CobrastanJorji

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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
There will have been tests, but there will have been missing end-to-end tests. Test 1 will verify that the new system/product emits billing entries in some expected way ("We did 100 bytes of operations and we see we called the bil
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Another tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xAI founders left. Your product's brand name is
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
> The Paxos algorithm for implementing a fault-tolerant distributed system has been regarded as difficult to understand, perhaps because the original presentation was Greek to many readers. Ha! That's very clever, author. You clearl
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
I interpret "keeps rising" negatively. Changes keep getting made, certainly. The AIs will perhaps never fail to fulfill your feature request. But there's no overall plan. It's just undirected, cancerous growth. It's
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Heck, even before they do anything, there is a sizable industry (with just a few players) focused entirely on the incredibly byzantine (but originally well meaning) process of bidding for government contracts (and also the politicking of ac
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Amazing character. Started as a regular robot-loving engineering kid, was in the right place at the right time and earned something like $140 million from Google, mostly from truly ludicrous performance bonuses, went to Uber for another gia
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Absolutely insane. Also, I love that it was open sourced. Although it sounds like from the GitHub page summary that there was some shenanigans involving a "certain very high profile game studio" that I'd love to hear more tea
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
> They select for comfort with the prevailing mess, because they have no other frame of reference. This doesn't go far enough. Employees on hiring committees select for conformance with their peers on the hiring committee because co
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
> GAO is a Congressional agency, it does not fall under the Executive Ah ah ah, you're describing how things were before Trump v. Slaughter, when the Supreme Court justices ruled that Republican Presidents are allowed to fire the he
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
The 1970s, and it is an allusion to an immigrant from the game "Papers, Please" who is stuck in a dystopian bureaucracy.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Let's try the suggested advice and ask why five times. > Why do you even need an AI assistant here? To take notes on what we talked about. > Why do you want to do that? Because I want to retain the contents of this conversation,
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
It has occurred to me over and over for the last several years that many of the senior engineers at my company would be substantially more productive with some sort of assistance from someone who specializes in having executive function ski
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
I wish this was more wrong.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Yeah, Amazon has disadvantages (counterfeits, fake reviews, more expensive) but its advantages (insane shipping speed/cost, strong return policy) are nearly impossible for competitors to compete with. The manufacturer is not going to o
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Great, now my websites are gonna push entire LLMs onto my browser in order to use my CPU to make inferences about my shopping habits or whatever.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Honestly, given the dangerously unmitigated power of Claude Mythos, we should really look into arresting the people who have failed to ask Claude to cure cancer already.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
"Permitted" is doing a lot of work there.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
If I see something weird going on outside my house, should I be allowed to take a picture of it? If I decide to take a picture of what's going on outside my house for no reason at all, should that also be allowed? if I decide to put a
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Exactly. The content of the zines was not an issue in the case. This case is crazy, but it's not insane for free speech reasons.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
> randomly filtering "too many" resumes is pretty much allowed (I think) It's totally fine to filter out resumes in a completely random, content-independent way. Grabbing the fourth resume down in the pile and offering the
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
It's simpler. Management felt like employees weren't leveraging AI fast enough. They chose to measure "AI leveraging" in the easiest way they could: how many tokens each employee was using. Goodhart's Law ("Whe
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
> Everyone pretend the value of someone's work is the product of that work, not the labor. Is it not? If I spend 10 years writing the greatest novel of all time, and you, a publishing company, make copies and sell 10 million copies,
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Someone should start a nonprofit company focused on developing Open AI. I bet we could even get some sensible billionaires to help the effort.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
I guess because my kids keep breaking the shoddy slide-on joycons, and the new magnetic ones are a much better design.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Sure, but I didn't buy a Switch because of its power or because of its form factor. I bought it because that was the way to play Zelda.
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
Why would you compare React to Kubernetes instead of comparing React to Vue.js?
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by CobrastanJorji 3mo ago
No, it really still makes no sense. Where's the moat around what Cursor provides? If Cursor is really that great, surely something equally great could be developed for a measly $1 billion or so? Is it brand recognition? An established
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by CobrastanJorji 4mo ago
I don't think using the name Fable is wrong, but I think a pool of Fables should be called a Grimm, or possibly an Aesop.
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by CobrastanJorji 4mo ago
If you check "DEPLOYMENT.md," there is a lengthy list of deployment instructions for the app, and it includes creating an assets folder and putting an image of Claude Shannon in it. There are also other instructions, like "pl
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by CobrastanJorji 4mo ago
Your great grandboss will not look favorably upon your grandboss passing blame downhill. Disasters are (hopefully) always the fault of the person in charge, which is why you'll notice that your bosses are unusually involved with meetin

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