Catch-all post
Within the "what is the future of software engineering?" argument there is a "how much does one need to be a traditional software engineer to be productive w...
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
gwern.netA classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.
Build and Test Tools – Sam Thursfield
Posts about Build and Test Tools written by Sam Thursfield
AI #1: Sydney and Bing
Previous AI-related recent posts: Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day, Next Level Seinfeld, Escape Velocity From Bullshit Jobs, Movie Review: Megan, On AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities.
Agent Labs: Welcome to GPT Wrapper Summer
How great Agent Engineering and Research are combining in a new playbook for building high growth AI startups that doesn't involve training a SOTA LLM.
Why Big Tech Wants to Make AI Cost Nothing
LLMs are being commoditized
The Heuristic Entrepreneur
How to develop predictive models that outperform your competition.
Should I Close Source my Company? Replying to Supabase
I was reading Supabase's 'Should I Open Source my Company?', and wanted to add some nuance which might be useful for certain companies and industries.
Rambling about Microsoft, and testing alternatives to Github Copilot.
Content note - This is a bit more unstructured than my usual writing. Jump here if you only care about the model comparisons.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.