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“Claude 3.5 through Cursor is what I use to assist me in programming.”
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“I dealt with you know I wrote this essay Machines of Loving Grace a and one of the key questions it asked I mean it was focused on what are all the positive applications of AI”
“maybe I want to maximize learning about a specific topic right so I want the algorithm to feed my curiosity right which is in itself a very interesting problem so instead of maximizing my engagement i…”
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“so people can go to perplexity Ai and run searches on the open web where you they get uh very good results”
“what do the big AI Labs not understand about companies themselves do you think I think that's such an important question I mean there is just the products being released are just super weird I think t…”
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“I would say nanochat is not an example of those because it's a fairly unique repository.”
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“if folks have looked at open router before like it was the most high token volume usage model like on on open router which again is like a reasonable proxy for model usage in some in some contexts”
“I really would encourage anyone that don't believe it is possible to Simply go to uh the GP GPT engineer uh and try it out you can get started in very you know few minutes”
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“The Gemma model is a new open-source LLM by Google. As far as benchmarks go, it should be the best available on the market.”
“GPT-5.4 is really good at spreadsheets; a few finance people have finally said things to me like "huh I guess this AI thing is real"”
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