Jweb_Guru

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by Jweb_Guru 4mo ago
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by Jweb_Guru 4mo ago
> I have heard this claim before but I find it unconvincing. I have given up support of movements for which activists have acted cruelly or otherwise immorally. Most people aren't this particular brand of irrational.
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by Jweb_Guru 5mo ago
> Claude is a phd level mathematician Unfortunately, it is not, and many of its attempts at mathematical proofs have major flaws. You shouldn't trust its proofs unless you are already able to evaluate them--which I think is pretty
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by Jweb_Guru 5mo ago
I agree. I find it endlessly frustrating and kind of hate what programming has become. But at least for me it meets the minimum bar of "it works if you push things" now. For past models, under no circumstances could I get them
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by Jweb_Guru 5mo ago
Many people may have, but I certainly haven't.
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by Jweb_Guru 5mo ago
This jives with what I've experienced in the brief time I had access to 5.5 Pro. It's the very first LLM that I feel like I can wrangle into solving tedious, but straightforward, problems correctly. It still makes a ton of mista
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by Jweb_Guru 5mo ago
God forbid people want to work on video game stuff instead of for an advertising company.
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by Jweb_Guru 6mo ago
For some reason people are perfectly able to understand this in the context of, say, cursive, calculator use, etc., but when it comes to their own skillset somehow it's going to be really different.
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by Jweb_Guru 6mo ago
No, it hasn't. I did not have a problem before AI with people sending in gigantic pull requests that made absolutely no sense, and justifying them with generated responses that they clearly did not understand. This is not a thing tha
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by Jweb_Guru 6mo ago
I'm mostly surprised that people found the output quality of Opus 4.6 good enough... 4.7 so far is a pretty sizable improvement for the stuff I care about. I don't really care how cheap 4.6 was per task when 90% of the tasks were
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by Jweb_Guru 6mo ago
Yup. Every single time it's about to do the dumbest thing I've seen in my life.
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by Jweb_Guru 7mo ago
You may have had one . It clearly made a pretty negative impression on you because you are still complaining about them years later. I find it pretty misanthropic when people ascribe this kind of antisocial behavior to all of their cow
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by Jweb_Guru 7mo ago
In the long run, good code makes everyone much happier than code that is bad because people are being "nice" and letting things slide in code review to avoid confrontation.
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by Jweb_Guru 7mo ago
It's not reality. I'm really not a fan of the way that people excuse the really terrible code LLMs write by claiming that people write code just as bad. Even if that were true, it is not true that when you ask those people to
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by Jweb_Guru 7mo ago
I assure you that LLM thinking also has a speed limit.
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by Jweb_Guru 7mo ago
My point is that a lot of people think it'd be really easy to build the next Salesforce until they actually try to compete with Salesforce in the market. Like it or not, if you want to build a Salesforce competitor (or try to get your
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by Jweb_Guru 8mo ago
Salesforce literally has its own query optimizer, you are vastly underestimating the complexity of its software.
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by Jweb_Guru 8mo ago
> But the aha moment for me was what’s maintainable by AI vs by me by hand are on different realms I don't find that LLMs are any more likely than humans to remember to update all of the places it wrote redundant functions. General
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by Jweb_Guru 8mo ago
This comment expresses how it feels to work in a corporate environment better than anything I've ever seen on this site.
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by Jweb_Guru 8mo ago
It's ironic that I have to tell you of all people this, but many users of C (or at least, backends of compilers targeted by C) do actually want the compiler to aggressively optimize around UB.
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by Jweb_Guru 8mo ago
Yeah people are always like "these are just trick questions!" as though the correct mode of use for an LLM is quizzing it on things where the answer is already available. Where LLMs have the greatest potential to steer you wron
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by Jweb_Guru 9mo ago
It affects it very heavily IME. People need to make sure they are getting a good mix of writing from other sources.
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by Jweb_Guru 9mo ago
Yeah, I do not find performances like this very impressive.
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by Jweb_Guru 9mo ago
Believe it or not, using arenas does not provide free memory safety. You need to statically bound allocations to make sure they don't escape the arena (which is exactly how arenas work in Rust, but not Zig). There are also quite a lo
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by Jweb_Guru 9mo ago
Respectfully, for browser-based work, simplicity is absolutely not a good enough reason to use a memory-unsafe language. Your claim that Zig is in some way safer than Rust for something like this is flat out untrue.
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by Jweb_Guru 9mo ago
Yeah people dramatically overestimate the difficulty of getting one's definitions correct for most problems, especially when you are doing an end to end proof rather than just axiomatizing some system. They are still worth looking at
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by Jweb_Guru 9mo ago
This website made me suddenly have a huge feeling of loss for what the web could be like. It is so snappy (in the way old static sites could be) but without the page transitions that made them fall out of fashion.
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by Jweb_Guru 10mo ago
> if you spend too much time interacting with LLMs, you eventually resemble one Pretty much. I think people who care about reducing their children's exposure to screen time should probably take care to do the same for themselves wr
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by Jweb_Guru 10mo ago
It makes people uncomfortable. That's the long and the short of it.
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by Jweb_Guru 10mo ago
Yeah this is something I think a lot of people tend to overlook. People are far too quick to rewrite "we don't know of any reason why it would be impossible" to "we know how to do it" in their heads.

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