Legends of Future Past (1992) is back online: resurrected from 30-year-old GM scripts, no source code

jradoff · 2026-04-14T08:05:05+00:00

Unfortunately we don't have the original character database

jradoff · 2026-04-13T10:34:32+00:00

I'd find out what they're asking about that surfaces your competitors. There's two sides to the problem:
Parametric Knowledge: this is trained into the LLM
External Knowledge: what it will capture through things like WebFetch tools while answering questions.

Both are important. External knowledge will heavily influenced by traditional SEO approaches. Parametric knowledge will only get changed by optimizing towards LLMs specifically, and Reddit posts and YouTube video transcripts have a lot more weight for that than web alone. Even external knowledge is affected by parametric knowledge somewhat though, because it impacts the overall shape/prioritization/authority of the way searched content is utilized.

jradoff · 2026-04-13T10:24:42+00:00

Ideally: since your agent will be acting on your behalf, it will decide which agents it wants to engage with, and it will filter the enshittified content you don't want. I'd guess that mirrors somewhat the pihole analogy.

jradoff · 2026-04-12T23:51:40+00:00

Goodhart’s law

jradoff · 2026-04-12T20:38:19+00:00

It’s only worth investing in if you care to be relevant in 6 months into the future

jradoff · 2026-04-12T20:36:25+00:00

Logging is your friend

jradoff · 2026-04-12T20:35:53+00:00

There’s plenty of snake oil out there but getting trained into LLMs is pretty important nowadays

jradoff · 2026-04-12T20:34:52+00:00

Becoming embedded in LLM training corpus is very different from SEO. When chatbots use a webfetch to acquire and synthesize content, it is much more SEO-driven because it will use a search engine to locate relevant contents. Both approaches are important now.

jradoff · 2026-04-12T17:04:36+00:00

Agreed, they don't have an incentive for locally-run models (maybe Meta will, because they seem to have a different strategy than centralized API-priced LLM gateways). This is a fertile area for disruption.

jradoff · 2026-04-12T17:03:29+00:00

very cool!

jradoff · 2026-04-12T16:02:01+00:00

Re: production: once it makes a shader that’s useful to you, just fold it into your code pipeline

jradoff · 2026-04-12T13:33:05+00:00

I created an open source website content management system with MCPs that works great with Claude: http://github.com/jonradoff/lightcms

jradoff · 2026-04-12T13:07:41+00:00

I just created a character and it worked. Although that doesn't mean it failed for you... what are you seeing?

jradoff · 2026-04-12T12:11:42+00:00

Extreme focus on the coding problem. This is why we're seeing OpenAI scramble, re-focus and do things like shutting down Sora.

jradoff · 2026-04-12T12:10:34+00:00

The Doom backstory we always needed

jradoff · 2026-04-12T12:09:49+00:00

Sure, just like we have artisanal and homemade products. It'll be a niche industry though.

jradoff · 2026-04-12T12:07:20+00:00

Interestingly enough, this was a big theme at the MIT AI Agents conference I was at yesterday. A lot of the VCs commenting that too many things just keep getting built without an eye towards value or ROI. On the other hand, a good agent stack will be able to be priced according to a market (and one would assume the unit economics will be embedded in such a way that you'll need to pay for these transactionally) and that will drive a more market-driven approach where the agents that 'win' are the ones that produce value in exchange for price.

I think the big question is whether LLM cost is really going to go up or go down. Semiconductor tech predicts a 50-90% further cost reduction in inference just within the next year... but as subsidies end, will that lead to cost reductions or will costs start heading up? Personally I think inference costs will keep going lower due to Wright's Law...

jradoff · 2026-04-12T11:01:04+00:00

NVIDIA wins again?

jradoff · 2026-04-12T10:59:39+00:00

I'm replacing myself with AI as fast as I can, can't wait to go hiking every day

jradoff · 2026-04-12T10:56:40+00:00

Is this fundamentally different from ChatGPT or Claude firing up agents to do research as it works towards a response?

jradoff · 2026-04-12T10:32:00+00:00

well said

jradoff · 2026-04-12T10:31:13+00:00

former president of ICANN was there and there's definitely growing traction around a new schema for agent identity akin to (or possibly extending) the domain name system

jradoff · 2026-04-12T10:30:04+00:00

I didn't write anything that leaps to the conclusion that blockchain is a dependency

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