QuadrupleA

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by QuadrupleA 9mo ago
Been unhappy with the GPT5 series, after daily driving 4.x for ages (I chat with them through the API) - very pedantic, goes off on too many side topics, stops following system instructions after a few turns (e.g. "you respond in 1-3 s
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by QuadrupleA 9mo ago
Bullshit upon bullshit.
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by QuadrupleA 9mo ago
I always like to chime in on these things that I've been a delighted Arch user for about a year now, for similar reasons. Took a lot of setup, but it's dialed now and just works. My computer belongs to me again for the first tim
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by QuadrupleA 9mo ago
You might be overestimating the rigor of tool calls - they're ultimately just words the LLM generates. Also I wonder if "tool stubs" might work better in your case, if an LLM uses a give_medical_advice() and there's no p
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by QuadrupleA 9mo ago
I have the feeling this boils down to something really mundane - but the writing is so puffed-up with vague language it's hard to make out. Require human approval for all LLM actions? Log who approved?
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by QuadrupleA 9mo ago
You absolutely can remove unnecessary complexity. If your app makes an http request for every result row in a search, you'll simplify by getting them all in one shot. Learn what's happening a level or two lower, look carefully,
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by QuadrupleA 10mo ago
Been so happy with my switch to Linux about 8 months ago. The nvidia gremlins that stopped me in prior years are all smoothed out. One big plus with Linux, it's more amenable to AI assistance - just copy & paste shell commands, rat
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by QuadrupleA 10mo ago
As a 25+ year veteran programmer that's been mostly unimpressed with the quality of AI-generated code - I've still learned from it. Just read each line it generates carefully. Read the API references of unfamiliar functions or lan
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by QuadrupleA 10mo ago
I don't think formal verification really addresses most day-to-day programming problems: * A user interface is confusing, or the English around it is unclear * An API you rely on changes, is deprecated, etc. * Users use s
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by QuadrupleA 10mo ago
So much of what's aimed at nontechnical consumers these days is full of dishonesty and abuse. Microsoft kinda turned Windows into something like this, you need OneDrive "for your protection", new telemetry and ads with every
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by QuadrupleA 10mo ago
He assembled all the assets, did a bunch of prompting prep, etc. The alignment was kinda the main job, and he would have had to do a bunch of cleanup after. If this was a freelance job a client was paying for, I'd definitely tell mysel
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by QuadrupleA 10mo ago
Wasn't it now (end of 2025) that Dario Amodei said Claude (or LLMs in general) would be doing almost all programming work? This article is my typical experience with LLM coding. Endless correction and handholding, and manual cleanup of
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by QuadrupleA 10mo ago
Only a matter of time before supply catches up and then likely overshoots (maybe combined with AI / datacenter bubble popping), and RAM becomes dirt cheap. Sucks for those who need it now though.
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Probably a good time to mention fossil, an excellent SCM from the makers of SQLite with a number of github-like features built-in: https://fossil-scm.org/ Single ~6mb executable, blazing fast. I've been a happy user fo
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Unfortunately companies use the "security boogeyman" to push ever-increasing ads, telemetry, performance degradation, features you probably don't want that disrupt your workflow and muscle memory, breaking API changes to libr
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Moved to Arch 6+ months ago after 25+ years in Windows, it's been SO nice. My computer belongs to me again, lightning fast, no ads and BS every update, no 500 background processes. Definitely took some setup work - I have a lot of scri
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
So glad to have developed my own chat interface, with interchangeable models. Won't be surprised if the frontier API providers find a way to enshittify and inject ads into the model output - but at least we pay per token so there'
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
And the ego boost of it all - being one of the special few who sees "the truth" that others are too brainwashed/dumb/whatever to see. Makes one feel quite important.
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Yeah, there's not a lot that's actionable here... mostly boils down to "try a lot of stuff yourself and find out what LLMs are good and bad at." Rs in strawberry, generating some specific text in Nano Banana, what knowle
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Still helpful!
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Tricky though because this generation of LLMs involve random sampling, so unlike computer code and libraries it's non-deterministic and inherently unreliable. Not sure if autoregressive random token sampling will ever be the winning pa
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Cory Doctorow perhaps? At first glance I thought the OP was quoting him.
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Alright, you're extremely rude and combative so I'll probably tap out here. But consider if the "yellow tchotchkes" draw some power from my house, produce some stinky blue smoke that occasionally wafts over, requires a g
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Yes but software, and especially browser, complexity has balooned enormously over the years. And while XSLT probably plays a tiny part in that, it's likely embedded in every Electron app that could do in 1MB what it takes 500 MB to do,
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Imagine a WASM XSLT interpreter wouldn't be to hard to compile?
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by QuadrupleA 11mo ago
TIL: Chrome supports XSLT. Good riddance I guess - it and most of the tech from the "XML era" was needlessly overcomplicated.
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Love Carmack, but hard disagree on this and a lot of similar functional programming dogma. I find this type of thing very helpful: classList = ['highlighted', 'primary'] if discount: classList.append(&#
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Hmm, feel like the new title is pretty lifeless. I wouldn't have clicked this (very good IMHO) article with the current title. "Stop Avoiding Workplace Politics" would represent it better - it's addressing people (like m
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Tech promised everything. Did it deliver?(youtube.com)
2 points by QuadrupleA 1y ago|0 comments
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Every time I hear about modern JS/TS frameworks, I'm amazed at the unnecessary complexity. In python / bottle.py this would just be a print statement to stderr in before_request() or before_response(). One additional LOC.

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