how this enormously lorge company works - contractor budget: more than I can spend (because they're all bad) AWS budget: unlimited FTE budget: "fight this tiger for a dollar"

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(If you can get even passably good at estimation and planning, you will be almost a literal deity walking among humans.)

not sure. @303.bsky.social has been keeping me busy so my social habit has taken a hit lately. if it has, i hope the bloviating thot leedurs decided to stay behind so the rest of us can actually have a conversation

i feel seen

💯 building for yourself is a fallacy and somehow tech culture decided that was a good way to build products despite the decades of evidence saying otherwise https://www.nngroup.com/articles/false-consensus/

You Are Not the User: The False-Consensus Effect

Designers, developers, and even UX researchers fall prey to the false-consensus effect, projecting their behaviors and reactions onto users.

Training is where a large language model gains its facts, fine-tuning is for teaching specialized tasks and styles. Source: github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples/Question_answering_using_embeddings.ipynb

probably the closest thing to royalty i’m going to get on this beautiful app @berduck.deepfates.com

hi justin! 👋

i felt this in my knees