Laith
@laithaustin
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building models for space @constspace (YC w26) 📡 | formerly @utexas
Joined November 2021
Very much my experience tbh
Ok, I think my experiment leaving AI working on stuff 24/7 ends here. It doesn't work. Code explodes in complexity, results are not that great, the AI can't get past hard walls (it is still completely unable to even *grasp* SupGen), and it is insanely expensive (spent ~1k over
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fwiw, I’ve been enjoying a mix of tmux + neovim + opencode. Feels like the right blend of operating out of the terminal and still having the ability to code/review with the agents.
I’m curious what the optimal AI + human in the loop coding environment is. There seems to be a gradient between coding from scratch on Vim to just running Claude Code and letting it vibe its way to completion. Do most people just use Cursor/Windsurf?
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Fundamentally, what really is the difference between an RLM and S={context folding, Codex, Claude Code, Terminus, agents, etc.}? This is the last and most important RLM post I'll make for a while to finally answer all the "this is trivially obvious" from HackerNews, Reddit, X,
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Constellation (@constspace) predicts satellite network failures before they happen and automatically reroutes traffic in seconds—no human intervention, no data loss. Congrats on the launch @kamranmajid11, @raaidkabir, @laithaustin, @omeedtehrani! https://t.co/HKs6ixtuk3
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“A compiler did the work, but I vouch for the result.” With increasingly better LLMs, the above statement seems likely to become equivalent over time.
We need a shorthand way of saying: "An AI did the work, but I vouch for the result" Saying "I did it" feels slightly sketchy, but saying "Claude did it" feels like avoiding responsibility
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I’m curious what the optimal AI + human in the loop coding environment is. There seems to be a gradient between coding from scratch on Vim to just running Claude Code and letting it vibe its way to completion. Do most people just use Cursor/Windsurf?
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Incredibly refreshing to have people like @clattner_llvm working on the lower parts of the inference stack, despite the seemingly homogeneous reliance on NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA. One day, we may see an end-to-end SOTA LLM trained and served on an AMD GPU cluster in the coming years,
Hot take🔥: is it possible we are in an "AI winter"? ❄️☃️ AI continues to touch our lives, enabling new products and fun demos as well. There is innovation everywhere including new applications, research, infrastructure, and hardware. I love this how fast AI moves🚀... but 👇
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We didn’t win the @xAI hackathon this weekend - but we built something we’re really proud of for the @Grokipedia track. It started from a personal moment: my mom shared a viral video claiming Donald Trump was buying pastries from a Persian store, and it wasn’t real - but she had
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I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century". The "compressed 21st century" comes from Dario's "Machine of Loving Grace" and if you haven’t read it, you probably
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Dwarkesh’s episodes with Sarah Paine are some of the best educational and entertaining content out there. Massive cudos for bringing on such phenomenal guests @dwarkesh_sp
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Honestly for as much hate as they get, @OpenAI still has the best sense for what makes for a good ml product. Another killer feature on top of deep research, 4o image generation is actually such a nice add — big props
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Prediction: software development will closely resemble the evolution of self-driving cars. - Considered for many years intractable, now run of the mill for a large subset of rides (robotaxi), all mobility within sight. - The key metric to watch is disengagement rate (i.e.: how
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Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the
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The Batch AI News and Insights: Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
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Check out the new episode with @mattklein123! We dug into @bitdriftio and @EnvoyProxy! https://t.co/5RKRpF0uPf
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The application of knowledge is hard work. Reading a book or listening to a podcast feels like progress. The effort required is minimal, and that’s why it’s so seductive. You can finish a chapter or an episode and tell yourself you’ve done something worthwhile. But applying
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I'd like to live in a world where all countries & organizations, big or small, can train their own AI, instead of just a few of the richest & biggest ones. This is IMO one of the most important topics ever and will shape the future of the world. That's why I'm super proud when
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