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by apsurd 2mo ago
made me sad reading this as a picture of the state of the world
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by apsurd 2mo ago
I think if nothing else the technical facing value proposition should be human written. Communicating is hard but that’s the point, takes a lot of effort to close the gap between a new and skeptical user and your vision. Devs will not be ab
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by apsurd 2mo ago
You must not drink or like beer. Brewing something until it ferments into alcohol is the most basic thing ever. There is the very simple problem of taste that is the issue.
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by apsurd 2mo ago
tangential but Google finance (stocks) turned unusable for me: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/CART:NASDAQ I can't for the life of me understand how to use it, especially on mobile. Everything
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by apsurd 2mo ago
There was always bad code. Extend that to the general challenge of a bad hire doing net-negative things for the company. AI is a new problem because it 1000x a bad hire's blast radius. Personally, I'd even state that AI tends to t
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by apsurd 2mo ago
lol - I guess, if I heard that in an interview that would be grounds not to continue. "enhance" fwiw codex is very good. arguably better than the sonnet equivalent (value-wise). I use both daily, professionally. And &quot
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by apsurd 2mo ago
human level is much more manageable. at that scale, we’ve seen just how much steering AIs need. And AIs have no will. That’s been my best response on the philosophical end. Without will, they’re bound by humans.
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by apsurd 2mo ago
> … and assign them to create and scale production chains that go from natural resources to finished war machines… so yes, you think claude’s gonna get a skill any day now to code up some nukes. Your scenario assumes fully autonomous ASI
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by apsurd 2mo ago
This is all broadly covered in Sapiens. That book is great as it is unsettling. Its hard to deny. in any case, how is one country/power with winning on their mind getting infinite manufacturing and raw resources to construct this robot
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by apsurd 2mo ago
Claude’s gonna code up some nukes? Ok yes robot killer dogs from black mirror are terrifying and possible - they’re gonna enrich uranium from gpus and assemble nukes at the local toyota dealer? what are we talking about
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by apsurd 2mo ago
as opposed to the meaning of absolute reality? oh boy you’ve got so much reading and movie watching ahead that you’ll enjoy very much.
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by apsurd 2mo ago
it’s crazy to see right there in writing the prompt go out of its way to avoid the bootstrap effect with homogeneous templated results and then proceeds to produce fully homogeneous obviously templated AI results.
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by apsurd 2mo ago
Yeah there’s a need for the distilled learnings of all past hard earned insights. But i think much of the value is in the distillation. in my experience, even within a single project, the more agentic cycles, the more features and the more
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by apsurd 2mo ago
Implementation specifics aside, I increasingly think life and death cycles are preferable. The opposite of omnipotent context, I want cycles of clean slates so that baggage - of all kinds - does not weigh down the new.
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by apsurd 3mo ago
I just watched The Odyssey this evening. Loved it! These stories were passed down in song over thousands of years. Humanity scale type stuff. Thousands of years of spoken and written language based connections. And it’s all survived. Durabl
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by apsurd 3mo ago
I agree with you. There would be no X without Y person. Undeniably. The scope of the project matters seems clear though. I think it should be clear and obvious what one means when they say "I made this" recipe from scratch. Even t
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by apsurd 3mo ago
Typically the builder crowd absolutely agrees that leadership did not in fact make the things that bear their name. Like Musk didn't make Tesla, neither the company nor the cars nor any of its engineering advancements. So I think it&
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by apsurd 3mo ago
> But that’s just arguing about the meaning of the word “make” now. This is what communication is. Words are representations for whatever it is that we're talking about. There is no other way. Agree with you on what we're talki
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by apsurd 3mo ago
Plenty of comments already. "I made this" is a reserved concept for one's hands being in the clay. It's different. It is its own experience. And it is different from any other approach toward the end result. That's
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by apsurd 3mo ago
features with theoretical use incur cost up front and yield no value. tech debt is only part of the cost, the other is opportunity cost of writing the OPTION. There’s really no good reason to create theoretical use features. Thinking of sof
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by apsurd 3mo ago
ooh I like your site: https://webb.page false equating that author's AI hate is hating SF tech-bros? Oh I think I am being misunderstood, that makes me feel better about the insta-downvotes. Author states it plainly: > T
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by apsurd 3mo ago
damn, you all hate SF that much?
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by apsurd 3mo ago
Your SF hate isn't a good look. There are many things to be critical about but shoehorning an entire metro into the echo-chamber you're supposedly beyond yet can't help but orient your entire world view as the anti-SF-tech-br
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by apsurd 3mo ago
The moving of money across time is 100% central to money's value. Passing digital money around to cook the books is moving money... fraudulently. So yeah, they're not the same unless you're goaling on the semantic purity of t
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by apsurd 3mo ago
self-evident quality
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by apsurd 3mo ago
+1 as adults we intellectualize way too much what kids are reasoning… they aren’t reasoning! they aren’t fully developed. it’s literally not that deep to them. every year that passes, the idea of the only personal time one has is in the bat
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by apsurd 3mo ago
this post is no good. It's a continual rehash of what's going on in the industry. That's how all social media is, it's entirely time sensitive, keep saying the the same things and be the one to say it so the discussion h
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by apsurd 3mo ago
I don't think that holds. Internal docs for bespoke frameworks, with examples, are effective at steering AI. The main thing is that both the API and the docs are well written. Easier said than done, but you can ask AI how to write effe
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by apsurd 3mo ago
again with these linkedin "articles". · every sentence stands on its own because it's the most insightful soundbite of wisdom every constructed. · Aphorisms for the collective upgrade of consciousness.
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by apsurd 3mo ago
This is valid in the other direction as well. Principle engineers, CTOs, with legitimately earned authority end up using that authority to 100x their output onto the team as if it was a Godsend unlock. It's not. There is no one person

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