SrslyJosh

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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> I wanted to use the agentic powers of the model Do you have an in-depth understanding of how those "agentic powers" are implemented? If not, you should probably research it yourself. Understanding what's underneath the b
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
See also: 3 Blue 1 Brown's fantastic series on deep learning, particularly videos like "Transformers, the tech behind LLMs". My own mental model (condensed to a single phrase) is that LLMs are extremely convincing (on the sur
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> And to understand that while Apple's mission is to provide a walled garden, Windows has been and is used in a million different scenarios. You're conflating the vertical integration of hardware and software (Apple's wall
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> The crypto crash left behind Coinbase and a few real revenue generating companies. A lot of us clocked the crypto bullshit waaaay before the crash.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> If they stop getting returns in intelligence, they will switch to returns in efficiency I don't think we can assume that people producing what appear to be addictive services are going to do that, especially when they seem to be a
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
It is indeed hard to tell how many of the people selling this stuff are True Believers. It's also a bit scary, given how incredibly implausible some of these stuff they're saying is.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
If you didn't write it, you don't deserve credit for it. You don't learn by outsourcing your work to a piece of software.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Etsy is thoroughly fucked and full of mass-produced junk. "Local" could just mean buying from the nearest person who's reselling stuff from Ali Express. And have you noticed what sellers on Amazon are doing? Foreign companies
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Lotsa new stuff coming out of the Department of Who Asked For This Shit these days.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Who needs that, though? Is buying things that hard and time-consuming? > In a few weeks it will become "buy dogfood", and it will just do the thing, knowing you get some certain food from Chewy I have autoship orders set up wi
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
I know it's probably childish and irrational and a symptom of my inferior intellect, but I have to ask, where's the proof that any of this shit works as well as AI stans claim it does? Please, enlighten me with your gigantic hyper
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
"Data engineering and software engineering are converging" says firm selling analytics products/services. I think the perspective here may be a bit skewed.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
"Game development", "javascript", and "no experience" is quite the combination.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> Nobody is forcing you to use tools. Actually, people are being forced to use generative AI tools.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Totally not a cult.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> For very simple jobs, like working in a call center? Sure. Klarna would like a word. > Anything that requires any amount of context sensitive human decision making, for example. That describes a significant percentage of call center
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
"Don't."
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> * For what it’s worth – I am personally happy that a company that is committed to “doing it right” is spear-heading this change. Seems to be working out great so far. (=
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> It felt good, but ultimately realized its system prompt is designed to make me feel good. Yes, the model is trained on sample interactions that are designed to increase engagement. In other words, manipulate you. =)
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> I assumed, like President said, that it will be China, not me, who pays the tariffs. Why would they pay a tax that's levied by the US government? In both the most literal sense, and in the sense of keeping their prices the same.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
AI bros sound like NFT bros.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> Reading through these commits sparked an idea: what if we treated prompts as the actual source code? Imagine version control systems where you commit the prompts used to generate features rather than the resulting implementation. Pleas
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Lots of things have been discovered by guess-and-check, but it's a shit method for problem solving. You wouldn't use guess-and-check unless A) you don't know enough about the problem to employ a better method or B) the proble
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
I think a more fundamental aspect of engineering is that it involves well-defined processes with predictable results, and prompting doesn't check either box.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Don't forget the emotional payoff of feeling like you're not having to do the actual work. I'd bet that some people are spending more time and energy writing prompts that it would take to just solve problems themselves.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> "high leverage outcomes" You're not talking to managers here, you can use plain english. > Maybe the phrase "prompt engineering" is bad and it really should be called "prompt crafting" because ther
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
> Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments If you can read between the lines, that says that there's no actual "judgement" going on. If there was a strong logical underpinning to the
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
In other words, a slave. =)
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
None of those things seem useful, and I'm including the Alexa tasks.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Amazing. Presented with a study that found that the general public isn't excited about AI-enshittifying everything around them, you ask "What if people who aren't excited about AI are in a bubble?"

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