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...u're building it is because before it works you don't know if it will work. The vast majority of things that could work, don't work. The more steps, the higher the risk, combinatorially. But once what you have is known to be valuable, then it ...
... hours of human labor to achieve before, we'll charge you 30% of that." But the vast majority of the value comes from the model, so the domain-specific wrapper on top can't charge for that value. If they did, a new entrant will pop up that cha...
...l curved manifold. Imagine all of the random images of a certain size–the vast, vast majority are just radio static, and the meaningful images are a tiny subset. So even if the dataset has 50,000 dimensions, the intrinsic dimension of the doma...
...n an era of AI. Lovable was "anyone can write software now!" but in the end the vast majority of people won't write their own software even in this era.
...be able to watch it. The "Appointment viewing" coveted by the industry. But the vast majority of shows didn't rise to that level, so they had to assume that most viewers had missed at least a handful of episodes. That meant that multi-episode ...
...the design phase, tell the agent to make no assumptions without confirming. The vast majority you'll say "yup" to… but each one you tweak makes the downstream code generation significantly better and prevents tons of wasted effort. This helps ...
...s crystallized outputs. Examples: code, law, scribe notes for medicine. But the vast majority of knowledge work doesn't have this kind of output.
...LLM replacement level." LLMs have already become much better engineers than the vast majority of us. The only way to stay above water is to learn new ways of working that take advantage of those new capabilities. It's like going to a selective...
...his is, after all, how computers and other mechanistic systems work. But in the vast majority of real systems, computation happens at all levels simultaneously, in constant, unextractable conversation with the others.
Means should be as invisible and low friction as possible. The vast majority of people don't want to think about the features of their software... they just want them to work. Software is a means to an end.
... I build software to address that problem?" PMs know a kind of parkour that the vast majority of the population will never know.
... code, is hard. Some people find it intrinsically enjoyable as a hobby, but the vast majority of people won't. Even in a world where the vast majority of software we use is created with AI, the vast majority of people will not be directly crea...
The vast, vast majority of code that exists in the world is junk code. We think about algorithmically interesting code as most code. But that's maybe 1% of code. Most of the...
The vast majority of consumer software in the past couple of decades has been algorithmically simple. We've explored every nook and cranny of that simple software land...
Fun science fact: the vast majority of a tree's mass comes from the air. Carbon Dioxide, not the soil.
The vast majority of software in the world is boring CRUD. LLM's automatic code writing is great for producing these CRUD-y apps. We're about to be inundated with slop...
Every idea that became inevitable started off wrong. Then again, the vast majority of wrong ideas never become inevitable.
...e broken down. Each tier gives you an order of magnitude better protection. The vast majority of the cloud is in tier 1 or 2 today Moving most computing to tier 3 would be a massive improvement. Tier 4 is overkill for most situations. Your fam...
...e to care. In the past, dealing with untrusted executable code was rare, so the vast majority of developers didn't need to be aware of it. LLMs make all text executable, which means that app developers now need to think like an OS developer......
...s is why the Bitter Lesson emerges. A few places this shows up: In the web, the vast majority of links on web pages were put there by humans asserting, "this other page is potentially worth visiting", which can then be distilled into PageRank....