I wish the article had a quote from a resident who voted against it, saying why they did so.

Probably group of people who purposefully chose to live in such area. Some people think that less government is better.

Or that government isn’t a weapon to be used against one’s neighbor.

Probably worried their taxes would go up.

It’s better for them if you don’t know how long you’ve been talking to the LLM. Timestamps can remind you that it’s been 5 hours: without it you’ll think less about timing and just keep going.

Ah, the casino tactic

Wang is a networking machine and has connected with everyone in the industry. Likely was brought in as a recruiting leader. Mark being Mark, though, doesn’t understand the value of vision and figured getting big names in the same room was better than actually having a plan.

Your last sentence suggests that he willingly failed to take the choice to create a vision and a plan.

If, for whatever reason, you don't have a vision and a plan, hiring big names to help kickstart that process seems like a way better next step than "do nothing".

Wang is not Zuck's first choice. Zuck couldn't get the top talents he wanted so he got Wang. Unfortunately Wang is not technical, he excels in managing the labeling company and be the top in providing such services.

That's why I also think the hiring angle makes sense. It would actually be astonishing if he could turn technical and compete with the leaders in OAI/Anthrpic

How to draw an owl:

1. Hire an artist.

2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl.

3. Scribble over the draft from the artist. Tell them what is wrong and why. repeat a few times.

4. In frustration, use some AI tool to generate a couple of drafts that are close to what you want and hand them to the artist.

5. Hire a new artist after the first one quits because you don't respect the creative process.

6. Dig deeper into a variety of AI image-generating tools to get really close to what you want, but not quite get there.

7. Hire someone from Fiverr to tweak it in Photoshop because the artists, both bio and non-bio, have burned through your available cash and time.

8. Settle for the least bad of the lot because you have to ship and accept you will never get the image you have in your head.

You’re right – the way I phrased it assumes “having a plan” is a possibility for him. It isn’t. The best he was ever going to do was get talent in the room, make a Thinking Machines knockoff blog post with some hand wavey word salad, and stand around until they do something useful.

The case against this EO is not “banning new technology”. It’s not allowing the federal government to ban any state regulation. And states having the power to make their own rules is maybe the most American value.

It's not even that, as this isn't Federal Law.

It's Federal Blackmail.

You can do both. Make it public, and it’ll be something to point to for job interviews in the future. Frankly, if it didn’t get interest as a business, the codebase won’t either, so you can still have it for a time when you may want to build on top of it.

Do you think i can get it in the spotlight somehow? Like I said, I want fail forward so I would want as much feedback on the code itself as I go.

The missing piece here is Anthropic is not playing the same game. Consumer branding and larger user base are concerns for OpenAI vs Google. Personal chatbot/companion/ search isn’t their focus.

Anthropic is going for the enterprise and for developers. They have scooped up more of the enterprise API market than either Google or OpenAI, and almost half the developer market. Those big, long contracts and integration into developer workflows can end up as pretty strong moats.

Could also be a way to expand the customer for Claude Code from coding assistant to vibe coding, a la Replit creating a hosted app. CC working more closely with Bun could make all that happen much faster:

> Our default answer was always some version of "we'll eventually build a cloud hosting product.", vertically integrated with Bun’s runtime & bundler.

Maybe you’re missing the context of who Gary Marcus is

I’d guess that’s a preview of their browser

A computer is just a tool with an interface. If the interface requires you to learn an entirely new language then it seems like it’s a bad design. Why would you use it?