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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

12 days

We're converting all of YC from Langchain to BAML. One at a time.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

11 days

Our team now has 4 absolutely cracked devs one guy chose us over an $800k OpenAI offer another writes programming languages for fun another made FaceID on Pixel phones 100x faster I'm just the personality hire

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3 months

@levelsio do you think they want cafes do be more of a social place vs a coworking place?

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@RobynElyse maybe we can normalize eating lollipops, maybe they can make some healthy ones

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3 years

I just quit my Sr Engineer Amazon job after being there for 7 years to start my own thing. As @dvassallo put it, it's time to chart my own path. If I don't do it now I will never do it. I have to try. It's as simple as that.

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5 months

@djkgamc @cakesthebrain This is amazing. Thanks for sharing. We have all been there.

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@aaron__vi

7 months

@testaccountoki these PRs need a Linus AI bot that looks at these patterns and yells at you

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

11 days

i can do a pretty good impressions tbh

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 months

@karpathy when i was at AWS one of the top restrictions was not deploying worldwide at once. You can't safeguard against bugs but you can reduce how many devices can be impacted at any given moment

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@aaron__vi

3 months

@levelsio their need to make money now may also outweigh the need for hackers to use their space to make money in the future

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@aaron__vi

11 days

also not to forget our ex-intern @anishpalakurT who reworked our language's AST in like 2 weeks, in rust

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@aaron__vi

7 months

@t3dotgg The amount of satisfaction I get from using `await` inside a rsc is unparalleled

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

6 months

Introducing BAML -- a language to get structured output from LLMs -- with the first ever VSCode LLM Playground. BAML is fully integrated with Python and Typescript, on Day 1. (1/5). Declare your LLM function signature in BAML plus your instructions, and see a **live** preview

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 months

@yacineMTB it writes 50 lines of rust with no errors.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 years

@RoxanaDaneshjou The answers are better if you ask it to diagnose a patient (as if you were a doctor asking, not the patient themselves).

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

"function calling" is one of the most confusing names AI companies have come up with. It literally is just an extraction task. Models don't actually call your functions. You extract the right func parameters with them (and the name of the function), and call them yourself.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

I made a promise to release something in 2016 but I can't possibly meet it at this point. I'll let everyone know when it is ready.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 month

Announcing our BFCL benchmark results for OpenAI's structured output, which also tests the *contents* of generated outputs. 1. @OpenAI "strict" function-calling (FC) is slightly worse on the 2024-08-06 model, but better on every prior model. 2. OpenAI handedly beats Anthropic

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 years

I used to be a YouTuber, so I'm currently exploring what things I can build for these creators to make their lives easier and help them raise money when they need it. There's a few more ideas/projects I have that I will be tweeting about as I go.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

all you need for $1M ARR is 10 absolute banger tweets

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

Our teammate @sxlijin compared 8 different frameworks that help you get structured data from LLMs: (5 more in the article, can't fit them all in this image!)

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

9 days

Introducing our new state-of-the-art Agentic Framework, now available in all languages:

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

@hellovai @boundaryML This is it yall, will post more about our hiring process soon

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

11 years

Sam from Supernatural was on my plane. Can confirm he's a good parent.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 years

We're live on YC finally. We're chugging along early access requests. If you're interested in generative AI search hit me up!

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

2 years

Welcome to YC, @aaronnstuff , @hellovai , and @tryGloo ! Gloo helps developers connect LLMs like ChatGPT to their knowledgebases while providing guardrails to protect against hallucinated answers. Learn more at .

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 year

A startup is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my career, 💯

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

18 days

Ready to launch this rocket to the stratosphere 🚀 Reddit seems to work better for us than twitter, interestingly enough.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

4 years

The Sound of Metal

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

5 years

The most successful people are probably the ones that think the journey to their destination is fun instead of the destination itself being the only fun part

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

24 days

It's crazy how quickly the goal posts move as a founder. One month you have 3 users and just want to get your 4th user, the next month you're cryin cause you're not growing 3x every week anymore.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

@soujuujuu Become a good shitposter

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

21 days

@iamgingertrash I think you may just be too online tbh

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

26 days

@mckaywrigley why not just do a structured output with a share_your_screen boolean

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

That feeling when a Japanese engineer starts his email with "Aaron-san"

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

4 months

@HamelHusain honestly highly doubt json schemas are giving the best performance. Our test had 4% more failures with json schema vs using type definitions

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

Who the hell is buying my Take a Walk cover? I love you. No joke, that song alone is paying for many of my meals. It's an amazing feeling

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

3 months ago we got good feedback once a week. Today we get great feedback multiple times a day. The Discord is poppin. Just keep shipping.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

@justansub Thanks, and yes having a clear and ambitious vision helps

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

5 years

Working hard to achieve something great tends to bring a lot of loneliness. You spend time refining your craft instead of going out. You work more after coming home from work, maybe with no potential payoff. You have to be almost delusional for it to work.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

@Japanesehouse Your tickets sold out in Seattle :(.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 months

This statement is crazy on this study

Joshua Siegel

@realJoshSiegel

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After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

23 days

about time we got some influencer marketing

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 years

The YC development speed boost is real. Ooooof

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 month

we're gonna need a new function-calling benchmark cause we crushed it

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 years

How tall does Ariana Grande have to be to become Ariana Venti

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 years

257 days after quitting my job to work on a startup a customer finally told us they "love Gloo and use it everyday" and "if this didn't exist I'd have to find a replacement". Honestly building a startup is hard as hell. I'm injecting this into my veins and taking the win.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

@localhost_5173 @heyhey @dhh Profiling will make it slower as well fyi

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 years

It really is crazy how car-dependent American (and many other) cities are, and how millions will never know what it's like to live in a walkable city.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

9 days

the number of devs using BAML (our prompting DSL) has 2x every month for 3 months all these devs have already tried Instructor / Langchain / etc... the formula is to chew glass for 1 year, and write Rust

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

9 years

I remember telling someone i had never traveled much and they said i was missing out. Well yeah.. When your family has money it's easy.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 month

We're currently working on running the Berkeley FC benchmark on OpenAI's structured generation. Will post results soon

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

5 months

When i became a senior engineer at Amazon like 3 years ago I felt like my technical breadth was so tiny. Only after quitting and doing startups for the past 2ish years did I start learning again at like 4x the rate. In 2 years i learned 2 more programming languages, built

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 years

Who cares if a song is [some genre] from [some artist] made with [some software]? If it's good to your ears it's good.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

5 years

Setting huge goals for yourself is both good and bad — it makes it easier to set yourself up for failure, but also gives you ambition and motivation

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

18 days

We got 100k impressions on reddit by basically helping people out with prompts

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

I'm trying to claw my way back into music.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

5 months

@abacaj The first thing i found for myself during a customer project is how inconsistent human labelers were compared to LLMs

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

Don't really understand the habit of smoking cigarretes.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

@klimovx In one gig you get state of the art results with your cute lil json parser, in another you manage some gpu cluster

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

Streaming structured vs unstructured data in Vercel AI SDK

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

12 years

I made a "Simple Life" A capella cover by @IAmCaseyAbrams http://t.co/8t7iOYpz, Hope you like it :).

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

and while you're here, give us a Star 💫

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 years

I wonder if it's better to work on a product that has a lot of early competitors, or has 0. 0 competitors could be a sign that perhaps the idea doesn't work at all.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 years

I've started to work on a new video. It's not a capella, it's just music (a cover). Astrid will sing too.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 month

Hmm maybe we’ll implement openai’s constrained generation in rust and open source it for everyone to use with any local LLM

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 months

@hwchase17 It is harder to test and iterate on insanely big prompts. You change one instruction and suddenly you have to retest all other test cases. When stuff goes wrong you're unsure on what part of the system went wrong. Reducing the overall number of tokens makes it less prone to get

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

@levelsio assuming entrepreneurs pay less per hour when coworking vs non-coworking individuals*

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

5 months

@raphaelmosaic Honestly could see a world where engineers whisper to their computers all day. You enter a room and everyone be whisperin

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

LFG

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

Being older does not necessarily make you wiser.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

7 years

I'll be in Los Angeles this weekend. What to do...

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

5 years

@porterrobinson how come the piano is tuned differently on the get-your-wish acoustic version you posted? Just easier to play? or the piano was tuned that way?

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

12 years

I was just chillin, i looked up, and suddenly Bill Gates http://t.co/kjfAE97UHk

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

12 days

this quote from @ThePrimeagen made me lol: "people that use LLMs and talk about how they're 10x better are probably 10x better but they don't even know what it's like to be good in the first place"

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

I want to put this in my bathroom now

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

7 months

@Shpigford @maybe @rails not sure how devs withstand working on large codebases with no type system

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 years

@ericjang11 i click shiny hugging face button. make ai work. make moneys

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

9 years

Really looking forward to 2016.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

@nikitabier Can we print train tracks all over the USA as well pls

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

6 days

TIL you can make money explaining to people how to use Command + K in Cursor

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

Just met a guy that traveled from argentina to canada on a bike. His favorite spot was bolivia

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

Working on a startup is being in a constant state between cooked and cooking

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 years

"The medium is the message." - Mcluhan. The message of today's real-time newsfeeds is that there is always some new content on its way. The content itself is inconsequential. There is an "immediate now", forever.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

@Shpigford Here is our implementation at an order of magnitude lower cost than your latest solution $0.02 vs $.0018 Will do a write-up soon

example-massive-categorizer/classifier.ipynb at main · BoundaryML/example-massive-categorizer

Contribute to BoundaryML/example-massive-categorizer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 month

@dejavucoder this is too real

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

8 years

Alive 2007 on repeat

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

2 years

Hot take: Python is such a bad language to do ML with.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

9 years

My biggest regret is not learning piano when I was 5 years old

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

11 years

@jarpad Whoa I just noticed you were on the same plane as I going to Austin. That;s pretty cool.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

25 days

Our interactive function-calling benchmark results are live!

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

6 months

3 body problem is the best scifi series ive ever read. Especially books 2 and 3. The netflix show seems to do it justice so far.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 years

Hiking Lake Colchuk tomorrow! 9 miles roundtrip, 2000ft. What it looks like: http://t.co/oGIOTHSwd0

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 month

Build products that make people email you at a random times: "Holy shit. So good". We may not have hundreds of thousands of devs using us yet, but the people that do use BAML really love it. Stay tuned for Monday though.

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

10 days

this seems extremely obvious but you have no idea how many times experienced devs have been confused by the whole concept. function Hello(arg1: string, arg2: string) is the same as type Hello = { arg1: string, arg2: string }

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

Our blog post is now #3 on hackernews. We had posted it a while back and got like 3 upvotes / never got out of "new". I guess the lesson here is to repost once in a while (or hope someone does)

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

3 months

Happy to share with @cerebral_valley what we've been working on!

Cerebral Valley

@cerebral_valley

3 months

We're live with our Deep Dive on @boundaryML with CEO / Co-Founder @hellovai ! Boundary (YC W23) is leveling up your prompt management 💡 In this convo, Vaibhav takes us through the founding story of Boundary, the decision to make a new programming language (BAML), and their

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

9 years

wow i'm nostalgia'ing over my own youtube videos right now. All the memories. One of my original songs I made in a day has 300k views. :')

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

4 months

@Ian_Fisch How did you manage to not tweet a single thing about this game for 5 years :O

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Aaron Villalpando

@aaron__vi

1 year

@swyx I wonder if we will see an explosion of programmer-gig-workers. Basically solving small types of problems using AI, or domain experts double-checking AI-generated code.

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