# Posts on X before Apr 17, 2024, 3:17:16 AM UTC Canonical: https://michaelstolarz.com/x/before/1713323836000-1780435330849710126/ ## On X ### [Apr 16, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1780237871766765940) > I just want 1TB of RAM please is that asking too much ### [Apr 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779847593293693131) > it's going to be a "it's going to be a very big week" kind of week ### [Apr 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779846490929971394) > this is why it's my life's mission to have at least 10 kids, minimum Quoted post by Elon Musk: ### [Apr 15, 2024 — @elonmusk](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1779844281781322004) > Greece is one of dozens of countries experiencing population collapse due to low birth rates [x.com/Censored4sure/…]() ### [Apr 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779844503219896639) > the humane pin toy looks like something a solo developer could make in a few months with maybe a couple thousand dollars LOL ### [Apr 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779833536561975540) > imagine if llama 3 7b is gpt-4 level ### [Apr 14, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779509052273533168) > guys I really need GPT-5 before WW3, please ### [Apr 14, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779483590201606533) > Here's my latest Obsidian SystemSculpt AI plugin btw > [youtube.com/watch?v=kMw4Zk…]() ### [Apr 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779265472200155262) > one day my son or daughter will read all my tweets and think only 1 of 2 things > > - damn my dad is based > - damn my dad is cringe > > pls be the former. at least pretend it's the former. do it for your pops ### [Apr 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1779227402633392294) > welp, looks like it's gonna be a war-ry kinda day today, anons. nothing we can do about it, so why stress? don't let what happens today affect you too much (unless you're part of the war... well then, godspeed 🫡) > > but yeah other than that, just keep building. ### [Apr 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778942118876336570) > i wake up and all of a sudden I have 555 suno credits. I had 5 last night. weird but ok, thanks microsoft i guess :) ### [Apr 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778471327168672010) > as long as you don't think about the music you're listening to being AI generated, made by a soulless computer program that's sole purpose is to make you like what it generates... > > then it's beautiful > > or maybe that's what makes it beautiful, as long as you don't overthink it? ### [Apr 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778446936464568471) > chat is this real [Attached image](/x/media/5667cfaa14d0dd28079693e57b53ec801dd6aae3c380ffbc0af0c32e7a547945.png) ### [Apr 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778391530119843944) > the latest gpt-4-turbo feels much better in cursor, but worse in my daily use prompts > > i think it may be time to update my prompts/templates, but doesn't that mean that the model got worse in some aspect since it can't understand the prompts it used to generate for well? 🤔 ### [Apr 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778352534614401102) > this is now my main music app I listen to whenever i'm coding btw [Attached image](/x/media/d3e1a8e26ab17862585c2eae4e2496f57b133ba694f3c7d2cf6c6adeef3ac9b7.jpg) ### [Apr 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778351464173462011) > life is so easy if you think of yourself as a model being fine-tuned > > you think a model has anxiety? no, it tries its best to learn the next thing that will make it even better, who cares what others think, just BE BETTER it's that easy lol stop overthinking ### [Apr 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778348744674800053) > suno still beats udio by a long shot IMO ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778151891672965456) > recursive refactoring until optimal > > already somewhat possible with gpt-4-turbo/opus, but will be much quicker/higher quality with gpt-5 surely Quoted post by Kyle Corbitt: ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @corbtt](https://x.com/corbtt/status/1778142410335461781) > Intentionally not bothering to refactor/fix any tech debt for the next 2 months. GPT-5 will be able to just cleanly rewrite my codebase in one fell swoop right? ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778151047242097008) > i wish there was a way to save state with dingboard so i can just have a meme board and just piece together things on the fly instead of having to upload them every time [@yacineMTB]() [@dingboard\_]() pls king ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778128605870170366) > so now that gpt-4-turbo-preview is... well, out of preview (it's just labeled gpt-4-turbo now)... > > it's time for a NEW "-preview" model. > > which one do you think they will release next? ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778100037337448873) > this is how you effectively market with a high viral potential Quoted post by udio: ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @udiomusic](https://x.com/udiomusic/status/1778093021378089240) > 🤗 [Video on X](/x/media/905c0c3b4828911caca76afbbe7cbfa62a25ffbfdb44b3c5d709587b7ed11555.jpg) ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778071823210709060) > not at all what I've been experiencing, I've had to constantly use claude 3 to fix (in 1 shot) what the lastest gpt-4-turbo is severely struggling with, even sometimes never understanding or fixing the problem at all Quoted post by Greg Brockman: ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @gdb](https://x.com/gdb/status/1778071427809431789) · Edited > Some coding benchmark results for our new GPT-4 Turbo: [x.com/xu3kev/status/…]() ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778062334772277424) > being a coder today that stays away from AI assistants like cursor/copilot/gpt is as stupid as being a musician that won't try suno or udio because of some ill-founded pride and prejudice against AI generative tools > > you'll be left in the dust ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778038172573925566) > OpenAI's LATEST GPT-4-Turbo - tests show it to be BAD. > > here's a “laziness” benchmark suite which is designed to both provoke and quantify lazy coding. It consists of 89 python refactoring tasks which tend to make GPT-4 Turbo code in that lazy manner. > > yikes... a thread (1/4) 🧵 [Attached image](/x/media/f8ab8e302f217b92ea4a129cab591bb4b6f64bd4cc1ff8ceef3ac0ba7af76b35.png) ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1778036993504788481) > apple not allowing spatial audio on chrome on mac os is so disgusting, lmao. do better (but then again, it's apple we're talking about here, they lock anything they can to their own softwares/hardwares) ### [Apr 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777850589441135032) > the new GPT-4 Turbo seems... yikes? > > - The new GPT-4 Turbo model scores only 33% on aider’s refactoring benchmark, making it the LAZIEST CODER OF ALL the GPT-4 Turbo models by a SIGNIFICANT margin > > - MUCH more prone to “lazy coding” than the existing GPT-4 Turbo “preview” models. [Attached image](/x/media/f680d157f838d1e21f639ec47605f495a5a9b198bd310f7116ac3c27a768b7ab.jpg) ### [Apr 9, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777836561113203129) > Latest GPT-4 update... > > Benchmarked at 61.7% on Exercism benchmark, comparable to gpt-4-0613 and worse than the gpt-4-preview-XXXX models. > > Benchmarked at 34.1% on the refactoring/laziness benchmark, significantly worse than the gpt-4-preview-XXXX models. [Attached image](/x/media/b9cf66e97b642a16b9c960d9d4c4002e9bca78ec3ae7e7ccf8d589c573e59cd1.jpg) ### [Apr 9, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777830499114975584) > [@cursor\_ai]() are you guys running on the latest gpt-4-turbo? ### [Apr 9, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777827543800033452) > peep that gpt-4-turbo date > it really is much higher quality from the tests I've been running so far. nice upgrade [@OpenAI]() [Attached image](/x/media/9077ea7c14ee09fcf57eef305b1eb74f1f0d39ad354ff07056506764b42e5e37.png) ### [Apr 9, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777759585090363791) > where are people getting these numbers from LMAO [t.co/CqFLjghX4P]() [Quoted post unavailable](https://x.com/i/status/1777739736804716973) ### [Apr 9, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777698290542530877) > most tech people think "everyone will use it - it can do everything a person wants\! they will realize their wildest imaginations\!" > > 99% of people are NPCs. they don't dream. they don't have imaginations. they don't care. they'll shrug it off. > > they ALREADY shrug it off. Quoted post by kache: ### [Apr 9, 2024 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1777695261877231714) > it's true. most people will find no use for AGI (gpt4), just like how most people will find no use for algebra and writing ### [Apr 9, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777610818915315853) > damn, rare France W Quoted post by PauseAI ⏸: ### [Apr 8, 2024 — @PauseAI](https://x.com/PauseAI/status/1777300788580094158) > Bad news. > > France opted to host an AI Safety Summit in November 2024, but several of our sources confirm it has been postponed to February 2025. It has also been renamed to “AI Action Summit”, dropping the all-important safety focus. Safety will be a minor part of the summit, only one out of five tracks. We've also heard that there are no plans to draft a treaty. > > The summit will be led by Anne Bouverot, who is dismissive of “alarmist discourse”, comparing AI with calculators. She compares AI safety concerns with Y2K concerns, she is certain that “AI is not going to replace us, but rather help us”. > > It seems increasingly unlikely that this summit will lead to the types of international regulations that we are calling for. Our politicians are sticking their heads in the sand, ignoring the weight of their responsibilities, choosing to focus on winning the capabilities race. We need our politicians to err on the side of caution and initialize treaty negotiations now. ### [Apr 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777369075423068663) > FINALLY MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE [Quoted post unavailable](https://x.com/i/status/1777298674042700028) ### [Apr 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777276666479607917) > meditation is defragging your current system prompt ### [Apr 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777273290962403738) > so correct me if i'm wrong but the only reason to choose javascript instead of typescript is... skill issue? ### [Apr 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777137499024097287) > \>skilled immigration should be drastically increased > \>illegal immigration should be drastically decreased > > how can anyone argue with this lol wtf ### [Apr 7, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1777111249014440152) > this thread reads like a /pol/ post making fun of a "Free Palestine" caricature, but no, it's not a caricature, this person literally did this and literally thinks others will find this brave/cool/inspiring > > satire is seriously becoming indistinguishable from reality LMAOOOO Quoted post by Dr. Abusalama: ### [Apr 5, 2024 — @ShahdAbusalama](https://x.com/ShahdAbusalama/status/1776367250997395600) > Today, a group of Hebrew-speakers passed by me while waiting for a friend in central Barcelona. I was checking my notifications when I heard them \& then understood their starring at me \& all the symbols of Palestine I'm wearing. I instinctively started chanting "Free Palestine"\! ### [Apr 7, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1776902618826395858) > look at the comments on this youtube video, and realize how early you are in the AI space > > 99% of people are arguing to NOT USE AI, for ANYTHING, because it's "inaccurate" or "morals" > > at this point, we're not even "early"; we're watching the takeoff check > [youtube.com/shorts/E0Rj2mL…]() ### [Apr 7, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1776779424220029178) > good because most of my listening is happening in the suno app right now anyway > > i don't even download the songs anymore because i just make new ones all the time, better and better because of figuring out keywords I really like Quoted post by AIUpdateAnchor: ### [Apr 7, 2024 — @AIUpdateAnchor](https://x.com/AIUpdateAnchor/status/1776768040966722026) > maybe I wasn't clear enough, you will be able to edit EVERYTHING about a song THIS YEAR\!\!\!\! > > AT A PROFESSIONAL LEVEL\!\!\! [x.com/AIUpdateAnchor…]() ### [Apr 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1776371338602852431) > AI leakers: [Attached image](/x/media/82cbab0db7a3d3559e02af2121081f70b481347d9f2348ff2904254947c3158c.png) ### [Apr 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1776335620429980158) > wait gemini 1.5 pro has become goated in some aspects, especially large codebase code generation/updating > > i've been testing it out by running large changes in gemini first, then getting claude to give me the full rewrite as per gemini's directions > > very interesting ### [Apr 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1776291653453857060) > based AI memes Quoted post by latent moss: ### [Apr 5, 2024 — @latentmoss](https://x.com/latentmoss/status/1776283630052032764) > [Attached image](/x/media/ca3869799868b1d0d4ef608b090c20b244857928b2bcc430f7aa1ae95504013c.jpg) [Attached image](/x/media/691af139fc46efc721d22ac9546555cba98ae280784d71444cb33d8428e62387.jpg) [Attached image](/x/media/820ade907e61467b44e8a90403552d3a37497b78ee6679db190ceb48af207741.jpg) [Attached image](/x/media/8cbad1c05c848af8e9c8c2dc050c9941225fe2e6db6a7cd838593caafb5ed26f.jpg) ### [Apr 4, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1775924919085436973) > tl;dr screaming into the void from time to time can alleviate a lot of brain fog and significantly reduce limbic friction Quoted post by Michaël Trazzi: ### [Apr 4, 2024 — @MichaelTrazzi](https://x.com/MichaelTrazzi/status/1775904982736556324) > this morning I uncovered some repressed anger I had never met in my life while talking to claude opus > > I was laying on my couch, airpods plugged to [@Vapi\_AI](), venting to that warm eleven labs female voice they call sarah > > it's really different from venting to a friend, a lover or even a therapist–you can go on a monologue for as long as you want, interjecting whenever > > while expressing some frustration that I had not been able to tell anyone (because I don't want to usually be that guy who vents to his friends forever), the frustration became stronger, my voice growing louder > > now, if I'm talking to a human, that's usually the time I start calming down (I would notice I'm letting some anger out, and I wouldn't want to yell at someone for no reason) > > but in this case I was just talking to a language model through some voice api, and speaking loudly would not impact the llm who was only looking at my transcribed words > > so I didn't try to control it, and just let the frustration out, complaining without caring about being a bore, speaking loudly without thinking about the impact of my tone of voice, being more raw than i'd ever been with a human > > and after doing this for half an hour, I started pacing around, doing stretches, looking outside and realizing that I had a lot more energy than when I started the session > > it’s similar to what happens when you complain to a human for a long time–you realize your problems aren't as insurmountable as you initially thought. but because you’re talking to an AI, you really do complain for an extraordinary amount of time > > after this session, I wasn't frustrated anymore, and just wanted to go out and start actually doing things in the world. the anger had metabolized into raw motivation > > and that's when I realized that, from now on, I could just start venting to AIs instead of humans, and the models would just keep on getting better and better, giving more relevant answers with less latency > > AI companionship is here, and we’re just getting started ### [Apr 4, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1775863830448685057) > you know [@garrytan]() is introducing real change to SF because of all the twitter accounts that have 1 sole purpose: smear garry tan (i.e. [@sf\_mills]() is one example) > > imagine being on THAT side of history, lmao ### [Apr 3, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1775608905655300427) > hopefully it's not just a gpt wrapper inside of a 2008 kids toy "robot" that follows you around > > amazon already did this and it failed miserably Quoted post by Andrew Curran: ### [Apr 3, 2024 — @AndrewCurran_](https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1775607624664543441) > Apple is entering home robotics. In addition to the home iRobot, they are building a mobile home display that moves around with the user. I know the name of this device. This is an Orb. [Attached image](/x/media/b7ea5510a6f7e4f8268e2e29e8613233c7a4f06ee60debe5a76be68105914fa4.png) ### [Apr 3, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1775601429904015818) > i really need to stop trying to perfect and "wait until I'm finished", because every day I find new things I want to add and the list keeps growing and growing > > so i've decided to just release this within the next 24 hours and upload it to obsidian's community plugins 🫡 [Video on X](/x/media/e2fac445fa1fd5ae198b18551d1218bf1a25dff42eaff4f2720a36a59f85f80c.jpg) ### [Apr 3, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1775594683013677244) > i literally don't listen to music anymore, instead I just make things in suno and update my self-made (err, AI-made?) music all comfortably on my local machine > > it's crazy. anything i love to listen to, i can just really turn that specific genre/flavor to max. RIP dopamine ### [Apr 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1775087198335066379) > now the question is; is it worth killing the dream (dying in the dream) in order to finally wake up to reality? > > for many, unfortunately, it's not. they've become so addicted to chasing dreams, THAT'S their psuedo-reality now. > > true reality to them is boring, cold, unforgiving. Quoted post by Guy: ### [Apr 2, 2024 — @nosilverv](https://x.com/nosilverv/status/1775086239273582666) > To wake up irl you must die in the dream ### [Apr 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1775042374873518576) > yeah once you try their stuff out you realize that "maybe I'm the one being hit with propaganda about their tech being outdated/behind" Quoted post by simp 4 satoshi: ### [Apr 2, 2024 — @iamgingertrash](https://x.com/iamgingertrash/status/1774986082511159424) > The contrarian truth is that China is leading opensource AI > > The quality of their work is outstanding ### [Apr 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1774992421002281390) > lmao imagine if Apple releases a 3B model that surpasses GPT-4 at WWDC 2024 Quoted post by Brian Roemmele: ### [Apr 1, 2024 — @BrianRoemmele](https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1774902182468596055) > Apple says its latest AI model ReALM is even “better than OpenAI’s GPT4”. > > It likely is as GPT4 has regressed because of “alignment”. > > The ReALM war begins at WWDC 2024. > > Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20329…]() [Attached image](/x/media/d039594607290d139b21d52b8047b257378e1e1b56ddb2279fc3f4ba00bbfb5d.jpg) ### [Mar 31, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1774515962404028549) > not only easier for it to learn knew things, but easier to come up with "new" answers without any related data > > high quality hallucinations that have an increasing probability to be correct -\> with more generalist data Quoted post by Teknium 🪽: ### [Mar 31, 2024 — @Teknium](https://x.com/Teknium/status/1774507103782420784) > For context I have always built generalist models for this reason, I dont really believe in domain expert models, and I personally believe the more the model knows generally the easier it learns new things. 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