Supermancho

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by Supermancho 2mo ago
The qualification "better" is doing some hefty lifting in your assumption. What you think is better is not what I think is better. Imagination is not storytelling. You ask the "mean human" to write, it's going to be
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
> The USA government will enter a debt-interest spiral if Japan sells its bonds. Regardless if they sell all their bonds this second or not, the US spiral is a foregone conclusion.
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
> You just delay, and render unpredictable, the eventual reckoning, for short-term benefits. After a century, those short-term benefits add up to a long term benefit.
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
Not a postmortem. A game design review.
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
People have always suffered under the banality of indifferent evils. A blanket policy is bad policy and that dovetails into Trump's laziness/stupidity. Putting that aside, is the estimated terminal deadline a good measure for subs
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
> You don't read anything else there at all? The citation was in support of the post above mine and was incidentally a link to a mailing list. I did not read the mailing list threads out of personal interest, admittedly. I think it&
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
Linus: "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" Linux Kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80Kzs... The idea that software has gotten so complex that a machine can evaluate code paths be
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
> How so? Computers haven't been prohibitively expensive since what, the 80s? Initially they weren't, which is where we are in terms of a maturity model. Most technological improvements are initially prohibitively expensive to
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
> You can use an LLM and demonstrably understand the code it produces. Obviously. Chatgpt: Write a bubble sort in java. Now ask questions about what you don't understand. The problem is comparing trivial examples to complex multi-ag
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
This could be said of any technology or financial instrument. I can understand why someone would think this is fire, if they just discovered fire.
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
Contrived does not mean unrealistic. I have seen many extreme requirements come down on short notice. Over time, the peter priciple guarantees that there will be a middle manager that miscommunicates an agenda they dont fully understand, th
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by Supermancho 2mo ago
This is the way. Making your own agent to have a sticky memory context that is prepended to every execution is necessary to ensure each task is bounded by those precepts.
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
> Is this destruction of evidence or obstruction of justice? The investigators can (and have) threatened both as a tactic, but when the charges are files, the specifics are what the prosecution thinks they can get a conviction on. I thin
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
> This is fine so long as the author is learning something (questionable) and not polluting the commons with "I made this in a weekend" vibe slop. Almost all of my prototypes are made this way. "I made this in a weekend&qu
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
This repo adds context on "how things should be done", much like a CONTRIBUTING.md or CONTEXT.md What it provides beyond that is: * profiles, which can also be implemented as a directive in any prompt, eg "use CONTEXT-lite.md
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
This discussion about Musk's DOGE comes up time and time again, trying to rationalize his mandate of destroying regulations to eliminate waste. This was not the stated goal, nor was it the immediately result. The post-hoc rationalizati
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
Some people just want to frame every statement as an argument, which is not a compelling approach to a discussion. This understanding cannot be accepted by many people, because they are always considered more informed or competent by their
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
> The main think I hear about Musk is that he supported a candidate people didn't like and has a lot of different mothers for his children. You missed a word there. `The main NEGATIVE things I hear about Musk is that he supported a
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
While my CONTEXT.md's are a hodgepodge of general ideals and specific do's/dont's, my AGENTS.md are demonstrable. I can instrument to observe the instructions being executed. * Delegation * Execution (better rules than r
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
> Vibe coding is the new way forward. Please adapt or you will lose so much This is a reaction to the title, by someone who did not read the article.
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
Graciously, I think this was the point they were trying to make, with an inappropriately sarcastic intro.
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This is matches my experience, having been under at least 30 times. The phrase: "Why would a surgeon know anything about anesthesia risk?" could be misleading to someone who has never undergone (or just didn't understand) wha
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> If OpenCode is so terrible it wouldn't be the base Ignoring the appeal to authority inherent to this kind of statement, it's ignoring another implication. Large companies can afford to maintain a fork. Using the latest releas
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That is how the majority of developers use AI. Aim small miss small and all that. What's great about AI is that you can ask many many small questions about big data dumps (like logs and stack traces), for relatively little usage.
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
This post is chock-full of soft ideas. They make no meaningful steps toward "a harness that can do anything". The suggestion is to replace a small node application with specific tooling, with a vm "to give it more capabilitie
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
I think that distinction is fuzzier. My ssh key is one identity. My Social Security number is another.
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The outputs, ui, and overall behavior (tokenization) are not identical.
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Google: straight of hormuz 2026 closure timeline Graciously, "if the US was there or not" is a reference to the US navy being near/in the straight of hormuz.
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>>>> ... too large to interact with T cells. >>> Also, unfortunately, a result that industry and the anti-regulation crowd will use to say microplastics are harmless. >> also, asbestos is too small to interact wit
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by Supermancho 3mo ago
> You're assuming that this guy was actually being prosecuted for crimes or that this guy lacked loyalty to Xi Jinping That's not an "or" question, imo. If you threaten the king by having too much power, too many alli

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