CityOfThrowaway

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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
I have a feeling this person is using far-from-frontier models, totally disconnected from the development environment. Using, like, gpt-4o is extremely not useful for programming. But using Claude Code in your actual repo is insanely useful
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
I read the post differently – the point of the exercise is not that you need to know the answers to the questions. It's to gauge your emotional reaction to the question itself. By examining the types of tasks you will be consistently f
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
Awesome!
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
The best practice that I've seen done (and enjoy) is: 1. Always squash and merge 2. But have tidy commits 3. So your squashed commit has a useful list of what is in the commit
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
I haven't tried this yet (though I plan to). One thing I would love is if I could give it a hint and have it extract out certain types of changes into its own branch that could split into a new PR. I often find myself adding a new, re-
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
I agree with this, in general. And I think having the base models improve their performance on being resilient against these types of attacks is a very good idea. That said, my primary point was that the claims made in the paper are at best
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
They tested one specific agent implementation that they themselves made, and made sweeping claims about LLM agents.
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
Situationally, the original post claims that LLM Agents cannot do the tasks well. But they only tested one agent and swapped out models. The conclusion here is that the very specific Agent that Salesforce built cannot do these tasks. Which
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
I'm not sure that's right. You can write prompts that make use of, but don't disclose secret information. I have valid live, production cases where we do this and don't have info-leaking problems due to the scaffolding &
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
The benchmark is useful, but the conclusion of the write-up is that current generation LLMs can't solve the problem. That's not a valid conclusion to draw. The results here tell us mostly about the skill of the agent-designer, not
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
This paper doesn't make any sense. They are claiming LLMs are bad at this set of tasks, but the reality is that they built a bad agent. I bet it's possible to nearly ace this using existing LLMs by designing a better agent. Better
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
#2 and #3 are both just engineering problems at this point. The foundation models don't adapt quickly, but you can definitely build systems to inject context that changes behaviors And if you build that system intentionally and correct
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
I mean... Taylor swift is literally the biggest musician in history... right now... There's still enormously mainstream culture. Even more enormous in the fat tail than before. There's just also a shocking depth in the mid tail
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
You should make a page with some browsable pre-generated pages and post again to spark interest
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
All 501(c)(3) are funded in part by the public by way of uncollected tax revenues for economically valuable activity.
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
I was talking generally, not this specific set of cuts. From what I know (and what is generally accepted), there is an abundance of waste in government spending. I don't know anything about this specific Accenture contract, so can&#x27
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
The data on hostile takeovers by "corporate raiders" very much does not support the characterization here. The category of PE firms you're talking about buy companies that are deeply troubled. Generally due to the management&
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Another thing I really like about Kasia's milk system is that it is a zero-emotional overhead communication. Just take the ticket and put it on her desk, and all will be handled.
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
He sets up a definition where "real intelligence" requires consciousness, then argues AI lacks consciousness, therefore AI lacks real intelligence. This is somewhat circular. The argument that consciousness can't be computabl
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Perhaps not widely known – there are two autonomous regions in Myanmar governed by the "Wa State" which is not recognized by the international community but is very much in control of their territory. It is financed almost entirel
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Of course everything is renegotiable. But after reneging on every serious promise you've ever made, I do think it's worthwhile pointing out that this organization is shamelessly Machiavellian. They have mistreated all of their con
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Yeah... this is consistent with my experience. Try to keep calm and actually try again in a few hours. It sounds like you have 2FA enabled so an account takeover is very unlikely. It sounds like you haven't violated the TOS in some egr
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
OpenAI really does seem to embody the idea that all contracts are renegotiable if you're Machiavellian enough.
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
YMMV but I've had similar loops during login that were resolved by trying to login in incognito mode. And if it works, then clear all your cookies / reboot / try again in the main browser. There's something broken in goo
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
This feels dangerously close to being almost totally automatable, unfortunately
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Even as a very experienced engineer, I find that I learn a ton from chatting with Claude about technical decisions. It is so valuable to take the ideas and questions in your head and get them out. You can then have Claude interrogate and pr
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Yes, but if they did their own language it would have almost certainly died in obscurity. React won because it solved a real pain point for a group of people, using the techniques they were already using... but better! Having built large ap
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
The global grid concept is a fascinating piece of infrastructure engineering. But the anti-market rhetoric here feels completely backwards. The article cites Shell building Europe's largest renewable hydrogen plant, BP's $30B Aust
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Blacklist is too concrete. With some domains, you merely will find a higher % of your emails land in spam, or your content ranks a bit worse, etc. There's a somewhat random continuum. Haunting is a funny word that does sort of include
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
For readers: you could build Namefax as a startup! Pure-partnerships based model... distribute it through registrars. "Heads up, this is a pre-owned domain. Do you want to get the Namefax for $0.99 before you buy?"

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