danielbln

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by danielbln 6mo ago
Next up: scientists are creating the everything vaccine for dogs and cats.
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by danielbln 6mo ago
I said nothing about speed, I said to spec. Speed is a welcome side effect.
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by danielbln 6mo ago
What nepobaby are you talking about?
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by danielbln 6mo ago
You don't have to continually tell it, you tell it once, persist it as convention and move on with your life.
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by danielbln 6mo ago
It also went real fast from "GPT hallucinated a library, literally useless" to "this agent has created this entire service up to spec, no notes".
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by danielbln 6mo ago
LLMs also make the cynicism go up among the HN crowd.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Inject the prior art into the (ever increasing) context window, let in-context-learning to its thing and go?
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by danielbln 7mo ago
A great blog article for 2023. In 2026 I think the wait is over..
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Prevention paradox.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
I'll ignore the bait and answer: NFTs were gambling in disguise, these claws are personal/household assistants, that proactively perform various tasks and can be genuinely useful. The security problem is very much unsolved, but c
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Once a business takes on VC and/or goes public, enshittification will inevitably follow.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
That seems both fatalistic and doomerist to me, but time will tell. I would assume germ theory would survive regardless, as would immunology, so I'd hold on to those two at least.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Yes, but also antibiotics, vaccinations, child mortality down down down, life expectancy up up up. I wouldn't trade for living even 100 years prior compared to today, or 500-200k years ago for that matter. With everything wrong and sic
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Not really, it varies a lot by region. UK and Ireland, absolutely. In Germany or France it's waaaay more mixed. Overall by employee count, most tech jobs in Europe are domestic, not by American FDI
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Yet someone who knits can do so without spinning the yarn themselves, or shaving the sheep.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Who says you can't iterate on a design just because an LLM does the manual typing?
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Our engineers deliver concise outputs because we have settled internally that that's what we want. Fluffy verbosity serves no one if there's little signal in there, so just give me the no-purple prose, no emojis, tight and concise
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by danielbln 7mo ago
dotenv came out 2012, the .env convention predates LLMs and agents by quite some time.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
I don't get your point. Web tools have been doing A/B feature testing all the time, way before we had LLMs.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Opus is not an acronym.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
You may have missed that I've included myself in that cohort, being an older millennial. So it's less ad hominem, and more self-deprecating.
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by danielbln 7mo ago
I've heard that GenX/Millenials are in a sort of PC goldilocks zone. People older than that cohort don't know computers and therefore use phones for everything, people younger don't know computers and also use phones for
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by danielbln 7mo ago
I'm going to bet that you are a millennial or older? We need our big screens for $IMPORTANT work (buying big things, money stuff, etc.). GenZ tends to be less bothered by it and just does it all on the tiny screen in their pocket. It&#
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by danielbln 7mo ago
I always say "own the output". No need to do it by hand but you better damn well research _why_ the AI chose a solution, and what alternatives there are and why not something else, how it works and so on. Ask the AI, ask a seperat
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by danielbln 7mo ago
Somewhat off topic but I always groan when I sit down and see those dusty ass Boing remotes under the entertainment system. They are so janky and old from wear.
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by danielbln 8mo ago
I'd rather people bounce back and forward with the AI until they're happy, but then don't fluff it up and expand it needlessly in the final step, spit out a condensed, tight bullet list, no fluff no purple prose no emojis and
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by danielbln 8mo ago
Yes it is, LLMs perform logical multi step reasoning all the time, see math proofs, coding etc. And whether you call it synthesis or statistical mixing is just semantics. Do LLMs truly understand? Who knows, probably not, but they do more t
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by danielbln 8mo ago
Agent swarms are what, a couple of months old? What are you even talking about. Yes, people/humans still drive this stuff, but if you think there isn't useful software out there that can be handily implemented with current gen age
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by danielbln 8mo ago
Generally us humans come up with new things by remixing old ideas. Where else would they come from? We are synthesizing priors into something novel. If you break the problem space apart enough, I don't see why some LLM can't do th
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by danielbln 8mo ago
Novel problems are usually a composite of simpler and/or older problems that have been solved before. Decomposition means you can rip most novel problems apart and solve the chunks. LLMs do just fine with that.

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