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Kyle Russell
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Always learning.
Thank goodness we’re going to have self-driving cars become commonplace in the next half decade
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Have you ever had someone in your life that you wrote poetry or anything romantic for?

Was it like, generic romantic or did it capture you and your significant other in your particular quirks
December 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Siiiiiiick
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why do you still work at Google?
December 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Man you would not like this young hacker named Rob Pike
December 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
He had a portfolio of bets across the company and most have paid out, hence the higher revenue, profit, and stock price
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve added AI ad creation tools and AI ad targeting, both proving effective
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Well no, because he still massively grew the core business even with the tens of billions of burned capital on the speculative stuff
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
approximately $11.37 billion in total cumulative revenue since they started breaking it out (vs $60b in cumulative losses)

So not NOTHING, but probably should have worked against healthier expectations (this is basically a game console, spend appropriately)
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Right, they are spending on AI and reducing spending on less productive fronts
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
very straightforwardly, you spend less time needing to review code that isn't working as the quality of the output improves
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
no it isn't and you do not have a grasp on the methodologies of the studies to defend them
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
is the effect of those interventions as strong as that from AVs?

and what are the public costs of doing those things vs AV deployment? I'm happy to let private companies spend that capital
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
They've made one of the fastest growing products of all time, Claude Code

you think that developers are going to stop using these tools?
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The METR study uses earlier, less capable models
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Written pre-AI. Pure human slop
October 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Because the point of the article is the new information about the world it conveys, not the exact wording used
September 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Book 6

Lesson:

The basic paradigm of design is to coax effects from the world by identifying and manipulating its extant tendencies, rather than imposing form on it.
August 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
(They’re fighting over it because of the unprecedented adoption by normal people)
August 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM