James Yu
jamesyu.bsky.social
James Yu
@jamesyu.bsky.social
at the service of writers and artists / founder sudowrite / sci-fi writer / generative literature / founded parse (yc s11)
Have you ever thought you understood something and then it did something that you thought was impossible?
October 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One can be surprised by things you understand. I actually find that joyful.
October 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
is the set of people who you find credible have a zero intersect with those that are impressed with llms? the truth is likely in the middle, given how widely used (and rententive) these models are. there are things they are not good at, and there are things they are impressive at.
October 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
this exactly. every few months, there has been a leap where LLMs can do something previously thought impossible. just ask any coder that has seriously used LLMs - they have thoroughly exceeded many expectations on a daily basis
October 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
False. We have never trained on authors data without consent.
June 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
June 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I've corrected you on this many times already. We've never "harvested" fanfic. We use all the big models out there (GPT, etc) and when we do fine-tune our own models, it's using data with consent.
May 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This would be taken up case by case, as it always has been
February 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I believe this will happen soon. But it depends on what you mean by interesting?

We have some stuff in the works where for the first time, I’m seeing truly interesting (imo) short stories emerging. Which is quite a leap from 2 yrs ago. DM if you’re interested in seeing
January 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Was there election interference in 2020?
November 23, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Hey Paolo I’d love to chat with you about this. We aren’t striving to create the helicopter (and our writers aren’t using it like that). We think of it as a diverse set of vehicles for lateral thinking up the mountain, with as many twists and turns as non-AI assisted narrative writing
May 27, 2023 at 8:42 PM
Word Rotators ftw
May 5, 2023 at 4:22 PM
“Do you know Python?”

“I AM Python!!!!”
May 2, 2023 at 1:59 AM
First order of business: eradicate js developers
May 2, 2023 at 1:46 AM
And that typography 🥰
April 30, 2023 at 10:44 PM