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by abirch 5mo ago
could be the AI overlords going there to scrape more data.
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by abirch 5mo ago
I like having a spec file that is used to generate the code. It's more dense and easier to understand what the application is supposed do. Prior to AI Agents, I had a more complex relationships with requirements because not all devs up
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by abirch 5mo ago
sorry, I'm back. Please feel free to email me at {myusername}@gmail.com. I'm glad to share with you the python code that Gemini created for me and then I asked Claude to duplicate it for Claude.
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by abirch 5mo ago
Sorry, this was one small example. Yes, the lightbulb by itself isn't hard, but when you have a full-time job, long commute, and are a parent these little friction points add up. Yes I can drive 30-minutes each way to take this to a ha
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by abirch 5mo ago
What I've started to do is to use Zulip. You can have different agents in different chats. You can upload files and you update from your mobile phone. At first I thought it was crazy but it's nice not to have 3 different AI agents
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by abirch 5mo ago
The G9 was completely new to me. Sure I could try to figure it, but I'd rather be focusing on the things I care about. This is the thing that I'd historically procrastinate. To quote Adam Grant, "Procrastination is an emotion
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by abirch 5mo ago
You are completely right that AI can be misused/abused. If done right it can fix things like code bases that were created by multiple people and groups each with their own conventions. Before I had to know which group did what to know
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by abirch 5mo ago
"The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed." AI has made my life so much easier. If I need to change non-standard lightbulbs (e.g., G9, MR11, A19), I'm taking a picture and asking my AI what kind are th
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by abirch 5mo ago
SpaceX itself wouldn't be that bad, it's the xAI. It's going to burn through cash. I remember Josh Brown talking about Peleton after its IPO: "Great Product, Horrible Investment"
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by abirch 5mo ago
When do we call AI bubble? Like 2 trillion value and losing billions.
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by abirch 5mo ago
Here is what I think the future web may look like: 1) Sites will have mcp / APIs for LLMs. So that when I ask my AI Agent du jour. It can call any of the sites where I have subscriptions for information. 2) Sites that are pass
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by abirch 5mo ago
Anthropic can sell Mythos to Fortune 500 companies and bypass the average user. I'm not sure how much is hype but I see things like this https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
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by abirch 5mo ago
I have met many people who don't seem to have a soul.
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by abirch 5mo ago
Some of the difficulties of criminal-justice reform include: you can't arrest your way out of mental illness. It's easier for society to lock up the mentally ill in with a 1-dollar bond that it is to provide the help that they nee
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by abirch 5mo ago
AI can let you downsize the number of employees that you have and maintain the status quo or it can let you maintain the number of employees, reduce technical debt, improve products, and services.
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by abirch 5mo ago
AI can be the ultimate tactical tornado.
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by abirch 5mo ago
I haven't had an issue with Apple, but it's only been 3.5 years. Are there stories where Apple straight up said they wouldn't repair a watch? I thought they'd repair it even if the repairs were more the the replacement v
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by abirch 5mo ago
I used to have everything Google. Strata Pixels, Nest Cameras Google Smart Speakers Nest Home Security system but then I broke my Google Pixel 1 watch. I ended up chatting with service in India and they pretty much told me that there was n
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by abirch 5mo ago
I'm agnostic with Anthropic/Mythos but if there aren't any vulnerabilities there it's hard to find it. Until we find vulnerabilities in curl that Mythos missed, it's hard to say how good it is.
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by abirch 5mo ago
You're correct about the calls, but the ability to talk with the people was the rate limiter. Even if you have many people in Cambodia or India, the scammers still needed to scam more than they paid out. Now you can have AI bots that d
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by abirch 5mo ago
It's AI that's doing a lot of it. For a lot of spam, scammers would want to exclude anyone who may not fall for the scam due to the costs associated with dealing with people who won't pay you. Now that AI decreases the need f
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by abirch 5mo ago
We’d bath twice a week or with a blowout. Our kids are still alive
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by abirch 5mo ago
1. I believe many applications that use markdown allow html. Others don't due to security/rendering issues. 2. One of the limiting factors of LLM is context. An html table takes up way more tokens than a markdown table. Especially
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by abirch 5mo ago
I remember my earlier days of Linux of having to compile a kernel module to read from cdrom. Seems like Linux has gone too far in the other direction of having modules that you will probably never need.
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by abirch 5mo ago
Even if the Supreme Court says they need to fund the USAID, it won't bring back the hundreds of thousands who died. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...
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by abirch 5mo ago
What I hated is when you come into an old project. The spec says one thing and the code contradicts it. WTF do you do? I felt more like an archeologist than a programmer.
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by abirch 5mo ago
5) These can be great if you want them to be monitored, but if I'm using my wife's toilet when I'm not supposed to, I'll simply hold the disk when I lift the seat.
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by abirch 5mo ago
I think geography and industry will have a large influence on the job market.
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by abirch 6mo ago
I did owe the IRS money. I jokingly told the representative that whoever wants to pay the government more can be the real abirch. From what I can tell they claimed a lot of exemptions and got a refund.
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by abirch 6mo ago
This graph was scaled to 2020=100 so not as bad as excluding 0 for raw numbers.

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