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by Uehreka 1y ago
When ChatGPT, then Llama, then Alpaca came out in rapid succession, I decided to hold off a year before diving in. This was definitely the right choice at the time, it’s becoming less-the-right-choice all the time. In particular it’s import
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by Uehreka 1y ago
This is why it’s important to follow the studies comparing LLMs’ performance in “needle-in-a-haystack” style tasks. They tend to be pretty good at finding the one thing wrong in a large corpus of text, though it depends on the LLM, the flav
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> They call it centaur guardrails because it’s AI on the bottom, human on the top. Nice. Did you just define a term, act like it already existed, then compliment yourself for coming up with it?
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by Uehreka 1y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing I wouldn’t opine on until like, an actual lawyer weighs in after thoroughly researching it. There are just too many shades of meaning in this kind of case law for laymen to draw actionable conclusions direc
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> This needs to be met with swift repercussions for both the individuals that participated, as well as the agencies that allowed it. That’s not going to happen. Cross out that sentence and reason as if we’ve already asked for that and it
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by Uehreka 1y ago
If it was a more legit trademark claim that would be one thing, a lot of OSS people think you can just name your project after something popular so you can coast off the reputation of the more popular product. But since this is a BS claim,
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by Uehreka 1y ago
To quote myself: > I get why people are pissed at Mozilla My issue is that when you try to have discourse but everyone’s on the same side, it can easily devolve into a circlejerk where everyone is trying to see who can most dramatically
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I get why people are pissed at Mozilla, but I do feel like people on HN also underestimate how much hating Mozilla is becoming a hacker tribal signifier. It almost feel like each commenter is competing to out-hate the others or to add a lay
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by Uehreka 1y ago
This is one hell of an Emperor’s New Groove reference, well played: https://x.com/filmeastereggs/status/1637412071137759235
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> In January I would have told you AI tools are bullshit. Today I’m on the $200/month Claude Max plan. Same. For me the turning point was VS Code’s Copilot Agent mode in April. That changed everything about how I work, though it had
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I mean sure, but HN/YC’s founder was always going on about the kinship between “Hackers and Painters” (or at least he used to). It hasn’t always been like this, and definitely doesn’t have to be. We can and should aspire to better.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Right, my problem is that while some people may be correct about the productivity mirage, many of those people are getting out over their skis and making bigger claims than they can reasonably prove. I’m arguing that they should be more nua
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Pardon my caps, but WHO CARES about acquisitions?! You’ve been given a dubiously capable genie that can write code without you having to do it! If this thing can build first drafts of those side projects you always think about and never get
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> My personal theory is that getting a significant productivity boost from LLM assistance and AI tools has a much steeper learning curve than most people expect. You hit the nail on the head here. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of people tr
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by Uehreka 1y ago
HN has been Eternal Septembered for years. The behaviors and tastes of the userbase have evolved in a different direction from what the guidelines prescribe, and there is no going back.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
The “Unpopular Opinion framing” is such a wonderful cheat code. You get to seem like an independent thinker for free, your argument gets bonus moral superiority points, and if anyone points out that your argument is actually very popular yo
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I relish any opportunity to post this link: https://youtu.be/Z8yW5cyXXRc?si=Upb6xmcOcPWzTDLb
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> Everyone in these sorta threads asks for "proofs" and I don't really know what to offer I’ve tried building these kinds of multi agent systems a couple times, and I’ve found that there’s a razor thin edge between a nice
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Hard disagree. I don’t have “years of cooking” experience to draw from necessarily. If I’m looking up a recipe it’s because I’m out of my comfort zone, and if the LLM version of the recipe says to add 1/2 cup of paprika I’m not gonna i
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by Uehreka 1y ago
LLMs are definitely the future of AI until something better gets invented. And that could be a long time, if it even happens at all. It’s not 2023, there isn’t really a question of whether LLMs are going to stick around. They’re too useful
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by Uehreka 1y ago
These questions of whether the model is “really intelligent” or whatever might be of interest to academics theorizing about AGI, but to the vast swaths of people getting useful stuff out of LLMs, it doesn’t really matter. We don’t care if t
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Honestly this is exactly the kind of area where I’ve found things like OpenAI’s Deep Research and Anthropic’s Advanced Research help a ton. Tell the LLM what you’ve learned, what kinds of things you want to know, and if you don’t know what
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> “the specific advantages of AI must be obvious and worthwhile to justify the investment.” I feel like this sums up a lot of what’s going on here. Tons of students immediately saw that ChatGPT could write essays, and bought in. As LLMs
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Why would the ability to generate source code imply the ability to generate bytecode? Also you wouldn’t want that, humans can’t review bytecode. I think you may be taking the metaphor too literally.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
If Chrome tried to pull this in like 2016, when Google Translate was the only-ish game in town, I’d call them out for it. But we now have multiple competing open weights translation models that are really good, making this kind of service e
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Because the Even Bitterer Lesson is that The Bitter Lesson is true but not actionable. You still have to build the inefficient ”clever” system today because The Bitter Lesson only tells you that your system will be obliterated, it doesn’t
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Net Neutrality is a really bad awkward term that constantly confuses laypeople. I get what you’re saying, but don’t lean on the term Net Neutrality in the hopes it will help people understand by building off something else they understand:
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by Uehreka 1y ago
No. If they sell the TPUs for “what they’re worth”, they get to reap a portion of the benefit their competitors would get from them. There’s money they could be making that they aren’t. Or rather, there would be if TPUs were that good in pr
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by Uehreka 1y ago
YouTube gives you two (2!) ways to pay for content. You can choose to pay with money, or you can choose to pay with your time and attention. If you don’t like paying with your time and attention, then either pay with money, or don’t use the
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by Uehreka 1y ago
For it to read as a joke I’d have to know the commenter and know that’s something they’d never say. Without that context it reads as sincere. This is a website where people frequently say wild stuff unironically and people mostly don’t get

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