Comment by ares623
19 days ago
I was about to say the same thing! Yet another blog post with heaps of navel gazing and zero to actually show for it.
The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them.
And $1000/day/engineer in token costs at current market rates? It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
But we all know what they're going for here. They want to make themselves look amazing to convince the boards of the Great Houses to acquire them. Because why else would investors invest in them and not in the Great Houses directly.
The "social engineering" is that I was invited to a demo back in October and thought it was really interesting.
(Two people who's opinions I respect said "yeah you really should accept that invitation" otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone.)
I've been looking forward to being able to write more details about what they're doing ever since.
Justin never invites me in when he brings the cool folks in! Dang it...
I will look forward to that blog post then, hopefully it has more details than this one.
EDIT nvm just saw your other comment.
Is this the black box folks you mentioned?
It's the dark factory people, yeah: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117#46801848
You don't see why a company would gain to invite bloggers that will happily write positively about them? Talk about a conflict of interest, the FTC should ban companies from doing this.
Someone call the FTC! John Gruber has gone to a private event hosted by Apple. In fact, he's done it more than once! The scoundrel must be locked up.
Are you saying that because I have a blog I should be banned from going to meetings or demos of anything, for any reason?
This reads like a total joke.
I think this comment is slightly unfair :(
We’ve been working on this since July, and we shared the techniques and principles that have been working for us because we thought others might find them useful. We’ve also open-sourced the nlspec so people can build their own versions of the software factory.
We’re not selling a product or service here. This also isn’t about positioning for an acquisition: we’ve already been in a definitive agreement to be acquired since last month.
It’s completely fair to have opinions and to not like what we’re putting out, but your comment reads as snarky without adding anything to the conversation.
Can you link to nlspec? It is not easy to find with a search.
That's in this repo: https://github.com/strongdm/attractor
https://github.com/strongdm/attractor
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Why will you be destitute? Consider this: how do billionaires make most of their money?
I’ll answer you: people buy their stuff.
What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff.
Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer.
There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
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> The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them.
Lol. Any time I see something ai related endorsed by simonw, I tend to view it as mostly hype, and I have been right so far.
Can you give an example? His writing seems pretty grounded to me. He's not out there going on podcasts claimed that LLMs are going to cure cancer, afaik.