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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I wonder though if self generated skills by advanced models would improve performance of those tasks by small models, or skills created with reasoning mode enabled would help execution of those skills when reasoning is turned off. For repet
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Actually, anthropomorphizing a bit, if I take something I vaguely remember how to do, say integration by parts, then if I turn off my own brain's "reasoning", then the "skill" I would generate would almost certainly
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I'm kinda surprised by this. Yeah it's just regurgitating something it already "knows", but I'd still expect that having the skill materialized there in the context would give it something concrete to reference, les
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Yeah, I get this too. Still, I think sometimes being forced to grind on something will spur the "oh wait" moment that leads to new ways of thinking about things. Whereas when the LLM is doing the grinding, you don't see it. Y
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
And then we turn them off.
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Settle. Not necessarily slow down. We'll see people gravitate towards a few things, and those will become the standards. It's already started, with claude and codex, compared to the wild west situation a year ago. The closest para
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Okay yeah that's a good middle ground, and I'd even say I agree. It's not about being on the bleeding edge or being a first adopter or anything, but the fact that if you commit to a tool, it's almost always worth spendin
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Maybe. But so far ime most of the esoteric tools in the AI space are esoteric because they're not very good. When something gets good, it's quickly commoditized. Until coding systems are truly at human-replacement level, I think I
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I mean, right now "bleeding edge" is an autonomous agents system that spends a million dollars making an unbelievably bad browser prototype in a week. Very high effort and the results are jibberish. By the time these sorts of thin
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Interesting analogy, but I'd say it's kind of the opposite. In the two you mentioned, the cost of inaction is extremely high, so they reach one conclusion, whereas here the argument is that the cost of inaction is pretty low, and
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
But as it gets better, it'll also get easier, be built into existing products you already use, etc. So I wouldn't worry too much about that aspect. If you enjoy tinkering, or really want to dive deep into fundamentals, that's
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Or just wait for things to settle. As fast as the field is moving, staying ahead of the game is probably high investment with little return, as the things you spend a ton of time honing today may be obsolete tomorrow, or simply built into e
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I think it's like the California gold rush. Anybody and their brother can go out and dig, but the real money is in selling the shovels.
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I think it all boils down to, which is higher risk, using AI too much, or using AI too little? Right now I see the former as being hugely risky. Hallucinated bugs, coaxed into dead-end architectures, security concerns, not being familiar wi
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I'd rather it build docs. Or at least have a feature in chatgpt that lets you highlight something and start a comment thread, rather than a multi-page essay response as a continuation of the chat itself.
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Louis C. K. once had a bit something like "The main thing keeping people from murdering each other, is that it really really sucks when you get caught." He goes on to hypothesize that without a law against murder, or if it was jus
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
1. In other words, Human: Who taught you how to do this stuff? AI: You, alright? I learned it by watching you. This has been a PSA from the American AI Safety Council.
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Whatever the reason, the result is probably more layoffs.
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
It would be nice if it didn't have to be all local. I'd love a managed cluster feature where you could just blast some workloads off to some designated server or cluster and manage them remotely, share progress with teammates, etc
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Agreed, though I think we all knew that the software industry payscales were out of whack to begin with. Fresh college grads that can barely do a fizzbuzz making twice as much as experienced doctors. What I don't know is, say the indus
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Ooh, it sounds like you've already got most of the groundwork done for something I was wondering about yesterday: I'd love it if there was some way during an incident, for some system to pull all the PRs included in the latest rel
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Cool, I tried something similar over a couple weeks but the problem I ran into was that beyond a fairly low level of complexity, the English spec became more confusing than the code itself. Even for a simple multi-step KYC workflow, it got
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I agree this is what the article says, but it's a pretty bad premise. That would only be the case if the primary user interaction with coding agents was "feed in requirements, get a finished product". But we all know it'
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
I think there's an argument that AI is helping the (non-AI) software job market. If tech companies are seen as laying off "too fast", then investors will penalize them for not retaining enough people to compete in AI. So co
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
The ridiculous thing is that we're spending trillions of dollars to develop these coding assistant AI things at the same time we're running out of useful stuff to code.
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Totally makes sense. Things that (once complete) have more realizable tangible value, rather than "optimizing user engagement" aka "enshittification" as some kind of imaginary value store for the last 20 years and is now
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
That's good to hear actually. It's usually a downer when a strongly held belief is contradicted with hard evidence, but I'm excited to hear that there's life yet in the industry outside of AI. Any specific trends or them
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Yeah for the better part of a generation, our best and brightest minds have been wasted on "increasing click count". If that can all be AI from here on out, then maybe we can get actual humans working on the real problems again.
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Bots using bots to write software for bots. And it only cost 5 trillion dollars! The best part? Bots don't get cancer, so that problem is solved too!
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by daxfohl 8mo ago
Same situation (50 last week, 2 kids) though have been unemployed for a year. Part of me thinks that, rather than taking jobs, AI is actually the only reason a lot of jobs still exist. The rest of tech is dead. Having worked in consulting a

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