adamtaylor_13

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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I think it boils down to most of these folks don't have anything better to do. Or worse (the bucket I find myself in) this type of work is the most mentally stimulating thing I have, so I do it willfully at the expense of my wife and c
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I think part of the lie is that we live for and unto ourselves. We instinctively know it's not true, yet for much of our lives we live as if it is. Until one day we find out what we knew all along. When you suddenly become unable to &q
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I may be crucified for asking this but: is there any proof that slop matters beyond our sensibilities as developers? If the code is ugly, but defects are low—does it matter? If the code is hard to read, but clients are happy—should I care?
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Or tell me what it explicitly doesn't do. I like marketing that says, "We don't X" It's very clear and not "clever"
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Ours is a religion of submission to God, literally calling upon us to "pick up your cross daily." Which is, to die to yourself in submitting to God's will. Various books of the Bible were written to very specific peoples at s
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
If I recall correctly that was a bug, not malicious intent. Hanlon's razor makes me presume that's likely.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I love AI. I'm just as AI-pilled as the next guy. But, somewhat ironically, LLMs are unbelievably bad at writing. I can read thousands of words from my favorite authors without getting annoyed by their tics and their grammar. People li
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
This article wasn't written for folks who just want to "turn it off". If that's you, by all means do so. New people coming into the field will likely not have the privilege of deciding how much/little to use AI, jus
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Btw Fable beat Pokémon with just vision.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I asked Opus 4.8 to help me design an adapter for a 3d printed part and it actually modeled and GAVE ME the part. That blew my mind. It doesn't surprise me that Opus 5 ups the ante.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
> shares game design field manual written entirely by AI I fixed the title for you.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
You can opt out of training. If you don't believe checking the opt-out box actually opts you out, then this sentence could be said about literally any provider.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
This is part of why I switched to Grok 4.5 I don't need more powerful models, I need one that responds fast enough that my attention doesn't wander to other tasks. Grok 4.5 is so fast I can just use it in-band without swapping to
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I never see emdashes squeezed tightly to the word before them. I only ever see them with an AP-style spacing before and after.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
This has been my experience as well. While not a full "factory", I've got several mature vibed software projects. More often than not you can "feel" when the quality has degraded. Many of these pieces leave you hang
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
On a related note, I was just noting to my co-founder, as we struggle to write good case studies for our website, that I find LLMs are astoundingly bad at writing good prose. We all know the "AI-tics" that give away a sloppily AI-
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Is a company ever really just "ticking along" though? Seems to me like you're always sliding one way or the other, largely due to leadership at the top.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I don't understand how this will interact with llms.txt files (or if it does/will) Ideally AI should scrape 400 different competing websites, those that have well-designed llms.txt files based on my query should rise towards the t
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I disagree with your assertion that Trump is somehow committing genocide against Palestinians while also acknowledging that the situation there is awful and I pray it ends soon. But last I checked the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a few t
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Wouldn't that be in the authors' interest to disclose, if true?
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I think you're 100% correct that you need to feel the pain that the agent is supposed to solve. It's like trying to explain to a junior the power of Rails if they've never even built a regular static HTML website. It's g
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Actually I feel like I'm in the goldilocks zone right now. I've tried automating more for the sake of automation, and didn't really feel any more productive. My workflows have grown naturally as I feel like AI can fill certai
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Right, but the original commenter said "living out his genocidal fantasies", which means he is actively performing genocide on someone and it also implies this is something being done with active, excitement. I'm simply askin
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Genuinely curious, who is Donald Trump genociding? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by "genocidal fantasies"?
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I don't have the energy to cynically squint at everything in my life. If a company says "We won't track you" I'll believe it until proven otherwise. When these companies prove dishonest, I'll adopt skepticism.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I wanted to document this largely for myself (and because other folks have asked me this question), so I ended up writing a blog post on it: https://adamtaylor.me/posts/how-i-use-ai I hope that doesn't run afoul o
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
It's a flippant answer to a real question. Anthropic, OpenAI, and even Grok have "Don't train on my data" knobs. Whether you trust them is different, but there ARE knobs on other hosted AI companies.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
If rural America is that unappetizing, you understand you can just go live somewhere else, right? There is a very deep-seated hatred here that I suspect has little to do with actual "rural people". America is what it is. The only
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Why is this depressing and bleak? No one is stopping you from doing math if that's what you want to do. Should I ban table saws because they make people too good at woodworking? Should we ban right-angles? This line of thought doesn&#x
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
That's a hot-take, but yeah. Something like that. Probably more like, "Prevent adversarially installed software from having unfettered access to your machine by giving software you specifically requested unfettered access to your

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