# Posts on X before Aug 20, 2024, 3:04:30 PM UTC

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## On X

### [Aug 20, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825909229720580180)

> another Tuesday in AI... hopefully something cool drops today :)



### [Aug 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825485400682766742)

> "grok, please auto-block retards and engagement bait based on your analysis of my current block list"
> 
> hopefully this feature hits soon, good idea Mark



Quoted post by Mark Cuban:

### [Aug 18, 2024 — @mcuban](https://x.com/mcuban/status/1825202716517224730)

> [@paulg](<https://x.com/paulg>) 💯💯💯
> It could be as simple as having AI do sentiment analysis, based on your chosen parameters, on a post before allowing it to your feed.



### [Aug 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825483657995501617)

> X is really starting to give off high quality 4chan vibes as long as you've built your algo well brick-by-brick. thank you [@yacineMTB](<https://x.com/yacineMTB>) and team



### [Aug 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825481614216044692)

> So eloquently put. So correct.



Quoted post by BURKOV:

### [Aug 18, 2024 — @burkov](https://x.com/burkov/status/1825026147756720194)

> [@daprofile](<https://x.com/daprofile>) Many humans are mere pattern matchers, but some aren't. All LLMs are mere pattern matchers.



### [Aug 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825387665300312401)

> if u so smart, why u not smart more?



### [Aug 16, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1824477887002550751)

> I think having an X Premium subscription should automatically come with like $5 / month in API credits for Grok. [@elonmusk](<https://x.com/elonmusk>) it would bring about lots of interest, budding starting-out programmers, etc. Truly shape the "Everything App" experience



### [Aug 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1824097697038827980)

> i mean at this point -I'M- scared of posting the copyright material i'm making in grok. how is elon going to deal with this other than censoring it like midjourney/others do?
> 
> then again, if ANYONE can do it with the right legal loopholes and galaxy-brain thinking, [@elonmusk](<https://x.com/elonmusk>) can.



### [Aug 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1823410891641250202)

> google and [@OfficialLoganK](<https://x.com/OfficialLoganK>) are changing many people's ideas of what google is and what it's capable of in the AI space, especially with instant releases like this instead of "nEw fRonTieR ModElS coMinG sOon"

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### [Aug 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822615163775639647)

> whoever has the best text-generating model wins. the world literally runs on text, and it will remain like that for the foreseeable future



### [Aug 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822385484053520865)

> after 3 grueling days of trying to figure out the best way to parse pdf/docx/powerpoint in obsidian into a nice markdown file and images... i finally did it. huge update coming soon.



### [Aug 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822249585529532696)

> i mean how difficult could it be to make your own pdf extractor? all the npm pdf extractors are absolutely dogshit



### [Aug 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821527286018986423)

> o no i think i ate too much creatine



### [Aug 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821427045420679504)

> gpt-4o is actually retarded when it comes to coding



### [Aug 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821370833421447456)

> all this AI hype around gpt-4.5 / gpt-5 with no release is cool the first time, eh the second time, cringe the third time, annoying the fourth time, boring the fifth time...



### [Aug 7, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821022814863868146)

> today's AI context windows are like the first 16MB flash drives back in 2000-2002.
> 
> except we won't have to wait 10 years for orders of magnitude improvement in capacity. soon, a "context window" will be virtually limitless



### [Aug 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820490185433600274)

> everyone’s waiting for WW3 to drop like it’s a new model LMAO



### [Aug 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820352479843721645)

> been using this all day today and... yeah it's performing amazingly so far code-wise, going to stress test it even further. it's so super safe though, that's the only downside



Quoted post by Ruben Hassid:

### [Aug 4, 2024 — @rubenhassid](https://x.com/rubenhassid/status/1820111720431468653)

> gemini 1.5-pro-exp outperforms gpt-4o.
> 
> Some say it's the end of OpenAI reign.
> 
> So I ran my own tests:
> test \#1 → write a viral twitter thread

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### [Aug 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820303368968905161)

> yeah a lot of people seem to forget that gpt-4o is any in, any out



Quoted post by Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc:

### [Aug 5, 2024 — @apples_jimmy](https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1820259947059479007)

> Hot take, I want the promised 4o image capabilities more than voice.
> 
> Something magic about the prompt accuracy and working in tandem with an alien ai to create.
> 
> “Art is the highest form of hope. What we are doing here is hope work.“ [x.com/gdb/status/179…](<https://t.co/zfmRuAINhk>)



### [Aug 4, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820073529200550303)

> It’s been months since I’ve used OpenAI anything for something. It’s all Sonnet 3.5.



### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819364084548317256)

> small tiny eensy weensy puny little chance that this also drops an upgraded OpenAI model. but... the chance is NOT non-existent\!



Quoted post by Brett Adcock:

### [Aug 1, 2024 — @adcock_brett](https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1819091030496735348)

> fyi, Figure has some very special announcements coming
> 
> The engineering team has been working their assess off the last four months
> 
> Tomorrow, you'll see the beginning of something that is nothing short of magical 🎩



### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819363191190966608)

> unpopular opinion: if this is how you react when you spend your money on something like a PS5, the last thing you need in your life is a PS5.



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### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819263571668426885)

> mind blowing how cheap intelligence is becoming. soon $1/$3 will be deemed too expensive for SOTA.



Quoted post by Legit:

### [Aug 1, 2024 — @legit_api](https://x.com/legit_api/status/1819161144881217885)

> Gemini 1.5 Flash is going to have significant price cuts on August 12th in Vertex AI
> 
> Input cost: $0.0375 per 1M characters
> Output cost: $0.15 per 1M characters
> 
> HALF THOSE PRICES FOR \< 128K CHARS

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### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819177640613630361)

> so... idk why no one is talking about this but... i replaced my daily $10 API bill by just replacing gpt-4o with gpt-4o-mini... now I'm paying $0.04? a day? hello? without loss of quality?



### [Jul 28, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817608228899094990)

> i support trans people converting
> into Christianity



### [Jul 28, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817468542935347467)

> light mode is actually goated



### [Jul 27, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817211697960042575)

> this looks like a google killer, I wonder how it does with more obscure searches that are common among developers, like what happens when you paste in a large debug error from console? or ask a documentation question? or ask for api specifics on some obscure package?



Quoted post by kes:

### [Jul 27, 2024 — @yoimnotkesku](https://x.com/yoimnotkesku/status/1817192241548468546)

> SearchGPT widgets look nice
> 
> It tends to focus on the results strongly, so sometimes I need to tell it exactly what I want it to do rather than what I want from the web

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### [Jul 27, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817169475994550557)

> QuickTime? More like WasteOfTime.
> 
> I've just wasted all day because for some damn reason QuickTime doesn't play audio on certain MP4s. Not until I opened it with IINA because I thought, hey, you know what, why not? Maybe this is one of those codec issues. 
> 
> Boom, it works.



### [Jul 27, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817163711812976952)

> i wonder how people pronounce [@yacineMTB](<https://x.com/yacineMTB>) (kache) - I pronounce it "KA-chey", almost like "catchy" but the a is like the "a" in "alone"
> 
> or maybe it's more like "KA-shey"? instead of chey? or... what if it's like cache? "KA-sh"? literally cash? do I just call him cash? money? help



### [Jul 26, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1816828046449447186)

> warp isn't that bad actually



### [Jul 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1816499562049368413)

> holy moly\! not one, but TWO blog posts today\! woah\!



### [Jul 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1816379052925612246)

> llama 3/3.1 and mistral large v2 are both trash compared to sonnet 3.5, there you go I just saved you loads of testing time that I did these past 2-3 days



### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815784894859272464)

> sonnet 3.5 is still best SOTA coder though, you can tell right away



### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815779155017171059)

> $3 input, $3 output. beta sonnet $3 / $15

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### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815770129604731384)

> Groq's max tokens (output) for the new 3.1 models seems to be 8000



### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815765997435109627)

> Already in the Groq API :) useable with SystemSculpt AI for Obsidian right now\!

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### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815707975622746580)

> holy fuck how boring would life be if I was mentally deficient enough to be a 🤢 decel 🤢 and had to not use any type of AI on purpose "out of principle". or if I was an AI art hater, I couldn't use midjourney and such, wow what a miserable life in today's abundant world



### [Jul 22, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815329605735137775)

> gpt-4o-mini is goated for quick back-and-forth brainstorming with huge context attached to it, amazing.



### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815018257071689788)

> gpt-4o-mini really feels like a SOTA \<10b model.



### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815013577721536673)

> I wonder if Opus 3.5 is waiting for GPT-5, or if GPT-5 is waiting for Opus 3.5 🤔 which will drop first to have the other respond-drop?



### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815011827056615582)

> you don't see kache's 17 fever-dream posts every morning anymore



Quoted post by kache:

### [Jul 21, 2024 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1815009618247987531)

> you don't see politicians kissing babies anymore



### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814910713808494668)

> airpods are remarkable. i accidently left them in my pants, ran them through the washing machine - I put them in a really dry towel to pull the moisture out and 1 day later, they're completely fine as if nothing ever happened. amazing



### [Jul 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814241691249033529)

> honestly i don't care how expensive gpt-5 is going to be at this point, it can be $25/$75 / mil and I'll still use it, just release it already smh



### [Jul 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814151128290070773)

> he... he just fixed it and... and pushed it to prod

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Quoted post by kache:

### [Jul 18, 2024 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1814049055292428671)

> [@dysmemic](<https://x.com/dysmemic>) fixed on web



### [Jul 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814147419350983162)

> yeah so gpt-4o-mini is useless for coding other than maybe diffs commits



### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813992655652843784)

> first impressions of gpt-4o-mini: super fast. succinct.



### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813949063718699484)

> it doesn't matter who we are. what matters is our bit. no one knew who i was til I started doing the bit.  [https://t.co/W636GCae60](<https://t.co/W636GCae60>)

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### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813943521310863454)

> so it seems like a new model is dropping today, gpt-4o-mini, possibly a full replacement for gpt-3.5-turbo. it's supposed to be "the smartest + cheapest" or something along those lines - hopefully it's available through API right away so we can test it



### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813854655031730448)

> it's been over 2 months since openai has done anything cool lmao



### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813836334219616709)

> remember, they masquerade their terrible brain rot opinions as you "not being inclusive enough to understand".
> 
> you're right. there's no room for debauchery, hedonism, addiction - no matter what excuse you think fits -in my household.



### [Jul 17, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813576839279059452)

> the amazing thing about open source that I don't think the first movers of the movement thought about was not that open source is something amazing for humans, which of course it is, but that it's actually a boon for ai. imagine how useless today's ai would be without github lmao



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