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LLM daydreaming.

LLM daydreaming. Humans do something that LLMs don’t, and that might be exactly why we are creative and they are not. But, what if… “A reason may be that they lack some fundamental aspects of human thought: they are frozen, […]

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We’re in the Groupon Era of AI.

We’re in the Groupon Era of AI. Remember when Groupon exploded with a new business model spurring on countless competitors (including in China)? Tom Tunguz writes that AI feels eerily similar right now. The rapid adoption of AI mirrors Groupon’s […]

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Hacking AI is too easy.

Hacking AI is too easy. “Can you hack AI? In this video I sit down with elite AI hacker Jason Haddix to unpack how attackers compromise AI-enabled apps—not just jailbreak chatbots, but exfiltrate customer data, abuse tool calls, and pivot […]

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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet. “There’s this moment in every new technology where everyone pretends they know what they’re doing. We’re past that moment. Or maybe we haven’t reached it yet. Either way, we’re in this delicious […]

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How Discord stores trillions of messages.

How Discord stores trillions of messages. In 2017 they published a technical post about how they stored billions. Here’s the follow-up: “We wanted a database that grew alongside us, but hopefully, its maintenance needs wouldn’t grow alongside our storage needs. […]

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The largest arbitrage in technology.

The largest arbitrage in technology. The case for the AI-enabled rollup. “The reason it remains attractive boils down to one thing – AI capabilities currently far outstrip market distribution. As long as that fact remains true, there is an arbitrage […]

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Advice and lessons for healthcare founders.

Advice and lessons for healthcare founders. I’d say this is applicable to other industries as well. “Almost Everything You See Online is Wrong or Embellished … Just remember that anything that anyone posts online is a form of marketing. I […]

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Software is changing (again).

Software is changing (again). “Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej [Karpathy] sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where natural language becomes the new programming interface and models […]