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by brap 8mo ago
Wow, I thought it was bad, then I got to last paragraph which was really bad.
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by brap 8mo ago
I don’t see it as the author being lazy, actually the opposite, I see it as being performative and a tryhard. Either way it’s annoying and doesn’t make me want to read it. After looking into it, as I suspected, the author seems to make his
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by brap 8mo ago
I see a lot of folks are excited about this but I genuinely don’t quite get it, pretty sure I’m missing something. ELI5, why is this useful?
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by brap 8mo ago
>prompt isolation You mean isolating data from instructions? As far as I know this is not a solved problem, or is it?
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by brap 9mo ago
They really should start using better models for autocorrect and autocomplete. My autocomplete is total bs
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by brap 9mo ago
Ok Dario
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by brap 9mo ago
All of this performative bullshit coming out of Anthropic is slowly but surely making them my least favorite AI company. We get it guys the very scary future is here any minute now and you’re the only ones taking it super seriously and resp
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by brap 9mo ago
Anthropic seems to be very busy producing a lot of this kind of performative nonsense. Is it for PR purposes or do they genuinely not know what else to spend money on?
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by brap 9mo ago
I learned that every step that can be solved reasonably without an LLM, should be solved without an LLM. Reliability, cost, performance, etc. I try to transfer as much work as I can out of LLMs and into deterministic steps. This includes mo
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by brap 9mo ago
One thing that’s always missing from these compound interest calculators is multiple assets with different rates, and different rates over time (e.g between X date and Y date use Z rate, etc). I didn’t quite figure out the right UI for the
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by brap 9mo ago
BEADS
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by brap 9mo ago
Do I have poor history?
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by brap 9mo ago
You said “best results”, but I imagine that the theoretical “best” may not necessarily be the most aesthetically pleasing in practice. For example, limiting output to a small set of characters gives it a more uniform look which may be nice
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by brap 9mo ago
Wikipedia has long been hijacked to serve agendas. The “truth” is whatever the highest bidder wants it to be. Most recently hijacked by the Qatar dictatorship: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/1
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by brap 9mo ago
Well this wasn’t really aimed at individual devs, but the team/company standards. I’ve worked at several teams and it was always the norm that all PRs come with tests. There was never a dedicated QA person (sometimes there would be an
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by brap 9mo ago
Do people actually send PRs with no tests? That is so bizarre to me
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by brap 9mo ago
This seems to be where it’s at right now, we can’t seem to make the models significantly more intelligent, so we “inject” our own intelligence into the system, in the form of good old fashioned code. My philosophy is make the LLMs do as lit
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by brap 9mo ago
Koko, that chimp’s alright.
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by brap 9mo ago
Context: https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2009580983453122652 https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2009355413670821948
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by brap 9mo ago
I like this but I hate how everything has to be tied to AI now to get attention. “I wanted to vibe code-“ who cares? It’s a neat tool, do we have to force AI into it?
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by brap 9mo ago
>AGI seem as far away as it’s always been This blurb is the whole axiom on which the author built their theory. In my opinion it is not accurate, to say the least. And I say this as someone who is still underwhelmed by current AI for c
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by brap 9mo ago
Another commenter said something that resonated with me - it feels too real, loses the magic.
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by brap 9mo ago
Gemini is my favorite, but it does seem to be prone to “breaking” the flow of the conversation. Sharing “system stuff” in its responses, responding to “system stuff”, starts sharing thoughts as responses, responses as thoughts, ignoring or
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by brap 9mo ago
It basically boils down to: capitalism works.
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by brap 10mo ago
I think that’s exactly why they’re not including timestamps. If timestamps are shown in the UI users might expect some form of “time awareness” which it doesn’t quite have. Yes you can add it to the context but I imagine that might degrade
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by brap 10mo ago
I generally agree that they are garbage at producing code beyond things that are trivial. And the fact that non-techies use them as “fact checkers” is also disturbing because they are constantly wrong. But I have found them to be very helpf
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by brap 10mo ago
What was the piece of furniture?
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by brap 10mo ago
Great vision for 2030. But as for today, have we all just collectively decided to pretend that the LLMs we have are capable of writing good software? I use LLMs a lot in my workflow, I probably spend a whole day per week learning and fiddli
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by brap 10mo ago
I think it’s more than just cultural. Yes, it’s definitely a factor, and there are cultures and there were times where paper white was considered beautiful. But I think on some level we naturally associate severe paleness with being sick or

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