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by aenis 2mo ago
This is what gets people subpoena'd and their entirely private messages scrutinised. Happened to a lot of people, including a friend of mine who's affair became a matter of public record after his company was investigated for anti
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by aenis 2mo ago
My guess is their strategy is to aim for clueless developers, with more focus on "proactivity" with Fable and very large models. I have a few non-technical friends who dabble in AI coding and I am watching with amazement how much
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by aenis 2mo ago
Same experience here. I settled on Fable for design, Opus for build routine, and every now and then I'd try out the Chinese models. In my experience they do fine on small codebases, and quickly get confused on anything larger than 500k
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by aenis 2mo ago
Ekhem. When Chrome was announced there wasnt Rust. And Java was a programming language for slow moving systems, with many a flaws and its own classes of footguns. I dont think they had much of a choice in 2008. Now? Sure. I bet a rust port
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by aenis 3mo ago
Same here. For now there is value. Only today Opus 5 suggested a really bad but totally workable approach to an edge problem. It would work by putting a lot of undue stress on infra. People would add infra. A simple pushback reduced a O(n)
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by aenis 3mo ago
It does, when you explicitly ask you to do it. Hence the need for experienced devs running those models.
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by aenis 3mo ago
We have been heavily using agentic coding in my place, and what is emerging is people who used to be tech leads or architects are now back to producing code, and what would require 5-10 people now starts as a 1-2 person project. Some of tho
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by aenis 3mo ago
"I wonder if there's a correlation between me refusing to use LLMs and me being happy to read a novella-sized PDF about them." Well, one possible explanation is that you have time on your hands. Lots of people using LLMs do s
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by aenis 3mo ago
Their pace makes me wonder how effectively do frontier labs protect their weights against motivated, capable adversaries. By now the value of something like Mythos is well in double digit billions, and more so in strategic advantage. Consid
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by aenis 3mo ago
The models are already brilliant at that. My own todo app generates 128x128 pixel art icons for my todo items. They are mind blowingly creative and funny.
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by aenis 3mo ago
Even boring, slow moving companies are well on their way to eradicate the last traces of oracle java. We kicked the last of that 2 years ago, despite having >3000 different systems across the globe. (We started circa 5 years ago).
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by aenis 3mo ago
I rebuilt a couple of games I used to play as a kid (jet set willy, mario, thrust, now i am working on Mercenary) - and for each I am also asking LLM to build an autopilot "AI" (which of course is really entirely deterministic). I
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by aenis 3mo ago
For sure. What it gave me was I think similar to the Amstrad version of Thrust and since I originally played it on a Commodore PLUS/4 I had to tweak it a bit. The fist version also had wrong gravity and rotation speed constants. But th
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by aenis 3mo ago
To be fair, designing an autopilot was an ordeal. Opus stuck to the principle of a mix of waypoint based routing plus a PD regulator - which made playing perfect levels hard. I wanted it to use the fact that the game mechanics is perfectly
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by aenis 3mo ago
Funny. I had claude recreate Thrust based on wiki article alone - and it nailed it. I then spent a week trying to implement a perfect autopilot for it. And then a solveable level generator. I have this running as a screen saver in one of my
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by aenis 3mo ago
I am not arguing with that. Its a fact that companies are staffed with salaried people incentivised with externalising costs and avoiding personal responsibility. People legislating stuff should know this well and design taking this reality
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by aenis 3mo ago
The populists are the only one raising this issue. So, yeah.
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by aenis 3mo ago
Opus 4.8 xhigh is my daily driver for everything. I'd say Fable's edge is visible when designing for a complex problem with no obvious, idiomatic solutions. It is good at greenfield designs, and good at pointing out the pros and c
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by aenis 3mo ago
Ya, and it works. I now default to Fable-for-the-design, Opus-for-the-build mode, which is sort of cost effective, but I am hooked. Opus does not compare when it comes to architecture, designs and algorithms, esp. for gnarly problems withou
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by aenis 3mo ago
Yes. Absolutely yes. And I think this is why people vote for things like brexit, or really-obviously-bad-politicians. This is the only way in which they can pay back the many things the reasonable, progressive governments "gave" t
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by aenis 3mo ago
This is a bit more nuanced than that. Under the GDPR provisions, strictly necessary cookies are exempt from the consent screen. But the way the exemptions read prompts all the lawyers to "well, maybe it's sort of necessary for you
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by aenis 3mo ago
Those are the same insane morons who came up with the cookie consent. Cottage industry of lawyers that push for those regulations and then collect lucrative retainers from companies wishing to not be fined. One of the reasons EU is so hopel
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by aenis 3mo ago
I once made the mistake of renting one of those cars, putting my backpack and some groceries behind me, and driving straight onto a freeway. This absolute sh*tbox was beeping so loud I was afraid for my hearing. I drove some 10 miles like t
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by aenis 3mo ago
Impossible to measure, many other uncontrolled variables - esp. significant improvements to infrastructure in Europe, and regulations. Take NL, where a crash involving a pedestrian or a cyclist effectively forces the driver to prove their i
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by aenis 3mo ago
If I hate anything about the EU, its the morons writing regulations for cars. My car constantly distracts me with some beeps, sometimes loud enough to be dangerous. Its surely one of the reasons far right is on the rise -- with things like
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by aenis 3mo ago
Some text editors replace the -- (two separate dashes) with a proper em-dash. Literate people - who understand why em dash exists - have been using it all the time. Thats, after all, how the models learned to use it.
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by aenis 3mo ago
I would be doing the same thing with opus or gpt-5.5 -- project in crunch phase. But I really did enjoy Fable. Not sure if it was worth the premium, probably, but it offered great design help.
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by aenis 3mo ago
Indeed when they are coming out with a model that is, say, gpt 5.5 or opus 4.8 grade. Gemini currently does not compete in the same class. I wonder what do they use internall at google. Surely not 3.5.
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by aenis 3mo ago
I assume what they saw during the first coming of Fable gave them pause. Lots of people I know were using it non stop to the point of serious sleep deprivation. I managed to burn 6k in 3 days on it, and was myself using it from the minute i
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by aenis 3mo ago
How can you spend more on a still early stage tech, well in the depths of R&D?

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