brap

12 ms·

241.
by brap 1y ago
No, much worse!
242.
by brap 1y ago
That’s how it is in the defense biz. Just look at how they name fighter jets and missiles.
243.
by brap 1y ago
I don’t know why Palantir is always singled out as some sort of EvilCorp. There are plenty of companies in the defense sector but those aren’t usually considered “tech” so for some reason they’re out of the discussion. And besides, these US
244.
by brap 1y ago
>writing programs is not hard. Specifying what a program should do is hard. But these two things are kinda the same thing. Writing a program is mostly just specifying what it should do in a very specific, unambiguous way. That’s why we h
245.
by brap 1y ago
My process is basically 1. Give it requirements 2. Tell it to ask me clarifying questions 3. When no more questions, ask it to explain the requirements back to me in a formal PRD 4. I criticize it 5. Tell it to come up with 2 alternative hi
246.
by brap 1y ago
After 15 years at Google he’s most likely at a point where he doesn’t have to work for a living anymore, and still afford a comfortable life for his family. I imagine that’s a big part of his happiness.
247.
by brap 1y ago
I just don’t want understand, for what purpose?
248.
by brap 1y ago
While I agree with the general idea, 2 minutes of looking at KSON was enough for me. If this is UI, it’s an ugly one. I’ll stick to JSON. When JSON isn’t enough it usually means the schema needs an update.
249.
by brap 1y ago
I think it’s been at least 5 years since I saw a main in the codebase. Now that I think of it I rarely even write a truly new class from scratch, usually you just implement/extend some framework-specific thing.
250.
by brap 1y ago
After trying out many languages at many places, I reached the conclusion that Java, as weird as it may be, is my favorite language. There were times I hated it, but turns out I really just hated messy, over-engineered legacy code and workin
251.
by brap 1y ago
To put it in terms of data structures, a vector DB is more like a Map, this is more like a Tree
252.
by brap 1y ago
Very cool. These days I’m building RAG over a large website, and when I look at the results being fed into the LLM, most of them are so silly it’s surprising the LLM even manages to extract something meaningful. Always makes me wonder if it
253.
by brap 1y ago
I remember watching an episode of one of my favorite shows on my parents’ brand new TV, and thought to myself something about this episode is off, like the production is cheap, the acting feels worse, even the dialog is bad. Over time I not
254.
by brap 1y ago
I mean, yes, but also… Not specifically related to this “child protection” thing, but you can’t deny that the free flow of information also leads to some pretty terrible things, driven by actors such as states, magnified x1000 by social med
255.
by brap 1y ago
At some point you gotta wonder if there’s even a difference between “stops after N” and “never stops”. I mean obviously there is, it’s the same difference between N and infinity. But… is there really ?
256.
by brap 1y ago
Huh? This is all text
257.
by brap 1y ago
You know I really don’t get it. I must be missing something obvious. Any “tool protocol” is really just a typed function interface. For decades, we’ve had dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of different formats/languages to describe those.
258.
by brap 1y ago
Say what you will about GPT 1, but at least its responses were in the right length. We need to go back
259.
by brap 1y ago
I find it extremely hard to believe that ASI will still require enormous investments in a post-ASI world. The initial investment? Likely. But there have to be more efficient ways to build intelligence, and ASI will figure it out. It did not
260.
by brap 1y ago
Even with Google Maps, we still need human drivers because current AI systems aren’t so great at driving and/or are too expensive to be widely adopted at this point. Once AI figures out driving too, what do we need the drivers for? And
261.
by brap 1y ago
Productivity really doesn’t need “solving”. The problem is procrastination. It’s quite ironic the amount of time people sink into these productivity methods and apps. Almost like it was yet another form of procrastination…
262.
by brap 1y ago
I often find myself pissed off that AI can’t properly do even the most trivial, menial coding work. And I have to spend more time guiding it than doing it myself. On the other hand I find it super useful for debugging. I can paste 500k toke
263.
by brap 1y ago
Then hire juniors for your own team? How is this an issue?
264.
by brap 1y ago
>Same reason people hire interns and write technical blogs I’m sorry but almost nobody does this for the greater good
265.
by brap 1y ago
I’m sorry but how is that any of your business? If a company prefers small teams right now, at the cost of not having juniors to grow into seniors in the future, they are well within their rights to make that decision. Might be an awful dec
266.
by brap 1y ago
I imagine a future where the “high level” stuff in the environment is pre defined by a human (with or without assistance from AI), and then AI sort of fills in the blanks on the fly. So for example, a game designer might tell the AI the flo
267.
by brap 1y ago
Yep. I often choose LLM apps not because of how great the model is, but how snappy the UI feels. Similarly I might choose the more lightweight models because they’re faster.
268.
by brap 1y ago
Unfortunately this is true for basically any kind of “product”. It’s crazy how many people build something and make a website for it, only to hide the thing they’ve built somewhere deep in the website. Just show me the damn thing!
269.
by brap 1y ago
The type checker can be ignored in all sorts of ways
270.
by brap 1y ago
I’m far from being an experienced Pythonista, but one thing that really bugs me in Python (and other dynamic languages) is that when I accept an input of some type, like User, I have to wonder if it’s really a User. This is annoying through

More ›