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by ctoth 7mo ago
> It doesn’t really matter how good AI systems get, that’s not going to change, and since most white collar work deals with these kinds of problems, there is little danger in it being replaced. Does the accounts payable team keep their j
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by ctoth 7mo ago
It's the same error pattern every time: identify what AI is currently "bad" at, define that as the essential core of the work, declare the work safe. Wait 6 months, shocked Pikachu gif.
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A Tale of Three Contracts(thezvi.substack.com)
2 points by ctoth 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 7mo ago
I can do ya one better! https://github.com/ctoth/research-papers-plugin
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by ctoth 7mo ago
I'm not sure what sorts of weird codebases you're working with but I recently saw Claude programming well on a Lambda MOO -- weirder than that?
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by ctoth 7mo ago
I built a Klatt formant synthesizer with Claude from ~120 academic papers. Every parameter cites its source, the architecture is declarative YAML with phased rule execution and dependency resolution. Here's what "spaghetti" l
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by ctoth 7mo ago
How about chords? Melodies which are paths? Passwords? Lots of great potential here!
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by ctoth 7mo ago
Do you think that bad things happening is just hilarious in general? Do you like to see good behavior punished? I'm really trying to understand what you get out of making this comment. Also what happens when ... This doesn't happe
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by ctoth 7mo ago
Hint: It's much easier to have good PR by being actually good. Though it does make people like this do the whole implication thing.
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by ctoth 7mo ago
The Purpose of a System is WHAT IT DOES!
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Cepstrum, Quefrency, and Pitch(johndcook.com)
1 points by ctoth 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 7mo ago
Same way you handle preserving any other property you want to preserve while "vibecoding" -- ensure tests capture it, ensure the tests can't be skipped. It really is this simple.
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by ctoth 7mo ago
I'm sorry, what? > Previously, you were able to have _some_ reasonable expectation of security in that trained engineers were the ones building these things When was this? What world? Did I skip worldlines? Is this a new Universe? T
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Anthropic is both too dangerous to allow and essential to national security(theargumentmag.com)
3 points by ctoth 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 7mo ago
"Don't Make Me Think" wasn't descriptive. It was prescriptive that became descriptive. An entire professional class, PMs and UX designers, adopted as axiomatic that cognitive effort is friction, friction is bad, theref
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by ctoth 7mo ago
Behavior trees. They are precisely what we need. Somebody just needs to go build the damn thing.
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by ctoth 7mo ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if we end up seeing open source commercial work bend towards the SQLite model (open core, private tests). Wouldn't this just mean that actual open source is the tests? or spec? or ... The artifact whic
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by ctoth 7mo ago
Scores, even!
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by ctoth 7mo ago
No, compromising on your core thing that you care about for a "seat at the table" is not how you win. It is how you lose. It is how you lose the game, the metagame, and your soul. All at once.
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by ctoth 7mo ago
The story here is that a FedRAMP-authorized system had 53MB of Vite dev source maps exposed on a production government endpoint. That's not "sold the dream, delivered the meme," that's a specific auditable compliance fai
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by ctoth 7mo ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." My kdbx is only 173 KB, but I don't hate this i
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by ctoth 7mo ago
> All of the features they list can be achieved with an XML format. Not writing the entire database on every save?
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by ctoth 7mo ago
I don't want to assume you didn't read the article, but this isn't really about the database engine. It's about the shadow schema that has grown up around the format. The database switch would serve as a flag day to unif
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by ctoth 8mo ago
@petcat Is your nickname a description or an instruction?
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by ctoth 8mo ago
> knowing why those things are there, how it all fits together in the much broader (and vast) system, and the historical context behind all of that, is what knowledge is being lost How big is your context window? How big is Claude's
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by ctoth 8mo ago
The specific dishonesty is the sentence: "None of them answer the question legislators actually care about: what is this vehicle doing, moment to moment, on our roads?" Legislators did not care about that question. They cared abou
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by ctoth 8mo ago
> Where is AI when you need it? Back in 2003 or so some wonderful smart folks added accessibility to the Quake engine. Since then, there have been very few accessible FPS games. I just took Claude, dropped it in the AudioQuake engine dir
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Am still looking for where I am supposed to type 'dnkroz' IRL
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by ctoth 8mo ago
"Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?"
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by ctoth 8mo ago
And then, how often they aren't[0] [0]: "Computer Says No" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YGZPycMEU

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