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by blixt 11mo ago
The quirks of field values not matching expectations reminds me of a rabbit hole when I was reverse engineering the Starbound engine[1] and eventually figured out the game was using a flawed implementation of SHA-256 hashing and had to crea
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by blixt 11mo ago
Wow, blast from the past. There's a fairly recent game on Steam called "Stick it to the Stickman" which practically puts you in control of the character in these animations. In fact I think the game was directly inspired by t
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by blixt 1y ago
I see other people mentioning env and mise does this too, with additional support to add on extra env overrides with a dedicated file such as for example .mise.testing.toml config and running something like: MISE_ENV=testing bun run test (“
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by blixt 1y ago
Slightly related but mise, a tool you can use instead of eg make, has “on enter directory” hooks that can reconfigure your system quite a bit whenever you enter the project directory in the terminal. Initially I was horrified by this idea b
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by blixt 1y ago
I thought exactly the same thing. I use errgroup in practically every Go project because it does something you'd most likely do by hand otherwise, and it does it cleaner. I discovered it after I had already written my own utility to do
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by blixt 1y ago
It would be interesting to do a wider test like this but instead of trying to clump people together into "American English" and "British English" it would be interesting if the data point was "in which city do peopl
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by blixt 1y ago
Yes we had the same issue with our coding agent. We found that instead of replacing large tool results in the context it was sometimes better to have two agents, one long lived with smaller tool results produced by another short lived agent
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by blixt 1y ago
From what I can tell the new context editing and memory APIs are essentially formalization of common patterns: Context editing: Replace tool call results in message history (i.e replace a file output with an indicator that it’s no longer av
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by blixt 1y ago
It wasn't immediately obvious to me what the AI tools were? He mentioned that multiple other tools failed to find anything, so I'm very curious to hear what made this strategy so superior.
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by blixt 1y ago
They reference a paper using initial noisy data as a key, mapping to a "jump-ahead" value of a previous example. I think this is very cool and clever, and does use a diffusion model. But I don't see how this Deep Researcher a
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by blixt 1y ago
Ironically, by the end it’s easier to make a bot solve it than do it the human way
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by blixt 1y ago
I found it interesting that in the segment where two people were communicating "telepathically", they seem to be producing text, which is then put through text-to-speech (using what appeared to be a voice trained on their own -- n
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by blixt 1y ago
Yeah maybe they're overrated, but they seem like the agreed-upon set of types to avoid null and to standardize error handling (with some support for nice sugars like Rust's ? operator). I quite often see devs introducing them in o
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by blixt 1y ago
I've been using Go more or less in every full-time job I've had since pre-1.0. It's simple for people on the team to pick up the basics, it generally chugs along (I'm rarely worried about updating to latest version of Go
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5 points by blixt 1y ago|2 comments
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by blixt 1y ago
There's also the announcement YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T4OwBp6d90
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by blixt 1y ago
I've been very impressed by Jazz -- it enables great DX (you're mostly writing sync, imperative code) and great UX (everything feels instant, you can work offline, etc). Main problems I have are related to distribution and longevi
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by blixt 1y ago
I think the promise back when all the separate reasoning / multimodal models were out was that GPT-5 would be the model to bring it all together (which mostly comes down to audio/video I think since o3/o4 do images really wel
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by blixt 1y ago
I haven't used XSLT since 2007 but I used it as an alternative to ASP.NET for building some dynamic but not too advanced websites and it had a very impressive performance when cached properly (I believe it was over an order of magnitud
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by blixt 1y ago
Yeah ultimately it depends on the problem. Reading an article like this, it's easy to conclude that the context should always be reduced, all context relegated to a vector database[1], and retrieved on demand such that the context is a
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by blixt 1y ago
This is one type of problem of information retrieval, but I think the change in performance with context length may be different for non-retrieval answers (such as “what is the edited code for making this button red?” or “which of the above
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by blixt 1y ago
I think most people have read it and agree it makes an astute observation about surviving methods, but my point is that now we use it to complain about new methods that should just skip all that in between stuff so that The Bitter Lesson do
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by blixt 1y ago
I’m starting to think “The Bitter Lesson” is a clever sounding way to give shade to people that failed to nail it on their first attempt. Usually engineers build much more technology than they actually end up needing, then the extras shed o
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by blixt 1y ago
I think Modal, which AFAIK has a similar feature set to Cloudflare Containers, also works out very favorably price wise compared to Cloudflare Containers.
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by blixt 1y ago
I would update the link to the actual blog post with more information: https://blog.cloudflare.com/containers-are-available-in-publ...
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by blixt 1y ago
Appreciate it, looking forward to see how Pickaxe evolves!
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by blixt 1y ago
I see the API is rarely mentioning exact message structure (system prompt, assistant/user history, etc) or the choice of model (other than defaultLanguageModel). And it's not immediately clear to me how `toolbox.pickAndRun` can ac
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by blixt 1y ago
If we extrapolate these points about building tools for AI and letting the AI turn prompts into code I can’t help but reach the conclusion that future programming languages and their runtimes will be heavily influenced by the strengths and
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by blixt 1y ago
“Call RestaurantName and order two massaman curry one with chicken and one with veggies plus rice for pickup” Then I get a push notif a few minutes later with the ETA.
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by blixt 1y ago
They probably are, or at least will! But for now it seems like the first version that works end to end and it certainly feels like it’s a standard VM spinning up a Docker image. There are lots of more specialized solutions out there like Co

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