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New comment by shreezus in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

shreezus — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:58:49 +0000

I have personally witnessed AI capabilities that would be considered “impossible” by current public standards.

The next 2-3 years are going to be incredibly interesting.

New comment by shreezus in "iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype"

shreezus — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:29:56 +0000

AGI doesn’t need to be “solved” for humanoid robots to be valuable at scale. The role of teleoperation is often underestimated; in the near term, many humanoids will likely be operated remotely by people halfway across the world, performing deliveries and other tasks cheaply.

New comment by shreezus in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

shreezus — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:16:42 +0000

This is a real risk. I know of someone who got phished with a fake number for Apple Support (the fake number was promoted and appeared at the top of the search results). Apparently they do this with banking phone numbers as well.

New comment by shreezus in "Why Paying for Spotify Mostly Pays Taylor Swift"

shreezus — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:18:14 +0000

Spotify needs to embrace a user-centric payment model (where a portion of your subscription fee goes directly toward artists you listen to the most) rather than the current “pooled” system which massively favors large artists.

YouTube, for instance splits 55% of its YouTube Premium subscription revenue with creators, who get paid based on their share of watch time. Your YouTube Premium fee is distributed to the creators you view the most.

New comment by shreezus in "HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA"

shreezus — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:24:33 +0000

University research grants that have the word "mRNA" present are currently being flagged and frozen, even though mRNA technology has been used for things like cancer vaccine research for years. Politicizing a technology is incredibly absurd and will have long-term repercussions on science & medicine.

I know of a professor at one university that had grants frozen due to being flagged as "woke" gender discourse. His lab researches...(wait for it)... immunotherapy treatments for breast cancer in women.

New comment by shreezus in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

shreezus — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:56:39 +0000

There are a lot of "interesting" emergent behaviors that happen just a result of scaling.

Kind of like how a single neuron doesn't do much, but connect 100 billion of them and well...

New comment by shreezus in "Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash"

shreezus — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:41:50 +0000

I own a Tesla, and here's my take on the biggest software issue:

Normal consumers don't understand the difference between "Autopilot" and "FSD".

FSD will stop at intersections/lights etc - Autopilot is basically just cruise control and should generally only be used on highways.

They're activated in the same manner (FSD replaces Autopilot if you pay for the upgrade or $99/month subscription), and again for "normal" consumers it's not always entirely clear.

A friend of mine rented a Tesla recently and was in for a surprise when the vehicle did not automatically stop at intersections on Autopilot. He said the previous one he rented had FSD enabled, and he didn't understand the difference.

IMO Tesla just needs to phase out 2019 AP entirely and just give everyone some version of FSD (even if it's limited), or geofence AP to highways only.

New comment by shreezus in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

shreezus — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:40:47 +0000

I wonder if this is related to the capacity/uptime issues Anthropic has had lately. I got quite a lot of errors last week!

Hopefully they sort it out and increase limits soon. Claude Code has been a game-changer for me and has quickly become a staple of my daily workflows.

New comment by shreezus in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

shreezus — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:49:48 +0000

LinkedIn is probably the worst culprit. It has always been a wasteland of “corporate/professional slop”, except now the interface deliberately suggests AI-generated responses to posts. I genuinely cannot think of a worse “social network” than that hell hole.

“Very insightful! Truly a masterclass in turning everyday professional rituals into transformative personal branding opportunities. Your ability to synergize authenticity, thought leadership, and self-congratulation is unparalleled.”

New comment by shreezus in "Continuous Glucose Monitoring"

shreezus — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:46:10 +0000

I believe we will see integrated optical glucose sensors in a popular consumer wearable fairly soon.

I don't think they'll be as accurate as blood sensors, however they will be a game-changer for many people (pre-diabetics, or gestational diabetes etc).

New comment by shreezus in "Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC"

shreezus — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:02:58 +0000

As someone who has been at a company where for various reasons, we decided to "roll our own auth", I would have to disagree here. Don't reinvent the wheel if you can avoid doing so.

New comment by shreezus in "Tesla Robotaxi Videos Show Speeding, Driving into Wrong Lane"

shreezus — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:52:40 +0000

I mostly agree with you. I use both FSD on my Tesla & Waymo regularly (LA region), and Waymo just feels way safer in comparison. While FSD has improved significantly the last few iterations, I have seen it do "strange" things often enough that I don't feel safe just sitting in the backseat like I would with a Waymo.

Even if it's hypothetically 99% as good as Waymo at the moment, 99% is not good "enough" when it comes to something as critical as driving.

New comment by shreezus in "Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot"

shreezus — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:31:37 +0000

Agreed - I disabled all non-essential notifications (I don't need Slack pinging my wrist) and have found my watch actually helps me ditch the phone more easily.

I'm still "reachable", but the watch UX is annoying enough that I won't find myself scrolling X etc on it.

New comment by shreezus in "Gemini Diffusion"

shreezus — Thu, 22 May 2025 04:45:08 +0000

Is anyone else totally blown away by this? I feel like it’s easily the biggest announcement out of IO, however it’s been overshadowed by Veo 3 etc.

Diffusion models for code generation are a big deal. If they are using transformers this would likely fall into the DiT bucket (diffusion transformers). I had previously worked on use cases that leveraged U-Net diffusion several years ago and there was quite a bit of interest in hybrid models. I expect to see further leaps in the diffusion space in the near future.

New comment by shreezus in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

shreezus — Sun, 18 May 2025 21:54:54 +0000

Exactly - I have tinkered with all sorts of systems (including Obsidian), and ultimately prefer the simplicity of Apple Notes. I have a system of nested folders and tags that handles my organization needs pretty well, and I find added complexity just ends up adding more friction to the note-taking process. Apple Notes search could certainly use improvement though.

New comment by shreezus in "Coffee for people who don't like coffee"

shreezus — Wed, 14 May 2025 03:57:59 +0000

I have recently been impressed by the quality of Mexican coffee (currently drinking one grown in Chiapas). Medium roasts tend to play nicely with beans from this region.

New comment by shreezus in "New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer"

shreezus — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:48:57 +0000

It's a bit further than that, the service area now extends to DTLA / Arts District and south toward Inglewood (likely to support LAX soon).

New comment by shreezus in "NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages"

shreezus — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:23:26 +0000

It's one of those things that's impressive initially, but after generating a couple it feels quite formulaic.

New comment by shreezus in "Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment"

shreezus — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:09:19 +0000

This is only a problem for non-Teslas or vehicles that can't utilize the Tesla supercharger network.

I don't think I have ever plugged into a supercharger more than 10/15 minutes.

New comment by shreezus in "Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment"

shreezus — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:08:12 +0000

Up until recently (~2022/23) Toyota had cumulatively sold more hybrids than all EVs sold by all manufacturers combined, globally. They arguably have the best hybrid drivetrain on the market, and it's gotten to the point where even the Camry (2025 onwards) are exclusively offered as hybrids now.