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by bentcorner 5mo ago
Anecdotally from people I know from MS is that adhoc slack usage was popular up until lockdown, at which point more resources was poured into Teams due to everything going remote and internal slacks were frowned upon. I see a parallel here
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by bentcorner 5mo ago
20 days is rookie numbers. I can get a million engineers to each review a single line and finish code reviewing the entire code base in a minute.
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by bentcorner 5mo ago
The premise of this article is incorrect - MS isn't cancelling Claude code internal usage because of AI costs too much, they're cancelling it because GitHub copilot is the compete product and they want their employees to use their
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by bentcorner 5mo ago
> The first half is a constant flood of footage from the iPhone, the DJI Pocket, the drone, the Nikon Z8, and lately the Ray-Ban Metas too. There's always something being recorded. Every photographer or videographer I know is sittin
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by bentcorner 5mo ago
I maintain a part of my team's CD process and I've observed a 30% increase in PR velocity since we started adopting agentic tools but it was a "one-off" increase (as-in, it hasn't continued to increase beyond that s
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by bentcorner 5mo ago
I suspect at some point AI-written code will be eventually artifacts generated build-to-build. The design docs and UI tests are the source and the model follows instructions to generate the product. If you make the models deterministic th
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by bentcorner 5mo ago
I personally believe that the legacy we send to the stars will be silicon. Robots have landed on Mars. Maybe they will even figure out how to use minerals on Mars to build more of themselves. It is plausible to me that as far as space expl
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by bentcorner 5mo ago
My local school district somehow has <schooldistrict>.us Not sure how that came about.
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by bentcorner 6mo ago
This feels like it deserves to live somewhere on a blog, not as a comment on some forum. This is really interesting thanks for sharing.
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by bentcorner 6mo ago
30% is a surprising metric because just anecdotally my team's PR submissions have jumped by about the same ratio in the same time frame. (No, I'm not measuring it - I just own a downstream piece and have casually observed its hig
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by bentcorner 6mo ago
Kinda sorta, but there's a limit where users will typically install X apps and apps of Y size need Z extra space to update. User content would fill up the rest. I would imagine a typical 256 gb phone is probably over this limit and p
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by bentcorner 6mo ago
Exactly - I'm thinking the bad spatial navigators have a higher probability of washing out of driving and pursue some other career. They may not say "I'm bad at figuring out where I am", but the economics of the job are
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by bentcorner 6mo ago
I don't think this is where the problem lies. If you kill someone with intent, it's murder. But the whole system needs to prove that you killed someone with intent beyond a reasonable doubt, and a DSL will not help you there.
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by bentcorner 6mo ago
This could in theory already happen without any tech, but I suspect since the government is pretty monolithic, any changes in a specific law are all being done by the same set of people. You might not have merge conflicts but I imagine you
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by bentcorner 6mo ago
I think the right solution is to endow the LLM with just enough permissions to do whatever it was meant to do in the first place. In the customer service case, it has read access to the customer data who is calling, read access to support d
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by bentcorner 7mo ago
> People are free and probably do this because it is slow. Alternatives often are not a bad thing. Alternatives are always good but IMO brew is just not something I interact with all that much and to me it's "good enough".
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by bentcorner 7mo ago
Tik Tok is arguably a Facebook killer. Roblox is in some ways there, I think Epic thought fortnite could have competed. IMO they made a strategic mistake in shackling their game-as-a-platform to Fortnite. I thought the music fortnite thing
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by bentcorner 7mo ago
Yeah this one is a classic: https://youtu.be/8OzZxjqKG10
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by bentcorner 7mo ago
Makes me wonder if there's a bet you can take on Polymarket that Polymarket will get shut down due to it negatively influencing behavior. The insider trading on that one should get interesting.
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by bentcorner 7mo ago
I just say something like "spawn an agent to review your plan" or something to that effect. "Red/green TDD" is apparently the nomenclature: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-
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by bentcorner 7mo ago
Unfortunately the only way this changes is if a company writes a just enough unreasonable ToS, and someone violates it in just the right way and the company decides to enforce said ToS, and the user fights back, and this all ends in cou
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by bentcorner 7mo ago
Installing humanoid robots in a factory is like using regexes to parse data. It makes sense if it's a one-off but there are better solutions. Maybe it does make sense for small scale businesses that need just a little automation? Like
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Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap(youtube.com)
7 points by bentcorner 7mo ago|1 comments
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Fighting games have a product design problem(cthor.me)
20 points by bentcorner 8mo ago|8 comments
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by bentcorner 8mo ago
Personally I stopped using Facebook because even in the before-AI days it started becoming a glamour photo book of everyone you ever knew (and probably lots of people you only kind of sorta know), and while people certainly deserve to do an
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by bentcorner 8mo ago
Nope, I hand wrote this. I actually considered using an LLM but in my experience they "warp" the content too much for anything like this. The effort required to get them to retain what I would consider something to my taste would
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by bentcorner 8mo ago
I met a user from an antique land Who said: Two squares of a clip of video Stand in at the end of the search. Near them, Lossly compressed, a profile with a pfp, whose smile, And vacant eyes, and shock of content bait
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by bentcorner 8mo ago
> Clearly tapping a letter “taps” a different letter (hot spots poorly calibrated) FWIW I encounter this in Android every so often (using gboard). Anecdotally I don't know what causes it (I swear sometimes it's worse and somet
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by bentcorner 8mo ago
A very very long time ago as an intern I was working on a perl cgi script and I would often test it with telnet. I was used to messing around with hayes commands so manually typing in HTTP commands seemed like a natural extension of that.
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by bentcorner 8mo ago
Honestly I could see arguments going both ways. Pairing prevents unauthorized access, but at the same time, pairing means you need to be able to pair without having a paired device on-hand. For a passive read-only device (like most satellit

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