almostdeadguy

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by almostdeadguy 4mo ago
If you can vibe code it, you can vibe deploy it, and deal with the consequences.
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by almostdeadguy 4mo ago
Society would certainly be better without people who judge others by their market value.
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by almostdeadguy 4mo ago
I think its fascinating how many people in tech think there's a clearly defined and agreed upon "right way" of using this technology that everyone knows and abides by. Paul Graham, for example: https://x.com/p
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by almostdeadguy 4mo ago
Linguists centuries from now are going to wonder why everyone suddenly started writing like Paul Graham.
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by almostdeadguy 4mo ago
Running your code once or even dozens of times is not proof of correctness, see decades of software engineering practices around testing. I'm sorry, but all you guys pretending like you don't have to review code now are going to g
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
People keep saying this like it’s some meaningful point, but the reality is many people in different projects have a shared need for that code to work correctly, and there is a social proof involved in used open source libraries. That is wh
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
I'm less sure of the fact that ending subsidized token consumption (in isolation) will happen and change this. I think we've seen this play out before with other tech companies where discounting early use ends up entrenching deman
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
I think the counter-intuitive examples of people who attend that you and others in the replies are pointing out are a demonstration of how many contradictions exist in these principals. I am the type of person who thinks many, many things a
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
These people in fact are some of the principal figures dictating the dominant culture and status quo.
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
Happy for everyone trying to invent SEO hacking for resumes.
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
That the industrial revolutions use of steel to augment or replace labor was similar in every way to using LLMs to do the same? Seems on point to me.
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
Famously Andrew Carnegie spent years trying to get the steel to stop talking about goblins.
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
To me that’s a hallmark of a game that isn’t very interesting! If you can discover a dominant strategy in a handful of plays, the game probably isn’t worth your time IMO.
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
I think there has been a shift in what kinds of games get published that privileges a slim set of experiences that are possible in board games and risks narrowing the range of what people think a board game is capable of. I agree there’s a
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
If you are not yet a player of modern hobby board games and are interested to try some I recommend this method for picking some to try out: https://boardgamegeek.com/search/boardgame?sort=rank&advsear... These are
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
We're living in a renaissance in terms of the quantity of board games being released, but personally I am finding a declining number of titles I'm even remotely interested in each year, and many of the titles I am interested in ar
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
100% agree, I think the past 10-15 years of changes in the hobby have been profoundly negative. - The trend towards videogame-ifying board games - The trend towards "cozy" games, i.e. games that are not interactive, have no potent
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
Figure your site deserves a plug ;) https://18xx.games/
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by almostdeadguy 5mo ago
- 18xx games (1889, 1830, The Old Prince 1871, etc.). Basically stock market games built around running train companies. - Games by the publisher Splotter Spellen (i.e. Indonesia, Food Chain Magnate, etc.). Interactive games, usually with a
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
The implicit rationalization here is "this is a problem that pre-dates our involvement, everyone is already doing this". Classic dodge for bad actors.
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
There’s a funny tendency among AI enthusiasts to think any contrast to humans is analogy in disguise. Putting aside malicious actors, the analogy here means benevolent actors could spend more time and money training AI models to behave pr
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
This was an excellent piece with many new pieces of information in it. Thanks to you and your coauthor for getting it released.
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
Seems this got buried from the front page very quickly
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
I have yet to meet anyone whose problem with AI is that the code is not aesthetically pleasing, but that would actually be an indicator to me that people are using these things responsibly. My own two cents: there's an inherent tension
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
Yes, anthropic is not the only company in the world with some shitty code, and yet I feel no pangs of guilt over laughing about it.
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
There's a reputational filtering that happens when using dependencies. Stars, downloads, last release, who the developer is, etc. Yeah we get supply chain attacks (like the axios thing today) with dependencies, but on the whole I think
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
A defining work of the "just vibes" era.
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by almostdeadguy 6mo ago
I think the unstated (but highly prevalent) view among executives in large swathes of this industry is that they don't really care to spend any time or money on user testing or quality assurance, and if this role exists at companies it
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by almostdeadguy 7mo ago
The pathfinder algorithm is a great example of why constraints are so important for creativity and creative development. If AI has any benefit to creative endeavors at all it will be because of the challenges of coaxing a machine defined to
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by almostdeadguy 7mo ago
Odious is one of the most reserved words you could use to describe Telegram, which is primarily a host for scams that the influencers and other bottom feeders aren't allowed to monetize on the big social networks.

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