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by buu700 10mo ago
Sure, but that doesn't prove anything about the properties of the output. Change a few words, and this could be an argument against the possibility of what we now refer to as LLMs (which do, of course, exist).
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by buu700 10mo ago
That may be what most or all current LLMs do by default, but it isn't self-evident that it's what LLMs inherently must do. A reasonable human, given the same task, wouldn't just make arbitrary changes to an already-well-compo
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by buu700 10mo ago
I've been using em dashes for much longer than transformers have existed. It's easily accessible on at least the Android and macOS keyboards.
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by buu700 10mo ago
Turns out "God" was just a convenient shorthand for "alien AI", and Genesis was about terraforming and seeding life on Earth.
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by buu700 10mo ago
I prefer writing myself, but I could see the appeal of producing a first draft of a prompt by dumping a verbal stream of consciousness into ChatGPT. That might actually be kind of fun to try while going on a walk or something.
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by buu700 10mo ago
It's kind of funny to see "a computer in every home" invoked when we're talking about the equivalent of ~$100 buying a non-trivial percentage of all computational power in existence at the time of the quote. By the stand
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by buu700 10mo ago
That's more of a management problem than an AI problem. You could get the same result by replacing "model" with "intern" or "dude from Fiverr".
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by buu700 10mo ago
Neurospora crassa is also pretty good. Meati sells slabs of it.
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by buu700 10mo ago
I use Grok pretty heavily, and Elon doesn't factor into it any more than Sam and Sundar do when I use GPT and Gemini. A few use cases where it really shines: * Research and planning * Writing complex isolated modules, particularly when
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by buu700 10mo ago
As I recall, Randy Pausch had a lot of positive things to say about Disney Imagineering.
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by buu700 10mo ago
Whether or not it will one day get there is anyone's guess, but it sounds like we agree that it at least isn't currently there. I brought up that goalpost to illustrate why more efficient models will only improve the aggregate vol
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by buu700 10mo ago
I'd say the simple answer is that the buck always stops with the vendor. If Acme Co sells a jetpack that explodes and kills someone, the entity doesn't get to deflect liability by saying one of their engineers made a mistake; that
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by buu700 10mo ago
Just in case it was unclear, I extensively use AI and agentic coding with current models on a daily basis. The only thing I haven't tried in a few months is specifically one-shotting a greenfield project. I know computer-use agents exi
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by buu700 10mo ago
Thanks for the recommendations. Regarding your other comment, Flutter is what I've landed on as well for my next cross-platform app project, and I'm currently in the middle of developing a spec for a fairly complex agentic system
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by buu700 10mo ago
Just to be clear, what I was proposing was a single tool which would, on the basis of a single ~30-minute interaction, purchase a domain name, set up a cloud environment, build a full-stack application + cross-platform native apps + useful
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by buu700 10mo ago
I'm not aware that we are there, but would be very interested if you have information to the contrary. Even if we were there, the product/service that does it would have to be at a reasonable cost in order to be useful for most pe
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by buu700 10mo ago
Coding capability in and of itself may be "good enough" or close to it, but there's a long way to go before AI can build and operate a product end-to-end. In fairness, a lot of the gap may be tooling. But the end state in my
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by buu700 10mo ago
If it is satire, it's very good. They pointed out exactly how their proposed dystopia is consistent with policies that already exist. Withholding autonomy from anyone with a diagnosed mental/neurodevelopmental disorder or an IQ be
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by buu700 10mo ago
I've been using a functionally identical implementation of this since I wrote it in my startup's codebase a decade ago. It's really handy, but definitely not without edge case issues. I've occasionally had to put in work
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by buu700 10mo ago
It's easy for us as humans to correct dumb mistakes made by AI. It's less easy for AI to correct mistakes made by AI. What's remarkable on Grok's part is when it spends five minutes churning through a few thousand lines
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by buu700 10mo ago
They can be, but in this case they don't seem to be. Here's Grok's response to that prompt (again, the actual chatbot service, not the X account): https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_2b46259a-5291-458e-9b85
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by buu700 10mo ago
Anyone who hasn't used Grok might be surprised to learn that it isn't shy about disagreeing with Elon on plenty of topics, political or otherwise. Any insinuation to the contrary seems to be pure marketing spin on his part. Grok i
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by buu700 10mo ago
The "it's not X, it's Y" construction seems pretty neutral to me. Almost no one minds when the phrase "it's not a bug, it's a feature" is used idiomatically, for example. The main thing that's an
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by buu700 10mo ago
This just reminded me of the time I thought Firefox was cooked when tabs were finally added in IE7. The idea that IE was ever suddenly going to have a huge resurgence is amusing in hindsight, but it really felt like we were stuck with it fo
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by buu700 10mo ago
You're imagining an exchange that didn't happen. At no point have I declined to provide a definition upon request. In fact, I went out of my way to provide both a Wikipedia link and my own off-the-cuff paraphrasing. That being sai
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by buu700 10mo ago
You're attacking a straw man. I didn't say I supported Harvey Weinstein, and I don't have any strong opinions on J.K. Rowling. Why are you so focused on wealthy celebrities? They're a tiny minority of the population and
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by buu700 10mo ago
Whether the ideal works and the extent to which it's commonly held are two different issues. My view is that both major parties in the US are somewhat illiberal, but average out to a moderately liberal status quo. Despite many flaws, e
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by buu700 10mo ago
Social media is full of politically motivated bullying, harassment, and censorship. That should be readily apparent to anyone who's ever used the internet. That's what cancel culture is, not a dispute with rude houseguests. I&#x27
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by buu700 11mo ago
This is an odd response. Wikipedia does not in any way claim that the moon landing was faked or that flat Earth theory is legitimate. The insinuation that I "want it to be true" is silly. Why would I want cancel culture to exist?
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by buu700 11mo ago
> Probably because we all know "cancel culture" was an invented, highly partisan and ultimately fake concept. No, we don't all know that. There's a whole Wikipedia article on the subject: https://en.wikip

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