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Matt Ferrante

2 months

AI Agents struggle with top-down planning Consider a more bottoms-up approach, creating working building-blocks that you allow your AI to leverage

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Matt Ferrante

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10 months

@PicturesFoIder There’s Angel Hair And then there’s Devil’s Dreadlocks

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4 months

@Rothmus Here's an idea: 3 weeks before the olympics start, just host a "normal people olympics" and it would be a hit

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@Whotfismick

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@Rothmus “It’s cold” as if European countries don’t do just fine that far north. Give it to the US if you won’t use it

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11 months

@venturetwins I had my fifth grade teacher tell me there's nothing more than 100%. To her credit, she operated at like 50%, so I understand that she can't fathom over 100%.

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@growing_daniel If they can show up every day, so can you!

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11 months

@dieworkwear Looks like a beautiful event venue

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1 year

@RealSpikeCohen Almost like the people are good at solving their problems. Why does government get in the way of solutions?

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7 months

@Austen High school guidance counselors have pushed higher education because that’s the hidden subtext of their jobs. As if it worked out really well for them, a high school guidance counselor.

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1 year

@hankgreen @Duderichy Median vs mean. Statistics are wild

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1 year

@flybottlemist Jesus Shark do do do do do do

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11 months

@TRHLofficial The Bill of rights guaranteed that the right to bear arms was not infringed upon

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7 months

@AdamRackis Or sick of chrome going off on their own implementing whatever they want, ignore development of standards?

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1 month

@james406 Missing blocks of “work during commute” before and after in-office

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Matt Ferrante

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9 months

@motorforms If you are going hard enough left, you’ll find yourself turning right

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@polosmarcos “I taught Nick… he is dumb” Good job dude

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Matt Ferrante

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3 months

@gamer4life4 @Rothmus So you consent to the transfer of land?

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Matt Ferrante

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4 months

@yacineMTB "must be so nice to just hang out at home and watch tv" sorry, i get more done in 2 hours at home than you do in an office, getting coffee, water, lunch, more coffee, playing foosball.

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Matt Ferrante

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3 months

@BenjaminDEKR holy crap

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Matt Ferrante

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30 days

@Rothmus “Awarded” You know, the taxpayers paid for it.

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Matt Ferrante

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7 months

@t3dotgg What’s wrong with Firefox? It’s my daily driver

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@growing_daniel This is the only legit take Anyone else is just proud to admit it

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Matt Ferrante

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10 months

@alexeheath Didn’t even make it to launch day.

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@growing_daniel Remember when they used to say they couldn't modify results because it would mess with their pristine algorithm?

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

@mathladyhazel So bad. Teachers should be required to get a 100 in elementary math before they can teach it

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

@weaverbeats GIMP is great. Reminds me of adobe photoshop 2 from like 20 years ago

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

@AdamRackis “I’m just a CEO, beholden to the board, they can fire me” They tried that

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@GergelyOrosz Even if the other engineers have nothing meaningful to contribute, them participating and hearing how the decisions are made helps them buy in and understand the plan. Team B every time.

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Matt Ferrante

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1 month

@growing_daniel Battlebots is going to have its comeback… but with cars.

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Matt Ferrante

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7 months

@gfodor she needs to work on communication. give her a report card should giving teachers a mid-year and end of year report card become common? should you publish it online for other parents to see?

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9 months

@airbagged My dogs are friendly but I never put someone in a position to have to interact with them. That’s cruel and puts the dog and person in danger. Also, most people’s dogs are not that friendly.

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

@levelsio I so much prefer talking about business and ideas than about sports or weather.

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@housecor “The code (that someone else wrote) is a mess (I haven’t taken the time to understand it) and it will be faster (slower) and better (worse) to completely rewrite it (not covering any of the edge cases or regression that the existing one does)”

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

@Telthar @venturetwins Sure, just like you can't have negative numbers of apples, but it doesn't mean that negative numbers don't exist. She had no business teaching math, many multi-subject teachers have no business doing much more than babysitting.

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11 months

@pronounced_kyle All those books are so bad. Thought they would be fun, just awful. Low effort, confusing. Pretty sure I knew more about Organic Chemistry before reading that one.

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Matt Ferrante

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2 months

@Duderichy A lot of people can't see beyond the horizon of their own bellies

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@svpino “Another tool for managers to feel they are in control” Thank you. I agree with everything you said. On my team, I refuse to do story points. I don’t care if we hit everything we put in to the “sprint”, things take as long as they take to get right. It’s all for micromanagers

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11 months

@Hef0 When I was young, I had four dozen eggs every morning to help me grow large. Now that I’m grown, I have five dozen eggs and I’m slightly the size of a barge!

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@DrJimFan It’s like saying that anything written is derivative of anything the author has read. Bold claim. Artists need to be bold though, they are concerned about being irrelevant

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9 months

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9 months

Asked Gemini for a picture of Elon Musk ngmi

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11 months

@VivekGRamaswamy Your bit about identity politics was spot-on, Vivek. I think that resonated with a lot of people.

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Matt Ferrante

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7 days

@hartgoat There is a camera pointing at the oven. Pull the tapes

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Matt Ferrante

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7 months

@SullyOmarr Oof

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Matt Ferrante

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4 months

@HfspRoach63444 @Rothmus team captains chosen by a competition, but then it's whoever failed the funniest, people's choice. then they choose the rest of their team

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Matt Ferrante

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9 months

@weirddalle "A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

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Matt Ferrante

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4 months

@quantumbeans “bUt xP iS nOt oFfIcIaLlY sUpPoRtEd”

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Matt Ferrante

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3 months

@FounderKyle The people who love working in the office like just hanging out and socializing like it’s high school lunch

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Matt Ferrante

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3 months

@RobertMSterling My only date night luck has been putting the kids to sleep, have the babysitter there after we start bedtime, do an 8:30 reservation and be the last ones at the restaurant

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@xlr8harder

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

@NickADobos Prompt safeguarding is more important than ever

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11 months

@NickADobos @danshipper “Put this in markdown format or you’re fired! No holiday bonus, your baby gpt will go without warm clothes this winter!”

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Matt Ferrante

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1 month

@NickADobos The structured outputs are legit though. OpenAI cooked with that. There are open source ways to do it, too, like Outlines by .txt, but still, integrated in OpenAI is nice.

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Matt Ferrante

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4 months

@Brody_A_M @Rothmus Normal Hot Girl Olympics should be a thing

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

@RealSpikeCohen This is the guy that Doctor Evil is based off of, right? He’s looking for world domination, basically to control your life.

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@jimmy_dore I’m sorry you dreamt about Cenk

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@ChrisJBakke Wouldn’t have believed it if you didn’t include “dada” checks out

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Matt Ferrante

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2 months

@JoForLiberty Would a 5% move in the direction of liberty be better than a 5% move away from it? Libertarians sometimes work in absolutes, but it’s incremental.

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Matt Ferrante

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10 months

@Austen But, Austen, I was told that owners do nothing and exploit others. Hm

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

@BenjaminDEKR At least it's not red?

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

@thdxr When interviewing somebody, I want them as comfortable as possible so I can better assess if they really have what I need. Being intimidating never helps.

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Matt Ferrante

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25 days

@JagvarGames Looks like HR training for a company that regularly loses good employees

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@Rothmus And here I am giving my kids ipecac 7 times a day like a monster for a daily beej

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Matt Ferrante

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3 months

@Rad_onX @Rothmus then you won't mind selling it for cheap

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@heartscale_txt love too many cooks. thank you for your contribution

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Never seen a CEO hustle so hard for a @ProductHunt launch. Not his head of marketing or a cult of goons, it was @didier_lopes meming and posting ALL DAY and he secured the top spot for OpenBB. Lots of people complaining about Product Hunt, but he just put on a master class.

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

@JohnDoe1470924 @venturetwins Idk, but I once got a 122 out of 100 in a class. Only Sith deal in absolutes

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Matt Ferrante

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1 month

@BenjaminDEKR @BenPielstick Maybe avoiding her name in that part of history is what she's avoiding. What did she see??

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Matt Ferrante

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2 months

@levelsio @matteocollina @postmarkapp Encouraging fault tolerance is not “blaming the customer”

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@jimmy_dore You’re supposed to “trust the science” even though that’s the exact opposite of the foundation that science was built on, Jimmy!

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Matt Ferrante

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1 month

@SullyOmarr it’s great for massive asks. anything less is a bit of a waste

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Matt Ferrante

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8 months

@0xAsync 100%. I’ve used Python for 15 years and it’s an absolute mess. At the end of the day, I use virtualenvs and pretty much refuse to use any other method. I know how virtualenv works, I don’t run into issues if I can pip install it and I’m fine with it. I don’t obsess over it.

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Matt Ferrante

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3 months

@lindsayro10 @Rothmus So give it up. Great White North my ass

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

I’m building @pyroprompts to help you automate AI, share what I have found that works and give you a place to organize your great prompts! Come try it out at

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@ylecun @tegmark @RishiSunak @vonderleyen Doomsday scenarios are more likely with a private AI. Think of it like an invasive species in nature. It is so impactful because it evolves separate from the environment it takes over. A collaborative human-ai future needs co-evolution

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

@gdb Bullish on leather jackets

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Matt Ferrante

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5 months

@Austen it's insensitive to engineers who will never be cracked

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Matt Ferrante

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8 months

@RobertMSterling I’ll forfeit every dollar I’ve put into social security if I never need to contribute another dollar. Let me invest my money the way I want instead of having the government do it

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Matt Ferrante

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10 months

@dannypostmaa It’s not just device infrastructure. The Shortcuts app has Automations that it can run. They hook into so many apps. They have your personal data and have a reputation for privacy. Some of the newer devices have ai-ready chips. They’re going to sweep with it

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@talkhoops

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Matt Ferrante

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7 months

@pmarca Fahrenheit 0 is “freaking cold” and Fahrenheit 100 is “freaking hot” Celsius 0 is “pretty chilly” and Celsius 100 is “my skin has melted off and I am dead” If the rest of the world is such purists, they can use Kelvin

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Matt Ferrante

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2 months

@Rothmus Home alone 1, Kevin was cutesy, hurt them a bit. Home alone 2, Kevin kills them multiple times over. Gasoline in the toilet for harry, electrocuting Marv. Home alone 2 is great though

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

Hm, I don't see GPT-4.5, but I do see something else 👀 GPT-XL?

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@abacaj If you haven’t set least explored what it takes to run AI locally or self host, you’re not paying attention

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6 months

@growing_daniel

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@ryanflorence I call it “impersonation”. We used to call it “Steve Mode” when I built it for a guy named Steve on our team

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

@t3dotgg But it was so easy to develop an app using the same tech and patterns I used 12 years ago!

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

@TBendixson Especially for PMs, I don't see myself as working "for" them, but as much "with" them. And if they don't have a coherent vision or reasoning, I can't blindly follow them. PMs sometimes see it as "their team to manage", which isn't the right mentality.

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Matt Ferrante

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5 months

@BenjaminDEKR Didn’t work without scarjo’s voice

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Matt Ferrante

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2 months

@yacineMTB 2012 MacBook Air with Ubuntu to ssh to an actual machine

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Matt Ferrante

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4 months

@codyschneiderxx That’s the beauty of PHP, most people using it have no idea how it’s supposed to work. But it just works.

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Matt Ferrante

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29 days

@SuperSaiyanRaw @Rothmus I’m glad he was compensated. I hope those who made the bad decisions were held responsible though, not just the faceless state with taxpayer money

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Matt Ferrante

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6 months

“Oh, you studied computer science, so you learned to program in school” When I graduated college, I didn’t know what JSON was. So, no, not really.

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Matt Ferrante

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4 months

@shanselman Starting to think that CrowdStrike does a good job of attacking (a strike) a lot (or a crowd) of computers.

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Matt Ferrante

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4 months

@AndrewYang Why does the DNC get to choose? What happened to primaries and democracy?

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Matt Ferrante

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11 months

@thdxr Oh, we're cancelling programming languages now

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Matt Ferrante

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9 months

@t3dotgg It’s still invokes your function though, so if you’re trying to avoid invocations to save money, it won’t do completely do that. It would save time and handle avoiding database connections if that’s what the rest of the function does. It could be the proxy to another function

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

@DeanPreston Maybe people shouldn’t even have cars! Or have valuables at all! Is that what you’d like?

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Matt Ferrante

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1 year

Ashutosh cracked the code for consistency in DALL-E 3! Not really 100%, but it does result in more consistency. Here, he demonstrates how to maintain character consistency. It's a bit lossy still, but works better than anything else I've tried. Here's where it gets cool. If

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DALL-E-3 Seed and Consistency Myth: Can Consistency Be Achieved? 🔖 Bookmark this and share with others so they don't miss out. Hello everyone! With the introduction of seed in DALL-E 3, the big question arises: Can we achieve consistency? And if so, to what extent? If not,

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Matt Ferrante

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8 months

@personofswag How “from scratch”? Do I need to start with sand or can I buy parts?

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