It’s time we stopped asking for vases. - Most people cram their AI prompts with so many rules that they predetermine the answer. When the question is stuffed with constraints, the model can only spit back something obvious. A handful of well-chosen guidelines can help, but the real magic happens when you leave space for the AI to explore. In other words: ask narrowly and you’ll get a narrow, predictable response; ask openly and you invite surprising insight–so stop chasing a one-size-fits-all “perfect prompt."
mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects - Free to use as long as you don’t promote right wing politics or eating meat, dairy, etc.
The work at hand - “Vernacular institutions:” They are more useful than they are legible.
28 slightly rude notes on writing - by Adam Mastroianni - ”Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my first few paragraphs almost always contain ideas that were necessary for writing the rest of the piece, but that aren’t necessary for understanding it.” // Lower down, that first part to delete is called “the windup.” I call it “throat clearing.” Either way, try to cut it and Mento-memo your way to the conclusion in the first sentence. This is, apparently, American-style, according to The Culture Map. Indeed!
What’s the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? - “Developers burning through $100 of tokens per day (not impossible given some of the LLM-heavy development patterns that are beginning to emerge) could end the year with the equivalent of a short haul flight or 600 mile car journey. In the panopticon scenario where all 10 million security cameras in the UK analyze video through a vision LLM at one frame per second Arthur estimates we would need to duplicate the total usage of Birmingham, UK - the output of a 1GW nuclear plant. Let’s not build that panopticon!”
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? - You know, I bet it has the effect of encouraging people to focus on the product as the product instead of the product as their comp. // Of course, the next step is to publish and then equalize the cap-table, but, hey, we can’t go full socialist.