I believe when i was at utoronto the compsci dept had a course like this (2005ish)

Remember fleet?

You only now just think this? The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. Especially as you move down in age cohort.

Yes even the WEF has been planning for this for a decade with their "you will own nothing but you will be happy" indoctrination.

If you visit Siem Reap there is a museum and interactive demos of this whole process. You can even hold one of the rats. It was pretty fascinating!

Notice a lot of Canadian airports are yellow right now. Is this normal?

Do you understand network effects? It’s not hand cuffs. I can also sell my rare baseball cards outside of ebay. But…

can i spin this up myself? is the code anywhere? thanks!

I don't want to downplay the effort here but from my experience you can get yourself a neat interactive summary html with a short prompt and a good model (Opus 4.5+, Codex 5.2+, etc).

Can you give am example of the most useful prompting you find for this? I'd like to interact with papers just so I can have my attention held. I struggle to motivate myself to read through something that's difficult to understand

I replied to a comment above with the system prompt.

Something I've learned is that the standard, "Summarize this paper" doesn't do a great job because summaries are so subjective. But if you tell a frontier LLM, like Opus 4.6, "Turn this paper into an interactive web page highlighting the most important aspects" it does a really good job. There are still issues with over/under weighting the various aspects of a paper but the models are getting better.

What I find fascinating is that LLMs are great at translation so this is an experiment in translating papers into software, albeit very simple software.

Totally fair, I addressed this in my original post.

No, it’s not open source. Not sure what I’m doing with it yet.

Can you give me more info on why you’d want to install it yourself? Is this an enterprise thing?

It's down and it could be interesting to iterate on.

Fair. If you want to see the architecture, here's the DevLog: https://johndamask.substack.com/p/devlog-now-i-get-it

Completely disagree with this take. I was an early free OpenAI user and switched to Gemini once it got good enough and bundled a bunch of services together to make the paid product free. OpenAI will need distribution to maintain any kind of durable market share. They need to become a bundler of other subs, or else they will just be the next Disney+ or Spotify that needs telecoms (Hah!) to push their paid product onto user's phone bills.

But who are you shipping it to if everyone is building it?

Bubble or not it’s simply strange to me that people confidently put a timeline on it. To name the phases of the bubble and calling when they will collapse just seems counter intuitive to what a bubble is. Brad Gerstner was the first “influencer” I heard making these claims of a bubble time line. It just seems downright absurd.