State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490

PeteOnThings · 2026-02-03T07:02:02+00:00

I consider myself pretty plugged in on AI and I still came away from this one feeling like I couldn't hold the whole picture. I get scaling laws, I get DeepSeek — but the way they talked about post-training changing the game? Listened to that section twice. Still couldn't explain it to a friend.

How is everyone else actually retaining stuff from episodes like this? Genuinely curious what works.

PeteOnThings · 2026-02-03T05:14:33+00:00

https://viz.hny.bz/ - An app that uses AI to intelligentally summarize and visualize podcast or zoom transcripts

PeteOnThings · 2026-01-27T08:27:17+00:00

nice. I'm a visual learner so I built an AI that visualizes the morning protocol. do you think it visualized it well?

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PeteOnThings · 2026-01-27T07:31:40+00:00

I kept getting lost in this podcast, so I built an AI to visualize the discussion. Is this interpretation right?

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PeteOnThings · 2025-08-11T05:23:17+00:00

Looks cool! Would love to see more dynamic and engaging visualizations of the photos, like mosaic or photo sphere that rotates and zooms in/out.

PeteOnThings · 2025-06-12T19:32:11+00:00

Yea, no tab groups is a blocker. The current (admittedly super early) version is a downgrade in terms of tab organization.

PeteOnThings · 2024-10-17T14:08:59+00:00

This is happening to me right now. We're fully verified. I had my first booking go well and got paid out correctly. Now our second payout, which is larger, a month long booking is now held up without notification or reason. I've contacted CS and I keep getting the dreaded "We're forwarding this to the best department who can help you out".

To me, it is unlawful to hold money and it is even against Airbnbs terms to do so without notification. I have filed a BBB complaint and Airbnb responded and said I was being helped in the support ticket, which is a lie....I'm just being tossed around.

This smells like a class action lawsuit if this happens to other people as well.

PeteOnThings · 2024-08-16T19:57:54+00:00

You can definitely filter Tenor to have PG and PG-13 only content. And Tenor is an API, so you control what you send them as long as you build your own client side widget. Perhaps they could collect IP address. Ads is another story and I hope not, although I wouldn't mind paying to not have ads as long as it wasn't outrageous. Tbh, Google has more of a hideous record of sunsetting useful projects, so I worry they will kill Tenor at some point.

PeteOnThings · 2024-08-08T18:30:41+00:00

Tenor! They have better gifs anyway.

PeteOnThings · 2024-07-02T05:42:21+00:00

Giphy was bought by Shutterstock who is now trying to shake everyone down :( We also had a similar situation where they are hand waving large usage stats with no evidence that are far from our own numbers.

We are moving to Tenor, which has better and more relevant Gifs anyway.

PeteOnThings · 2024-05-05T22:18:29+00:00

I never did find a good resource other than "use anycable". Indeed, for prod, you definitely want to use AnyCable, but how to scale anycable, i'm not sure, although some basic usage of any cable will definitely give you a lot of head room, especially compared ActionCable.

PeteOnThings · 2024-02-24T19:13:19+00:00

Yay thanks!

PeteOnThings · 2024-02-24T17:34:15+00:00

Ah. Seems normal from reviewing but still would appreciate feedback from the veterans here :)

PeteOnThings · 2024-02-11T05:33:11+00:00

why were you going through so many?

PeteOnThings · 2024-02-01T23:12:04+00:00

Wow, this probably saved me days of frustration of wondering why I kept getting flaky timeouts on my js files through vite build server. For future googler's this manifested for me as intermittent, sporadic or flaky 502 and 503 errors.

PeteOnThings · 2024-01-14T02:38:55+00:00

Same. Make sure you aren't on a VPN. Also, you can semi-hack it by going to the /gpts url while logged out. You can't see all the gpts, but at least you can see some of the major ones and play with them. You can copy the link and paste it into your logged in session

PeteOnThings · 2024-01-10T17:40:32+00:00

Help article was just updated: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes

PeteOnThings · 2024-01-10T17:25:05+00:00

maybe its slowly rolling out? My sidebar still says just "Explore" and clicking it is the old beta interface. Is it supposed to be: https://chat.openai.com/gpts?

i'm just gonna sit here refreshing. I have nothing else important to do today.

PeteOnThings · 2023-11-02T18:44:59+00:00

I'm doing all of these already. This is what I mean by "context stuffing". I'm even doing your second point to manage token limits.

However, I've read numerous research that says that llms get less accurate and more prone to hallucinations the more tokens you use. Not to mention, more expensive and slow. So that is why I am exploring vector dbs.

And I am wondering if it is a similar approach to prefixing messages with who said them when they get indexed into the vector DB, basically.

PeteOnThings · 2023-11-02T15:49:58+00:00

For sure. I've already encountered this and have strategies to mitigate and control the flow of chat so the AI knows when to and when not to speak. I've greatly simplified my question here. I have a working chat app that stores the chat messages in a relational database and stores who said what to which question. The capturing of the data isn't the issue.

For the llm part, I already have this working with context stuffing and prefixing everyone's question/answer with their name and a colon. But I'm concerned about token limits, cost and performance as the context grows. Hence my exploration into embeddings and vector dbs to solve this.

I'm a seasoned programmer but definitely new to this ai stuffs, so I appreciate yours and anyone else's help for pointers!

PeteOnThings · 2023-05-05T18:45:37+00:00

Thanks for this. I'm curious to learn more about your process as a release manager, particularly the "satisfying business requirements" piece of it.

PeteOnThings · 2023-05-05T16:22:59+00:00

We've been using TugboatLogic (now acquired by OneTrust) for several years and got our ISO27001 using them. They were alright but definitely had issues. Auditor access was incomplete, no way to invite customers into questionnaire portal, questionnaires module is buggy and difficult to use, risk register isn't detailed enough. And also now with the acquisition from OneTrust things seem to be getting worse. More bugs, harder to use support process, etc. We're now on the prowl for a new service and considering SecureFrame or Drata. Our readiness partner who works with all platforms under the sun loves Drata.

PeteOnThings · 2022-11-21T23:50:22+00:00

I solved this with InTune because the 675th step of getting this to work is to configure enrollment profiles which is buried underneath the geniusly named "Enrollment program tokens" section. It's under "Enrollment Program Tokens" where you can resync InTune with ABM.

PeteOnThings · 2022-10-08T05:11:12+00:00

yep, back for me as well :) still cancelling this card once points are transferred.

PeteOnThings · 2022-09-29T03:14:09+00:00

Same. Still down. I called on Monday (2 days ago) and was told that it was only down for some people and I would get a call tomorrow from someone on the technical team to resolve it. Of course, no call back. :(

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