59nadir

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by 59nadir 4mo ago
I wouldn't expect any of the american labs to be particularly great (or have much desire) to work on efficiency, they've been consistently proven to be uninterested (if not incapable) of actually improving on those types of things
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by 59nadir 4mo ago
I prefer faster, dumber models because I provide the intelligence myself and I use them only for things that can be verified pretty easily; they do research (with sources) for me, do certain types of code analysis and code search, boilerpla
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by 59nadir 4mo ago
For losers who can't put together a program to save their life, have no real skills and were always not really interested in programming (hence their poor skills), renting a robot buddy to do it for them is a good deal, until the buddy
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by 59nadir 4mo ago
Most people don't really want to acknowledge this because most people have optimized only for learning domains and are still terrible at the job of actually putting together solutions, writing software, etc., even after 8+ years of wor
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by 59nadir 4mo ago
What an absolute dud of a submission, I can't believe this got so many upvotes. I guess people saw "Valve" in the title and figured it must be important, even though the content of the issue doesn't even line up with the
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by 59nadir 4mo ago
I would be very impressed with someone who's been vibecoding "a lot" for about a year who could then go back to being fully in the loop for even 50%. I would even say I'd expect withdrawal symptoms at that point. The dop
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
I don't use LLMs for code generation except for very simple, small things because they suck at it and I wouldn't want to ship what they write. Since I use LLMs basically only for analysis and as a signal in bug discovery, debuggin
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
> Software fundamentals - though useful - are table stakes skills at this point. I'm having a difficult time even seeing what we're talking about here. I see "seniors" in our industry that don't know what I would
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
Not even SotA models are good enough to generate code (beyond functions or small, very simple modules) that I'd be happy shipping, so I've decided to just not have them do that. And given this, it has basically turned out that wha
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
My personal experience with trying to front-load tons of planning and speccing out with LLMs is that at best it's a small improvement on code quality but with considerably more time spent. As a result I've abandoned the idea of ha
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
That's interesting, because I thought it was common knowledge that Republican presidents actually add more on average to national debt...?
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
Anyone who frivolously suggests throwing away possible independence in favor of dependence on a Silicon Valley company is either incredibly naïve or acting in bad faith.
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
When I try to open this URL in qutebrowser I get redirected to a random anthropic.com URL, for example: https://www.anthropic.com//0.76447840537627 Setting my User-Agent to match my Firefox instance fixes it.
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
Once you get into it it's not any slower than typing; if anything I think you can actually be faster with a good enough grammar, and it's precise too. The problem I had eventually was that dictating all day is itself something tha
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
I lost about 50% functionality in my hands in 2018-2019 and couldn't type more than an hour or so per day, what really saved me was dictation via Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and for coding I used dragonfly to create programming grammars.
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
While I agree that Mercurial probably lost a ton of users for not clearly addressing performance issues for quite a while, I've found it's never too late to switch from using git, to be honest. I am personally using Fossil for all
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
I mean, not really...? A vibecoded mess that runs badly, that's not really the hard part for something like compression/decompression tools.
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
It probably wouldn't take a single person who knew what they were doing more than a year to re-implement Bun in basically anything, by hand and from scratch, i.e. not even looking at source. Writing the code for something you already u
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by 59nadir 5mo ago
This was one of the key insights in Stripe's explanations about Minions[0], their autonomous agent system; in-between non-deterministic LLM work they had deterministic nodes that handled quality assurance and so on in order to not leav
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
I haven't used whatever they've shipped in terms of type system, it's possible that that would be a positive differentiator for Elixir now. With regards to `mix`, you can use literally only that if you like it and just set up
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> However, I'm not convinced this shows GPT 5.5 being that much better than Opus 4.7. It could very well be the harness around it, the system prompts used in the harness and tools available. A model that can more effectively make us
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Erlang isn't a popular BEAM language outside of companies and by this point Elixir has probably taken a good chunk of that just by capturing people outside of that context enough as well. With that said there is almost no reason to use
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
As an addendum to this: If I were to try to make something more useful out of this, I'd probably add the ability for LLMs to list buffers, probably give them an easier out for executing shell scripts in the way they prefer, give them a
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
I'm just messing around with building agents, that's all. I'm not super interested in making ones that just sit in a terminal executing shell scripts because truth be told they're absolutely trivial to make and don'
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
I'm basing this mostly on the segments that were done on how people in rural areas (generally quieter) were experiencing all kinds of issues from living too close to data centers.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Counter-point: I built an agent that can only interface with Kakoune, a much less common and more challenging situation for an LLM to find itself in, and Gemma4-A4B 8bit quantized does remarkably better in actually figuring out how to get t
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
The staff sporadically saying "AI!" is a very nice touch. I found myself trying to get as many servers and load as possible but having the temperature stay stable. This is a neat little game, in a way (though it seems to auto-stab
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
I really liked this write-up; this is the type of LLM content that I actually want to read from these people, where they give a window into their world of putting together this odd artifact and we can empathize.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> a misunderstanding in the users mind about how the agent work On top of that the agent is just doing what the LLM says to do, but somehow Opus is not brought up except as a parenthetical in this post. Sure, Cursor markets safety when t
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Just had one today where GPT-5.4, instead of adding the 10 lines I asked for (an addition that could be done pretty mechanically by just looking at some previous code and adding a similar thing with different/new variable names) procee

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