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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I agree that the argument starts from a reduction to the absurd. So at least we can agree that AI hasn't mastered the text medium , without further qualification? And what about my argument, further qualified, which is that I don&#x27
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I don't think it can write something that's of a fraction of the quality of Kafka. But GP's argument ("limit the space to text") could be taken to imply - and it seems to be a common implication these days - that
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I've glossed over a few and one can immediately tell they don't meet the average writing level you'd see in a local workshop for writers, and much less that of Mann or Capote.
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
> What's your bar that needs to be passed I provide four examples in my comment...
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
> you just limit the space to text And even then... why can't they write a novel? Or lowering the bar, let's say a novella like Death in Venice , Candide , The Metamorphosis , Breakfast at Tiffany's ...? Every book&#x2
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
No - that’s my secret.
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
Oh yea, I agree that building good software remains roughly as challenging as ever. I was asking if there was something about the “agentic” part in particular that was difficult.
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
> It’s really hard How? I just open multiple terminal panes, use git tree, and then basically it’s good old software dev practices. What am I missing?
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I’ve read and heard from Semi Analysis and other best-in-class analysts that the amount of software optimizations possible up and down the stack is staggering… How do you explain that capabilities being equal, the cost per token is going do
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I am starting to use Codex heavily on non-coding tasks. But I am realizing it works because I work and think like a programmer - everything is a file, every file and directory should have very precise responsibilities, versioning is control
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I’ve read it, it’s taken me about ten minutes, and it’s been refreshing to read something that is not sloppy. The page design and type are soothing, too. I don’t agree with everything that the article says but it soulfully blends concepts i
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
How do people like that ascend to CTO?
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I would say historical materialism is way more influential. His theory of value was quickly dispelled (although many continued to believe in it) but all marxist and post-marxist thinkers (the Frankfurt school, French post-modernists, curren
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
The fact that Hegel is not there is ridiculous. Perhaps the most influential philosopher since Aristotle. Not only did he influence the young hegelians and Marx, he continues to influence many philosophers across all kinds of schools and id
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
AI cannot write for shit, it’s not even a fraction of a millimeter of the way there compared to the production of Thomas Mann or Dostoevski or Cervantes. The fact that people are using it to flood the world with slop is a hyperscaled contin
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I’ve read primary text excerpts from Hegel and some secondary sources too, and already knew that he didn’t write in that style, but the general idea that many forces in life develop themselves dialectically (the antithesis sometimes being e
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
It’s as if Claude Code and Bootstrap 3 had had an illegitimate child.
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
Why? It’s perfectly coherent with the group of libraries and what they do.
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
Off-topic but only today I was thinking of Hegel-related names for a certain business idea. Was wondering who had registered all the domains, well here's one. It would a completely different domain, and also a derivation of the name, s
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I completely agree with you on both the technical and ethical reasoning. Thank you for speaking out. I think it's important that reputable engineers like you do so. The Claude gang gaslighting is unhinged right now. It would be none of
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
> the quality differential versus the competitor is night and day. This myth about the inferiority of ChatGPT and Codex is becoming a meme. I have active subscriptions to both. I am throwing at Codex all kinds of data engineering, web de
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
To add, I don’t think my ancestor Spaniards for example needed the help of machines to deplete mines in America. They also came already equipped with all kinds of legal systems, including the Requerimiento, which they read out loud to nativ
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I am not going to even try until it becomes a literal weekend project with zero maintenance and perfect reliability. Maintenance is crucial - I would not want to become the maintainer of two dozen apps that are genuinely useful to me. At 10
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
Well, your example is timely. Today I asked ChatGPT to make me a weekly calorie plan and it was perfect. But then I still use MyFitnessPal to log my calories because their food database is outstanding, and the UX of scanning food barcodes i
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
Distributing an app to 100 users inside an enterprise is already a hellish nightmare and I'm pretty convinced that citizen developers will never be a thing - we'll sooner reach the singularity.
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I've subscribed today to use Claude Cowork. Codex continues to be my daily coding driver but I wanted to check the Cowork UI for non-technical tasks, as I am currently building an open-source project where I want (nearly) everything (r
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
This comment reeks of AI. Out of your other three comments in the your entire account’s history, two of them are pretty structurally identical: quote hook + tangentially related question. What is the ultimate play for all these AI accounts?
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
Yea I’ve been typing encyclopedias worth of markdown, most to throw away, some to publish, and I’ve never had any the problems shown here.
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
A lot of extensions on LinkedIn are necessary because of their total lack of innovation. You really cannot do anything in B2B sales or recruiting with only LinkedIn tools. These are not random extensions, but crucial extensions literally sa
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by aerhardt 6mo ago
It's Forbes, lads.

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