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by daxfohl 1y ago
Sandbox alone wouldn't have helped here though. The failure (deletion of files) happened inside the project folder. What it really needs is a (preferably deterministic) way to revert any sequence of changes and get you back to the orig
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Yeah, given that after the first move attempt, the only thing left in the original folder was subfolders, (meaning files had been "moved"), the only thing I can think is that "Shell move" must have seen that the target f
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by daxfohl 1y ago
It seems like SWE is going to turn into something more akin to nuclear engineering over the next few years. "How can we extract the most value out of this unpredictable thing without having it blow up in our faces?", where the gua
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by daxfohl 1y ago
It depends. The most likely scenario would be that RH holds except in very specific conditions. Then, any dependent theorems would inherit the same conditions. In many cases, those conditions may not affect the dependent theorem, so they&#x
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by daxfohl 1y ago
I see axiom of choice, and really LEM, as logic's equivalent to limit points in calculus. No, you can't calculate 0/0, but here's what the answer would be if you could. No, you can't prove the truthiness of this sta
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Ideally we'd be able to get a little of both. A proof of such magnitude should likely come with new definitions that are easy to search for in the code and start to reason about independently. Even without looking at the rest of the pr
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Oh, I didn't realize that last year the problem formalization was a human effort; I assumed the provers themselves took the problem and created the formalization. Is this step actually harder to automate than solving the problem once i
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by daxfohl 1y ago
I'd also be curious as to why not use Lean. Is it that Lean use at this point makes the problems too easy to brute force? Or is it that Lean at this point just gets in the way of things?
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The only thing is I wish there was a way to safely lift a row-polymorphic record to a named record type if the compiler can determine it has all the required fields. Haven't seen any languages that offer this yet though.
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Sounds like a lot of people here are promoting Swift, which IIUC has some roots in OCaml. I have a mac now; maybe I'll finally give it a try.
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Actually, a further thought about my higher-wealth friends. About half of them got there by a good mix of ability and determination, but half of them just seemed to be in the right place at the right time (early engineers at Facebook, engin
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Admittedly there can be some survivorship bias in the stories one hears about, but anecdotally I know several people who have taken time off from their careers and zero have regretted it. On the converse side, I know lots of people who neve
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Not OP but same experience. If you're not overly concerned about a certain quality of life, number of cars, square footage of house, etc., then there's nothing to think about. Engineering is a fine career (granted, AI takeover not
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Yeah, though when I say that I mean more like I'm surprised the ecosystem itself hasn't matured more. Rust and Go have both built solid ecosystems up from scratch, but it's a shame that OCaml hasn't since it's a nic
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Though it kind of reminds me of The Shining (too much time just thinking drives one to insanity). It seems like we need to evolve intelligence, perception, and agency very closely in tandem, or an imbalance in any will send it off the rails
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by daxfohl 1y ago
I'm surprised ocaml doesn't have more market share here. Native, fast, robust type system, GC, less special syntax than rust, less obtuse than Haskell.
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by daxfohl 1y ago
It's pretty heavily used within Azure itself, and my old team didn't have any issues, even though we had a high volume service with stored procs, triggers, list indexes, etc. And it was cheaper and faster than the SQL Server insta
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by daxfohl 1y ago
What do people not like about Azure IAM? That's the one I'm most familiar with, and I've always thought it was decent, pretty vanilla. When I go to AWS it looks similar except role assignments can't be scoped, so needs m
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by daxfohl 1y ago
That's the thing though. I think we're pretty close to AI being able to add fairly vanilla features that fit into the existing architecture fairly autonomously. But I think we're a long way away from AI being able to do major
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by daxfohl 1y ago
It depends. A lot of projects / features really don't require a ton of engineering thought. Add a new table that has some foreign keys with existing tables, add a new page that lets you modify that table, add a new set of REST CRU
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by daxfohl 1y ago
True for greenfield projects, but once a project moves beyond greenfield, the assistant will need to understand the existing codebase in order to plan anything correctly. Once it has functionality to understand a codebase, and understand th
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by daxfohl 1y ago
Nah, you never voluntarily reduce headcount. Headcount is what keeps your salary coming. Any manager worth their salt would use this newfound productivity to infringe on other teams' domains: Hostile Takeover => More Headcount =>
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by daxfohl 1y ago
It does show that they're not limited to just greenfield projects, which is a common perspective. That said, IDK if a fork that is never planned to be merged back in really constitutes a non-greenfield project. It's more like a gr
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by daxfohl 1y ago
I've also had bad results with hallucinations there. I was trying to learn more about multi-dimensional qubit algorithms, and spent a whole day learning a bunch of stuff that was fascinating but plain wrong. I only figured out it was w
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by daxfohl 1y ago
It'd be nice if github had a feature that updated the issue with this context automatically too, so that if this agent gives up and closes the PR, the next agent doesn't go and do the exact same thing.
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Seems like there's a need for github to create a separate flow for AI-cretaed PRs. Project maintainers should be able to stipulate rules like this in English, and an AI "pre-reviewer" would check that the AI has followed all
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by daxfohl 1y ago
I've had some luck in these cases prompting "your context seems to be getting too bloated. summarize this conversation into a prompt that I can feed into a new chat with a fresh context. make sure to include <...>". Som
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I don't really get it. If AI is a force multiplier that suddenly makes your workforce way more productive, wouldn't you actually want to increase the size of your workforce to reap the maximum benefit? There are only two reasons
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Perhaps the difference is that VSCode and plugins change too often and requires too much maintenance?
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I went ahead and did this, just using a maze where the only actions are "turn left". "turn right", and "go forward". The response is either OK or BLOCKED, and additionally which directions are open and which ar

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