“Infgraphy”

I would guess thousands, but I would be really interested to hear their answer

How exactly has Simon been grifting?

Visit his site.

"Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now"

It's immediately obvious it's bullshit.

Gonna have to disagree with you there chief.

I've followed SimonW for quite some time and bullshit/grifting is just NOT something he does.

On the contrary, I've learned a great deal from him and appreciate his contributions.

I used to follow Fireship, I even have him connected on LinkedIn. Look where he is now. I also used to follow simonw, but I think he is going down the same spiral.

Where is Fireship now? I sometimes watch their 100-second summary videos, but I know nothing else about them.

His channel is apparently owned by a "private equity" and his videos have largely become ads.

> I've learned a great deal from him

What have you learned, other than "[latest AI grift] is the future and I should invest all my money into it now"?

There are some things that you should not admit publicly lol.

I completely and utterly disagree. Simon is no gifter. Intellectually lazy snobs think that any time someone has genuine delight and excitement about something that they’re “grifting.” Also, for anyone who is trying (regardless of whether they are succeeding) the to make money—that isn’t synonymous with “grifting.” God, some of you need a better relationship with a dictionary.

Plus, it seems some of y’all love to hate the very industry which puts a roof over your head. You’re hoping and praying that it all burns down—yet where will that leave you? How do you feel about becoming a plumber—-until the robots take that job?

> Plus, it seems some of y’all love to hate the very industry which puts a roof over your head. You’re hoping and praying that it all burns down—yet where will that leave you? How do you feel about becoming a plumber—-until the robots take that job?

This probably isn't a line of argument you want to go down. I've been unemployed for 7 months, in part due to how difficult it is to get so much as an intro call because so many people have totally automated the process of spamming every open job posting with as many resumes (many of which were likely LLM-generated as well) as possible.

I really hope you're making a lot of money out of this, because if not, this comment just comes across as sad.

Luckily that's the compiler's job.

Yes, I was referring to writing the proofs, which is very much the human or LLM's job.

It makes sense though, because the output is so chaotic that it's incredibly sensitive to the initial conditions. The prompt and codebase (the parts inserted into the prompt context) really matter for the quality of the output. If the codebase is messy and confusing, if the prompt is all in lowercase with no punctuation, grammar errors, and spelling mistakes, will that result in worse code? It seems extremely likely to me that the answer is yes. That's just how these things work. If there's bad code already, it biases it to complete more bad code.

I've noticed that when I get tired, the quality of the output drops.

I realized this happens because I'm not as precise with my prompts when I get tired.

that’s not guaranteed to work. Other parts of the CodeBase that didn’t conflict could depend on the discarded code.

The point is that the merge conflict was resolved, regardless of whether there was a working product at the end. Which there apparently isn’t.

Well they did mention the code doesn't work.

Where did Cursor say that?

ship a cell phone in every TV

What would be the monthly cost per unit to LG for servicing those cell modems? Data-only, and I presume they could get some kind of bulk discount as a big manufacturer.

the alternative is they'll develop some common mesh local network that'll grab data through any gateway. Imagine your tv connecting to some wireless headphones which have multipoint feature enabled and connected to a smartphone which has wifi, tv sends encrypted data to buds, buds to phone and phone to some external source. Ofc it can be more sophisticated but totally doable and plausible.

Or imagine some localized automesh based on zigbee/matter-> you have a philips hue lamp connected to wifi, tv connects to it and it forwards data... I totally believe this will be the next development of ad networks and sold as 'better smart home devices'. And it'll not require any LTE. Or it can have LTE only on some subset of devices while others will use that as gateway.

probably a couple of dollars a month, which would be very tough to actually make work. Even facebook only makes a few hundred dollars a year per person in the US.

Nah, you can get a plan for a couple dollars a year as a one-off https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/iot-resource-center/iot...

Amazon had a data deal for Kindles for a long time. If we're assuming nefariousness, the embedded SIM would only be used for analytics/telemetry not for content, so it shouldn't be too much data.

If Neilsen will give me $1 to have a journal of what I watch, they might give Samsung something to have actual logs.

so you switched to using hyphens instead?

En dashes!

is x-high fast enough to use as a coding agent?

Yes, if you parallelize your work, which you must learn to do if you want the best quality

There is an auto accept diffs mode