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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
They got a D in "willingness to pay for a certificate for their shopfront"..
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Your last paragraph is a valid rebuttal. And I've done what you did in the first 3. But your first 3 paragraphs serve no one but you. My suggestion for your future, if you'll consider it, is to write those first 3 paragraphs (they
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
> they promise "by a certain time" Better call your AI company for a refund. That my friend was an hallucination and you've been promised no such thing.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
The $99/yr part gives me the ick.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Software is a very "spiky domain"; things either work or fail, and there is sharp delineation between and easy verification. Hm. Two orthogonal properties! This sounds like a 2x2 matrix! Let's swap hard/easy around &
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Custom linting is so cheap and easy, why not! > "Please add in this repo, a pre-commit hook in the form of a script that prints all filenames and line numbers on which the hyphenated "open-source" string exists, and if any
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
> expensive, in terms of tokens. No amount of tokens can come close to my hourly rate.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Ungrounded LLM outputs are a bit like your dreams. Without anything to test hypotheses against, stuff can pop in and out of existence and physics is just advice. Ground your LLM. Tests, documentation, give it many ways to run the thing its
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
This doesn't align with my experience - but happy to be proven wrong if evidence can be produced. Do you have evidence?
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
It's situational and I suspect there are situations where it would and others where it wouldn't. Would depend on the almost infinite variables of how training was done. You'd be right that it'd be likely to switch but wh
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Point taken & let's get back on track. I agree it's incomplete what I wrote; you were right to call it out. When you as an individual are getting tens of thousands of dollars of value from a $100 item and someone says there&#x
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
That could be how it works, but in practice it takes into account all previous tokens when producing the next-token distribution to sample from. So a switch back is more likely than your explanation supposes.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
My argument may be wrong, but I myself am just fine, thank you.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
It's less fungible than you think. Below a certain threshold prices are effectively all the same. Companies pay API prices because part of the bundle is a trust anchor / liability shield: "we bought Anthropic's thing! We
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Your comparison is wrong It's not an expensive car vs. any car. It's car vs. no car.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Let's call it the lost art of getting lost when you don't want to. It's as easy as ever to lose yourself or get lost if you so choose. Probably always will be.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
200usd/mo for Claude gives me tens of thousands of dollars of value. API prices are paid by companies getting tens of millions of dollars of value. In normal life money is the key constraint; buy this don't buy that etc. - wher
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
You should not need it to say no. You can get just as good information by asking its thoughts for and against some issue. That doesn't force it to stop being sycophantic; in fact it actually exploits sycophancy to give you what you wan
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
You might like a little RSS proxy I vibed purely to let me browse HN and Lobsters' RSS feeds offline. It reads in the articles and comments and serves them up in a new feed you subscribe to instead of the original. RSS is amazing and b
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
This to me reads less as there being some objective level when a PR becomes "huge" and more about the tension between a system's ability to absorb change vs. our tools' ability to create change. By way of analogy conside
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
You must've asked for a small one ;p
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
> Just take a look at > some other people "Look around, it's everywhere" isn't evidence, it's misdirection. I will not be made to go find evidence of your false claim. That's on you.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
"It kinda works" is factually incorrect. I have used Firefox exclusively every day on macOS for the past year, several hours a day, and have not one single time had to open another browser. None of the customers of my B2B saas use
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
We will know we've made systems secure when laws focus on compelling people to provide access . These laws exist - they aren't the focus yet. Right now there's still no need; just hack the device or compel the cloud service
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Ah, sir, this is a Hacker News.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Self hosted, durable objects? Are they stored in files? On my filesystem?
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Lots of good advice in here for those who want to ship big stuff without slop. Great round up of the meat and potatoes of engineering in a mature codebase without giving in to entropy.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
If all you need is a readable summary you can understand you should definitely try asking. You might get a surprise! Worst case you lose 10 seconds of your life. Not too bad!
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Had a quick go of it on mobile. That version has major UX issues unfortunately.
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by cadamsdotcom 2mo ago
Your AI summary is raw output, like uncooked mince meat. Ask for a rewriting pass! Get it to edit for word count, remove redundancies, remove run-on sentences, and change sentence structure to use active voice. You wouldn't ship your f

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