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by brap 2mo ago
It baffles me that someone can just send a PR without knowing the gist of how it works and why it’s done this way. If you can’t answer this basic question then why tf do we even need you around?
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by brap 2mo ago
I also had Squeak in my curriculum! From what I remember it had a unique object hierarchy or something like
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by brap 2mo ago
While the demo is incredible, I think that in most practical use-cases, models aren't very useful without tools (search, code execution, etc.). Even if we assume reasoning latency drops to ~0ms (AFAIK this demo doesn't include rea
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by brap 2mo ago
Everybody thinks they have good taste don’t they. How convenient it is that we’re all so awesome according to the one metric that can’t be measured
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by brap 2mo ago
Many years ago, back when I was a junior, I wrote something like this to my manager, complaining about another employee who has wronged me. I eventually decided not to send it because it just seemed so unprofessional. Wild that a company th
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by brap 2mo ago
>Let’s examine another crazy version. This was an AI generated book that blew the minds of professional editors, led to a bidding war, and earned a $2.4M advance. Let’s examine a third version: the people investing $2.4M into this book u
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by brap 2mo ago
I tried letting Fable have a few passes at my docs (ultracode) and the output was basically unreadable. Nothing a human would ever write. I wonder if limiting them to a certain style like STE upfront would make them perform better/wors
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by brap 2mo ago
I said the same thing about chat bots trying to act human, but evidently that's what people want. I still cringe whenever an LLM uses "I"
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by brap 2mo ago
I have no idea what this is but I appreciate the roster.
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by brap 2mo ago
Has there ever been a case in human history when technology just stopped advancing, simultaneously world wide, only because a bunch of people wanted it to? I think these people are either incredibly naive, or, more likely, not acting in goo
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by brap 2mo ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”
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by brap 2mo ago
Working as intended
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by brap 2mo ago
If you’ve ever worked at a tech company you already know the answer without reading any further
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by brap 2mo ago
Are these typically the type of tasks that are genuinely worth tens of thousands of dollars?
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by brap 3mo ago
I’m sure they can hire a whole team of world-class UX folks and it will pay for itself
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by brap 3mo ago
Anyone surprised by this is incredibly naive. By all means use whatever works for you, I’m not even going to try to make an argument on ethics (and honestly I’m not even sure where I stand, given the behavior of American AI companies). But
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by brap 3mo ago
It’s crazy how much these companies invest in their models but when it comes to UX they do fuckall
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by brap 3mo ago
And you an do it without even changing the model!
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by brap 3mo ago
I think if you showed these before/after menus to people from 5 years ago, most would tell you it’s a massive improvement. But now many of us have been trained to detect slop from miles away so it just comes across as cheap. I often fe
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by brap 3mo ago
From my experience, this thing is crazy fast. Spawn 10 on the same problem and have them debate to reach a consensus, you’ll get Fable-like results but 100x faster.
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by brap 3mo ago
I think many of us engineers (including myself) are suffering from AI-induced procrastination. Fixing that pesky bug in production isn't fun. Building a harness/workflow that detects and fixes pesky bugs in production on its own i
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by brap 3mo ago
The Chinese ecosystem is largely built on stealing intellectual property from and/or distilling of US closed source models. I’m not getting into the ethics/comedy aspect of it, but let’s not pretend this isn’t the case. Plenty of
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by brap 3mo ago
Because it's mostly a load of crap. Most of these reusable, automated workflows sound really cool in theory, but in practice either they require a lot of customization (not really reusable) or a lot of babysitting (not really automated
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by brap 3mo ago
I bet that, all things considered, training 10 new Chinese frontier models costs _significantly_ less than a single modern fighter jet.
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by brap 3mo ago
> I'd expect them to shift to a model where Chinese models are hosted on Chinese infra. You assume these Chinese companies need to make a profit. Nothing is really private in China, nothing that truly grants power, anyway. CCP can j
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by brap 3mo ago
How dare they not buy things
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by brap 3mo ago
How dare they buy things
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by brap 3mo ago
This is very interesting. I never thought of myself as a “consumer” in that sense, but I guess it is 100% correct, I’ve always been a consumer and I have in fact taken things for granted. I don’t see that changing, to be honest, but it’s in
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by brap 3mo ago
I can totally see myself asking questions on SO even these days, but there’s a good chance they’ll lock my post so why bother. Something about the SO incentive system created the most hostile platform imaginable.
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by brap 3mo ago
> won't stop until it achieves or exhausts your prompt This is overselling it. In all implementations of this that I’ve seen, a more correct phrasing is “won’t stop until it pinky-promises it achieved your goal”. It usually relies

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