OpenAI hits $10 billion in annualized revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth - “OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot."
AI’s metrics question - “the real question, as I’ve hinted at a couple of times, is how much LLMs will be used mostly as actual user-facing general-purpose chatbots at all or whether they will mostly be embedded inside other things, in which case trying to measure their use at all will be like trying to measure machine learning, or SQL (how many times a day do you use a database? Who cares?)."
How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub in London? - ”That was true in more ways than one. Ms. Wood, 31, is on a mission to draw every pub in London. She has completed about 300, and has about 2,500 left”
Scaling Vibe-Coding in Enterprise IT: A CTO’s Guide to Navigating Architectural Complexity, Product Management and Governance devops.com/scaling-v… There’s some AI middleware considerations (people stuff) towards the end of this how to enterprise vibe coding (in the expansive definition of vibe coding, just using AI to help write code). Part of it is: you still have all the same needs for “day two” and architecting the apps to work in production and be easily updatable (add new features, test it, upgrade the current version [including data], deploy it] for the next version, the next, etc.
Three Dumb Studies for your consideration - Delightful ideas for scientific studies: “experimenter’s urge: the desire to, quite literally, fuck around and find out."
1989: Japan Buys A Used President - This is an incredible piece of writing just one sample: “It is sad and disturbing to witness with what insouciance he now sells the stature which his country afforded him to any country which can afford him. It demeans us all to see him so available, so eager to please for a price, to become ‘‘Rent-a-Ron,’ the performing presidential seal."
Patterns Across 5 Years of YC Investing - There’s always money in the Security Stand.
Bluesky’s decline stems from never hearing from other side - ”When you never hear from the other side, it’s pretty easy to talk yourself into a political dead end. That might be enough for the political dead-enders. But it’s a terrible mistake for any political movement that actually hopes to rack up some durable victories.” // Speaking for myself, I try to “change the channel” and just not pay attention to (follow) anything political. The noise that comes from that is too much and un-actionable. I know: “must be nice…” and all that.
Starbucks to roll out Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas - ”Instead of flipping through manuals or accessing Starbucks’ intranet, baristas will be able to use a tablet behind the counter equipped with Green Dot Assist to get answers to a range of questions, from how to make an iced shaken espresso to troubleshooting equipment errors. Baristas can either type or verbally ask their queries in conversational language.” // Do the baristas need that? After a few weeks, don’t you memorize everything? I guess if there’s a rotating menu, and some weird-o order…