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Billion-dollar infrastructure enables advanced financial risk management systems
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The system that makes that possible within thirty minutes cost, let me be handwavy here, a billion dollars. But after you have it, you are much less reticent about cards with $100k limits running around. Because they don’t really have that limit except when you want them to.
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Credit Usage Patterns During Positive and Negative Circumstance Changes
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In the case of happy/neutral changes in circumstances, actually using that additional credit might be a gradual adjustment over time, which is observable in a way the circumstance itself is not. In many but not all negative scenarios, usage might spike quickly.
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Banks Use AI to Dynamically Manage Credit Risk Real-Time
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These behaviors are particularly concentrated at the largest banks with the best technology investments, because they have the capability to do something which is poorly understood and was once very hard for anyone to do: dynamically pare credit exposure in close to real time.
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Regulatory Compliance Strategy: Demonstrating AI Prudence to Authorities
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That prompt is largely to be able to tell the regulators that they are just being prudent.
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Techniques for Getting Better Feedback from Claude Opus
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Hoohah. Do you do anything particularly special to get good feedback from Opus or is it just “write the obvious prompt, get good output”?
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Engineer Value Creation: Ten Years at Big Tech Companies
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Which is in some ways very unsurprising: if you’re producing at least as much value as a mid-seniority AppAmaGooBookSoft engineer and you work for ten years, yeah, that should be the expected outcome.
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Software Entrepreneurs’ Long-Term Success: MicroConf Speaker Wealth Analysis
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The tail of outcomes among people I met over the years doing software is very long, but indicatively if one looks at e.g. attendees at speaker’s dinner at MicroConf in like 2012, yeah, about half are multi-millionaires.
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Context Switching Costs in AI-Assisted Workflows
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Not captured by the model is the context switching cost, since "inbox gardening mode -> oh a bill -> task switch to bank website -> what was I doing again?" is a thing which hits me very hard.
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ChatGPT estimates 500 hours for invoice processing automation
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ChatGPT, happy to speculate on this, produced a model which suggested it is probably ~500 hours or one solid quarter of full professional effort doing nothing but invoices. That feels approximately right to me. (I do more of this than most people; ran a business since 2006, etc)