criley2

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by criley2 7mo ago
How much of your super-awesome bandcamp music is topping charts, selling millions, packing mega stadiums, and is penetrating the zeitgeist so deeply that people around the world are addicted to it? Maybe, just maybe, I'm not talking ab
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by criley2 7mo ago
I'm talking about modern music. Just because a couple of dweebs on hackernews have "totally amazing underground music" doesn't mean the overall zeitgeist agrees. Regardless of your esoteric music tastes, music by sales a
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by criley2 7mo ago
It's not that a leader is capable of long-term planning, it's that a system is. I am a big proponent for democracy, but the fact is simple that when you do a massive regime change every ~4 years, nothing big will get done. You hav
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by criley2 7mo ago
Modern music has done this to itself. When the human product is already pure corporate slop, it's not hard for AI to compete. Hopefully AI outcompeting humans at slop sparks a renaissance of humans creating truly beautiful human artwor
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by criley2 7mo ago
Kagi is a for-profit corporation.
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by criley2 7mo ago
The analogy works fine! You're just being obtuse. - Outsourcing False. If you "outsource your code" to a compiler and just write higher level language, you're not an engineer. You literally don't own any of your own
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by criley2 7mo ago
>Would you currently trust a bridge designed by a civil engineer using AI for all of their calculations ? Of course. I've seen how sloppy and lazy humans are, and I already use the bridge, and if the safety truly came down to the ou
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by criley2 7mo ago
>AI has just exposed that many "engineers" are "temporarily embarrassed project managers", which is fine in the sense that it makes it clearer who actually enjoys making things and who just wants the end result regard
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by criley2 7mo ago
I'm convinced that most programmers largely hate making software and solving user problems. They just like fiddling with code. And honestly it explains so much.
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by criley2 7mo ago
What a utopia, where code quality matters in all domains! In my opinion nearly the opposite is true: modern business solves for the "minimum viable quality". What is the absolute lowest quality the software can be and not tank the
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by criley2 7mo ago
Almost! We are certainly on the precipice of the vast majority of white collar work being removed from the loop. However, what each domain will tell you (engineering included) is that AI doesn't understand the full context of what you&
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by criley2 7mo ago
The prompt isn't very useful. You'd see the exact same prompt on every ticket for me. Prompt 1: "Research <X> domain, think deeply, and record a full analysis in /docs/TICKET-123-NOTES.md" Prompt 2: Based
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by criley2 8mo ago
This reads like a schizophrenic wrote it.
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by criley2 8mo ago
I'd rather a Waymo be useless in the rain rather than a Tesla be actively dangerous and likely to kill me. Tesla ""autopilot"" fatalities: 65 Waymo fatalities: 0
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by criley2 8mo ago
I find it interesting that you latched on their jailor metaphor, but had nothing to say about their core goal: protecting my privacy. I'm okay with the people in charge of building on top of my private information being jailed by very
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by criley2 8mo ago
We are talking about LLM's not humans.
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by criley2 9mo ago
They tilled by hand for thousands of years before inventing a plow to speed it up. They spoke slowly, through letters, until phones sped it up. We coded slowly, letter by letter, until agents sped it up.
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by criley2 9mo ago
Sure, phones aren't directly doing the scamming, but they're supercharging the ability to do so. Phones are also a very popular mechanism for scamming businesses. It's tough to pull off CEO scams without text and calls. There
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by criley2 9mo ago
Why is 70% a end of life threshold? Considering that most major models are sold with configurations where the entry level begins under 70% compared to the "Long Range" model, clearly 70% is a perfectly fine level of battery for so
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by criley2 9mo ago
That's fine to do that, but kind of pointless. Everyone is then a "SME" in their own job space and thus the term is kind of useless. So, just replace every mention of SME outside of your company to "Business SME" in
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by criley2 9mo ago
I'm sorry you've had bad experience working with other people, but in my experience as a developer, having multiple SME's available is indispensable to real alignment and fast development. I've primarily worked in startu
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by criley2 9mo ago
SME and IC are functionally different. SME informs, IC creates. Often, IC aren't SME in the space they're developing in, because they're SME of the technology instead of the business.
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by criley2 10mo ago
I have played around pretty significantly with the markdown context idea but managing it by hand is pretty tough. - I take chinese tutoring lessons on italki with a tutor who uses notion (copy paste in markdown) - I copy/paste our noti
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by criley2 10mo ago
That's what I do and it helps and many apps let me do just that. Repeating it, reading the hanzi, reading the pinyin, and it all makes sense. But there's something about the "conversation" between a real human or an AI v
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by criley2 10mo ago
Sorry, just a typo on my part, I meant spaced repetition.
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by criley2 10mo ago
I have a half dozen language learning apps on my phone and have vibe coded a few concepts as well and while spaced recognition is amazing, it still suffers from the duolingo "vocabulary is not a language" problem. IMO the way arou
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by criley2 10mo ago
While it is true that model makers are increasingly trying to game benchmarks, it's also true that benchmark-chasing is lowering model quality. GPT 5, 5.1 and 5.2 have been nearly universally panned by almost every class of user, despi
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by criley2 10mo ago
Advanced reasoning LLM's simulate many parts of AGI and feel really smart, but fall short in many critical ways. - An AGI wouldn't hallucinate, it would be consistent, reliable and aware of its own limitations - An AGI wouldn&#x27
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by criley2 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis Modern science is designed from the top to the bottom to produce bad results. The incentives are all mucked up. It's absolutely not surprising that AI is quickly be
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by criley2 11mo ago
I think you've been way too obvious about it. "ChatGPT, my cat is coughing and not eating, what can I do?" >> Thinking: Cat health, potential diagnosis for coughing and eating, search: sponsored vets in users location,

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