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by dcre 1y ago
I do think Gary Marcus says a lot of wrong stuff about LLMs but I don’t see anything too egregious in that post. He’s just describing the results they got a few months ago.
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Playable preview of ARC-AGI-3(three.arcprize.org)
11 points by dcre 1y ago|2 comments
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by dcre 1y ago
Very slightly impressed by their emphasis on the gigantic (my word, not theirs) risk of giving the thing access to real creds and sensitive info.
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by dcre 1y ago
They have one, though I don't think it has taken off. https://github.com/openai/codex Hard to miss — it's the second Google result for "chatgpt CLI".
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by dcre 1y ago
Development is a bit slow because there are only a few maintainers, but also because they have a strong vision and are very aggressive about prioritization and rejecting features that don’t fit. This is why Helix is so good and so focused
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by dcre 1y ago
Anthropic doesn’t have the universal name recognition of ChatGPT, so they’re going for an underdog strategy of building a portfolio of strong niches. Seems smart, sounds higher-margin.
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by dcre 1y ago
Great video of SpiRobs, the inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GFyFmMm9-A
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by dcre 1y ago
I don't see the problem. It's a great result: (paraphrasing) "people arguing about whether code folding is useful or not is pointless. we're going to do it eventually but not right now." What's wrong with that?
429.
by dcre 1y ago
Oh, come on.
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by dcre 1y ago
"Understand the tone, context and language of the post. Reflect that in your response." They say it's because they told it to be so influenced.
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by dcre 1y ago
Reasonable question, simple answer: "New breed of model" is overstating it — all these models for years have been fine-tuned using reinforcement learning on a variety of tasks, it's just that the set of tasks (and maybe the a
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by dcre 1y ago
See also https://mergiraf.org/ for a tool that uses ASTs to resolve (some) merge conflicts.
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LLMs show cultural theory was right about the death of the author(programmablemutter.com)
20 points by dcre 1y ago|3 comments
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by dcre 1y ago
Yes. All the time. I wrote a tool that does it! https://crespo.business/posts/llm-only-rag/ $ rgd ~/repos/jj/docs "how can I write a revset to select the nearest bookmark?" Using fu
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by dcre 1y ago
This is not really true. If you give a decent model docs in the prompt and tell them to answer based on the docs and say “I don’t know” if the answer isn’t there, they do it (most of the time).
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by dcre 1y ago
Baffling. Not at all clear from the site or video what this does, what problem it is solving, and what about LLM coding is different such that it needs new ideas in version control. Is it just that there are more commits and more conflicts
437.
by dcre 1y ago
It’s a bad and incoherent essay. It simultaneously wants to say “we can’t know”, “we do know and it doesn’t work”, and “we know it makes engineering faster and that’s bad because most engineering is bad.” This isn’t nuance, it’s confusion.
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by dcre 1y ago
Similar argument to https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judge... , but I like this one better because at least it doesn’t try to pull the rhetorical trick of slipping from “we can’t know whether LLMs
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by dcre 1y ago
Whatever you run in the hook can check whatever conditions you want.
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by dcre 1y ago
> Consider the tech industry’s recent layoff trends. In 2024, 551 tech companies laid off nearly 152,922 employees, according to data from Layoff.fyi. The pace has accelerated dramatically this year. In just the first six months of 2025,
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by dcre 1y ago
“Imagine a small village at the dawn of society.” That part!
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by dcre 1y ago
This is hopelessly abstract, with not a single reference to any actual historical group or political regime, let alone any rigorous research or writing. For nearly a decade I've watched people use the word "tribalism" to avoi
443.
by dcre 1y ago
It makes responses much slower with zero benefit for many tasks. Flash with thinking off is very fast.
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by dcre 1y ago
I don’t know what the guidelines are, but this is not helpful or accurate as a characterization of the interview. If anything, Weatherby is saying exactly what you say he gets wrong: “LLMs are not the total distribution, but they’re a far l
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by dcre 1y ago
A simple example would be when models get better at following instructions, the frantic and somewhat insane-sounding exhortations required to get the crappier model to do what you want can cause the stronger model to be a bit too literal an
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by dcre 1y ago
There’s a world of difference between “always sounds right, but actually is right 80% of the time” and “always sounds right, but actually is right 99% of the time.” It has seemed clear to me for a while that we are on the way to the latter
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by dcre 1y ago
Narrow focus on the Republic (and of course misreading it) is a classic feature of bad Plato critique.
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by dcre 1y ago
They’ve built processes around it and don’t feel like/can’t afford to/ don’t know to how change them.
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by dcre 1y ago
I don’t like to accuse, and the article is fine overall, but this stinks: “This transparency transforms git history from a record of changes into a record of intent, creating a new form of documentation that bridges human reasoning and mach
450.
by dcre 1y ago
Right. I don’t understand why everyone thinks this will make it impossible for junior devs to learn. The people I had around to answer my questions when I was learning knew a whole lot less than Claude and also had full time jobs doing some

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