bob1029

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by bob1029 7mo ago
This stuff can get as complicated as you want it to. I question the business value proposition though (i.e., how much fun it is to be this precise). That said, I would pay good money to look at the source code of some of the production MTG
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by bob1029 7mo ago
The RLM paper did inspire me to try it. This is where the term comes from. "Symbolic" should be taken to mean "deterministic" or "out of band" in this context. A lot of other recursive LLM schemes rely on the r
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Git is pretty close to ideal for the distributed model. I think the real money is in figuring out a centralized model that doesn't suck. Explicitly locking things has certain advantages. Two people working on the same file at the same
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Each stack frame has its own isolated context. This pushes the token pressure down the stack. The top level conversation can go on for days in this arrangement. There is no need for summarization or other tricks.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> Most AI runtimes can only execute one inference call to a model at a time. I don't know if the LMAX article makes much sense in this space. The latency of calling the models dominates any sort of local effects and the volume of th
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by bob1029 7mo ago
If you tell GPT5.x that there is a database it can query by calling ExecuteSql(query), but you don't bother explaining anything about the schema, it will try to figure things out ad-hoc. This has advantages for token budget because it
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by bob1029 7mo ago
The model can call a copy of itself as a tool (i.e., we maintain actual stack frames in the hosting layer). Explicit tools are made available: Call(prompt) & Return(result). The user's conversation happens at level 0. Any actual to
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by bob1029 7mo ago
GPT5.4 with any effort level is scary when you combine it with tricks like symbolic recursion. I actually had to reduce the effort level to get the model to stop trying to one shot everything. I struggled to come up with BS test cases it
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I've got a Honeywell digital controller on my hot water heater. It's powered by the thermocouple. It can make troubleshooting a lot easier because it has flashing lights for diagnostics.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> The bot took two and a half weeks to build; the data infrastructure under it took two years. This is the key lesson that everyone needs to step back and pay attention to here. The data is still king. If you have a clean relational data
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> could we make a 2 inch diameter turbine engine reliably? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstone_Green_Energy
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Custom agents using the low level completion APIs tend to outperform these generic tools, especially when you are working with complex problems. It's hard to beat domain specific code. I can avoid massive prompts and token bloat if my
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by bob1029 7mo ago
> no choice but to accept its installation You might be shocked to discover there are subdivisions so affluent they can afford physical armed security and access control structures with far more invasive identification and logging proced
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by bob1029 7mo ago
And in every codebase I've been in charge of, each PR has one or more issue # linked which describe every possible antagonizing detail behind that work. I understand this isn't inline with traditional git scm, but it's a very
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I agree these exist but I don't know about "most". Licensing costs are almost always a drop in the bucket compared to things like your salary.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I'm actually grateful (today) for the lightning strike that nuked my old pile of servers at home. It freed me from the whole thing in one step. I was completely disabused of any notion that I had control over anything at that point. Yo
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I think SQLite is fantastic but it does start to fall apart at the edges sometimes. What is more interesting to me is the fact that everyone seems to think of Postgres as the obvious alternative to SQLite. It is certainly an alternative.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
The modern consoles are pretty close to perfect with how they use PKI and certificates. Even if you clone the cryptographic identity of a valid console, the vendor can quickly detect this impossible access scenario.
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by bob1029 7mo ago
The 8800 GT is easily the most impactful GPU in my mind. The combination of that video card with valve's Orange Box was insane value proposition at the time. I'd put the 5700xt at #2 for being the longest lived GPU I've owned
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I struggle with the lack of possibility that others might exist who have different preferences and experiences. I enjoy working hard on problems that most would label as miserable. Not just computer problems. The money is genuinely not that
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I tried the agnostic thing for a while, but there are enough quirks between the providers that I gave up trying to normalize it. GPT5.x wipes the floor with other models for my specific tool calling scenarios. I am not going to waste time t
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Not specifically but it's the same idea. CIMD is perhaps one step too far for the cases I've worked with. We seem to prefer an out-of-band process for establishing trust. Two CTOs exchanging FQDNs at lunch is a fairly robust model
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I've started operating in really granular units of work. Like less than $1000 per. Cash on delivery. This won't work with all clients and all jobs, but there are places where it does work very well. Advantages include being able t
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I've been enjoying modern machine-to-machine flows. Trading trusted URLs for client ids is a really secure model. Especially if you go the extra mile with role based machine auth to cloud key stores. You can do the entire thing without
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by bob1029 7mo ago
Winforms is still compelling to me. Now that we have WebView2, building complex hybrid apps is trivial. I know I could easily go pure web, but something about having proper native chrome feels better as a user. All of my clients/users
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by bob1029 7mo ago
When I'm really trying to get shit done I'll put on some German industrial music like Bagger 258. The lyrics don't bother me because I don't understand them. I find the harsh aesthetic helps to keep me from getting distr
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by bob1029 7mo ago
If you look at the engineering, technology, operations, etc., this isn't really a fair fight. I think that's why Anthropic puts so much effort into the other narratives. OAI can play the empire / Death Star angle and get awa
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I'm in a fairly rural part of Texas (the middle of some woods) and I've got symmetric 5gbps fiber. The last house I lived in had 3 competing FTTH providers when I left. I don't think the story is what it used to be anymore. I
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by bob1029 7mo ago
The point of this is to reduce a complex tool surface to a single sql query tool without losing the richness of the underlying representation. In practice this allows for me to combine multiple, complex data sources with a constant number o
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by bob1029 7mo ago
I'm struggling a bit with why we need all these fancy dynamic preemption modes. Is this about hyperscalars shoving more VMs per physical machine? What does a person trying to host a software solution gain from this kernel change? If

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