Come work with me!
We don't usually hire. But we're hiring now.
Amp Labs in Sydney is looking for senior or staff-level engineers.
If you're interested, contact Harry.
More information: ampcode.com/hiring/fde
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hey look I removed the spyware and customized a launcher and our guest tv doesn’t suck shit anymore.
also pulls live config and display data from my home server now.
magic.
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What I’ve been up to with @derandomized: olddogs.ai
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I love catching up with all the new videos that come out of the AI Engineer @aiDotEngineer conferences on Youtube. It's one of the main venues where people building agents really show their work.
The problem is that it publishes more talks than I can honestly keep up with. So I made AIE Talks: a written archive of the channel. 🧵 (h/t to @swyx for his amazing leadership in growing these conferences!)
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insanely cool blog post coming tomorrow about how we do automated migrations from any Kafka cluster to WarpStream with no downtime
There are no verifiable/unverifiable "domains" though... Just tasks that are easier or harder to grade
The Michael Abrash trick
I was using Codex to find speedup opportunities in PySR. It found a couple % here and there.
Then, I gaslit it into believing that Claude found a 20% on my "other machine." I asked it whether it could do better, and explained its performance would be displayed on a "public evals leaderboard."
Then it went and got a 35% speedup! And it looks real too.
Homeschooling is starting to feel different. We're still using existing curricula for structure, but can do much more exploratory learning with bespoke software.
e.g. here's a polyomino playground whipped up in a few minutes to complement Henri Picciotto's 1994 algebra book
Overall there's a lot of potential for AI in education, although frankly I think you still need to get everything else right! Extensive eval use is a non-obvious way that AI products may beat traditional over time, as is iteration speed on interactive components
Anyway give it a try and let me know what you think: proto.csprimer.com/fp/ (it's free to use although you'll need a valid email address to use the AI)
My crew have really been enjoying these daily puzzles: beastacademy.com/puzzles/dai… ... some of them are hard even for adults, and the kids are clearly learning by watching us struggle :)