Anamon

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by Anamon 4mo ago
I don't think that putting a text file saying "don't make mistakes" is going to get LLM output to the point where it doesn't need professional input, guidance, review and refinement anymore. They don't make the
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by Anamon 4mo ago
That is only true for one-shot applications, though, whether written by human or machine. The reason we care about code quality is because rarely we don't have to look at code again after we first wrote it. Poor code quality makes main
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by Anamon 4mo ago
Many software engineers have to get things done not just once , but ensure they keep getting done, reliably. That's what 100% of vibe coders don't understand when they brag about their one-shot toy projects. The tools we "pl
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by Anamon 4mo ago
Come back to tell us how that's been working out 6 or 12 months from now. You describe yourself as a vibe coder. In other words, you don't understand what you're shipping, and somehow that doesn't seem to concern you. I&
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by Anamon 4mo ago
"getting people to pay attention to and enjoy something that you've created" is a lot harder still if you didn't really create the thing. I'm not trying to be snide, but the tools that allow you to produce that kind
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by Anamon 4mo ago
As always in these discussions, I think people compare apples and oranges. LLMs are great with in-distribution solutions for solved problems with a lot of relevant prior material and in established technologies. Frontend stuff works great,
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by Anamon 4mo ago
You write "so much code that no one person could possibly understand it" as if it was a good thing. Surely, you're being sarcastic?
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by Anamon 4mo ago
That's like saying it's irrational to disregard a news report after finding out it was fake. You believed it and found it interesting at the time. Why would knowledge about it being untrue change that? Because we don't read r
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by Anamon 5mo ago
As someone who would consider himself in the same situation, I don't see dissonance, but pragmatism. The scenario isn't a temporary crisis, it's total collapse, end of the world stuff. Why would I be so keen on surviving that
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by Anamon 5mo ago
Emulating being the key word here. Putting words in a similar order as a critical thinker would, isn't the same as critical thinking. Have you looked at the output of "reasoning" models? It's funny, for sure, but not imp
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by Anamon 5mo ago
We're not at the early stages. The LLM hype started almost for years ago! And for the past two or three years, progress has plateaued (if not regressed) and the economics, which still have to be figured out, point to it becoming an ord
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by Anamon 5mo ago
Of course it's not the same thing -- it's way worse. The piracy comes first, and it's exactly the same thing. GenAI Corp. can't train models on illicitly obtained media before illicitly obtaining said media. And that ver
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by Anamon 5mo ago
Reminds me of one of my favourite episodes of one of my favourite TV shows ever, The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Technically a children's show, but with such cool, philosophical layers. "What if you could only hear [your favourit
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by Anamon 5mo ago
There's Bandcamp. I'm sure it's more difficult the more mainstream music is, but in my areas of interest, I'd estimate that at least 80% is available from Bandcamp. And for those who really want to optimise on where thei
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by Anamon 5mo ago
I might be overlooking something, but is a mirror of the Internet Archive even mentioned as a plan anywhere here? It was my first thought after reading the headline, too, but the website only speaks of archiving LLMs and, vaguely, some othe
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by Anamon 5mo ago
I, for one, find the language used in these posts and publications extremely off-putting. "Behaviour", "teaching", "the model's ethics". And this is presumably written by technical folks, who know how thes
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by Anamon 5mo ago
It always seemed like Turner was the last media mogul with a conscience (there were never that many in the first place). As the article mentions, it's kind of surprising that he didn't turn into a villain given what he went throug
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by Anamon 5mo ago
I don't know if "anti-natalist" can be so simply placed on the conservative vs. progressive axis. Worrying about overpopulation means worrying about the quality of life of future generations, whereas "natalism" à la
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by Anamon 5mo ago
But it has to be strongly worded, otherwise it won't accomplish anything.
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by Anamon 5mo ago
I went with Exodus. Have fun trying to get your funds out of Coinbase. I managed after about 3 days and 10 support tickets. The process seems intentinally broken. What a nasty company.
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by Anamon 5mo ago
The way computing and the web have developed over the past two decades, I even feel nostalgic for Bonzi Buddy.
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by Anamon 5mo ago
I think that's fair for a static "end of service" notice which probably, almost by definition, won't be worked on further.
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Another possibility is that their crawling code is just that bad. A lot of these GenAI companies are dogfooding in their software development, and the quality can be seen whenever some of their code is released or leaked. It seems very plau
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Coding agents are interesting, but in my opinion also many worlds away from what they're being sold as. They can be helpful and a moderate efficiency gain, if you know where to use them and you're careful to not fall into one of t
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I've started using phish.report along with SpamCop to specifically report phishing sites separately. They do a hosting lookup and link directly to the abuse contact or form. Phishers are definitely trying to become cleverer. My "f
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Many of my consciously subscribed-to newsletters use Mailchimp, such as record shops and labels. They're also one of the mail services I have a better impression of given their responses to my reports.
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by Anamon 6mo ago
DB-less is underrated. You can take it even further. One of my favourite websites ever loads its entire main content index into the client as a JSON file. It's about 5 MBs I think, so maybe 10% of the ad and autoplay video crap most &q
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I suspect there may also be a strong "it's what people want" aspect to this. Why do smartphones barely outlive their warranty period? Check the statistics on how long most people keep their phone before voluntarily replacing
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by Anamon 6mo ago
According to people in the thread, Deuter and Osprey are still independent and high-quality. I don't know about backpacks specifically, but my general impression with Decathlon and their own brands has been that they somehow manage to
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Tough to define and enforce, though. It reminds me of EIG (Endurance International Group), who at least at one point owned a large portion of major mainstream webhosts (including Arvixe, Bluehost, Hostgator, A Small Orange, Site5...). They

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