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Half the people complaining about this are extremely, incredibly out of touch with how competitive top college admissions is now. High GPA, SAT and ECs is barely table stakes for "multiple top colleges". So obvious they've never even applied to top colleges, let alone gotten in.

And yet you leave out a full minute of context, showing that Miyazaki was disgusted by a completely different technology made to generate grotesque body horror. From 8 years ago.

An old Soviet joke:

my Vietnamese mom said stuff like this when i talked about ADHD, then she read about ADHD symptoms in undiagnosed adult women, started taking medication, then cried about how she'd missed out on being normal her whole life.

If there was 1 Twitter post that genuinely changed my life, it was this.

Went on r/csmajors and of the top 200 posts, only 1 is about either building stuff or theory. The rest is all job hunting stuff. I think I know why hirers don't want CS majors.

Guys, it's p simple. What Cluely is selling isn't a specific product. It's selling the dream of making fast money for young people in tech. Look at the premise: cheating on big tech interviews and landing $$$. Look at the way the founder tells his story in posts and especially videos - both being rejected by Harvard + Columbia and then dropping out as being associated w FAANG (by cheating) and YC and A16Z (by winning). Look at the parties and the "cracked highly-paid intern" material. This is great bc it shows he's both "elite-material" but also "a reject" and also "independently successful." The intended audience (young guys trying to enter tech) subconsciously associates him as both prestigious (hence legit) and a reject (hence relatable). The tech doesn't matter and the product doesn't matter. He could be a fucking t-shirts and it would still work. What matters is when you watch the video and click buy, for moment you feel like you could be like those guys and fast-track into the glamorous world of new money in tech, because everything he puts out is written like a movie you think you can relate and self-insert into. A lot of people want to make fast money in tech. Those people also studied CS hoping to land a high-paying job but are struggling to land any job. So instead of getting the real thing, you buy something that feels like the real thing for a bit. I'm not endorsing what he does or saying it's good for anyone. I'm saying what Roy sells, and what people are funding him to sell isn't a tech product. The product doesn't even need to work. What he's selling, extremely effectively, is the dream of making fast money in tech, and the lifestyle that comes with it.

genuinely cannot understand how America leads global tech while its education has worse outcomes than many developed and some developing countries

me: hi guys! im super excited to publish this new method in- schmidhuber: Petrov et al (1958), Wang (1997),Yoshida (1913). Reported.

the guy who turned down a $1.5 billion offer from Zuck had been an engineer at Meta for 11 years.

perhaps i'm dumb, but i hit far fewer math walls once i started using AI to explain the concept to me multiple times in multiple rephrasings with examples. a big chunk of technical education is bottlenecked by slightly unintuitive rephrasing presented rigidly.

This is beyond PhD level, this is tenure.

McKinsey currently mandates the use of GPT 3.5, and consultants are not allowed to use other LLMs.

Fun fact: Out of FAANG, Netflix hasn't released a major foundational model since ChatGPT came out. It's also the best performing FAANG stock on a ~3 year and 10-year timescale.

wait ... he coined "vibe coding" while using CHATGPT ???

Every time I see Alexandr Wang at Meta, I recall the saying: "One mountain cannot have two tigers."

genuinely cannot understand how America leads global tech while its education has worse outcomes than many developed and some developing countries

Do Americans understand how much easier it is to work in tech if you're born in America? You make 10× the income elsewhere for this ranch work, pay 2-3x less tuition, don't have to think about visa sponsorships/rules/quotas every time you apply for, or do anything.

And yet you leave out a full minute of context, showing that Miyazaki was disgusted by a completely different technology made to generate grotesque body horror. From 8 years ago.

Half the people complaining about this are extremely, incredibly out of touch with how competitive top college admissions is now. High GPA, SAT and ECs is barely table stakes for "multiple top colleges". So obvious they've never even applied to top colleges, let alone gotten in.

so let's be real. if you showed a normal person from 2020 a frontier AI model from 2025, and asked if this met the definition of AGI, they would've said yes. right ???

Guys, it's p simple. What Cluely is selling isn't a specific product. It's selling the dream of making fast money for young people in tech. Look at the premise: cheating on big tech interviews and landing $$$. Look at the way the founder tells his story in posts and especially videos - both being rejected by Harvard + Columbia and then dropping out as being associated w FAANG (by cheating) and YC and A16Z (by winning). Look at the parties and the "cracked highly-paid intern" material. This is great bc it shows he's both "elite-material" but also "a reject" and also "independently successful." The intended audience (young guys trying to enter tech) subconsciously associates him as both prestigious (hence legit) and a reject (hence relatable). The tech doesn't matter and the product doesn't matter. He could be a fucking t-shirts and it would still work. What matters is when you watch the video and click buy, for moment you feel like you could be like those guys and fast-track into the glamorous world of new money in tech, because everything he puts out is written like a movie you think you can relate and self-insert into. A lot of people want to make fast money in tech. Those people also studied CS hoping to land a high-paying job but are struggling to land any job. So instead of getting the real thing, you buy something that feels like the real thing for a bit. I'm not endorsing what he does or saying it's good for anyone. I'm saying what Roy sells, and what people are funding him to sell isn't a tech product. The product doesn't even need to work. What he's selling, extremely effectively, is the dream of making fast money in tech, and the lifestyle that comes with it.

my Vietnamese mom said stuff like this when i talked about ADHD, then she read about ADHD symptoms in undiagnosed adult women, started taking medication, then cried about how she'd missed out on being normal her whole life.

Went on r/csmajors and of the top 200 posts, only 1 is about either building stuff or theory. The rest is all job hunting stuff. I think I know why hirers don't want CS majors.

perhaps i'm dumb, but i hit far fewer math walls once i started using AI to explain the concept to me multiple times in multiple rephrasings with examples. a big chunk of technical education is bottlenecked by slightly unintuitive rephrasing presented rigidly.

Min-p has received an ICLR Oral award! This is my first ML paper as a business undergrad with no CS or research background. I want people to do research they care about, regardless of their background, and I'm hoping to write a detailed guide soon! LMK what questions you have!

McKinsey currently mandates the use of GPT 3.5, and consultants are not allowed to use other LLMs.

I genuinely dont get people who say they work like 80+ hours a week. Maybe it's a skill issue but for me 10hrs is pushing it, 12 is rly pushing it and I can't recall putting in a *good* 14.

Srs, how tf are people using parallel coding agents. One already requires watching, what's multiple like?

With AI, leftists have a chance to full send UBI or a massive welfare state, but instead they've chosen to be reactionaries defending to death an exploitative labour and IP system that largely doesn't even benefit them.

Every time I see Alexandr Wang at Meta, I recall the saying: "One mountain cannot have two tigers."

R1's extremely strong RL results were largely achieved without extensive human data. The CEO of a human data company has an incentive to downplay the effectiveness of Deepseek, no?