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by asdfman123 8d ago
So possible in less regulated countries but not in the US. Here I think it would be far too much of a legal liability.
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by asdfman123 9d ago
When cleaning out your possessions you have to keep in mind everything has an implicit storage cost. E.g. if you have a bunch of junk, how much would you pay for an extra closet to hide it from view? At what point does the storage costs out
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by asdfman123 9d ago
I feel like this post is just an AI slop copy of that site designed to grab free ad revenue. I've flagged it and recommend others do the same.
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by asdfman123 9d ago
I hate to say it, but if AI keeps advancing at the current rate, the justification for keeping humans in the loop will grow increasingly hard to make. There's definitely the possibility that in just a few years, human mathematicians wi
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by asdfman123 10d ago
Have an AI agent compile the cheat sheets into a searchable website hosted on Github for your own personal reference.
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by asdfman123 10d ago
You can't compare a heavyweight, expensive and slow model to Flash. Comparing apples to oranges.
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by asdfman123 11d ago
I feel like a 10 year old all over again with my frequency of questions. How did the early Roman Empire interact with Greek city states? How are LLMs planning on learning new information on the fly without new context or retraining runs? Wh
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by asdfman123 11d ago
I think 3.7 Flash is very good at coding. I have access to both that and Opus 5. Opus is only slightly better IMO and it's much more frustrating to read.
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by asdfman123 11d ago
I work for Google and we have the choice between Gemini models and Opus. Opus is slightly better than Gemini flash but I find the style unbearable. It reminds me of a pedantic grad student.
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by asdfman123 11d ago
I love Gemini in Google Maps for long drives. I start getting bored of music and podcasts and start grilling it with random questions I've always wondered about.
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by asdfman123 11d ago
I don't think it's effective though because you're not actually addressing the reality on the ground. To pursuade someone you need to start with their assumptions. If your argument doesn't even seem aware of them, then t
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by asdfman123 11d ago
It's almost certainly Gemini but I don't know if it's Flash or Pro. I would assume though advanced reasoning models would be best, especially since it's out of band. If I were building it maybe I'd run two adversari
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by asdfman123 11d ago
I have no idea how it works internally. Your assumptions about its workings are as good as mine. It leaves comments though like a human reviewer would. I assume the key is a good prompt making sure the comments aren't too frivolous.
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by asdfman123 12d ago
I see
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by asdfman123 12d ago
People with no imagination are rewriting my industry as well
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by asdfman123 12d ago
Nah, we have AI code review at Google and it is shockingly good at catching bugs no one would have noticed. I absolutely depend on it now.
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by asdfman123 12d ago
I don't know what any of these acronyms mean. With just a little more explanation the article could be accessible to a wider developer audience.
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by asdfman123 12d ago
My biggest pet peeve is when people on sites like HN assume software should be tailor made for their objectives and not the company's objectives. Sometimes the objectives align, but not always. And yes, the world would be a better pl
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by asdfman123 12d ago
The irony is that everything about this speaks to vibe coding. The writeup was written by Claude, in a good way (E.g "while the milliseconds are important, that second part may matter more"). I think things like this are now possi
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by asdfman123 13d ago
True, but maybe they can use 50% less power or something. Maybe 90% if we're really lucky. But the growth in the scope and usage of AI is poised to grow exponentially, assuming this isn't a bubble.
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by asdfman123 13d ago
Public perception is another big one. But I think with the way AI is slated to grow exponentially it's going to hit electricity limits very soon. Big tech can build a huge data center in 5 years but scaling up the electrical infrastruc
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by asdfman123 13d ago
Actually, one of the major challenges they'll face is getting enough electricity. That could stop AI growth in its tracks.
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by asdfman123 14d ago
Anthropic spreads AI doomerism; asserts only they can be trusted.
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by asdfman123 14d ago
"We're just happy it was solved"
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by asdfman123 15d ago
What people don't understand is that dictators don't kill everyone because they're just monsters. Well, they are monsters, but the reason they do it is because it's kill or be killed for them. You have to eliminate threa
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by asdfman123 15d ago
I felt this way too. But I think it's because we've lived through so many hype cycles (3D printing, IoT, crypto, etc.) which have either been modest improvements or busts. However, game changing technology DOES come along from tim
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by asdfman123 15d ago
I've always been interested in making my job easier first and solving business problems second :)
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by asdfman123 15d ago
Or generating spreadsheets, or sitting in meetings, or operating any other kind of software. That can all be replaced with AI. Carpenters, flight attendants, etc. won't yet, because robotics just isn't there yet. You need humans t
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by asdfman123 15d ago
I'm not being a doomer. But knowledge workers are going to be replaced en masse. Maybe you can't see it because you don't have to watch the computer do more of your job every year, but it's here. If you feel gleeful beca
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by asdfman123 15d ago
We live in a society that respects property rights because the elites have demanded it. Magna Carta, democratic reforms, yadda yadda. But if you don't need the elites, you don't need property rights. The guy with root access to th

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