
develooper / bullish on a post-scarcity, post-suffering world via ai / building @thereabouts_app so you never lose a new place to try
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i have a feeling @thsottiaux is setting up an anatoly-style reveal as his 28 days of improvements come to a close.
the first 3 weeks passed with small improvements or even just plain resets on many days which people were dragging tibo for. but suddenly he's turned up the gas, doubling usage limits for all pro accounts after the big ado around dev day in which he cut limits in half.
this is a huge departure from the scale of reveals we've seen so far. with a few days left until the november 1st finale, i wonder what else he has up his sleeve....
teapawt.net/thsottiaux/status/2115…
Day 25/
We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today.
We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same. We’re also going to continue offering extended limits for dots for now, and usage of your dot will still continue to be separate from your default usage.
And we'll of course also keep shipping better models and other efficiency improvements that increase your effective usage over time.
james retweeted
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
james retweeted
I have never had a job where I don’t spend all day wondering if I’m in trouble somehow
party at bill's!
Replying to @ItsTheEnforcer
I am Canadian. I have been stock piling for years. I have 250 gallons of diesel and 100 gallons of gasoline, motor oil, oil filters, gas filters, etc. in the shed out back by the saw mill for my tractor, truck, car, wood splitter, mowers, etc.
In the cellar I have 2 years worth of pressure canned, chicken (chicken tenders, chicken breast, chicken thighs, beef, pork, bacon, ground beef, pork stew, beef stew, chili, beef stroganoff, beans (3 flavours), vegetables (all types), jams, jellies, fruit, pie fillings, canned goods (all types), marinara sauce, apple sauce, spaghetti sauce, deer stew, deer meat, moose stew, moose meat, 20 five gallon pails of vacuum sealed flour, etc., etc.
50lbs of vacuum sealed white sugar. 50lbs of coarse salt (for meat curing) 50lbs of cane sugar (for distilling) (a 5 gallon distiller for distilled water or alcohol)
Many 5 gallon pails of vacuum sealed bagged pasta (all types), dry beans (all types), quick oats, dog food, cat food, etc, etc, etc.
Plus numerous totes of canned meat (chicken, Spam, tuna, salmon, mackerel, sardines, luncheon meat, sausage, baking goods, canned beans, noodles, molasses, honey, canning goods, etc, etc.
As well I have 20 five gallon pails of preserved food enough to feed a family of 4 for 7 days. This is held in reserve for the 20 neighbours on my dead end rural road in case the shit really its the fan.
What I listed is only a fraction. I am completely self sufficient with heating (wood stoves) 15 cord of split and dry wood as well as 150 acres of woodland, lighting (oil lamps), electricity (solar and generators (5), cook stoves, propane BBQ's, charcoal BBQ's, 8 camp stoves, 6 gas lanterns, 4 propane camp stoves.
If you haven't been preparing then you and your family are already dead.
I think you get the point.
james retweeted
i’ve found myself using Genie 4 to have conversations with younger versions of myself...
here’s me talking to myself just out of college. i was pretty naive, but not a whole lot has changed :)
built by over 100 mathematicians across generations
my daddy died workin on this proof
my grandaddy died workin on this proof
and so help me god i'm gonna die workin on this proof!
james retweeted
Normalize cutting the tension in a meeting by ending it with, “We’re all gonna die one day, so none of this really matters.”
james retweeted
Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! openai.com/index/building-sc…
james retweeted
I'm not sure a lot of people understand what game coders actually do. We're not spending 9 hours a day finely hand crafting artisan software and expressing our inner dreams... 90% of the time we are fighting compilers and existing architecture, having to work out how undocumented code works, and tracking down obscure bugs and behavioural issues.
Most of game programming is just difficult, tedious, laborious grunt work, and the cognitive load we have to endure to get anything done is tiring and frustrating. No game coder is doing it for this 90% of the job.
We make games because the 10% that IS actually about making things fun and expressing ourselves is so incredibly rewarding it makes the other 90% bearable.
Now imagine if there was a tool, some kind of AI agent maybe, which could do most of the 90% grunt work for you, leaving you to just make all the decisions and express your creativity. How amazing would that be. How completely revolutionary would that be.
james retweeted
The stage is set for an artistic revolution to happen very soon. The main conditions are present:
1. A new technology or medium: generative AI
2. Exhaustion with the dominant aesthetic: postmodern & woke orthodoxy
3. A crisis of meaning
The main thing holding back the revolution is talent. Rn genAI is mostly being used as a slop canon. Meanwhile, the people with taste are crucifying one another even for using it as a research tool. I recently went to an ART AND TECHNOLOGY panel at the New Museum and saying the letters “AI” was practically a thoughtcrime.
Good time to be a nonconformist artist!
james retweeted
working on stuff with AI agents is like uh can I even call this working, am I doing anything?
then I think, well, ask anybody off the street to take over my role
they’ll be like “but I don’t have even a clue what’s relevant, possible, how to judge results, etc”
that’s the work
james retweeted
software engineers did not ask for this work to be done
james retweeted
If AI had been writing and reviewing its own code for the past few decades, and humans had only recently started looking into what it was up to and discovered an ever-growing list of CVEs, we would reasonably conclude that AI hadn’t been good at coding all along and that we should just start over.
Except it’s the other way around.
Humans have been the ones writing and reviewing each other’s code for decades. Very diligently, if I may add.
If we’re being intellectually honest and holding ourselves to the same bar we hold AI to, we’d have to admit that we haven’t been all that good at it either.




























