Eridrus

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by Eridrus 4mo ago
I think what will be interesting is not whether the code will be produced, but rather: will anybody actually use any this output? This sort of reminds me of startups that go out of business and then open source their code. It's kind of
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
Hell yeah, $516 for a complete AWS replacement, I'm in lol!
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
Yes, this whole kerfuffle is about contractual agreements between companies, not about governments. I take my legal risk more seriously than I do people's paranoia about the NSA coming for them.
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
I'm sure AWS told Anthropic this was a bad idea, but now that OpenAI is on AWS, this doesn't really change AWS' competitive posture as much as it does for Anthropic. When OpenAI releases a similar model they will presumably n
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
So basically all models going forward? I don't think anyone currently thinks the Haiku/Sonnet/Opus models are "good enough" such that they would not want improvements. Users may be cost conscious, but almost every t
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
In general, I agree with you. However, in the case of model providers, I think it is a more real concern since it could make it into some training data, and then one of your actual competitors could ask the model to code something up and ge
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
This makes these models unusable in the settings where people are actually benefiting from these models being on Bedrock (e.g. they have customer contracts that limit who they can share data with, etc). If the lift from these models is high
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
Is it realistic to make organizations that stay on mission long after the founder is gone? I listened to a podcast interview you did where you talked positively about the Novo Nordisk Foundation as a successful governance story, but when I
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
This never made it into prod since the scale was small, but one of the favorite leaks I found when working on bot detection was browsers which generated the same random numbers. Presumably because they were being init to the same VM snapsho
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
> hires based on how similar candidate prior jobs seem to be for current role <- if candidate is bad, the interviewer can justify the decision by pointing to the candidate's background. I have found that people are often not very
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
You don't see how a customer facing position in a retail chain would reasonably want all these personality traits in their hires as a matter of operating a good business?
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
This is not about being entirely unqualified. My criticism here is that all you need to get this result is that there are some jobs that some groups apply to more than other groups despite being less qualified. We know from other literature
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
> If it were what you were asserting, then this behavior and results would persist even without AI being used. Instead when they remove the filter for AI decisions (and AI mono-culture in decisions) the effect is no longer present. >
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
It's kind of dumb that we have to do this as a separate process, which introduces even more churn and review burden, rather than having this out of the box in the code generation process.
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
It seems like this is measuring algorithms against the disparate impact standard of all demographic groups needing to have the same aggregate results. Which is extra weird because the samples to this are applications, not humans, so this is
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
You can do statistical testing of the e-vape line because you have a specific criteria and well defined tolerances that you can define on a per-sample basis and that the factory meets with some acceptable 9s of reliability. PRs are not like
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
I have the same criticism of AI writing too much code. It's surprisingly effective to just tell the AI to cut the (prod) line count in half and look at whether there are other libraries it could reuse. I think you could probably also h
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by Eridrus 4mo ago
soc2 is stupidly viral but generally not a blocker since its pretty straightforward to get. It's really the per-customer contractual agreements you had to sign to grow that make things horrible.
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
To go a step further, the reason it's often impossible to add a new vendor if that you've signed a bunch of contracts with your customers saying you're not going to send their data to other vendors in all sorts of various f
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
And this is why people do studies, because anecdotal evidence is a hypothesis at best.
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
I have no desire to defend people's linguistic games that were extremely low value. I do not think these games pass a cost benefit calculation. But fighting against these memes also doesn't pass a cost benefit calculation. Having
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
The approach to flight security is a great example of why regularly erring on the side of caution is a terrible approach.
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
This is trying to sanewash totally insane levels of risk aversion. Do you think terrorists are really going to name their Bluetooth speaker "bomb"? Do you think this behaviour has any meaningful true positives? This is the kind of
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
I think the thing to do here for those exposed to this nonsense (QQQ, SP500 holders) is to make noise to their index provider that you don't want them changing the rules to please Elon.
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
You should probably consider that your perspective is also biased and you see all the companies that are in esting. IME, MCP has often lagged APIs in terms of complete ess, so as a user, if there was an API, I would be better off using that
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
While unions did fight for the 40 hour work week and crystalized that specific number, their actual causal impact (on hours worked, not law) is contested since hours were already falling well before unions were organizing for the 40 hour wo
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
"Just" is doing a lot of work here. Many people have appreciated gains locked into their indexing products such that changing is very expensive. The biggest issue is not SpaceX/Elon per se, but indexes bending over backwards
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
I think it's a fair question to ask ourselves. But it's worth noting how leisure hours have been allocated after the invention of the 5 hour work week: we've reduced working hours at the end of life (longer retirements), star
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
This is only relevant when rates are low. Rates are currently higher than the growth you can expect in housing prices. I have done repeated financial models of this over the last 15 years and it has never made sense to buy a house for me. W
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by Eridrus 5mo ago
I don't know what the US thinks it will gain by targeting civil servants. They are not the ones with the power to decide what happens, and retaliation would mean more anti-US people selecting themselves into these projects.

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