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by brap 3mo ago
We keep seeing this. If you had to point out the fundamental problem, what would it be? I think it’s the disconnect. Each persona is an expert in their own field but is completely oblivious to other critical areas. The founder knows how to
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by brap 3mo ago
Just today I was thinking why isn’t there an optional timeout parameter for this tool
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by brap 3mo ago
I sometimes wonder if at some point we’ll discover that the fundamental laws of the universe are simply far beyond anything we can even remotely comprehend, like explaining a microprocessor to bacteria. But then what if we end up with ASI t
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by brap 3mo ago
The thing I struggle with wrt to taste is that LLMs just don’t get it. Even if I write down every single thing it did wrong and how I’d do it, and even if I turn those into rules, it will know how to follow these specific rules, but for som
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by brap 4mo ago
Agree, and I also don’t see why government should be involved in book rental. Why books and not say, car rental? What about jetski rental? (If the argument is that subsidizing books helps the poor, I’m all for it, a nonprofit or a charity w
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by brap 4mo ago
I thought we’re over this collective delusion called MCP
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by brap 4mo ago
OP after completing this essay https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/240/075/90f...
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by brap 4mo ago
>So: after AI takes everything, what remains is not some second-best refuge — it is the place where the sense of value was always meant to live. AI is a receding tide. It washes away all the external anchors we carelessly threw out over
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by brap 4mo ago
This makes a lot of sense, thank you!
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by brap 4mo ago
>Of course, you have to define what "has the same behavior as" means And that's really my issue, for example when you define "has no trailing whitespace", you are basically writing a piece of the implementation.
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by brap 4mo ago
Whenever I read about formal specs it always seems to me like “write the same tests just in a different way”, or worse, “write the same implementation but in a different way”. I guess doing things twice can help catch errors, but I fail to
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by brap 4mo ago
I gave it a task of scanning 6 markdown files and finding issues in the prose (contradictions etc). It ran for over 2h, exhausted my max plan session limit and crashed. I did not get any issues back.
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by brap 4mo ago
About 2 years ago, my then girlfriend, who is a medical doctor (read: likely not an idiot), had ChatGPT plan a trip for us in a foreign country (naturally I had to nip it in the bud). And this was 2 years ago, when accuracy was way worse. Y
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by brap 4mo ago
It always seemed very natural to me that AI will move “down the stack”, where Open AI and Anthropic don’t really have a foot in the door. Who makes consumer devices? Google Who makes operating systems? Google Who makes browsers? Google Who
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by brap 4mo ago
It’s all about the incentives. Unfortunately, companies often measure developers by their own PRs. An unfortunate outcome of this is that writing docs for other developers isn’t really incentivized properly (and with stack ranking, you migh
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by brap 4mo ago
Is our own experience really continuous? Or maybe we just perceive it as such?
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by brap 4mo ago
This is wonderful news, congratulations to Anthropic, OpenAI and Google!
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by brap 4mo ago
If I learned anything from unionized companies is that we’re never getting GTA 6
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by brap 4mo ago
I don’t have much to say except I appreciate the ASCII art.
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by brap 4mo ago
Things can have value beyond their physical substance. A Pokemon card isn't just paper and ink. I'm not arguing about whether the asset has value, I'm arguing about whether you actually own it.
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by brap 4mo ago
Not really though, in crypto the thing you own is the ledger entry, the record that says you hold N BTC. You own it because you hold the keys, and only the keys can change it. The token isn't a pointer to some asset sitting elsewhere
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by brap 4mo ago
At least in the tulip case, they actually had some minor value. You owned a pretty flower. You could also make the case for crypto money, I guess. Any person with common sense and basic technical understanding could tell you NFTs were an in
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by brap 4mo ago
Oof, this one is a major blabber.
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by brap 4mo ago
>Claude dynamically writes orchestration scripts So, is this like a skill the LLM should follow, or an actual "workflow" in the deterministic sense? If it's the former, is it even reliable for long running tasks? If it&#x2
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by brap 5mo ago
We really need to find a way to completely separate instructions from the data they operate on. Also, this is very scummy.
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by brap 5mo ago
I’m too paranoid to write a diary, even a handwritten one, and I’m literally a nobody. It’s beyond me how these super important (and controversial) people keep diaries where they lay out their evil plots like a villain from Scooby Doo. And
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by brap 5mo ago
Fair enough, but “as built” is usually not the original intent
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by brap 5mo ago
Software engineering is different from other engineering disciplines in that the most explicit spec of the thing you’re building is the actual thing itself. When you want to build a bridge you finalize all the blueprints and then someone
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by brap 5mo ago
How does that work? Are you using separate accounts? Do you just max out one of them and then switch to the other one? We need to run a SotA coding agent basically 24/7 uninterrupted and so far we didn’t find an easy solution for this
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by brap 6mo ago
Is mobile dev more or less complex than web? If less, why? Genuinely asking. Seems like they’d have more or less the same constraints.

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