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Today I start using Substack

I used to like Twitter but always felt very constrained by the 144 limit

This brought problems for the irony-challenged, who misunderstood a lot of what I was trying to say

This is a particular problem for me because I seem to be regarded as ‘on the left’ by people on the right, and' ‘on the right’ by people on the left

Apparently this makes me controversial, and therefore box office poison

The Golden State Warriors have been using robots that rebound and pass to players during practice. This is incredible.

(🎥: NBA)

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I built an app over Thanksgiving, quickly gained 1,000 users, and monetized before Christmas. The crazy thing is I did not personally write a single line of code.

I have since been thinking very deeply about Prompt Driven Development (PDD), how to do it well, and what I think it means for the industry.

Prompt Driven Development

People are calling out the “fake” Gemini demo that Google put out on Wednesday.

It was a video of a seemingly real-time, high-quality interaction with Gemini over video and audio. It was very polished and revealed a kind of multimodal prowess previously unseen in any other AI model.

But it turned out that Google had artificially altered the interaction with Gemini, which had actually been static, over images and text, and with more convoluted prompt techniques that were “shortened for brevity.” People called it deceptive, misleading, and disingenuous.

They ended up criticizing not just Google but also Gemini because it can’t really do what it was shown in the video. But the truth is, benchmark-wise, it’s still the best AI model in the world. That must mean something.

I analyze the situation here and argue that we should never mix science with marketing even if AI companies insist on doing it to their own detriment.

Why Are People Bashing Google Gemini if It’s Better Than GPT-4?
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