David Budden
@davidmbudden
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Founder + CEO of PingYou
United Kingdom
Joined December 2014
I just realised V says "this vichyssoise of *verbiage* veers most *verbose*" and now I'm questioning everything I ever found impressive
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They earned their 1.5M for how hard I laughed at this thread.
this screenshot from GPT-5 livestream has to be among the worst chart crimes of the century
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I can't be the only one to have noticed that Cursor gets objectively better as you get more verbally abusive
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I really want to meet the SWE that vibe coders' output is being measured against.
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I really wish the people in our community who self-nominate as arbitrators of social justice had one-tenth the common sense as hubris
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Anyone who pokes fun at people saying "please" when querying an LLM clearly does not appreciate how next-token prediction works
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I still struggle to comprehend that I live in the timeline where Holiday Special *and* the Ewok films exist. Why is there a horse?!
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Credit where due. https://t.co/KcK3xK9HFz is life changing.
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Look I am far from an Elon fanboy, but this nonsense is like calling Usain Bolt a failure for running a 9.7
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$1 per 1000 pages. Just need to OCR every token on the Internet 10 times each to break-even on investment. Let's go!
Introducing the world's best OCR model! https://t.co/Mi04wgj6cM
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Congratulations Anthropic for being priced at three Ilyas.
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Before someone asks "why do you copy so much shit" I really don't that was 1-2 attempts
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It's great AI can reverse engineer the source code for Doom 3 or whatever but could someone please solve the UX for mobile select-copy? I must spend 15-30 mins / wk pushing my thumb so hard into the screen that I've alpha-tunneled half my inbox to the shadow realm.
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What are they all running for, it's not like the brother is going to wake up and flee
In 2016, when Pokémon Go was launched and a Snorlax was found, the result was a massive traffic jam in Taiwan.
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It's all just "creating value". As you spend more time in an org, it's often inevitable that you can create more value by steering and supporting (many) others rather than hands-on building. But if your technical knowledge becomes stale, it's impossible to do either effectively.
Something I've observed in academia but I suspect is true in industry as well: as you become more senior, you'll find that you can be much more productive if you spend all your time being a manager and letting junior people do all the real work. But after a few years of this,
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At risk of stating the obvious, this strikes me as a rather irresponsible use case to amplify. Especially given the state of US healthcare and how desperate many families are to avoid the medical fees associated with a proper diagnosis for their children
Grok can diagnose medical injuries
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There’s cities, there’s metropolises, and then there’s Tokyo.
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Best (and cutest) example of few-shot learning I've seen in a while
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I've never regretted understanding counterfactuals
I've never regretted: - Ending a meeting early - Saying no to a "quick call" - Taking Friday afternoons off - Blocking my calendar for lunch - Making time for a mid-day workout Protect your time like it's your most valuable asset because it is.
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