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the lack of capitalization (and occasional omission of punctuation) was already a big thing on tumblr / twitter 10 years ago, especially in some anime and LGBT-adjacent spaces. I don't think jyn got it from Sam Altman, and I don't think he had that big a role in popularizing it.


It was a thing 25 years ago already in SMS and IM.


Before smartphones, it seems to have been the standard for just about every form of instant messaging. Well, morse has no capitalization and telex would typically have been uppercase-only too, but I think we can still count those?

I suspect that this is just something that happens naturally, for shorter-format messaging typing in sentence case probably offers no added readability and tends to get dropped over time.


It's a fairly common descriptor


Everything that we know and love is reducible to a basic CRUD web app


I think there's quite a jump from "ChatGPT has a high user retention rate" to "AI is useful to people". That's like saying funko pops were useful to nerds just because they kept buying them.


For some definitions of "you" and "die".


You = your body and mind

Die = don’t exist anymore


At least if the car doesn't start, you can immediately tell.


Imagine Google Maps driving directions took you in the correct direction 80% of the time.


No, you got that right. Only the displayed text is affected.


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