bensyverson

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by bensyverson 6d ago
It's really interesting to me that Flock was the straw that broke the surveillance camel's back, and not, I don't know, the home assistant devices from trillion-dollar advertising and e-commerce companies that listen to every
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by bensyverson 7d ago
It's either a small language model or a large language model (LLM). It's not a generative model, but neither is BERT, which is also a language model.
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by bensyverson 7d ago
Breaking news: small language models struggle with math
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by bensyverson 7d ago
I guess we’ve just reached the point where everyone has to state the obvious, and common sense is extremely uncommon. So here goes: you should not use an AI model to validate a claim which is trivial to calculate deterministically. That is
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by bensyverson 7d ago
This is not a good faith test of the system.
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by bensyverson 7d ago
And yet no one cared about this research until it was productized and communicated well. Multitouch existed before the iPhone.
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by bensyverson 7d ago
WebKit is available on Linux, just not Apple’s wrapper. It would certainly be possible to give Sleepy a Linux backend if you’re motivated!
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by bensyverson 8d ago
If your needs are simpler, I created a tiny headless WebKit browser specifically for agents called Sleepy Hollow [0] [0]: https://github.com/bensyverson/sleepyhollow
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by bensyverson 9d ago
Interesting choice with the name. Claude Code is sometimes abbreviated to CC.
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by bensyverson 12d ago
I’d love to see your pass at a “unique and interesting” skill. I’ve been working on tools and techniques in this area, and it’s harder than you might think.
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by bensyverson 13d ago
The non-alphanumeric characters are just asking for trouble. Agents will fail to escape them correctly, and the $ could expand a variable. Base62 (or 64, with -_) is totally sufficient.
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by bensyverson 15d ago
Looks about as effective as Robots.txt
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by bensyverson 15d ago
Yeah, that's like someone in 1998 saying we're at peak internet hype
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by bensyverson 15d ago
And 20% YOY compounds quickly… If the speed doubles in 4 years and the RAM situation gets better, we could be looking at some very capable on-device models in 2030.
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by bensyverson 16d ago
The text is clearly not written by AI… people need to chill on this accusation. Yes, the blog design itself looks Claudish, but if you actually read the post, no AI writes like that.
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by bensyverson 16d ago
Our devices are always listening, if you have them set up to listen for hail words like "Siri" or "Hey Google," so I think the Overton window on listening already shifted about 10 years ago. The device actually recording
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by bensyverson 16d ago
The stock /frontend-design skill really loves an all-caps mono caption
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by bensyverson 18d ago
Not anymore! [0] [0]: https://www.mturk.com
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by bensyverson 18d ago
Completely agree. How many people over the past 20 years have been musically gifted, but found ProTools or Logic impenetrable? The AI unlock is about enabling that creativity, not replacing it.
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by bensyverson 18d ago
It's already possible, but in my opinion it will never be popular. In some ways this has already been proven through other media; ChatGPT can easily generate a novel, but how many people are reading pure-AI novels?
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by bensyverson 18d ago
Yes, I'd be really interested to see Fable / Opus / Sonnet. GLM 5.3 Flash Max had an interesting showing. Its Codex version was bad [0], and it completed in 9 minutes. The OpenCode version was much richer [1] and more detaile
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by bensyverson 18d ago
I have videographer friends, and this is exactly what they've been asking for. Their dream is to be able to say "sync the A and B camera footage, chunk the whole interview down into segments, and then pull together the highlights
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by bensyverson 19d ago
I'm building something similar with `Agents`[0] (think of it as a package manager for AGENTS.md snippets). I'm getting good results by including detailed instructions for certain tasks in the repo, and providing hints in AGENTS.md
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by bensyverson 21d ago
For context, this post seems to be a reaction to MacStories deciding to return to X [0], which has been quite controversial in the Apple developer community. There has been the predictable blowback, then the blowback to the blowback, which
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by bensyverson 22d ago
Yes, this makes little sense. It looks like it's a way to avoid having Claude read or write your code. And why stop at 90%? I have this one weird trick to reduce Claude Code token use by 100%: use a different harness and model!
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by bensyverson 23d ago
I do. Do we think economists are actually generating this understanding? I'd be curious to know about policy changes which have been the result of non-obvious insights from the field of economics.
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by bensyverson 23d ago
> Economists aren’t naive, so they don’t really believe these things entirely. But they assume they are mostly correct over the medium to long term. Spoiler alert from the article: turns out economists are wrong. This will sound inflamma
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by bensyverson 24d ago
It’s better than for real, it’s for LinkedIn
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by bensyverson 24d ago
It probably depends on what you're trying to do; I needed Markdown styling and Markdown-aware behaviors (e.g. when you hit return after a list item, indent the same amount and add a new list marker), context-aware nesting (hit Command-
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by bensyverson 24d ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535835

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