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Bryan Cantrill

@bcantrill
Co-founder and CTO of @oxidecomputer.
dtrace.org/blogs/bmc
Joined August 2010
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    Aug 26
    Today feels like a good day to re-surface this one
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    Feb 14, 2019
    My (anti-)application video for the YC120: youtube.com/watch?v=px9OjW…
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    Sep 5
    The revolt of the reader
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    The revolt of the reader
    Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is...
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    Sep 2
    mfw I hear "category error"
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    Sep 2
    Replying to @RahulBhagwat01 and @TheGingerBill
    Looking at the writing in question (e.g. "...and treating them the same is a category error") it is loaded with bullshit LLM'isms. So if you have written something yourself that is being flagged as AI, good news: it's telling you that your writing is merely bad.
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    Sep 2
    Apropos: on Monday, @ahl and I were joined by @max_spero_ to talk about what the team at @pangram has built -- and its crucial importance. (And, it must be said, @ahl dropped the perfect Simpsons reference for AI writing: it is Skinner's "steamed hams.") youtube.com/watch?v=5RdOf7…
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    Sep 2
    To those linking to pieces that are obviously 100% LLM generated: do you... actually read them? I can't make it through the FIRST PARAGRAPH without my brain hitting its LLM abort; did you actually READ the WHOLE THING? Fine, you no longer write, but do you also no longer READ?!
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    Bryan Cantrill
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    Sep 2
    To those linking to pieces that are obviously 100% LLM generated: do you... actually read them? I can't make it through the FIRST PARAGRAPH without my brain hitting its LLM abort; did you actually READ the WHOLE THING? Fine, you no longer write, but do you also no longer READ?!
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