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Vlad Iliescu
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LLMs/MLLs, software, dad jokes.
Then try reading my reply without assuming snark i guess? 🤷‍♂️
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
No one’s talking about cost of breathing and chips and camera costs and shit, but we do need to make a fair comparison.
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sometimes you need to have patience and not build up straw men in your head tho’.

The reasoning is simple, if you add the cost of producing something to the cost of using it, then training an llm is equivalent to producing a movie, and llm inference is equivalent to watching said movie.
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It’s an analogy, not a metaphor.
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
But then, to be fair, the Netflix consumption should also include the cost of shooting the movies b/c otherwise what would we even watch?
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
LosslessCut is great, I use it mostly for cutting videos without having to re-encode, but it apparently has some reasonable merging features as well (by opening a new folder and combining the output files)

github.com/mifi/lossles...
GitHub - mifi/lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing - mifi/lossless-cut
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Vlad Iliescu
"A surgeon isn't a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at."
October 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Vlad Iliescu
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Svelte didn’t catch on as much as React, while being nicer imo.
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Huh, interesting, so it should be default for all things dev except understanding what’s wrong with screenshots and whatnot.
September 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Not sure how much of a coincidence this is.
September 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Keep in mind that the negative user reports spiked on August 29.

Two days later on August 31 they announced their updated ToS, changing the default privacy settings to "use your chats and coding sessions to train and improve our AI models" and increasing the retention rate from 30 days to 5 years.
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Our own privacy practices also created challenges in investigating reports. [...]. This protects user privacy but prevents engineers from examining the problematic interactions needed to identify or reproduce bugs."
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM