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> There are still great posts there, but if you weren't reading that stuff to begin with, maybe this is a good thing that you aren't using it anymore. There's something beautiful about a defense of a community that is also
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> frozen the state of the art Personally I am experimenting with a lot more data-driven, declarative, correct-by-construction work by default now. AI handles the polyglot grunt work, which frees you to experiment above the language layer
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The math: There are N tutorials written per year. There are M accessibility experts willing and able to write tutorials. N >> M by orders of magnitude. The ask is for M people to produce N parallel accessible versions of everything, f
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Ah! So it's my responsibility to teach you how to program properly! I must now police every possible new tutorial, framework, library release, and if the author didn't include accessibility I should ... Make my complete alternat
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Which of these 24 parts cover accessibility? Ah, this one: > That said, you could add a description string to the common element header that screen readers could use, but accessibility concerns are out of scope for this toy UI library. I
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> “witch hunt” is most often used by bad actors attempting to discredit legitimate investigations). By that logic, "fake news" is now unusable because Trump weaponized it, despite the term accurately describing a real phenomeno
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> as they do for popular benchmarks or for penguins riding a bike. Citation?
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Ah, I see you have discovered blogs! They're a cool form of writing from like ~20 years ago which are still pretty great. Good thing they show up on this website, it'd be rather dull with only newspapers and journal articles donch
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> The fundamental challenge in AI for the next 20 years is avoiding extinction. So nice to see people who think about this seriously converge on this. Yes. Creating something smarter than you was always going to be a sketchy prospect. Al
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The thing about this metaphor that people don't seem to ever complete is. Okay, you've switched to English. The speed of typing the actual tokens is just about the same but... The standard library is FUCKING HUGE! Every concept th
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Possible confound (seems important): "creatives" tend to have a certain political tribe, that political tribe is well-represented in places that have this precise type of authenticity/etc. language around AI use... Basically
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You're on a plane. The plane is going to crash. You aren't a pilot. There's WiFi on the plane. Do you use the WiFi before it crashes?
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The point of this article is this person punishes people who copy and paste the code ... into their python interpreter to check. How many cases have you faced in your real job where this has happened?
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You've built a filter that punishes verification at the hiring stage, then you're surprised when your team ships unverified code. You get what you select for. He selected for "doesn't double-check." Congratulations,
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I can run the code in my head. I can probably be right. I can be 99.9999% sure I am right. OR: I could run the code in the interpreter and be 100% certain. I know what attitude I would prefer out of my developers.
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I didn't use Claude Code. I just pasted it directly into the web interface and said "I can't read this, can you help?" and then I excerpted the result so you sighted folks didn't have to reread, you could just verif
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Congratulations, I guess? I can't read your content. But ... The machines can't either, so ... great job! Although... Hmm! I just pasted it into Claude and got: When text content gets scraped from the web, and used for ever-increa
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Hi. I am not an evangelist -- I'm quite certain it's going to kill us all! But I would like to think that I'm about the closest thing to an AI booster you might find here, given that I get so much damn utility out of it. I&#x
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The viral post going around? The one where the author's own root cause analysis says "Human Error"[0]? What's the base rate of humans rm -rf'ing their own work? [0] https://blog.toolprint.ai/p/i
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According to Google this is the first time the phrase "technical mondegreens" was ever used. I really like it.
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Linux Windows and MacOS? Go is supposed to be cross-platform. I guess it's cross-platform until it isn't, and will silently change the semantics of security-critical operations (yes, every library builder will definitely remembe
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@simonw Thank you for always setting alt text in your images. I really appreciate it.
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So what part of this presentation agreement could possibly apply?
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Sure. But you knew what this comment was trying to say. It is obviously saying that what happens on the Kindle is between the customer and possibly Amazon, specifically that authors should not be involved. They got their money. That part of
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Information Flow in Logical Environments (2016)(arxiv.org)
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> If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called "emacs" does? Hmm, this looks like a nonsense word, but sometimes words look like nonsense when you write them backwards, maybe it's a scame?
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> There’s an odd tendency in modern software development; we’ve collectively decided that naming things after random nouns, mythological creatures, or random favorite fictional characters is somehow acceptable professional practice. This
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I've been thinking about this recently. What if one of the parties is an LLM?
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Deceptive alignment is misalignment. The deception is just what it looks like from outside when capability is high enough to model expectations. Your distinction doesn't save the argument - the same "where would it come from?&quot
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Omohundro 2008 made a structural claim: sufficiently capable optimizers will converge on self-preservation and goal-stability because these are instrumentally useful for almost any terminal goal. It's not a theorem because it's an

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