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# Heist Movies Need CCTV to Work
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/standup-2024-01-03/
- Published: 2024-01-04T03:23:38.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-04T03:24:54.000Z
- Description: what can we do in ten minutes? the nearly identical twin dilemma. even emperors cry.
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: standup

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This is a daily [standup](https://www.bramadams.dev/tag/standup/) post of the work put into maintaining bramadams.dev. **Ex nihilo nihil fit*.

## Newsletter (Sundays)

idea for issue 42 – upstream pricing in the SaaS + LLM era:

- taylorism
- llms both increasing and decreasing value of knowledge work simultaneously
- a developer is not "working on a project", the project is being passed through the developer
  - these two things are different
  - the same problem can be solved in many ways by different devs
  - price your software as an empire
  - leverage code's abstraction and composability to "world build"
- technology is upstream of possibility
  - heist genre = magical realism of computers, phones, cameras
  - sci-fi genre = imaginable + unreachable rules
  - real world = all jobs are downstream of their purpose and the technologies they give affordance to

## Software (Saturdays)

> If the outputs are not provided before the `expires_at` timestamp passes (roughly 10 mins past creation), the run will move to an expired status.

([source](https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/how-it-works/runs-and-run-steps?ref=bramadams.dev)) 

what **can** be done in ten minutes? what **cant** be done? nb: you can take "longer" than 10 minutes if you capture all the messages in thread, and simply create a new one. it comes down to what type of tasks are worth waiting a full youtube video are

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embeddings do not suffer from scale they suffer from having fraternal twins

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im all in on deliverable agents, bb

lets go forms! 2024!

![Character Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/cc/0ccc9a8d-054a-4056-b11e-e1bfbbb66387/content/images/2023/11/leda-chibi-1024.png) 

<[LEDA](https://www.bramadams.dev/character-sheet/#leda)\> isn't every website ever just a css'ed out form or pamphlet? if i move the pamphlet really fast, your brain might think its real, huh? 

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