Next time Amazon goes low I'm sure he'll buy it all back at a discount. With all his wealth he can get away with slow patient investing with swathes of cash.
You don't need a ton of creativity for a good restaurant if you have good staff, and upkeep. I'll take a boring well maintained and staffed restaurant over an overpriced "creative" restaurant where the waiters are terrible and the chef is even worse.
This assumes the market is not oversaturated. It does not work if there are only a couple of people trying to find a place to eat in a street with 30 similar well maintained and staffed restaurants.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, you may be thinking of restaurants where their defining factor is "having a very creative atmosphere", which will not suit all customers. However it is a differentiating factor which will serve a big audience that is under served in a location filled with "boring well maintained and staffed restaurant".
In my view the creativity comes in in finding solutions to a problem, in a oversaturated market the problem may be "how do I persuade customers to come to my restaurant instead of my competitor?". And following that question may be (in the restaurant example) "what can I offer that is under served in the current market?" The solution to that may be "a biker cafe" or "an overpriced "creative" restaurant where the waiters are terrible and the chef is even worse" (perhaps even rude on purpose).
Additionally I assume you want the restaurant to grow. If you want the restaurant to just survive the bar is lower and you may be able to do that by doing the same everyone else is doing as long as you meet the minimum.
I can't remember the last time I ate anywhere because of an ad. I eat out a lot too, used to uber eats nearly every single day. I wont reorder at places that mess up my order, but consistent quality I reward. Chick Fil A gives me the best service out of any fast-food restaurant, so they earn my repeat business.
I distinctively remember when ads have worked on me to buy something. Sometimes I blacklist a brand if an ad is deceptive and makes me click on something, but I don't watch TV much if at all, and the streaming services I do use I pay to have ads removed.
I sort of have this indirectly solved with a project I'm working on inspired by Beads. One thing I added is as you have the LLM work on tasks, you can sync them directly to GitHub, I would love to add other ticketing / task backends to it, but I mostly just use GitHub. You can also create them on GitHub and sync them down and claim a task (the tool will post a comment on GitHub that you've claimed the work). I can see people using it to collaborate easier, but for the time being it's just me using it for myself. ;)
These tasks become your prompt once refined. I basically braindump to Claude, have it make tasks from my brain dump. Then I tell Claude to ask me clarifying questions, it updates the tasks and then I have Claude do market research for some or all tasks to see what the most common path is to solve a given problem and then update the tasks.
Anyone know if the M4 GPU support has improved? I might not use Asahi "today" but I'm sure the day will come when my M4 laptop will be deemed "vintage" despite being perfectly fine hardware, and on that day I am most likely to flip over. Hopefully by then the GPU support is much richer.
I know Claude will read through code from Go libraries it has imported to ensure it is doing things correctly, but I do have to wonder for other languages and those small libraries, if we'll start seeing things like AGENT_README.md a file that describes the project, then describes what functionality is where in the code, and if necessary drills on a source file by source file basis (unless it's too massive - context limits are still limits). In any regard, I could see that becoming more common. Especially if you link to said file from the README.md for the model to go to. ;)
I'm not sure how you even measure productivity going up or down, for many of us LLMs have allowed us to trim down the amount of effort required to scour through google search results.
Remember when he bought IG and one of the conditions was that he not merge IG / FB but its definitely merged behind the scenes. IG somehow knows your FB and vice versa. Also, when one goes offline, both go offline.
Really very sure that wasn't one of the conditions. I didn't remember that from 2012, and looking now it wasn't included in the merger agreement. They did write:
> We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.
>That’s why we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people. -- https://about.fb.com/news/2012/04/facebook-to-acquire-instag...
FB knows your eBay, for that matter. When I search for something on eBay I get ads on FB for it.
Even if they are not merged, corporations can share your data behind the scenes and you are forced to unilaterally, without negotiation, accept that ToS to use these sites.
It seems safe to assume that just about any vaguely commercial site knows about your activity on all the other ones. Sometimes the cookie banner shows info about who they share your data with. There will be literally hundreds of entities. And I’m sure many of them pass the data on further.
He is a manipulative POS from the start (remember the 'dumb f_cks' quote? How much more do you need to know about the person which is still the same person we discuss?). High level and high functioning sociopath.
So is everybody else up there regardless of the name of the company, only their quality of PR and luck varies. Now are you happy that most of this forum works for similar or worse people, can you internally accept that and come back to work like nothing is happening? Or do you need to invent a bit of alternate reality where its not your/your company case somehow and you are on good moral mission because XYZ?
Not that many people can actually properly do this from my experience, most need to somehow feel they are on the good side of history even if they were doing/helping very questionable stuff to be polite. Just one small example - companies living from ads.
I think it depends. LLMs now can look up things on the fly to bypass the whole "this model was last updated in December 2025" issue of having dated information. I've literally told Claude before to look up something after it accused me of making up fake news.
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