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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 38m

I like it to shatter into a thousand pieces on every bite.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 11h

There were maybe two good moments in the whole movie, which isn't nothing, but it's not much.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 11h

In the bad ol' days, I watched a team rewrite a Perl codebase in Java. After a year of waiting, the CEO was surprised to find that it was missing a bunch of features and had no other perceivable benefit to him. They went back to the Perl codebase and feature development resumed.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12h

Most unbelievable scene in Disclosure Day wasn't the aliens. It was the: 1. Over the shoulder bread holder 2. Stealing a chunk of plain bread 3. Insufficient toasting 4. Dedicated butter dish 5. Butter dish stacked on bread Spielberg is an alien that doesn't understand toast.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 17h

If Google is still Google then "algorithms and datacenters" is definitely their game to lose. But maybe the brain drain and culture rot has gone too deep.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 18h

Exactly, so calling it a three horse race ahead of anyone even using it is being a silly goose.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 18h

Better benchmark: ask 10 experienced devs what they use

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 18h

Yeah, I'd imagine that felt somewhat like NASA and other government agencies.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 18h

From what I've seen, most <strongly methodological> projects turn into non-<strongly methodological> projects halfway through. Or they fail. At some point the productive devs on the team say "do you want me to do it your way or ship the damn software?" and then managers make the obvious choice.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 19h

Really enjoyed The Odyssey But surprised and a little disappointed to say that the Ralph Fiennes movie The Return did the final scene much better. www.imdb.com/title/tt1986...

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 19h

It's weird that Slack hasn't added support for ACP + diff viewer etc. So that using agents via Slack wasn't such a huge downgrade vs using them with a purpose-built interface. Slack is already fine for non-devs but I don't see how devs live with generating code, it would slow me down so much.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 20h

Yeah I believe you that people did it. NASA was doing something like waterfall in the 1960s from what I understand. But the Macintosh team wasn't doing waterfall in 1983.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 21h

I didn't start until 2002 but pretty sure it always a lot on depended on the company.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 21h

In practice most teams, from what I saw and know, would give up half way through and have some small number of devs save the project by bypassing all the formal processes. So yeah lots of people tried bad things that didn't work, full waterfall, full Agile, etc. None of it worked.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 21h

Software development improved and agile contributed to that, but so did rapid prototyping and cowboys and the rest. Everyone gave up on highly formal processes. What works is hiring great people and shipping incrementally. Software moving to the cloud had more to do with this than any methodology.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 23h

What? Agile did not speed up software development by 10x. With respect, that’s just a silly claim to make and there’s no data that supports it. People actually following Agile (which almost no one did) probably moved slower. Open source libraries sped things up but probably not even by 10x.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 30/09/2026

Yeah, that was a big one, so maybe?

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 30/09/2026

About Astra? Bigger models are just generally much better at avoiding prompt injection attacks for mostly same reasons they’re better at everything.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 30/09/2026

San Francisco Startup Rule #5823: you're not allowed to judge a person for ditching out on an important meeting if they're going to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm the day before it stops playing at The Metreon.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

I’m optimistic that some of this is true but it’d be extremely lucky if it was fully symmetric. If we experience any algorithm/architecture breakthroughs we could quickly end up with order of magnitude improvements, equivalent to building the hw 10-1000x faster. Will be exciting to find out.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

“What if we flip the b around?” Smart using Astra so that it’s resistant to prompt injection.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

Okay Jev had less than two months in the sun. I should’ve predicted weeks.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

I knew there was a reason I had an extra cup today, I just didn’t know why. Until now. Turns out I was celebrating.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

Compounding rules everything around me.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

Still, factory automation was one of maybe a dozen core technologies that made up the Industrial Revolution. AI sits on top of a bunch of technologies too but we’ve already built them. The industrial revolution was slowed down in ways, and to a degree, we can’t reasonably hope for with AI.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

If AI is as big as the Industrial Revolution that’s pretty scary The Industrial Revolution took hundreds of years to unfold, giving civilization time to adapt. AI will absolutely not take hundreds of years. We’re all just hoping it takes at least decades.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

Seems worth dwelling on the idea of comparing the Industrial Revolution to AI, a specific technology.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

Starting to think this guy isn't a reliable source of unbiased information.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

We've had unprecedented technologies before, but each was relatively narrow. AI has the potential to replace a much broader range of tasks across many jobs. So "never happened" just doesn't seem predictive in this case. And it doesn't have to happen all at once, just too fast for us to adapt to.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

Sure, but the relevant history is extremely short and there are strong arguments that AI is unprecedented. So far it's just "more computer" but it's moving quickly enough that we just can't be confident one way or the other.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 29/09/2026

I've passed it like a thousand times just because it looks like it's not a well run location. I'm sure it is fine like you say.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

Love that you're directly involved Filippo. Thanks!

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

This is great. PLC being centralized is a legit weakness in the Atmosphere's story and this goes a long way to mitigating it. I still want @dholms.at to be the PLC CEO, regardless of whether it makes any sense or not. We had a deal, kinda.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

"nothing more permanent than a temporary solution" personified as a Swiss legal entity

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

Jensen got into GPUs for the love of the game. Literally.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

You had me at "bagel"

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

What we have today is stuff we can deal with, however bad it might be. The entire AI x-risk concern is about truly superhuman AI that no human expert can deal with because it's much stronger, faster, and better than anyone. Merely being skeptical of progress doesn't answer the hard question.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

It's never perfect and still makes pronunciation mistakes, but it's reached a level of quality that makes it very useful. It's not as good as a human tutor in that way but the endless patience and ability to use it in the shower and in car makes it life-changing for me.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

FYI, ChatGPT Voice mode is finally good enough to tutor you in Japanese! (and probably other languages) I've tried every version since it was released and it didn't work well enough. It's still not perfect, but the endless patience and lack of embarrassment make it incredibly productive.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

Yeah, most people are talking shorter timelines than 50 years, but timelines for technology progress are notoriously difficult to estimate. Maybe it's 75 years, but maybe it's 5 or 15 years? It's just N breakthroughs away and no one knows, but we can be pretty sure it'll happen. So then what?

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

Aliens would almost certainly be so much more advanced it wouldn't be worth worrying about. Do you actually doubt that we can re-create the functionality of a human brain in a computer, within say 50 years?

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

I feel exactly the same way about the kind of LLM-based AI we have today. But the AI x-risk argument is about what happens when we have "real" AI that can actually think like humans but a million times faster. There are no real experts on this and yet it does seem worth worrying about in advance.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/09/2026

I'm not sure how valuable his ideas were, but we can't argue that they weren't influential. And yeah, definitely not comparing Darwin's discovery to Yudkowsky's ideas by any means.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 27/09/2026

There’s no amount of cope on my end. I use and enjoy this stuff all day long and know how powerful and flawed it is. I object on technical grounds to the misuse of words that mislead less technical people. If we had an “FDA for AI” they might rightly force companies to be very careful with words.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 27/09/2026

I remember now that I already complained about this a year ago and I suppose I should keep up the tradition going forward. I should have "Grok Bot" remind me 🫠

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