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by agentultra 4mo ago
Definitely agree that generating change logs from commits leads to confusing change logs for people that expect to see what changed between versions. A big long list of commits is too granular. A curated and summarized list of changes is mu
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Do the audio buffers to the host device next!
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I’d recently been applying for plenty of jobs that were hosted on Ashby. They had a tiny link to a form where you could opt out of having your resume processed by their AI system. Only it never worked. Submitting the form displayed a spinne
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by agentultra 4mo ago
> There are of course ongoing concerns about global warming. I'm not denying that, but I don't think it's particular to AI tech. Ok so you’re not denying the impact on climate change. Any of the other negative impacts it h
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by agentultra 5mo ago
The Luddite movement wasn’t opposed to progress or technology. They were demanding protections from exploitation by the capital class: abolishment of child labour, fair wages, social protection from job loss, etc. There was no labour law at
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by agentultra 5mo ago
Interesting what factors people choose to explain it. I just read Life After Cars which makes a compelling case that a major factor was the car: people don’t feel safe letting their kids wander and prefer driving them everywhere… which ma
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by agentultra 5mo ago
I’m curious about the “autonomous” claim. Usually these systems require a human to guide and verify steps, clarify problems, etc. are they claiming that the reinforcement model wasn’t given any inputs, tools, guidance, or training data from
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by agentultra 5mo ago
People might think twice about digging a ditch if they had to do it with a shovel and hard labor. Might appreciate it more. Price a ditch accordingly. Now we have more ditches than we need, the environmental damage from building the machine
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by agentultra 5mo ago
My life for a browser that doesn't jitter and tear when scrolling or a terminal emulator that can actually process data near the speed my hardware can handle.
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by agentultra 5mo ago
This is the default capitalist view. Anthropology disagrees. For much of human history we’ve exhibited altruistic behaviour towards one another. There are plenty of instances of that today: coalitions, unions, mutual aid groups, community v
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by agentultra 5mo ago
They're expensive to perform and rarely are reproducible but I'll wait for the empirical studies before believing any claims. We can't even decide if type systems have made us more productive. It's barely been studied. S
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by agentultra 5mo ago
> At Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, leadership says that AI generates a growing share of the overall code Probably because they mandate its adoption. And while there are plenty of developers who will happily comply and see it as a
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by agentultra 5mo ago
Also nice for UI tooling; game tools, debuggers, etc. Pull apart a struct and display it on screen and not have to patch the UI tool every time you change the struct is pretty nice.
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by agentultra 5mo ago
They are also good at generating plausible code. The kind that has no obvious bugs in it. I wouldn’t be surprised if humans in the loop over report success with these tools. Combined with decision fatigue… it’s not a good recipe for humans
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by agentultra 5mo ago
Many Luddites were protesting labor conditions. At the time the majority of labor laws were being written by the capital class with the help of political leaders and the constabulary. Common complaints were working hours, child labor, safet
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by agentultra 5mo ago
This is the story that's been written since the Luddite revolts, as far as I know. The successors in that case were the capitalists who spent a significant amount of time and money convincing the constabulary and political figures to s
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by agentultra 5mo ago
Yes! I was trying to make this part of my point but you definitely made it much more clear and concise. With a skilled operator, it could be possible to drive an agent to handle these kinds of changes. I would be concerned that spoken langu
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by agentultra 5mo ago
The invariant, stated informally, would be hard to prove is broken by a human reviewer in the loop. Spoken language isn’t precise enough for the task. Even if you could state it in a precise formal language the LLM under the agent doesn’t h
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by agentultra 5mo ago
Oh neat. I’d been gifted a few of these model kits over the years and they’re a delight to build.
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by agentultra 5mo ago
I should write one of these for Haskell. Huffing abstractions is great for boring, line-of-business applications. Goroutines? Meh. Software transactional memory and green threads? Heck yeah. An actual type system? Chef's kiss. Scott Wl
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by agentultra 5mo ago
Nothing natural about it. Such monopolies were propped up by the state using public funds and profits captured by the capital class. Many benefitted by the arrangement and so it became normalized. But it’s a choice people made to structure
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They could but that’s more expensive and location dependent. Much cheaper to put the externalities on tax payers and use their potable drinking water at a nice discount. Best: you don’t even have to report usage.
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Ah the threat of no work in order to depress wages. A scenario we’ve seen play out time and again. Typical capitalism. That doesn’t mean we should accept mediocre. Businesses might not care. Few businesses have bought a product based on how
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by agentultra 5mo ago
There’s a similar program in the UK championed by Simon P Jones, one of the co-creators of Haskell. He’s also the chair of CAS and helped developed a national curriculum: https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/2
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Long term, fresh water as a resource is in decline [0]. [0] https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/global-fres...
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LLMs had no agency to choose such a course of action. They’re algorithms and they were designed this way.
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Heck yes, it is. Time and effort are a great filter for bad ideas. If you couldn’t find a way to persevere it’s probably because it wasn’t that valuable to you. Let it go, be free!
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by agentultra 6mo ago
> If you do want to sell, treat the enterprise like an ecosystem of SMEs, find a department or team who are more innovative and sell to them behind the backs of enterprise IT. Once you've entrenched yourself and the users love you,
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There’s something to be said about old school bureaucratic institutions: it made breaches like this significantly more difficult to pull off and far less valuable as a result. It also ensured democratic participation by all of the people em
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by agentultra 6mo ago
Valid concern and one I share. If you’re going to vibe code up an operating system you will still need the experience and understanding of operating system fundamentals to have a chance at producing anything useful. The one-shot vibe-coded

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