K0balt

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by K0balt 6mo ago
That is a danger, but at least for me, intense curiosity with a decent instinct for things that -might- be useful usually saves me from excessive tunnel vision.
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by K0balt 6mo ago
As far as I know the epistemological conundrum of whether or not we exist in a simulation remains unsolved, and I believe the settled thought is that we are nearly infinitely more likely to be in one than to not be in one, based to the assu
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Idk, I find that carefully tending the garden of the mind , sowing the seeds I want to harvest later, eradicating the weeds with prejudice, and in general not entertaining things which are not useful to my purposes is, for me, a highly bene
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by K0balt 6mo ago
I planned and supervised the build of an ambient recall system, where a 4b model looks at the last 3k or so of context and picks through the RAG database for high ranking memories to inject, as well as mineable things to mark. Injections h
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Lol yeah, I don’t think I’m ready to ride in the jet that Claude built lol. I should clarify that I use the code guidelines because they are solid guardrails for making things that perform predictably, not because I’m building MCAS lol. Let
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by K0balt 6mo ago
I see you’ve never been to (pick one of many places where the social conditions are such that anyone who makes it to an age of agency with their brain fully intact is almost guaranteed to leave because it’s intolerable for anyone who actual
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by K0balt 6mo ago
This indicates to me that the payback for a homeowner is probably in the 7-10 year mark, if they weren’t somehow getting screwed over in the process.
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by K0balt 6mo ago
I think the problem is likely exactly what you describe, the high cost for most people to install the panels. For some reason people treat roofs like black magic, and in some ways I can see that from a contractor perspective. Since I’m look
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Makes sense. Local conditions are going to be a much stronger factor.
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by K0balt 6mo ago
The thing to remember is that LLMs deeply model human behavior. If you want them to do their best work, you need to treat them like a collaborator and get them”invested” in the work and the outcome. I use an onboarding process with every ne
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by K0balt 6mo ago
An analysis of panels per capita vs regional IQ would be an interesting signal. Panels are cash positive in less tan 5 years of their 40 year lifespan. There is hardly a better investment up until you cover your own usage.
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Something maybe worth thinking about. If you are relying on understanding every single line of code, then maybe you should examine your modularity and testing norms. I don’t know about you, but the next day, I can’t realistically claim to a
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by K0balt 6mo ago
That makes sense, if your scope is tight enough, good enough is good enough. I’ve got the expected specifications and code style guides, including some aerospace engineering ones, but in complex systems I still run into difficult to sus out
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by K0balt 6mo ago
In my experience sonnet<opus by a long shot for code review. Sonnet often flags things as errors that are not, because it fails to grasp the big picture… and also fails to grasp structural issues that are perfectly coded and only show up
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by K0balt 6mo ago
It is a lot of work, but I’m much more productive and produce better code than when I was running a small team. And I’m not spending 36k a month. As a research stage startup, that’s a really big deal. I’ve been writing code for nearly 50 ye
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by K0balt 6mo ago
That’s most of my work(embedded sensor and control networks) and I’m sure that informs my methodology. I honestly don’t know much about how AI can inform standards SAAS but I have seen what happens when you just turn it loose, and in my ex
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Honestly by the time it gets to review it should be rock solid, so the only thing the reviewer has to think about is the big picture and never “does this actually do what it’s supposed to without abusing any of the interfaces”. Vibe coding
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by K0balt 6mo ago
You can go just as fast if you make good code, you just have to burn more tokens to do it. The tokens you burn in strict structure and documentation you’ll save in debugging as the codebase grows. I’m 5-30x my normal production depending on
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Obviously they were legit vibing it. AI coding is like having a team of 100 interns. It’s incredibly powerful but you need to keep it under control or you’re gonna have a bad day. Write documentation describing the specs , the APIs, the pro
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Same with x-rays. People tend to think “soft” X-rays are safer because they are quickly absorbed by tissue without passing through. The radiation that passes through is not the problem.
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by K0balt 6mo ago
Yes
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by K0balt 7mo ago
You never met a person that isn’t always right or one that makes up shit to sound smart? Because that’s the pattern you are describing that is being matched.
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by K0balt 7mo ago
Except I actually mean to infer the concept of adding things from examples. LLMs are amply capable of applying concepts to data that matches patterns not ever expressed in the training data. It’s called inference for a reason. Anthropomorph
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by K0balt 7mo ago
This is totally on point if you ask me. I’ve been getting much better results out of models since early llama releases using frameworks that create emotional investment in outcomes. If we want to avoid having a bad time, we need to remember
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by K0balt 7mo ago
It is text prediction. But to predict text, other things follow that need to be calculated. If you can step back just a minute, i can provide a very simple but adjacent idea that might help to intuit the complexity of “ text prediction “ .
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by K0balt 7mo ago
I have built a system for high-ai coding that , at least for my application, has had excellent results. To me it’s a lot different than vibe coding (which I have done some of ) and manual coding (which I have done for 4 decades). It consist
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by K0balt 7mo ago
Yes, it is. But those distinctions are going to be a lot less relevant with robotics. It won’t matter if it’s impatient or just acting impatient. Feels slighted or just acting like it feelss slighted. Afraid, or just acting afraid. For bet
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by K0balt 7mo ago
People are hung up on what they “really” are. I think it matters more how the interact with the world. It doesn’t matter if they are really intelligent or not, if they act as if they are.
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by K0balt 7mo ago
I also find value in minimizing step width so that seems to track. On this particular project, there are a lot of moving parts and we are, in many cases , not just green-fielding, we are making our own dirt… so it’s a very adaptive design p
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by K0balt 7mo ago
I do something similar. I have an onboarding/shutdown flow in onboarding.md. On cold start, I’d reads the project essays, the why, ethos, and impact of the project/company. Then it reads the journal.md , musings.md, and the produc

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