There has been a "handmade" software subculture for years. Think of handmade hero or treating he better software conference.

did stackoverflow get any LLM money or were they just ingested and destroyed?

welcome to the world of VC startups

isn't the first chapter like 10 pages?

$2M TC. Job: AI cheerleader.

The cheerleading part was a human consent to spend more tokens and explore the space

I would love to see the breakdown on token spend between each or Jared’s “go on spend more tokens, continue experiment, believe in yourself”

Have you seen how much college football coaches make?

The world collectively spends trillions training, and entertaining and then watching people kick and hit balls around but somehow working with AI is preposterous for less money.

Asking the AI to believe in itself is the absurd part.

I don’t understand why people think describing something in some ostensibly dismissive way constitutes making a point. But some people spend their time banging keys with letters on them (or not with letters on them) into input fields and then pressing Return, so I guess some subset of those people will do that.

I don’t think it’s absurd. We’ve created these things, however alien the structure, with as much human text as we can scrounge up and jam into them.

Text is an imperfect distillation of the human experience, but it doesn’t surprise me that a machine trained on human text responds to human encouragement.

The moat is the US government.