JohnBooty

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by JohnBooty 6d ago
"You're only better than me at sports because you practice more and try harder!"
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by JohnBooty 18d ago
GenUI isn't about designing cosmetic "skins." (Usually, anyway. I guess it could be used for that) It's generally for letting users customize the own workflows. How many times have you, or one of your users, liked a pie
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
If running LLMs locally matters, it’s hard to imagine a “forever machine” existing in anything less than 5-10 years, probably more. This stuff is just evolving so rapidly. Buying a “forever machine” today might be like buying a “forever GPU
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
Same. For me, it’s one of those “solutions in search of a problem.”
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
Buying a Mac specifically for serving is misguided in nearly all use cases, but as an all-in-one solution they make sense. Personally I feel like the number of boxes I need to manage has an inverse correlation to my happiness. Macs are to
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
Will Claude will act as a therapist or produce value or produce a work of art? No. It cannot, because it does not have a soul. I tentatively agree, although I'm only tentative because I don't think it's a
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
like MoE with a billion "experts". That seems promising to me too, although, the thing I've always read is that you can't make the "experts" too narrow. Even if you had a "coding expert" it
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
The cool kids have custom harnesses and workflows and stuff, yeah. I'm still using Superpowers in Codex. Planning in Sol, Luna subagents. https://github.com/obra/superpowers I feel like I could be doing a lot bet
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
Sol medium/high planner orchestrating -> Luna xhigh subagents doing implementation ...has been REALLY good for me. Even on xhigh, Luna is crazy cheap. Subjectively I'd say it's way better than Sonnet at a fraction of the c
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by JohnBooty 1mo ago
Shall the better model still have the upper hand or will the raw speed compensate? At 14,000 tokens/sec there's just so much ridiculous stuff that might be possible. Let's assume that this POC proves the
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
Excellently-written article. Bravo!
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
I can see an extra shade of purple. I had essentially the same lens removal cataract surgery as Monet did. Like Monet, I can see slightly into the ultraviolet range, because the retina can react to some UV frequencies that the lens normally
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
I don’t find LLMs to be very good independent thinkers, but I wouldn’t over sell our own mentation either - it clearly arises from a large number of simpler entities. Yeah. I don't see them ever hitting the hei
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
Did you reply to the right post? You quoted me, but you wrote "LLMs don't think" as if it was a rebuttal. It's puzzling, because I didn't say that they think, so it kinda seems like you got confused? Maybe somebody
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
When I see these sorts of debates about LLMs thinking, its rarely a disagreement about what LLMs do. Its almost always over how 'thinking' is defined and the two sides use different definitions Well, hmmm. Yes
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
This is true and it's barely even debatable. Whatever exact role language plays in our thought processes, it is most definitely nonzero. It's why I think "LLMs are only fancy autocorrect" style takes are really undersell
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
Giving a literal monkey the ability to press more keys faster doesn't get a good joke from it. To some extent, it's because making a joke isn't an iterative exercise with a verifiably correct outcome. However,
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
guess you are arguing that the models _now_ will be durably useful enough to commit the time to creating the ASIC? Objectively, the current frontier-ish models will be useful for some time. Imagine the zombie apocolypse
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
At a 50-100x speedup even a GPT-4o class model could perhaps compete with much newer models simply by thinking deeper, doing harness-controlled Ralph loops, etc. Sure, then it might be "only" ~2-5x faster, but, you wouldn't n
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by JohnBooty 2mo ago
My iPod would be the culmination of my friendships Hey! You can bring this back in 2026! In a fit of random inspiration (possibly inspired by a glass of wine or two) I began a new practice. If I'm hanging out with somebody wh
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by JohnBooty 3mo ago
Not parent poster but: I probably spend at least 2/3 of my tokens on code review & QA. At least at my workplace, that's the culture.
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by JohnBooty 3mo ago
because they're smarter than everyone else and there is nothing of value to be learned from others Yeah. It's absolutely unreal how often this is seen in our industry. Especially since everybody in the industry tends
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
Yeah, there’s been a lot of debate about this on r/localllama — will there be a steady supply of new free/open models in the future? And if not, can we simply keep augmenting “stale” models with new knowledge to keep them useful?
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
It should have flatly refused. I disagree in the strongest possible terms. I think the LLM should advise you of risk and lack of feasability but should otherwise answer the question, unless you're trying to do something plain
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
Well, there's two issues really. 1. Store-bought tomatoes are nearly always bred for shippability and appearance over flavor 2. Store-bought tomatoes are picked when unripe, so they shelf-ripen during transit and at the store, which is
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
Now, wait just a minute. You presented an LLM with an obviously bonkers goal, the LLM told you it was a bad idea at multiple steps, and this is somehow... a shortcoming of the LLM?!? You said it yourself: you needed to "bully" t
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
At a high level, the processes are extremely similar in many (not all) ways. They're obviously achieved in drastically different ways at a low enough level; LLMs obviously do not simulate neurons or any biological construct. (For the
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
It’s really one of the most flabbergasting things about discussing LLMs with the naysayers. There are a lot of extremely legitimate concerns, like the environmental impact and so on. But I just laugh when they point out that LLMs are merely
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
I’ll grant that most non-local tomatoes have always been bad by definition, because they’re picked while green so they don’t rot before reaching the store. Plum tomatoes absolutely did not used to be this bad, though. They are SO mealy now.
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
Yes. I think convenience/utility explains a lot of these “depressingly homogenized experiences” far more than dopamine-seeking. My life is very, very full. I do not have enough hours in the day, or years in my life, to fulfill all of m

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