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by adw 6mo ago
When you’re staffing work to a junior, though, often it’s the opposite.
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by adw 6mo ago
The author knew fine that it was a knob joke ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26743882 ). In this specific case, play stupid games, get stupid prizes; no-one is asking Le Coq Sportif to rebrand or your local bistro to s
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by adw 7mo ago
Completely unrelated. Recursive Language Models are just "what if we replaced putting all the long text into the context window with a REPL which lets you read parts of the context through tool calls and launch partitioned subagents&qu
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by adw 7mo ago
You’re painting an EPP/ECR initiative as left wing? That’s inconsistent with the facts.
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by adw 7mo ago
> In one of my vibe coded personal projects (Python and Rust project) I'm actually getting rid of most dependencies and vibe coding replacements that do just what I need. I think that we'll see far fewer dependencies in future
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by adw 7mo ago
Because it's inordinately more expensive. We're computer people, so we have a good analogy here; the COVID vaccine did speculative branch prediction. They basically operated _as if_ they would get approval at all stages where they
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by adw 7mo ago
And Glow.
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by adw 7mo ago
If you know what you're doing, you can achieve good results with more or less any tool, including a properly-wielded coding agent. The problem is people who _don't_ know what they're doing.
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by adw 8mo ago
> Organizations don't restructure at the speed of a demo. I imagine I'm not alone in having seen a _big_ secular shift in colleague behavior since Opus 4.5 came out. The organization will lag the behavior, but weird things are
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by adw 8mo ago
It’s a very good way of getting LLMs to work autonomously for a long time; give it a spec and a complete test suite, shut the door; and ask it to call you when all the tests pass.
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by adw 8mo ago
Football and F1 have become more popular by being less performatively male. Drive to Survive is The Real Househusbands of Oxfordshire (and Monaco).
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by adw 8mo ago
For many software businesses, licensing is an issue. The spec is GFDL with GPL code samples, a non-cleanroom translation of the elisp parser would (likely) be GPL (or at least arguably enough so to keep lawyers busy), so going and doing som
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by adw 8mo ago
In the UK the equivalent is a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check.
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by adw 8mo ago
Top players who stay active tend to stay above 2600 for a long time. Short was continually active and while not at his peak was in the top 100 well into his fifties. Mickey Adams is still in the top 100 at 54. Korchnoi was world class into
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by adw 8mo ago
My mistake, I thought Grangemouth was all LPG and petrochemicals…
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by adw 8mo ago
(The nearest container port is Leith, which is about twenty miles away.)
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by adw 8mo ago
Vigorous.
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by adw 8mo ago
American road laws are insane here. The law should be simple; you must be in the outside lane at all times unless you are overtaking, and once you're done overtaking, you should merge back into the outside lane. https://www.
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by adw 8mo ago
The prompt is decreasingly relevant. The verification environment you have is what actually matters.
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by adw 8mo ago
The author is in their forties or fifties. They’re forgetting one important thing; they were young and the world was in front of them.
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by adw 8mo ago
The tool-calling thing here is overblown. When you do "tool calling" with an LLM, all you're doing is having the LLM generate output in a particular format you can parse out of the response; it's then your code's re
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by adw 9mo ago
The quality of the error messages matters a _lot_ (agents read those too!) and Python is particularly good there.
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by adw 9mo ago
> to the extent that our systems' world models are effectively indistinguishable from the real world. https://genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-on-exactitude-in-scienc...
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by adw 9mo ago
> But is this "stochastic nature" inherent to the LLM? At any kind of reasonable scale, yes. CUDA accelerators, like most distributed systems, are nondeterministic, even at zero temperature (which you don't want) with fixe
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by adw 9mo ago
> The issues starts when the software starts living longer There's going to be a bifurcation; caricaturing it, "operating system kernels" and "disposable code". In the latter case, you don't maintain it;
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by adw 9mo ago
What this is saying is "you need an objective criterion you can use as a success metric" (aka a verifiable reward in RL terms). "Design of verifiers" is a specific form of domain expertise. This applies to exploits, but
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by adw 9mo ago
Property tax valuation.
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by adw 9mo ago
More like a 2001 Renault Clio. Camrys are already bloatware.
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by adw 9mo ago
Switching tools is _very easy_.
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by adw 9mo ago
The Prime credit card is Chase.

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