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by brookst 3mo ago
Oh my goodness. I’ve used over 1B tokens on a single feature. I’m running at about 25B tokens/month right now. My whole point was that by planning in advance you can shard the work into manageable sections with clear beginnings and out
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by brookst 3mo ago
I’m not following the implication that these economics argue for jsing compaction instead of just clearing context?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Does it matter? As an end user I really only care about 1) how much I can do in a week, and 2) how long each task takes. Subsidies would affect 1, but not 2. But if some VC wants to subsidize my Claude or Codex or whatever, awesome.
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by brookst 3mo ago
I love how AI means that all human-written code is now perfect, and any problems are onbviously a symptom of vibe coding. Another few years of hearing this and I may begin to believe I only wrote perfect code, when my current memory suggest
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by brookst 3mo ago
Thanks, I wasn’t familiar with XTS. Now I’m picturing the 3am end of quarter fire drill in finance when they discover the company has accounts receivable of fourteen billion $XTS and it’s appearing in the quarterlies.
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by brookst 3mo ago
How in the world does that absolve Dell/etc, OR reduce Microsoft’s culpability for letting their update service be abused?
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by brookst 3mo ago
This is the old “why buy a prebuilt PC when you can DIY for less”. Which is true, but completely misses the point that may people will happily pay to 1) not have to build it, and 2) have e2e warranty, and 3) have someone else do the softwar
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by brookst 3mo ago
I read the analysis and I don’t see anywhere that it claims to measure demand. It seems pretty clear it’s about how many units Valve is selling (charging for, shipping) and explicitly not about reservations or demand. Valve is being smart h
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by brookst 3mo ago
Compacting at all is a mistake. With 1m context window there is no reason for a single task to require compaction. Much better to spend tokens breaking the task into chunks, documenting and storing them durably, then executing each one in c
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by brookst 3mo ago
Ah, but who prompts the prompters?
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by brookst 3mo ago
$20m is really not much money to operate a company for 6 months. They must be close to break-even at least?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Or paint that turns black at low temp and white at higher temp?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Is GDP per capita really a good proxy for labor costs?
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by brookst 3mo ago
You can have any SVG you can imagine, as long as it’s a pelican riding a bicycle.
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by brookst 3mo ago
LEGOs fit together because they have standards. That doesn’t mean they self-assemble. Networking can be complex. Standards allow interoperability but they do not magically make everything work with no configuration.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Interesting … do you see reliable == infallible? I don’t. But certainly all software is imperfect, and LLMs doubly so.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Ad hominem means attacking people rather than arguments. Pointing out that criminals are criminals is not an ad hominem.
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by brookst 3mo ago
You forgot DOGE, an illegal program that stole taxpayer information, cost billions of dollars, and will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousand of people.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Yes but you have to remember to turn it off later, when you’re not concentrating hard.
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by brookst 3mo ago
And you set up these permissions and groups for each individual task to be done? Do you tear them down after the task? Or maintain a lot of them for “LLM helps with house renovation” versus “LLM helps plan travel”?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Re: less common, I was just saying it doesn’t take millions off examples like PlanetUML. > what can you trust I wasn’t clear enough here — you’re responding to DSLs as an interface from non-deterministic LLMs to deterministic external sy
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by brookst 3mo ago
I’ve had good luck with LLMs and ad hoc DSLs, as well as much less common DSLs like liquidsoap’s stream management DSL. I don’t think there’s magic in DSLs, I just think LLMs respond well to clear, simple structure. Compilation / execu
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by brookst 3mo ago
And when you want to share some but not all files with that one user but not other users you created for similar purposes? And when you want the outputs of that user back to your main user? And when you want that user to access some shared
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by brookst 3mo ago
No, but when you’re arguing that common practices followed by pretty much everyone is “bad”, it’s hard to muster much urgency. Yeah, we should do this differently. We should probably also eat healthier and get to the gym more.
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by brookst 3mo ago
I have a directory of stuff I've written over the years, fiction to tech writing to emails, and then asked claude to generate a style guide based on that corpus. It's surprisingly good. Not perfect, but it definitely extracted a l
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by brookst 3mo ago
Do those phrases sound like how you talk to Claude? I've found that it mirrors my verbiage, and I have never seen any of those. I go through ~20B tokens/month and I've never seen "genuinely happy... but not comfortable&q
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by brookst 3mo ago
For some reason I tap shift when thinking. Sticky Keys is my bane.
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by brookst 3mo ago
I mean I don't know how people avoid breaking them. Prying paint cans open, rappelling from height, driving nails into roofs... don't you find them fragile for these daily operations?
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by brookst 3mo ago
I did that. I regret it. All of my cables are thick and have a large bend radius.
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by brookst 3mo ago
When you clone a git repo, do you check whether there are PDFs in it?

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