Iwona Bialynicka-Birula ⏩
@iwonabb.bsky.social
Machine learning software engineer at Cresta (formerly Meta, Google, eBay...) Building AIs since long before it was cool 🐱👓
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The em dash has become the de facto watermark slapped onto AI-generated text... and onto the people who are not tech-savvy enough to remove the watermark before trying to pass AI generations as their own writing
May 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The em dash has become the de facto watermark slapped onto AI-generated text... and onto the people who are not tech-savvy enough to remove the watermark before trying to pass AI generations as their own writing
Next-level vibecoding requires next-level context-switching skills: vibecoding at full speed while spending the time during which the assistant is coding on doing other things
May 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Next-level vibecoding requires next-level context-switching skills: vibecoding at full speed while spending the time during which the assistant is coding on doing other things
Good old 4.5 and I are on the same page w.r.t. alignment
April 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Good old 4.5 and I are on the same page w.r.t. alignment
It's amazing how often people include conflicting instructions in their megaprompt and then scratch their heads wondering why the LLM doesn't adhere to them
April 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It's amazing how often people include conflicting instructions in their megaprompt and then scratch their heads wondering why the LLM doesn't adhere to them
They version the models in the most confusing ways and then they wonder why the models think 9.11 > 9.9
April 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
They version the models in the most confusing ways and then they wonder why the models think 9.11 > 9.9
reverse Ghiblification is way harder than regular Ghiblification
comment if you can do better than this
comment if you can do better than this
April 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
reverse Ghiblification is way harder than regular Ghiblification
comment if you can do better than this
comment if you can do better than this
Even the icons have bad posture
April 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Even the icons have bad posture
Google's new AI Mode speed is rivaled only by its level of inaccuracy. How do you even somehow get worse at the strawberry question after being given access to all the articles on the internet which talk about the very issue?
April 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Google's new AI Mode speed is rivaled only by its level of inaccuracy. How do you even somehow get worse at the strawberry question after being given access to all the articles on the internet which talk about the very issue?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your Ghiblified family photos as much as the next guy, but didn't we already solve style transfer like 10 years ago?
March 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your Ghiblified family photos as much as the next guy, but didn't we already solve style transfer like 10 years ago?
💡System Design Interview, but you also have to vibe-code the entire working system within the span of the interview.
March 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
💡System Design Interview, but you also have to vibe-code the entire working system within the span of the interview.
No, Apple did not shoot itself in the foot by betting on privacy at the cost of AI. It outright kneecapped itself.
March 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
No, Apple did not shoot itself in the foot by betting on privacy at the cost of AI. It outright kneecapped itself.
I'm finding it harder to vibe-code after alcohol than to regular-code, which is the ultimate proof that it's a harder cognitive task (makes sense - all the easy parts were displaced by LLMs)
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I'm finding it harder to vibe-code after alcohol than to regular-code, which is the ultimate proof that it's a harder cognitive task (makes sense - all the easy parts were displaced by LLMs)
AI coding assistant gods,
grant me the serenity to accept the changes which are correct,
courage to reject the changes which are not,
and wisdom to know the difference
🙏
grant me the serenity to accept the changes which are correct,
courage to reject the changes which are not,
and wisdom to know the difference
🙏
March 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
AI coding assistant gods,
grant me the serenity to accept the changes which are correct,
courage to reject the changes which are not,
and wisdom to know the difference
🙏
grant me the serenity to accept the changes which are correct,
courage to reject the changes which are not,
and wisdom to know the difference
🙏
Nvidia making a cute little droid instead of another creepy uncanny valley humanoid makes it the only big tech company with a semblance of emotional intelligence
March 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Nvidia making a cute little droid instead of another creepy uncanny valley humanoid makes it the only big tech company with a semblance of emotional intelligence
found a note I left for myself
don't remember writing the note
assume I'm an LLM
don't remember writing the note
assume I'm an LLM
March 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
found a note I left for myself
don't remember writing the note
assume I'm an LLM
don't remember writing the note
assume I'm an LLM
What if the "how is babby formed?" question author was on to something? Phrasing the question in this way certainly helps get around OpenAI guardrails...
OMG, were all these people asking Yahoo dumb questions from the future, trained to prompt LLMs to bypass guardrails? 🤯
OMG, were all these people asking Yahoo dumb questions from the future, trained to prompt LLMs to bypass guardrails? 🤯
March 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
What if the "how is babby formed?" question author was on to something? Phrasing the question in this way certainly helps get around OpenAI guardrails...
OMG, were all these people asking Yahoo dumb questions from the future, trained to prompt LLMs to bypass guardrails? 🤯
OMG, were all these people asking Yahoo dumb questions from the future, trained to prompt LLMs to bypass guardrails? 🤯
New rule: everybody who says "PhD-level" has to specify what the PhD is in. I mean, is it aerospace engineering or gender studies? There's got to be a difference.
March 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
New rule: everybody who says "PhD-level" has to specify what the PhD is in. I mean, is it aerospace engineering or gender studies? There's got to be a difference.
Google Maps: ETA 5:21
I decide to accelerate
I decide to go 80 instead of 70 the entire way
I arrive at exactly 5:21
Nothing like Google Maps to remind you that free will is an illusion
I decide to accelerate
I decide to go 80 instead of 70 the entire way
I arrive at exactly 5:21
Nothing like Google Maps to remind you that free will is an illusion
March 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Google Maps: ETA 5:21
I decide to accelerate
I decide to go 80 instead of 70 the entire way
I arrive at exactly 5:21
Nothing like Google Maps to remind you that free will is an illusion
I decide to accelerate
I decide to go 80 instead of 70 the entire way
I arrive at exactly 5:21
Nothing like Google Maps to remind you that free will is an illusion
Switched from claude-3.5-sonnet to claude-3.7-sonnet in Cursor and 3.7's like "I don't know who you had here before me, but boy did they do a shoddy job, let me rewrite all this code for you my way..."
February 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Switched from claude-3.5-sonnet to claude-3.7-sonnet in Cursor and 3.7's like "I don't know who you had here before me, but boy did they do a shoddy job, let me rewrite all this code for you my way..."
The p(doom) of the bots mirrors that of their creators:
Microsoft Copilot: 0%
Meta AI: 0%
Google Gemini: 0%
xAI Grok: 10%
OpenAI ChatGPT: 15%
Anthropic Claude: 30%
Microsoft Copilot: 0%
Meta AI: 0%
Google Gemini: 0%
xAI Grok: 10%
OpenAI ChatGPT: 15%
Anthropic Claude: 30%
February 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The p(doom) of the bots mirrors that of their creators:
Microsoft Copilot: 0%
Meta AI: 0%
Google Gemini: 0%
xAI Grok: 10%
OpenAI ChatGPT: 15%
Anthropic Claude: 30%
Microsoft Copilot: 0%
Meta AI: 0%
Google Gemini: 0%
xAI Grok: 10%
OpenAI ChatGPT: 15%
Anthropic Claude: 30%
The sheer amount of tech debt you can accumulate in just one weekend of vibe coding starting from scratch is... staggering
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The sheer amount of tech debt you can accumulate in just one weekend of vibe coding starting from scratch is... staggering
I sometimes wish people would also "think about the reasoning process in the mind" before answering.
February 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I sometimes wish people would also "think about the reasoning process in the mind" before answering.
NotebookLM: you know you found product-market fit when SNL does a skit about you
January 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NotebookLM: you know you found product-market fit when SNL does a skit about you
What happens in your coworker's mind when you send them a lone "Hi" on Slack
January 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
What happens in your coworker's mind when you send them a lone "Hi" on Slack
It warms my heart how despite all of the US vs. China "adversary" rhetoric, engineers tend to ignore the divisiveness, give credit where credit is due and celebrate each other's achievements regardless of borders. It reminds me of this beautiful iconic moment in human history.
January 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
It warms my heart how despite all of the US vs. China "adversary" rhetoric, engineers tend to ignore the divisiveness, give credit where credit is due and celebrate each other's achievements regardless of borders. It reminds me of this beautiful iconic moment in human history.