crystal_revenge

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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I honestly don't think that sounds terribly outrageous. OpenAI and Anthropic aren't building companies that aim to be API endpoints or chatbots forever, their vision is clearly: you will do everything through them. The gamble is
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
The point is if you can't correctly craft an analogy, I'm not particularly concerned about your opinions on writing in general.
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
We're not selling vibe slop, the "vibe slop" tools which work for one person enable of automation of tasks for the services we sell. Whether or not we use AI behind the scenes is entirely irrelevant to the service we're
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I used to think this was a sign that AI code isn't really useful, but I've changed my tune (also I believe these numbers have changed in the last few months). As an example: One of my most promising projects I was discussing wit
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
Your conflating the medium with the source of the message in this analogy. Writing and oration are two different media, the question of which is preferable in which context is completely unrelated to LLM authorship. If "the purpose of
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> The new skill is mastering the craft of directing cheap inputs toward valuable outcomes. Strongly agree with this. It took me awhile to realize that "agentic engineering" wasn't about writing software it was about bein
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> As users we need to make more efforts to move out of the American ecosystems. While I support the spirit, it's important to acknowledge the reality of the current situation with the US (and the rest of the world). It has little to
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
But the "infilling" problem isn't exactly solved for AR LLMs, so it's a strange critique. Further more, you're applying the logic of AR LLMs to diffusion models. AR LLMs are only seeking the probability of the next
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> Scientists go where science is funded. DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic pay quite well for research and have better "labs" than most places on Earth. I don't believe they're struggling to hire either. This article is
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> not suitable for anywhere near production This is what I've been increasingly understanding is the wrong way to understand how LLMs are changing things. I fully agree that LLMs are not suitable for creating production code. But
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I have increasingly changed my view on LLMs and what they're good for. I still strongly believe LLMs cannot replace software engineers (they can assist yes, but software engineering requires too much 'other' stuff that LLMs r
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> there is no way companies like OpenAI could ever justify their valuations The value proposition isn't really "we'll help you write all the code for your company" it's a world where the average user's compu
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
A lot of people aren’t realizing that it’s not about replacing software engineers, it’s about replacing software . We’ve been trying to build well engineered, robust, scalable systems because software had to be written to serve other users
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I’ve been running K2.5 (through the API) as my daily driver for coding through Kimi Code CLI and it’s been pretty much flawless. It’s also notably cheaper and I like the option that if my vibe coded side projects became more than side proje
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> We need laws for agents I know politics is forbidden on HN, but, as non-politically as possible: institutional power has been collapsing across the board (especially in US, but elsewhere as well) as wealthy individuals yield increasing
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> What's Anthropic's optimization target??? Getting you the right answer as fast as possible! What makes you believe this? The current trend in all major providers seem to be: get you to spin up as many agents as possible so th
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> and equity is a lottery ticket. What's surprised me is that most of the younger coworkers I've had, having grown up largely through boom times, absolutely believe that this equity has tremendous value. I've had multiple
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
Very similar to web3! On paper the web3 craze sounded very exciting: yes, I absolutely would love an alternate web of truly decentralized services. I've been pretty consistently skeptical of the crypto world, but with web3 I was reall
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> "AI is completely useless." This is a straw man. I don't know anybody who sincerely claims this, even online. However if you dare question people claiming to be solving impossible problems with 15 AI agents (they just ca
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> There's a mass psychosis happening There absolutely is but I'm increasingly realizing that it's futile to fight it. The thing that surprises me is that people are simultaneously losing their minds over AI agents while al
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
There was a pre-LLM version of this called "battledecks" or "PowerPoint Karaoke"[0] where a presenter is given a deck of slides they've never seen and have to present on it. With a group of good public speakers it c
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> might need many years to become stable again People really fail to grasp the significance of this part. One of our most common apocalyptic fantasies lays this out quite well: nuclear annihilation. The common narrative is about the
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> to introduce early stage students to Scheme before Python, or deep learning before calculus. This book is part of the classic "Little" series of books starting with the "Little Schemer" which, despite its name and
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
This is a hilariously narrow view of family life. Life is a lot more complicated and there's essentially limitless possibility between living a life you feel is solely about "paying consequences" or "completely abandon
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I'm always a bit surprised by the degree that non-tech people don't understand how much they're being openly and transparently manipulated in various ways. Most of my work has been statistical/quantitative in nature from
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> Many of our child-free friends are going to go through a lot of loneliness when they're old I've seen this "kids are insurance against loneliness" logic repeated often, but I don't believe this bares out in rea
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by crystal_revenge 9mo ago
> we are not even close to what we can do in a non-suicidal way. I'm honestly not sure how anyone can be remotely aware of the other major consequence of our energy consumption, climate change, and make this statement. We're fa
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by crystal_revenge 9mo ago
The problem with the concept of "the singularity" it is has a hidden assumption that computation has no relationship to energy . Which, once unmasked, is a pretty outlandish claim. There is a popular illusion that somehow technol
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by crystal_revenge 9mo ago
What you're missing is that there's no need to do extra work in the kernel smoothing step (what attention essentially is) because all the fancy transformation work is already happening in learning the kernel . The feedforward net
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by crystal_revenge 9mo ago
Because this move is entirely financial engineering to hide losses just like the roll up of X in to xAI. None of this has anything to do with business or innovation. Do you not immediately see that? Most of my friends reaction to this news

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