Philip Nuzhnyi

@callmephilip.com

🧜‍♂️ Surftware engineer. Stochastic parrot. CODE: https://github.com/callmephilip MD: https://callmephilip.com/

OH (Fable 5): "A bathroom scale can't weigh envelopes, but it has no trouble distinguishing a chihuahua from a Great Dane. Your experiments are comparing dogs."

I always liked Ben Evans. this is an especially good example of what a good version of Zitron's analysis would look like: axes of variation, how they could play out, this or that is more likely. as opposed to "I'm certain what will happen next despite having been wrong every day for three years"

Ways to think about token pricing — Benedict Evans

AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price,...

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Tim Harford's 2 part series on the Panama Canal is one of my all time favourites. It's full of wisdom and cautionary tales, as well as examples of the engineering triumph (mostly in the second part though). Fundamental Attribution Error is the piece that has stuck with me the most.

Ttl;dl@tldl.pro · last mo.

The Fundamental Attribution Error, explained through Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Panama Canal — from Cautionary Tales: "The Great Frenchman's Folly"

For the past 6 years, I’ve been working on developer education full time, on my online courses + blog. It’s been an incredible privilege to be able to focus on this stuff. ✨ I’m starting to wonder, though, whether the business model I’ve chosen is sustainable. Let me explain… 🧵