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by causal 1y ago
You've described instructions. It already had a name.
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by causal 1y ago
LoRA's are more robust than context tokens - their influence remains strong over long contexts and do a much better job of actually changing behavior rather than mimicking a desired behavior via instruction. But even if LoRA isn't
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by causal 1y ago
Strong disagreement on the helpfulness of the name- if anything calling a context file a skill is really misleading. It evokes something like a LoRA or pluggable modality. Skill is the wrong name imo
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by causal 1y ago
I was puzzled by the announcement and remain puzzled after this blog post. I thought everyone knew you could keep use case specific context files handy.
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by causal 1y ago
TBH probably easier to vibe-code securely in statically typed languages like Rust vs. something like Elixir. Probably my biggest Elixir complaint tbh.
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by causal 1y ago
Yup - an important distinction that wasn't obvious to me when I first jumped in. LiveViews are very opinionated and generate a ton of boilerplate. Not always a bad thing, but Elixir is elegant because of how spartan and expressive the
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by causal 1y ago
I have been pretty happy with Elixir - the syntax takes getting used to, but I'm usually impressed by its elegance. Phoenix I'm mixed on - it has a few things that "just work" and I'm happy about, but being an opini
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by causal 1y ago
Not to mention execs lazily scapegoating AI for every layoff and firing, even though AI has little to do with it
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by causal 1y ago
A common theme in these comments is justifying retribution against the left as if everyone in the country is for or against one team or the other- when in reality many of us are in the middle and think injustice remains evil no matter who d
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by causal 1y ago
Using LLMs for coding complex projects at scale over a long time is really challenging! This is partly because defining requirements alone is much more challenging than most people want to believe. LLMs accelerate any move in the wrong dire
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by causal 1y ago
I mean, you're definitely assuming positive outcomes here too. Far too early to tell how most tech will end up being used.
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by causal 1y ago
Similar to the copy/paste issue I've noticed LLMs are pretty bad at distilling large documents into smaller documents without leaving out a ton of detail. Like maybe you have a super redundant doc. Give it to an LLM and it won&#x2
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by causal 1y ago
If this is real it would be so easy to create a hype video that shows one of these things out in the wild handling unscripted situations with adversarial actors. But the fact we always see the same basic tasks in these videos makes me deepl
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by causal 1y ago
Yeah tech companies have a weird fixation on using dystopian literature as their entire branding playbook
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by causal 1y ago
Haha thanks for this - I was irritated by the weird sort of empathy-without-empathizing the original had
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by causal 1y ago
I mean that's the narrative but can you provide any evidence this is happening with the Quiet Skies program?
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by causal 1y ago
Nobody is advocating for unnecessary checkboxing. When 18-wheelers cross a bridge, it has to be engineered correctly. Unnecessary red-tape happens, but in no way would I want a bridge you "shoot from the hip" carrying my family al
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by causal 1y ago
Also: kids click on links adult ignore without thinking. Our brains have built in filters for avoiding content we don't want; for kids everything is novel.
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by causal 1y ago
I enjoyed tab complete at first, but realized after a while that it was subtly changing what I meant to do. Too many suggestions forcing me to stop and read, interrupting the clarity I had on what needs done.
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by causal 1y ago
Agreed. If I'm typing code, it's probably because I know what I want to do, and suggestions popping up easily break my train of thought. I also hate the choice of tab - I use tab for...tabs. There is probably a configurable way to
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by causal 1y ago
Sounds like you're still using the terminal. I'm talking about https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi...
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by causal 1y ago
I do find the agents useful sometimes, but Cursor is most useful when it gives me visibility and granular control over what the agents are doing. Trying to follow a verbose narrative through a narrow chat pane is not it.
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by causal 1y ago
Yeah I've used staging/stashing similarly, but it feels like working around Cursor rather than with it
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by causal 1y ago
Addressing 2) first: That's good, I totally misunderstood then, and guess I'll need to try it to understand what's new since I thought that kind of tabbing had been there a while. Back to 1): The type of bug I see most often
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by causal 1y ago
Yeah I have to imagine it's because of user base, there's no real moat in the technology
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by causal 1y ago
I got into Cursor a little late, went really heavy on it, and see myself using it less and less as I go back to VSCode. 1) The most useful thing about Cursor was always state management of agent edits: Being able roll back to previous state
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by causal 1y ago
IDK if the site is being hugged to death but I can only load the first video. Even in just one viewing there were noticeable artifacts, so my impression is that Veo is still in the lead here.
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by causal 1y ago
Don't think I've ever preferred Opus to Sonnet
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by causal 1y ago
I'd argue that dressing an ad up as an academic paper is obfuscation
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by causal 1y ago
Yeah, especially since many of those are just poor targets after being out so long / contaminating too much.

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