SirensOfTitan

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by SirensOfTitan 9mo ago
And we have plenty of utility everywhere in tech nowadays but very little soul.
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by SirensOfTitan 9mo ago
What an impoverished way of looking at relationship. I’m not surprised Boz wrote this one—someone with a reputation of being high friction and being hard to work with. I couldn’t imagine thinking of relationships so transactionally, like ev
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by SirensOfTitan 9mo ago
Right, but Linus also has an extremely refined mental model of the project he maintains, and has built up a lot of skills reading code. Most engineers in my experience are much less skillful at reading code than writing code. What I’ve seen
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
I have a weakly held conviction (because it is based on my personal qualitative opinion) that Google aggressively and quietly quantizes (or reduces compute/thinking on) their models a little while after release. Gemini 2.5 Pro 3-25 ben
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
Only tangentially relevant, but I’ve dealt with mouth and gut microbiome issues my whole life, the latter exacerbated by a strong antibiotic I had to go on in mid 2017 for a super resistant staph infection. L Reuteri supplementation and “L
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
Can you actually provide any proof, even top-line stats from GitHub or other software forges that show the productivity boost you’re claiming? It’s not up to the skeptics to prove this tech doesn’t work, it’s up to the proponents to show it
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
> Basically it seems that "Like Tinder but" is doing a lot of lifting there... and as new patterns get named, the recombination space just keeps expanding? Yeah, this feels right. It's like a process of condensing: new id
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
So do you believe that the gains from this technology will be broadly distributed? Or will capital capture the majority of those gains?
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
Before I get into it: what careers do you think are most compelling? Especially if you think all white collar work is going to be undermined by this technology. I wrote this up a bit ago in my essay fragments collection. It's rough a
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
It's utterly unreal to me to hear so little discussion about labor organization within software during these nascent moments of LLM deployment. Software engineers seem totally resigned toward reduced salary and employment instead of j
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by SirensOfTitan 10mo ago
I’ve been working on a product for a little while that Ivan Illich would call a “convivial tool,” one that doesn’t take from the user but makes them more effective, independent, and creative from its use. I’ve been interested in these kind
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by SirensOfTitan 11mo ago
If the world is too complex for a “regular person” to understand then universal suffrage is a mistake. Just say what you mean: you want technocracy or some other non representative or democratic form of government.
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by SirensOfTitan 11mo ago
This essay rubs me the wrong way in that it continues to invest in this coastal elite attitude that the masses should do what we say because we are the experts. These people continue to miss the forest for the trees by avoiding the question
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by SirensOfTitan 11mo ago
I’ve been working on a learning / incremental reading tool for a while, and I’ve found LLM and LLM adjacent tech useful, but as ways of resolving ambiguity within a product that doesn’t otherwise show any use of LLM. It’s like LLM-as-p
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by SirensOfTitan 11mo ago
While I don’t think proper pluralization is indicative of anything outside of real world time constraints, I am a fan of these kinds of tacit signals. Last week, my wife and I toured a school for our daughter. The school gave us these prett
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
These tools have already peaked usage, and even its greatest proponents are questioning its viability, see: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-vibe-coding-dying I'm under the impression a lot of these tools are:
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
LLMs are the latest progression in decades of technology and social changes that leave people less connected and less capable in exchange for more comfort. I think it's likely that AI technology eclipses humans at least partially by a
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
A good anchor here is that cigarette smokers are 15-30 times more likely to get or die from lung cancer compared to non-smokers. Effect size and baseline risk matter a lot, and while the idea that alcohol was pro-health always felt a little
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it need
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
> Each of these 'phases' of LLM growth is unlocking a lot more developer productivity, for teams and developers that know how to harness it. I still find myself incredibly skeptical LLM use is increasing productivity. Because
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
I’m convinced all of the major LLM providers silently quantize their models. The absolute worst was Google’s transition from Gemini 2.5 Pro 3-25 checkpoint to the May checkpoint, but I’ve noticed this effect with Claude and GPT over the yea
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
I do this but annotate books heavily by writing in the margins (digitally through my remarkable) and only very rarely ever revisit them. Writing while reading is a way of focusing on what either resonates with me or confounds me.
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
I use AI almost exclusively for search, and usually force myself to grind against a problem a little before engaging it. I treat AI as a smart codemod tool when I do use it for software development: against easily verifiable, well-defined
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
I’m tired of the hype, which is highly disconnected from reality, and I think that there is a long tail of tasks in information work that requires context, relationship that AI will struggle with for a while. But it is also a fun and intere
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Ask HN: Has GitHub's web UI gotten tremendously slow or is it just me?
6 points by SirensOfTitan 1y ago|5 comments
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
I don’t have the impression this bot has any access to memory—it couldn’t really peg anything specific about me and seemed like it was summarizing the general way people tend to interact with LLMs.
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
There was a significant nerf of Gemini 3-25 a little while ago, so much so that I detected it without knowing there was even a new release. Totally convinced they quantized the model quietly and improved on the coding benchmark to hide that
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
This is even the case with Gemini: The Gemini 2.5 Pro 05/06 release by Google’s own reported benchmarks was worse in 10/12 cases than the 3/25 version. Google re routed all traffic for the 3/25 checkpoint to the 05/
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
They're using these "Preview" models on their non-technical user facing Gemini app and product. Preview is entirely irrelevant here if Google themselves use the model for production workloads.
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
Anyone who sees Trump as either an aberration or a savior is deeply deluded on the state of America. In my opinion, the US world order’s decay was unmasked in 2008, and it has been accelerating since. The two economic realities between the

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