Cursor is just an IDE (integrated development environment), you can set it up to use all sorts of LLMs either directly through Cursor, or with your own API keys for the sources.
This file content just goes into the initial context to help the LLM act how you want.
Clearly, the brainworms know they’re gonna be targeted by the tech in the future and need to stop it now.
Even if it wasn’t a honey pot, it IS a honey pot as the DOJ will just subpoena all pushes sent to all devices via it with some lame excuse that the courts will approve.
All the privacy claims were complete BS. Apple will roll over if given a warrant.
Never do your own Crypto
Figured this needed repeating not at the bottom
I’d rather not be in the world of ruin timeline.
I had one of theirs like that. You could disable it instead of uninstall, and this wouldn’t happen, but you couldn’t uninstall it.
I didn’t know, had to look it up, 17th biggest.
The rough quote is, we have to win against this every time. They only have to win once.
Developers developers developers developers, developers developers developers developers AI
If you didn’t actually finish high castle, it just keeps getting good weirder.
I’ve had things like this happen, and I always suspected it was Facebook itself doing it, but now I think it’s also likely its something else feeding info into an ad system that then shows the ad on Facebook.
Every now and then I’ll just blurt out random things I want that I’d never want to see if I can trigger getting ads for it. Hasn’t happened in quite awhile now, probably because restrictions on doing it are getting better.
Anthropic is building some tools to better understand how the LLMs actually work internally, and when they asked it to write a rhyme or something like that, they actually found that the LLM picked the rhyming words at the end first, and then wrote the rest using them at the end. So it might not be as straight forward as we originally thought.
You don’t think they’d hang you with your own rope?
The thing about business though is you need to be able to derisk your business from a single failure point.
Tesla has a lot of battery cell supply and now production, and they use that supply chain to build commercial batteries. That’s taking 1 thing you’re good at (batteries) and then branching out to help build a new revenue business. Now their energy business is beginning to boom after years of being somewhat sidelined for cars, but now that cars are about to suffer heavily, the commercial battery business helps protect them.
FSD and Optimus are the same but aren’t paying off yet. Let’s say tesla never actually achieves FSD. They still end up with a very advanced level 2 system, that they could maybe pivot into a level 3 on highway only system. Or maybe it will only ever be a level 2 system.
But they’ve spent all these billions building the training network infrastructure (hardware and software), as well as seeing if they can maybe build specialized training compute to internally compete with NVidia (v2 of dojo might he competitive but we don’t know yet)
But it’s a shit load of money going into this, so how do you derisk it? You find another product to use the technology. Enter Optimus. It uses the same FSD computer. The same vision based neural network that billions of dollars has been spent training, in a less human saftey risk than cars (e.g a robot carrying a box is less risk than a car going 75mph and malfunctioning into a multi car accident) and aside from the hardware needing to be cost effective, should be a easier problem to solve with technology today. It also leverages Teslas’ manufacturing capabilities.
So the “should just go back to cars” kind of mindset removes these kind of de risking side ventures.
I absolutely agree they should get back on the plan of more vehicles and less focus on robotaxi cars until FSD is actually real, but it’s these side things that keep a business healthy and protected from something like 25% auto tarrifs.
Further, they have so much cash on hand even with these expensive ventures and are very profitable so using the cash to expand like this is prudent.
Edit: just another non Tesla example… Stellantis is partnering with Archer Aviation to help manufacture their eVTOL planes. They’re using their manufacturing expertise to do something else which will help derisk them.
They still sold 330,000 cars even with all the drops and model y changeover on a quarter that’s always the weakest in the year.
It would have to get much much much worse to make them not profitable on the cars, and not be able to sustain the difference from their energy business.
Maybe sales under 1 million for the whole year for something like no profit? But maybe not even then?
Edit: in 2017 The model 3 ramp was profitable at 5k a week in Fremont, and the car is cheaper to make today.
It’s less the 40b and more how profitable the vehicles are.
They have a lot of room for reduced sales, they could cut an entire shift and be okay profitability wise. The 40b allows them, If they wanted to still try and grow with the reduced sales. That could last for many years if needed in that case, but if shit hit the fan and they decided to grow less and optimize for further reduced costs the could probably keep the 40b much longer.
Edit: And they sell more than cars to generate more profit. Energy business is growing and less (bit not zero) impact from his craziness as commercial stuff cares less.
Tesla has something like 40b in cash, and makes more profit on their vehicles than everyone, even at these lower prices, except for companies like Porsche.
You could probably halve their total sales and they’d still be fine financially.
The stock would be another story though.
Q1 vs Q1 Tesla is up in China, it was something tiny like less than 2% though where q1 2024 was already low.
They’re still down pretty much everywhere else though.
Generally speaking, picking individual months is pretty meaningless.
A sales email in a tricky situation due to how the potential client responded or writing a personalized cold call email? Of course!
Edit: As I learn and get better at sales I imagine it’d get quicker, but I’m learning while working with the AI.
I came here to write that.