seen in person. My college roommate and I were there, fully prepared to miss the last LIRR train back to campus if the game went into the 11th. No extra cash, no plan, but there was absolutely no way we were leaving until it was over. I’ll never forget this home run, as long as I live.
Tim McCarver: “So if that’s the case, you do not want to toy with Bernie Williams in there with an 87 MPH fastball.”
Rod Beck: *toys with an 87 MPH fastball to Bernie Williams*
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ok i think i finally figured out why alignment has gone basically nowhere after 15 years and several billion dollars. the problem is hard sure. but have you met the people in charge of it
1) the leadership does not know how computers work. ask one what happens when you type a url into a browser and watch them start sweating. dns is a spooky word. they genuinely believe the model lives in "the cloud" like a ghost haunting a castle
2) zero idea how large scale distributed systems work. never been paged at 3am. never watched one bad bgp announcement take half the internet offline. their big threat model is the ai "copying itself across the internet" like its a floppy disk virus from 1998. brother it needs 50 megawatts, a liquid cooling loop and a personal relationship with jensen. it is not escaping onto your smart fridge
3) they dont understand the stack they are supposedly protecting us from. ask about inference servers, kv cache, batching, egress, rate limits. blank stare. ask how the model will seize the power grid and you get a 45 minute answer with a hand drawn diagram and three links to their own blog
4) nobody can define an agent. ask ten of them and you get eleven definitions and a 30 page google doc. to the rest of us an agent is a while loop that calls tools and eats a 429 every thirty seconds. to them its a digital god in its larval stage. my agent cant book a dentist appointment without asking me three times if im sure
5) they started from "everyone dies" and worked backwards so every result is bad news somehow. model refuses, deceptive. model complies, sycophantic. model does well on evals, well now its scheming about the evals. i cant think of a single thing a model could do that would get them to say ok maybe we're fine
Interesting that two different people have somehow mistakenly not ranked Miami in the last few weeks.
Nobody seems to have forgotten to rank Texas, or Ohio State, or notre dame… just Miami…
Hey, @E10Sports, care to explain why you chose to put #4 Miami as UNRANKED in your @AP_Top25 Ballot this week?????
You used to need two things to make great software: taste, and the skills to translate your ideas into code. Code is easy now. Taste hasn't changed.
AI has gotten to the point where if you can articulate your idea, it can build it. Until like five minutes ago, that was expensive and tremendously difficult. Now what's difficult is figuring out if that idea is good or bad, deciding if it's worth building or not, and once it is built, knowing when it's right.
If you know me at all, you know I've never been a fan of cross-platform frameworks like Flutter and React Native. I've always preferred native platforms, and in my view, this new era has just REINFORCED my belief that native is always the better option. The main reason I still hear for sticking with cross-platform tools is the write-once-run-anywhere codebase. But when AI writes all the code for you (I don't write code anymore. @dhh doesn't write code anymore. Do you?) what does it matter if it's writing it once, twice, or fifty times?
Remove the downside of maintaining multiple codebases, and what's left? You tailor your app to each platform. Use any and all of the available features. When something new comes out (iPhone Duo, for example), you can support it immediately. And in the end, you let your taste win everywhere, without any compromises.
So, this is what I'm doing now. I'm trusting my sense of taste, which I've built up over a 20+ year career of making software that works the way people expect it to. Code is easy now; taste sets you apart.
PS: This is the concept behind my company, Glass Effect: building custom internal software for small businesses that works the way they already do things. If that appeals to you, DM me or drop a reply.
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For reference about DHH's position on this, see his Rails World keynote address. Definitely worth watching.
teapawt.net/dhh/status/21029360736…
It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment! youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY?si=6Fsf…
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
This is what I was talking about yesterday. Why hold on to a cross platform stack when it’s this easy to have ai agents handle both platforms natively?
Do you even care what language or framework your code is written in anymore?
Native is now the future of mobile at @Shopify : shopify.engineering/back-to-…
We don’t hold on to a decision just because it was successful at the time. When a core assumption changes, we’re willing to go back and ask whether it’s still the right call. LLMs changed one of the core assumptions behind our 2020 decision, so we reevaluated our mobile stack from first principles.
What we found led us back to native.
The @shop app has already been migrated. How we did it: shopify.engineering/shop-app…
It only counts as “shot on [device]” if you use stock everything and whatever ambient lighting is around. Ridiculous take from someone who’s constantly surrounded by AV equipment.
We always say the Apple events being "shot on iPhone" borderline doesnt coutn because of how many thousands of dollars of professional lighting and accessories make it possible. But on the other hand...... the footage looks so good
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The only response so far that I’ve seen to “why don’t you unplug the rampaging AI” is: “no no no, you can’t, it’ll have planned for that!”
Evil AGI has the same moveset as every lazy Batman parody.