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by causal 11mo ago
Yeah, there is definitely a huge gulf in subjective experiences, and even within the same user experience. There are days when Claude makes so many mistakes I can't believe I ever found it useful. Strange.
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by causal 11mo ago
I've certainly seen Claude Code get into bad loops and make terrible decisions too, but usually it's a poor architectural decision or completely forgetting important context; not "let's rewrite V8 from scratch" leve
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by causal 11mo ago
> Codex will rewrite the entire V8 engine to break arithmetic. This isn't an exaggeration either. Codex acts as if it is the last programmer on Earth and must accomplish its task at all costs. This is great for anyone content to tre
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by causal 11mo ago
Or you can have a model with some semblance of common sense that will stop and say "Hey I can I have access to the network to do X?" Codex feels like a tool designed to run after all the humans are gone.
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by causal 11mo ago
Sigh. Time to try it again I guess. I give OpenAI way more chances than it deserves.
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by causal 11mo ago
Absolutely contradictory. The long-running tendency for Codex is why I cannot understand the hype around it: if you bother to watch what it does and read its code the approaches it takes are absolutely horrifying. It would rather rewrite a
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by causal 11mo ago
It's manipulation that closed communities recognize and call out and will ultimately expel people for doing. But if you happen to be born into extreme wealth you have something people need and normal social consequences no longer have
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by causal 11mo ago
A recurring theme in reading about Thiel, Karp and their supporters is a sort of "kill or be killed" mentality - implied if not stated outright. Likewise I've seen people say things like "well the other side was doing X
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by causal 11mo ago
It's a revolution in subtle humor. Well done.
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by causal 11mo ago
Thanks for this - it expresses something I've felt for a while. Solve too hard and you end up back at midnight.
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by causal 11mo ago
> This is not just a ... Dead giveaway
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by causal 11mo ago
I sometimes suspect AWS deliberately looks for ways to extract low-overhead tasks into dedicated services for the simple reason that many people will pay for the service without thinking about whether they really need it.
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by causal 11mo ago
That makes sense, and if that's the reason it's another vote for open models
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by causal 11mo ago
Anything not JSON
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by causal 11mo ago
Shocked this wasn't already a feature. Bummed they only seem to have JSON Schema and not something more flexible like BNF grammar's, like llama.cpp has for a long time: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp&#x
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by causal 11mo ago
I reaaaaally wish we could provide an EBNF grammar like llama.cpp. JSON Schema has much fewer use cases for me.
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by causal 11mo ago
If it's not profitable, it's running on capital. Subsidized.
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by causal 11mo ago
> It's not actually subsidized Source?
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by causal 11mo ago
Wouldn't be the first time an Italian prosecutor went on a witch hunt based on wild conspiracy theories: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monster-of-florence-amanda-knox...
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by causal 11mo ago
I wonder if a price correction would be a boon for open source, with the economics of smaller / self hosted models making a lot more sense when API prices have to surge.
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by causal 11mo ago
Yeah the "spiral bar chart" was an artistic but maybe not practical choice.
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by causal 11mo ago
Yeah there has been some lamenting at all the money being thrown at technology hasn't been for anything truly game changing, basically just variations of full stack apps. A few failed mooonshots might be more interesting at least.
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by causal 11mo ago
"Study finds..." feels clickbaity to me whenever the study is just "we found some randos on social media doing a thing". With little effort a study could find just about any type of person you want on the Internet.
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by causal 11mo ago
Yes that's part of what I meant by read, but understanding a codebase goes a lot faster when you begin with some higher level understanding.
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by causal 11mo ago
IMO this is why Claude Sonnet is better than ChatGPT: Sonnet is so much better at clarifying, drawing diagrams, writing documentation. It TRIES really hard to keep you in the loop, but of course you can choose to ignore everything it writes
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by causal 11mo ago
What did you expect, complete arpeggios and site-reading Mozart? In six months he taught a wild animal to go from nothing to understanding how to interact with a complex instrument, and do so with increasing sequences in response to a rewar
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by causal 11mo ago
I was confused at first too - the story is in sections accessed at the top
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by causal 11mo ago
Yeah I believe this is basically Taleb's investment strategy (or at least, what he seemed to claim in his books)
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by causal 11mo ago
That's sort of Taleb's whole thing: most successful investors just happened to be riding a wave and cannot claim any sort of genius. The Black Swan event is always explained away as some kind of environmental blip and investment s
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by causal 11mo ago
Hopefully as a society we can also learn the lesson that tech companies cannot be trusted to deliver what's best for us.

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