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by _puk 4mo ago
Exactly where my head is at. Not only do you need to spec everything to the right level of detail (at which point an LLM can likely make a good go of it), but a lot of the outsourced teams don't build in anywhere near the same way as t
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by _puk 5mo ago
45 seconds of didge, and then be puts it down! Hope he sleeps well tonight!
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by _puk 5mo ago
Lol. Young uns! Flash, ah, ah, saviour of the universe. Flash, ah, ah, he'll save every one of us! Every time I have heard the word flash for goodness knows how many years.
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by _puk 5mo ago
I couldn't imagine using CC on the basic tier! Even operations and GTM are all at "professional" level (which I think is vaguely equivalent to 5x).
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by _puk 5mo ago
I think Opus 4.6 at its peak was the "how can anyone not get that this is good" for me. Then the nerf, and the massive uplift in tokens for 4.7, a model which I find lazy and prone to hallucinate. It's probably time to try GP
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by _puk 5mo ago
> So maybe the AI labs have been paying attention after all! > I think this mainly demonstrates that the pelican on the bicycle has firmly exceeded its limits as a useful benchmark. As acknowledged in the article.
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by _puk 5mo ago
25 years ago, we were still trying to milk as much as possible out of autoexec.bat and config.sys.. maybe we'd moved on slightly, but we were definitely still trying to get the damn 56k modem to give us the best ping possible. All this
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by _puk 5mo ago
It's kind of touched on elsewhere, but when phones became computers. Suddenly it's an always on resource that needs value extracting. It's even worse nowadays, post COVID, with the insane hustle culture. I mean, yeah, these s
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by _puk 5mo ago
In 2008.. That wasn't even a regulatory penalty, but a class action by the National Federation of the blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_the_Bli...
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by _puk 5mo ago
>> In early 2022 Krajmalnik-Brown and colleagues patented a specific bacterial formulation and spun-off a commercial company called Gut-Brain Axis Therapeutics. I was a little surprised to see this. So the university researchers use t
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by _puk 5mo ago
Sounds like overkill. Stick in the ground will do it. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
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by _puk 5mo ago
And yet we have stories[0] of companies judging merit on tokens used. Rather than using these tokens to do rewrites that have the potential to massively improve the day to day, they're just burnt for the sake of burning them. It's
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by _puk 5mo ago
Do you, sir, acknowledge that many call you a liar? Yes. You deny it see, but.. ah bugger.. I hadn't planned for this outcome.. How can you "lose steam" on an admission of one of your own arguments?
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by _puk 5mo ago
I was faintly surprised that my recent monitor purchase came with a displayport cable. Didn't help connecting it to my Macbook, but still..
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by _puk 5mo ago
In a lot of places the best mushroom spots are guarded secrets.
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by _puk 5mo ago
If you recall AWS didn't scale instantly originally either. We had super bursty traffic, and had to go with Google Cloud (very early days! [0]) because you'd need to communicate with AWS and pre-warm the ELB capacity of your expec
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by _puk 5mo ago
Vercel and supabase seems to be the norm around here. DX is simple, integrations between the two, and the stack is well understood by the LLM. Lovable uses supabase, and is surprisingly easy to eject from too; I've done the lovable to
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by _puk 5mo ago
So many good memories. My "year in industry" was watchmoor park in the UK, first 3 months spent running around sun's fancy new offices replacing all the burnt out Sunrays. Still think they've not been matched for ease of
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by _puk 6mo ago
And then having to learn ctrl-q the minute you started working in the shell.. Muscle memory is a bitch!
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by _puk 6mo ago
I keep seeing this take. And yet.. building shit is no longer the sole domain of the software engineer. That's the sea change. I've literally had finance and GTM stand things up for themselves in the last few weeks. A few tweaks (
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by _puk 6mo ago
OpenAI buying Microsoft.. I honestly think I'd like to see that. Anything to invigorate the desktop. Microsoft buying OpenAI.. 10 minutes later it's rebranded Copilot.. and.. nothing much changes in the world. Oh, except all the A
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by _puk 6mo ago
Count the Fords on the street. Now count the Amazon deliveries in a year on said same street. And next year, and the year after, and.. however long one keeps a Ford these days.. It's quite a scary thought exercise.
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by _puk 6mo ago
I'm not disagreeing in principle, but the detritus left after an anthropic outage is usually quite usable in a completely fresh session. The amount of context pulled and stored in the sandbox is quite hefty. Whist I can't usually
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by _puk 6mo ago
Understand your code in this day and age likely means hit the point of deterministic evaluation. print(X) is a great example. That's going to print X. Every time. Agent.print(x) is pretty likely to print X every time. But hey, who know
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by _puk 6mo ago
Not to knee jerk on a bro comment, but, bro.. Are you seriously saying that breaking a large complex problem down into it's constituent steps, and then trying to solve each one of them as an individual problem is just a sensation of ri
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by _puk 6mo ago
The problem I have with this take is it's focused on solving the right now problem. Yes, it's quicker to do it yourself this time, but if we build out the artifacts to do a good enough job this time, next time it'll have all
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by _puk 6mo ago
Rather than vibe, write your thoughts and get the model to challenge you / flesh it out is my preferred approach. Get it to write a context capsule of everything we've discussed. Chuck that in another model and chat around it, fle
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by _puk 6mo ago
I'm seeing this with ideation. It's so easy now with AI to come up with a new idea in a 40 page manifest that no-one has the time to really mentally ingest. Everything is defined to the T, milestones, success measures, all of it.
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by _puk 6mo ago
Hmmm, the dashboard 404 I got 6 hours ago now makes a bit more sense..
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by _puk 6mo ago
Anecdotally, been leaning on 4.6 heavily, and today 4.7 hallucinated on some agentic research it was doing. Not seen it do that before. When pushed it did the 'ol "whoopsie, silly me"; turned out the hallucination had been fl

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