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by dcre 1y ago
Thank you. I will add one soon.
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by dcre 1y ago
The PC revolution in this analogy is local models? However good and fast they get locally, the same model will run 10-1000x faster on a dedicated device. I think cloud models will be in demand for a long time even before you factor in effic
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by dcre 1y ago
My understanding is that there is no universal measure of compute power that applies across different hardware and workloads. You can interpret the power number to mean something close to the maximum amount of compute you can get for that p
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by dcre 1y ago
Suffice it to say this is not the first time Ed Zitron has been egregiously wrong on both analysis and basic facts. It's not even the first time this week. I wrote a post about his insistence that the "cost of inference" is g
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by dcre 1y ago
When decent docs (and various other kinds of pro-developer infrastructure listed by simonw here https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/ ) are required for LLMs to work well, it's a ver
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by dcre 1y ago
Thank you for proving my point. People waiting for a big, sudden crash must insist that the growth is driven solely by hype and FOMO. This is absurd. We’re talking about professionals with decades of experience using these things for hours
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by dcre 1y ago
Not at all, otherwise models with knowledge cutoffs of six months to a year ago (all current SOTA models) would be useless. Current information is fed into the model as part of the prompt. This is why they use web search. The main reason th
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by dcre 1y ago
They are obviously running free users at a loss. Can you point to evidence of negative margins on subscriptions and enterprise contracts?
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by dcre 1y ago
The idea that people will suddenly decide LLMs are useless after two years of exponential growth in usage is a fantasy.
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by dcre 1y ago
I prefer the simple config and the selection-first editing model (best writing on this: https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html ). After talking to other Vim users who had a hard time adjusting to Helix, I thin
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by dcre 1y ago
I use :reflow (mapped to =) decently well for wrapping comments, but it doesn't do well at splitting a long single line into multiple lines. My workaround is to add a second empty comment underneath and include it in the selection befo
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by dcre 1y ago
It's very hard to argue the plugin system has made Helix anything in particular, considering it is not merged yet. Approximately nobody's experience of Helix up to this point has been influenced by this choice.
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by dcre 1y ago
No. Noun-verb is central to the design. Everything is built around it. The best writing about this is "Why Kakoune" (Kakoune inspired Helix): https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html
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by dcre 1y ago
Simon is right about using code execution, but many tables one might look at outside of formal data work are small enough for LLMs to be very reliable at, so this format question is practically relevant. I wish they had tested better models
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by dcre 1y ago
Only testing GPT-4.1-nano makes this basically useless. Most people are almost certainly using GPT-5 mini or better. This very poor analysis is like an LLM literacy test for readers.
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by dcre 1y ago
This is not a direct response to this piece, but I wrote a short post about the egregious errors Zitron is comfortable pushing in order to make things sound as bad as possible. https://crespo.business/posts/cost-of-infe
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by dcre 1y ago
Assuming you mean: how do estimates and previous monthly turn out to be wrong and need correction? After the president fired the head of the BLS for publishing numbers he didn't like, there were a number of articles explaining why ther
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In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam(lea.verou.me)
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by dcre 1y ago
"learning is maximized is one where the AI doesn't generate any code for me" Obviously you have to work to learn, but to me this is a bit like saying learning is maximized when you never talk to anyone or ask for help — too s
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by dcre 1y ago
I understand that it uses ML models. My point is that it is an end-user application making use of such models. It is recording audio, passing it to the model, and pasting in the resulting text to the focused input. The fact that the middle
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by dcre 1y ago
That's really interesting about medium being better than large. I never bothered trying the smaller models since the big ones were fast enough.
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by dcre 1y ago
It’s not really a machine learning project. It’s an application that calls existing models.
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by dcre 1y ago
It’s way better. iPhone’s is awful. On macOS, interestingly, the built in dictation seems a bit better than on iOS, but still not as good as Whisper and Parakeet. Worth noting I have never used Whisper Small, only large and turbo. Another c
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by dcre 1y ago
I find state of the art speech to text models like Whisper and Nvidia Parakeet are a lot better than macOS dictation. I use them through MacWhisper, but this is basically the same.
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by dcre 1y ago
"We’ve also removed the duplicative meta-spaces (People, Favourites). Filters are the new foundation — more flexible, more future-proof, and built for growth." As a heavy Element user for work, I have long hated this in Element X
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by dcre 1y ago
Worth noting in this context that the scarcity of doctors is artificial, due to a low cap on the number of federally funded residencies. We could also let more doctors immigrate. My understanding is we make immigrant doctors go through a lo
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by dcre 1y ago
Average and mean are the same thing. I assume you meant median. It’s similar in this case, but it’s really more like the different between the average of the full list of companies and the average of the full list of companies with the top
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by dcre 1y ago
“This doesn't make sense as long as LLMs are non-deterministic.” I think this is a logical error. Non-determinism is orthogonal to probability of being correct. LLMs can remain non-deterministic while being made more and more reliable.
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by dcre 1y ago
New ones every hour! TV shows preemptively taken off the air in _anticipation_ of state backlash.
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by dcre 1y ago
The fact of being elected is not relevant to the question, and neither is the nominal existence of constitutional checks. Extrajudicial murder of alleged criminals, abuse of criminal prosecution to target political enemies, armed thugs yank

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