SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
It began pretty much immediately after the acquisition. There was an uptime chart making the rounds a while back, and less than a year in, the all green data points of pre-Microsoft Github turned to lots of red. I assume brain drain, as eve
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
Not always, but it was so long ago that it became that, younger folks could be forgiven for thinking so.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
It was going to crash, anyway.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
The most annoying thing is the people who demand most loudly that you setup donations don't actually donate once you go to the trouble to do so. We had a guy make an issue about it in github, and followed up over and over...we finally
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
The effort to setup donations is almost always more trouble than the donations that result are worth. Better spent looking for a job, or working on a commercial project that will make money. People simply don't donate to open source pr
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
You can use Claude Code with other models, so one could test that theory. https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/coding-agents/claude-code-...
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson History indicates you can't tool and harness your way to effectively competing against a smarter model with more compute.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
I assume this is part of why Github Copilot is going to usage billing. The cheap/free models in Copilot were OpenAI models. e.g. the GPT-based Raptor Mini, which was counted toward usage limits at a 0 multiplier, so basically unlimited
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
They're at the frontier of last year. They compete with Opus 4.5. They don't yet compete with current frontier models. They'll presumably catch up, there is no monopoly on talent held by the US. And, that's more true tha
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
Primed with what? Every random thought you dropped into the agent over the last couple months? I'll need to see that research.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
I'm making the stronger claim. I don't think memory (at least, what people call "memory", even though it isn't...the memories LLMs have are baked in at training, everything else is context), no matter how fancy, imp
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
Yeah, I've disabled memory in everything I use. It's super distracting to have it infer connections between conversations where there is none. It's also kind of sleazy feeling. Like, manipulative in the sense that it thinks i
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
I'm ambivalent about that. I've seen people use beads, and they're just making busy work for the agents, splitting stuff up into tiny tasks that could have been one-shotted as part of the larger plan. They seem to just enjoy
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
I know everybody seems to want the agent to remember every conversation they've ever had with it, but I just don't see the value in that. In fact, it seems to hurt productivity to have the agent second guessing me based on somethi
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
The agent didn't delete their production database. They deleted their production database. The agent was just the tool they used to do it.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
Upon hearing mashed up pop music with almost coherent lyrics, "Shall I compare thee to a sunset?" What is going on here? Have you not heard music before? Is Suno your first experience with music-shaped sounds? Because, buddy, this
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
That's some dark vibes you're peddling.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
Music, like all art, is a human expression. AI has no desires, it feels nothing, it believes in nothing, thus it has nothing to express. It may imitate music, but it's not music.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
"My playlist is largely "AI artists" at this point and they're really good" That's the craziest shit I've ever heard.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
This isn't music.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
I've never seen reports of this kind of setup being able to deliver more than low single-digit tokens per second. That's certainly not usable interactively, and only of limited utility for "leave it to think overnight" t
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
You can't put "SSD offload" and "workable speed" in the same sentence.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
At least some of the investors in this tech are hoping for a monopoly position. They'd like to outspend the competition to get an insurmountable lead, at which point they can set their price. But, so far, competition remains fierce. An
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
I don't get it. I use Claude Code every day, what I would consider pretty heavy usage...at least as heavy as I can use it while actually paying attention to what it's producing and guiding it effectively into producing good softwa
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
You know what? Good for Friendster. It can't be worse than what we have now. But, also, good luck with that. Facebook may be terrible (it is definitely terrible), but it's where everybody's friends are. I dunno how you reprod
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
OK, I'll concede that not everyone keeps getting pulled back to vim, the way I do. I simply don't like VS Code or its forks. I like Zed well enough, but I find I use it very rarely...two or three terminal tabs (Claude code, bash,
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
No one wants an IDE, anymore. They're building a better horse.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
lol. Top business genius being a genius again, I see.
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
Why would you even want a Claude subscription if not for Claude Code? Anthropic is obviously the best for programming, but probably nowhere else. Seems like a good way to onboard people to the Claude Code experience...everyone who's wo
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by SwellJoe 6mo ago
The metric they're selling this on is intelligence per byte, rather than total intelligence. So, if they used the quantized competing models, the intelligence per byte gap shrinks, because most models hold up very well down to 6-bit qu

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