based in Arlington, VA, is primarily funded by high-profile venture capital firms, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which led their Series B, A Capital, Costanoa Ventures, ex/ante, Point72 Ventures, and XYZ Ventures.*
Arlington, VA ... is an interesting location that aligns with your guess. A similar situation happened some time ago with a drug cartel that thought they built their own private phones and phone network. I am not saying it's related, just feels similar.
doesn't your precious stash deserve an external folder or remote branch, in any case? the local repo is always a risk, so many things can ruin it.
also, you only need to clean up like once a year, it's by definition a rare operation. A ton of branches doesn't grow overnight.
It's pretty good at building TUIs. Although it's not bad at Swift/macOS either. But really I think the problem is that we don't have a great solution right now for cross platform native UIs that isn't a WebView (or entire Chrome browser), which doesn't feel very native. But every platform has a pretty good terminal now, even Windows.
Recently I asked Claude to build a communication tool and TUI was its first proposal. When I had a similar request with ChatGPT previously, it proposed node.js, I assume because there are more examples in its training data.
The pairing of Claude and TUI doesn't seem like a coincidence to me, perhaps there are fewer moving parts that are easy to coordinate?
A few of these, likely openai and anthropic, will IPO, and the early stage investors will get their cash back then. Others will crash, maybe also openai and anthropic. Other investors in smaller firms may get cash back when the companies are swallowed up by Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, etc., when the Great and Inevitable Consolidation occurs. I think short term there's a ton of money to be made by investing in these companies. In the long run I don't see how they survive, since nobody in the big leagues has a real technological advantage over anybody else so stiff competition will keep prices low. Even if they cartelize, a startup could beat them on price since there's not much preventing anyone with enough capital from building their own "frontier" models now, except GPU shortages... Talent of course, but there's plenty of smart people out there who would take a big paycheck to do it.
SEC rules apply to private investment for the same reason they do to public investment: the world is full of scammers. In any case, you usually can't invest in a private company without being a "qualified" investor (already rich)
they pay very little tax and most of the cash is going into datacenters and electricity which provide very little long term employment. llms can do some amazing things but at the same time they’re setting mountains of cash on fire to nudify random women on twitter and generate more spam than we could’ve ever imagined possible
After they showed up a year or two ago, I never saw a single person use them in the checkout line. Bad vibes, giving my biometrics to Amazon, and I think that's how most people felt
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