Amie Pollack

and because the algorithm was constantly changing, I had to change with it. I was constantly adapting my visual and verbal style to keep up with trends

I have just realized: I don’t want to see everything. I don’t want to know what people do until it’s a story, until the narrative has been constructed. Gatekeep the location, please. Tantalize me with a taste. Give me the tone, not the totality, until it’s ready.

Anna Gát

@TheAnnaGat

“In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron talked about how many people end up in fields adjacent to their real dreams just to feel close to what they truly want. Of course, we can’t always get what we want; the world does not exist to fulfill our desires. But carrying that truth—recognizing where our passions are—is really important.”

Another nuance is that most companies and developers do actually not self-host open source LLMs, but use services like together.ai to consume them. Thus, practically speaking, most developers consume open source models in the same fashion as they consume OpenAI or Anthropic models - via third party APIs. Also, most large models like DeepSeek R1 are... See more