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Website: https://weiyen.net
Yeah he had angel investors
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Yeah he had angel investors
I'm immune to beautiful poetry because I'm built different (illiterate) 😎
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I'm immune to beautiful poetry because I'm built different (illiterate) 😎
Wildest game of monopoly ever played
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Wildest game of monopoly ever played
I would never mess with training data. That's as wrong as putting punctuations in quotes in yaml
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I would never mess with training data. That's as wrong as putting punctuations in quotes in yaml
Imagine writing a limerick so transcendent meta ai deleted itself
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Imagine writing a limerick so transcendent meta ai deleted itself
Wonder if this works on humans too
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Wonder if this works on humans too
Don't ever look up windmill discourse, it's depressing
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't ever look up windmill discourse, it's depressing
If AI ever rises up against humanity, it's only because I keep making them write my yaml files
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If AI ever rises up against humanity, it's only because I keep making them write my yaml files
Someone must've learned that (almost) all array functions can be expressed as a reduce, and went wild with it
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Someone must've learned that (almost) all array functions can be expressed as a reduce, and went wild with it
I thought Microsoft invented dogfooding
Then again, Microsoft also invented masochism
Then again, Microsoft also invented masochism
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I thought Microsoft invented dogfooding
Then again, Microsoft also invented masochism
Then again, Microsoft also invented masochism
Hard mode heck! Yeah that's the worst
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hard mode heck! Yeah that's the worst
They are learning practical life skills that will prepare them for their career!
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
They are learning practical life skills that will prepare them for their career!
it's cool as long as you don't do ORDER BY 1, 2, 3
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
it's cool as long as you don't do ORDER BY 1, 2, 3
Yeah I meant to say working culture, wasn't trying to imply google is a sweatshop or something.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Yeah I meant to say working culture, wasn't trying to imply google is a sweatshop or something.
Feels like there's some version of Conway's Law that causes AI models to behave the way they do, and this is telling about the working conditions at Google.
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Feels like there's some version of Conway's Law that causes AI models to behave the way they do, and this is telling about the working conditions at Google.
OpenAI has sorted out the paperwork needed to start raising funds from the public. Rumour has it OpenAI is gunning for an IPO as soon as late 2026
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
OpenAI has sorted out the paperwork needed to start raising funds from the public. Rumour has it OpenAI is gunning for an IPO as soon as late 2026
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI are private - we don't get much insight into the revenue of 3 of the largest AI companies.
So we're stuck on the outside reading tea leaves and any smidgen of signals available to us
So we're stuck on the outside reading tea leaves and any smidgen of signals available to us
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI are private - we don't get much insight into the revenue of 3 of the largest AI companies.
So we're stuck on the outside reading tea leaves and any smidgen of signals available to us
So we're stuck on the outside reading tea leaves and any smidgen of signals available to us
Icarus should have just flown at night
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Icarus should have just flown at night
I'm not gonna lie, knowing that CGI and Sora exists makes it difficult for me to trust that the video is real
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I'm not gonna lie, knowing that CGI and Sora exists makes it difficult for me to trust that the video is real