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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
It’s fast but it has just enough rough edges that I always go back to Firefox.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
Yeah on second read I realize my comment was unclear; I don’t think this is okay. Fixed.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
In the 1960s Campbells Soup got in trouble with the FTC for using marbles to raise the ingredients and make the soup look fuller than it was. This was the real standard for deceptive advertising. I dont care about simulating furniture place
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
They serve different jobs. The tidy todo notebook or lab notebook is to offload working memory or keep records. The chaos notebook is for disorder.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
Unless you were at a couple of obscure film festivals in the early 2010s, definitely not! We were hobbyists making features and shorts on a shoestring budget with no expectations of “making it.” It was a blast. It’s also an all-consuming ho
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
I’ve been doing this for a decade. I call it the anti project: it’s whatever I feel like writing on that day. It’s not intended to write a novel (I’ve done that) or make a movie (done that too), or solve any useful problem. The purpose is n
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
When people wonder where the anti-AI movement comes from, I want you to look right here. They said they’d take your jobs, they forced families out of their homes, they gave you the worst electric bills you’ve ever seen, and if you pushed ba
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
Better yet, maybe a bulletin board and an email list is all you need? I have some extremely useful Discords and Signal group chats, but not everything ought to be an always on chatterbox.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
I got a Libro.fm sub when my son was born last year and am finding the same. I actually think this is about quality. Podcasts that take real effort (Hardcore History, Fall of Civilizations, Gastropod) are absolutely worth my time, but they&
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
Unless it’s all just fanfic, to be relegated to the same junkyard of ideas where the flying cars, airships, and vast underwater cities are kept.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
World, yes, as people around you including politicians and businessmen have had their brains pickled. But I doubt the influence. I’ve been free for years, and I can always spot who’s spends a lot of time in TikTok/Twitter/Instagra
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
These campaigns have historically amplified conflict. They do not care what the conflict is about. But unlike some of the others, I’m hearing anti-AI sentiment from a wide range of people who don’t even use social media.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
Sunk cost fallacy.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
These are the same people who performed the largest scale breach of copyright in history on the theory that they could get away with it. I’m not making any accusations, but we should not underestimate their tolerance for legal and financial
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
Also neuroscience disagrees. This really isn’t a debate. OP is wrong.
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by coffeefirst 3mo ago
Uh, I am an EM, and you have to treat context switching as the enemy or nothing gets done. There’s a bunch of different tactics for this. Some people hold office hours. I block off 9am for code review any only do it once per day. The progra
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
And even if you don’t get all that good or turn it into a lifelong hobby, that just sounds fun.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Anthropic did a study where people who worked like this understood their systems a lot better than and were basically as fast as AI maximalists. Plus it’s so much cheaper… that has to matter.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
So stop. I’m serious. Treat it like any other tool. When it helps solves problems, use it. When it makes problems, don’t use it. There are a lot of people and an enormous amount of money trying to make hands off agentic happen, but the happ
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Anything we can see?
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Indeed. Anyone could always build software. Some people want to do it without actually learning anything or doing any work. There are many things I wouldn’t mind doing without actually bothering to do the work, so I suppose I can relate.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
The next time someone calls me an asshole I’m going to blame Chinese propaganda. Surely it’s that and not my personality.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
A few years ago I had police knock on my door to see if our camera had footage of a crash on our block. This is not a problem. A little friction in the right places is a good thing.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Also you can still alienate your customers with bad decisions.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Absolutely. It turns out friction is important in the right places.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
The middle ground is to use it as a power tool: give me an example of this, fix my types, do this fussy bit, find this in the docs, without ever letting go of control. When using power tools you make all the measurements and decisions, you
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
What? No… we would jump on a call and talk through it for 5 minutes. I’m not saying you must see into the soul of every line, but “no idea what I’m looking at, LGTM” misses the point of code review. I have never been on a team where that’s
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Yeah #2 may be incidental. Suppose one lab focused on bigger, and another on reinforcement training geared towards factual accuracy over sycophancy. You could easily wind up with a model from the second lab that is less powerful but more ac
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Some of them will also give up and escalate if you do a good enough Rahm Emanuel impression.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
The other side of this is... the thing that made the web is anyone, even a 12-year-old who just downloaded Notepad++, could spend a few hours and build a website. VSCode is free. Stackoverflow is free. MDN is free. There are examples out

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