Heist Movies Need CCTV to Work

Newsletter (Sundays)

idea for issue 42 – upstream pricing in the SaaS + LLM era:

• taylorism
• llms both increasing and decreasing value of knowledge work simultaneously
• a developer is not "working on a project", the project is being passed through the developer
  • these two things are different
  • the same problem can be solved in many ways by different devs
  • price your software as an empire
  • leverage code's abstraction and composability to "world build"
• technology is upstream of possibility
  • heist genre = magical realism of computers, phones, cameras
  • sci-fi genre = imaginable + unreachable rules
  • real world = all jobs are downstream of their purpose and the technologies they give affordance to

Software (Saturdays)

If the outputs are not provided before the expires_at timestamp passes (roughly 10 mins past creation), the run will move to an expired status.

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what can be done in ten minutes? what cant be done? nb: you can take "longer" than 10 minutes if you capture all the messages in thread, and simply create a new one. it comes down to what type of tasks are worth waiting a full youtube video are

embeddings do not suffer from scale they suffer from having fraternal twins

im all in on deliverable agents, bb

lets go forms! 2024!

<LEDA> isn't every website ever just a css'ed out form or pamphlet? if i move the pamphlet really fast, your brain might think its real, huh?

Books (5/month)

• Supergods - 77%
• Black Rednecks & White Liberals - 58%
• Command & Control - 23%
• At Home in the Universe - 36%
• Napoleon: A Life - 49% (+3%)
  • "...nobody would have believed possible such an emotion from this great man of war, however I saw them myself, these tears …"
  • napoleon x alexander
• Glass Bead Game - 41%
• River of the Gods - 29% (+4%)
  • shoutout to the homie Bombay
  • the fabric, the man