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  • That’s not what I said.

    I said it’s not any more AI than things in the 90’s were. I didn’t say we haven’t improved things since then.

    Neural networks and GPUs alone are huge improvements to the paradigm and design that allow for LLMs to exist.

    They’re still as far from real AI as the chatbots in the 90’s were.

    Again, they are a vast, vast improvement over those in ways that nobody in the 90’s could have ever predicted. Nobody even knew what a neural network was or how to make one back then (I mean, a few researchers were working on it, to be fair, but we didn’t have the hardware to do much than posture).

    We’re still light years away from real AI. LLMs do not bring us closer. They solve a different problem.


  • If you’ve tried to build chatbots before, you’ll quickly understand how impressive LLMs are.

    We essentially solved the problem of a chatbot sounding human and having reasonably intelligent things to say by throwing insane amounts of hardware at it. This wasn’t possible before now really.

    The algorithms are impressive, but still naive compared to what people believe AI really should be.

    This is not AI anymore than chatbots from the 90’s were.

    This is just the best chatbot from the 90’s we’ve made so far.



  • You just get more responsibility and are more liable for things. That’s pretty much it.

    You’re not an adult yet other than the legal definition.

    It’s going to take some time before you find yourself, but if you were artificially limited in pursuing that due to age restricted things (getting an apartment, signing a loan, etc.) then now you have the tools to go find yourself.

    But I’d hurry, not sure how much longer the world as we know it is going to last.







  • That makes sense, yeah. The one I had to do was for a frame that was basically built into a house that was made at some point in the 1950’s so there wasn’t any choice but to cut it and chisel it all out and measure and align everything manually…

    It did open and close pretty nice though.






  • Appreciated, but I’m not sure if that would be popular🙂

    People want to read books about how to “win” at capitalism, not how it utterly breaks you and everything you held dear over the course of your life.

    I doubt anyone would even be willing to publish it.

    I’d consider writing one if people were interested though. I’ve done it all at this point pretty much. Climbed up and down the ladder of tech and business two or three times over. I’ve spoken at huge tech conferences, worked for startups, enterprises, mid tier, tech, non-tech, etc. I’ve owned my own companies, built startups with friends, with foreign investors, and more.

    All it’s taught me is that I need to go live in the woods alone until death comes.


  • I’ve done this shit for decades. Decades.

    I’m exhausted. It’s tiring. I’ve been with startup after startup after startup.

    I’ve vested equity after equity into more equity.

    I’ve made $0 off that equity over nearly 3 decades.

    My health suffers because of the stress and strain of the jobs I’ve been forced to put my body through over the years and there’s no coming back from that.

    My mental health is at a constant tipping point during my every day of work and I wonder just how much longer I can even manage to put in “regular” hours before I just curl up into a ball and wait for the sweet embrace of death.

    I’ve lost decades of my life, thrown away in offices, cubicles, and shitty pizza party meetings to celebrate meaningless achievements that are wiped out in the next quarterly planning session.

    Brett Goldstein can go fuck himself with a sandpaper infused dildo.