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by Mtinie 6mo ago
Why would the U.S. government want to sabotage prediction markets when the chief executive has a vested interest in keeping them legitimate?
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by Mtinie 7mo ago
What would you do differently if LLM outputs were deterministic? Perhaps I approach this from a different perspective than you do, so I’m interested to understand other viewpoints. I review everything that my models produce the same way I r
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by Mtinie 7mo ago
…and a concise one at that. Which is more impressive given the (general) penchant to say less with more.
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by Mtinie 8mo ago
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/dateline-ashburn-data-centers... “Loudoun County currently has 199 data centers, with another 117 in development, according to Michael Turner, vice chair of the board of supervisors transporta
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by Mtinie 8mo ago
What is your bar for “useful”? Let’s start there and we’ll see what evidence can be offered. User count? Domain? Scope of development? You have something in mind, obviously.
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by Mtinie 8mo ago
It would be helpful if you could define “useful” in this context. I’ve built a number of team-specific tools with LLM agents over the past year that save each of us tens of hours a month. They don’t scale beyond me and my six coworkers, and
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by Mtinie 10mo ago
GitHub, Bitbucket, GCE, AWS…all have licensing agreements for user contributions which the user flagged as “public” so I’m not exactly clear of your point if you are holding SO up as a bastion of intellectual property rights different from
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by Mtinie 10mo ago
Recklessly is a strong word. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your comment in good faith. How do you describe the “reckless” use of information?
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by Mtinie 10mo ago
I generally agree with your underlying point concerning attribution and intellectual property ownership but your follow-up comment reframes your initial statement: LLMs generate recombinations of code from code created by humans, without gi
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by Mtinie 10mo ago
> If a human did this we probably would have a word for them. I don’t think it’s fair to call someone who used Stack Overflow to find a similar answer with samples of code to copy to their project an asshole.
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by Mtinie 10mo ago
It’s Agile philosophically, and how it should be. But that is rarely how it works. In the dozens of different projects across ten or twelve companies I’ve had insight into, “doing Agile” is analogous with “we have a scrum master, hold stand
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by Mtinie 10mo ago
Both camps, for different reasons. For novices, LLMs are infinitely patient rubber ducks. They unstick the stuck; helping people past the coding and system management hurdles that once required deep dives through Stack Overflow and esoteric
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by Mtinie 11mo ago
As I think more on how this could work, I’d treat the fully commented code as the source of truth (SOT). 1. SOT through a processor to strip comments and extra spaces. Publish to feature branch. 2. Point Claude at feature branch. Prompt for
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by Mtinie 11mo ago
> 1. The raw code with no empty space or comments. 2. Code with comments I like the sound of this but what technique do you use to maintain consistency across both views? Do you have a post-modification script which will strip comments a
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by Mtinie 11mo ago
In this scenario the person who wants to be paid owns the output of the agent. So it’s closer to a contractor and subcontractor arrangement than employment.
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by Mtinie 11mo ago
If it’s done in a controlled manner with the ability to revert quickly, you’ve just instituted a “scream test[0].” ____ [0] https://open.substack.com/pub/lunduke/p/the-scream-test (Obviously not the first des
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by Mtinie 11mo ago
In my experience that “blink of an eye” has turned out to be a single moment when the LLM misses a key point or begins to fixate on an incorrect focus. After that, it’s nearly impossible to recover and the model acts in noticeably divergent
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by Mtinie 11mo ago
From my viewpoint you are conflating software quality with ambition. All software develops iteratively. Tools now celebrated for quality and consistency (commercial and OSS alike) shipped from states where they were neither. Jerm-CAD existi
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by Mtinie 1y ago
You actually don’t. Technologists have more leverage than most workers. There’s no shortage of jobs that don’t require building surveillance states or engagement addiction engines.
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by Mtinie 1y ago
At this point, the path from what these teams of people are building to dystopian outcomes is well-mapped. Whether it’s an explicit goal is irrelevant because if you can reasonably foresee the harm and proceed anyway, you’re making a consci
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by Mtinie 1y ago
Not if people higher in the agency the employee works with are aware of the contact and have blessed it as a useful conduit to establish a narrative.
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by Mtinie 1y ago
I shared this with my tech friends: “This has all the hallmarks of a product that’s going to be disappointing but I’m so optimistic it won’t be.” I’m seriously hopefuls it works because vibroblades (I mean, “progressive knives” and “high fr
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by Mtinie 1y ago
It’s both. Technology is a component (I’d we wouldn’t have books, recorded videos, multimedia aids, etc.).
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by Mtinie 1y ago
> MKBHD For those like me who weren’t familiar with the moniker, it refers to Marques Keith Brownlee, a YouTuber who reviews technology devices.
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by Mtinie 1y ago
Dramatically higher if the Claude Code usage leaderboards (and others in the same vein) are any indication. It becomes a game for some subset of your user community. https://www.claudecount.com/
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by Mtinie 1y ago
Much like syphilis, it’s very serious and everyones’ problem if it takes off.
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by Mtinie 1y ago
When I bought my first Nest in 2012, Nest Labs was not yet part of Google (that acquisition came in 2014.) So for the owners of Gen 1 and 2 thermostats, your rule of thumb isn’t helpful like it is for post 2014 purchases.
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by Mtinie 1y ago
It could matter but what isn't clear to me is if 70MB is wasteful in this specific context. Maybe? Maybe not? Flagging something as potentially problematic is useful but without additional information related to the tradeoffs being m
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by Mtinie 1y ago
Thank you for sharing. Would you agree that Third Way’s positions and suggestions should be weighted differently than official federal government stances and actions?
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by Mtinie 1y ago
> This seems like it could also lead to absurd situations. If a device contained both, would customs pretend it was simultaneously 100% made out of copper and 100% made out of steel and apply both tariffs? Yes, because it benefits the “h

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