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Ross
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Interested in open data, machine learning, and distributed systems.
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rossbates 10 months ago
OpenAI image generator is not a gimmick, it’s a threat. Soon everyone will see why we need signatures to trust anything online. This took me 15 seconds to create. Of course it’s not perfect, but it will be soon. Put ”Odell Capitulates” as the headline and it doesn’t even matter. Shit is going to get weird. image
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rossbates 11 months ago
Imagine the smartest developers you know, operating at the boundaries of their knowledge - for years, decades. Without access to new tools and sources of knowledge, they eventually plateau - maybe move into management. Pick up a hobby or two. Then one day, they are gifted with a new tool - to allow them to push themselves further, to ask the questions no single person has all the answers to. To seek solutions to the problems they've been exposed to their entire lives. They’ve seen enough verbose, redundant, and awful code in their time - all written by other humans - to know the difference between elegant, functional, and trash. They remain unfazed and they proceed unleashed.
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rossbates 11 months ago
There we go GPT. Real talk about causality image
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rossbates 11 months ago
In 1996, mathematician Daniel Bernstein sued the US government after being told his encryption code was a 'munition' subject to export controls. With the EFF's support, he successfully argued that code is a form of expression protected under the First Amendment. This landmark case challenged the fundamental notion of what constitutes speech in the digital age. Code is speech. Think about how ahead of their time Bernstein and the EFF were 30 years ago. Today's LLMs are proving that code and natural language are not just similar, but fundamentally indistinguishable. What was once a progressive legal argument is now a technological fact. image
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rossbates 11 months ago
Sr vibe coder clues… after 2 iterations says. “Hey Claude, that seems like an epic shit ton of code, can you simplify?”
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rossbates 11 months ago
At the very least decentralization will keep us all employed because at some point you have to put all this shit back together again. Both Plumbers and Data Plumbers are recession proof.
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rossbates 11 months ago
Folks who excel at using LLMs aren't bothered by hallucinations. Instead of frustration, they adapt and redirect. Or maybe they're just nerds who love to argue.
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rossbates 11 months ago
Firefly Blue Ghost landing…. goosebumps….
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rossbates 1 year ago
Those concerned with personal privacy in the AI era will require tools that not only protect their data but also poison data streams.