Ian Sefferman @iseff

👨‍💻 applied ai engineer ✨ making healthcare cheaper @goodbill ✋ detroiter 🎣 fly fisherman 🐶 english setter lover iseff.com Detroit, MI Joined September 2006

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 days ago

@wooster The absolute most fun.

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

5 days ago

We should not be primarily focused on humanoids

(1/6) From @GoogleDeepMind’s AlphaGo to AlphaZero, we saw machines find moves that reached beyond what we’d imagined for them. No one taught them those strategies. They emerged from reinforcement learning: playing, failing, and trying again under a single binary task reward for

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

6 days ago

Had to do it.

Wes Bos @wesbos

2 weeks ago

I have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB 1280×800 resolution with a nice touch screen I detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest video

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 weeks ago

the early 2000s amazon mafia is honestly insane. i got to work for/with/near so many impressive people: @bscholl: supersonic jets @jeffholden: whatever this crazy thing is @rdicker: cpo, zoom @daveselinger: physical security cto, lime ... plus so many others ...

Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl

2 weeks ago

Atomic Machines has invented the first deeply new manufacturing technology since… 3D printing?!? They can make important micro-scale electro/mechanical devices that are otherwise impossible. The first product is a breakthrough power relay that will be important to data center

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

It still hasn’t sunk in how the last 30 years of software development were about how to keep developers from context switching. And the next 20 seem like they will be about how to successfully context switch as much as possible.

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 weeks ago

3 years. Never again is now.

🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱 @TheDemSlayer

2 weeks ago

OCTOBER 7, 2023: SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DIE. Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm,

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

3 weeks ago

So I know Cognition doesn’t care about Little Ole’ Me, and this is just my story, so take it with a grain of salt, but here’s why I don’t think all these crazy scaling revenue numbers by coding agents are going to stick: We’ve been happy Devin users for a while. Really like the product, and like the company. Still do! This isn’t shade at Cognition, and I’m not upset with them, just a sample of why I worry about the competitive landscape for these cos. Anyway, our usage grew to >$100k run rate or so. I think one or two of our users even received an email congratulating them for being Top 200 users of Devin. As usage grew, we added more capabilities and needed a BAA (layman’s terms: an agreement that says they are HIPAA compliant). This required an Enterprise contract (why a piece of paper requires extra money is a topic for another discussion, but it’s very normal…) so we started talking to their sales team. Basically, we were going to ~1.5x our spend in order to get the BAA. Honestly, that was fine with us. We like Devin! Our only request was to pay quarterly (already a big concession from our existing monthly payments, given our relatively small size). They declined, unless we committed to EVEN MORE usage. Before responding, I decided to see how difficult it would be to set up Hermes to do the equivalent work as Devin, and to see what the costs were. I’d host it in our infrastructure and only use providers we already have a BAA with. Two days. That’s it. It’s functionally 100% equivalent. Maybe slightly better in some ways, slightly worse in others. We spend a little bit of time futzing with it, but we did that with Devin, too. The cost is roughly 25% of Devin. So, two days for $100k or so per year savings. All because they didn’t want us to pay quarterly. At some point, other companies are going to catch onto this, too. So congrats on this milestone, but keep finding more ways to provide value and keep customers happy. It’s hard to compete.

Cognition @cognition

4 weeks ago

Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

a month ago

This could go down in history as one of the dumbest decisions for America— and humanity.

Sam Altman @sama

a month ago

I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 months ago

Colleges are turning into healthcare. Expect it to get uglier before it gets better.

Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi

2 months ago

Net college prices have been falling, but price discrimination is getting more extreme, so sticker prices keep climbing. For low-income families, tuition at these colleges are cheaper than ever…personalized pricing we accept with almost no pushback.

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 months ago

@Misopogon Given Vandy’s recent emphasis on a great place for Jewish kids to attend, this is positive!

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 months ago

I am in an entire row of empty treadmills by myself. A guy just came and took the treadmill next to me. Do we not abide by urinal rules on treadmills anymore?!

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 months ago

GrokBot is really well done. Has a lot of the polish I have been wanting out of my personal agent. But (a) I just don't trust it enough, and (b) just won't be locked into a model. Hermes wins, still. @Teknium, pls take some notes from Bot on the UI for desktop/mobile.

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2 months ago

jack friks @jackfriks

2 months ago

ok nvm AGI isn’t here yet guys…

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 months ago

Paper Route #219 — 47 moves 🚲 +2 over par 📰📰📰📰📰📰📰📰📰📰 paperroute.fun

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

2 months ago

Fable one-shotted a new game based on just three or four sentences. Let me know what you think! paperroute.fun

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Ian Sefferman @iseff

3 months ago

Then a guy reads 1,300 years of Discord arguments and ships the Mac production docs. Then another guy ports those docs to Windows.

𝗖𝗮𝘁 שושנה 🎀🧃 @CatShoshanna

3 months ago

Me explaining the Talmud to Zoomers: “Well, it’s basically a Discord log from 1,800 years ago. Then another Discord log from about 1,500 years ago arguing over every message in the first one. Then a guy about 1,000 years ago writes the most legendary blog post explaining both.