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by dcre 8mo ago
It doesn’t strictly exclude Europe, we have a few employees in Europe. But as the other reply says, they work slightly odd hours.
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by dcre 8mo ago
People often describe the models as averaging their training data, but even for base models predicting the most likely next token this is imprecise and even misleading, because what is most likely is conditional on the input as well as what
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by dcre 8mo ago
But that’s not an argument, that’s just assertion, and it’s directly contradicted by all the more rigorous attempts to do the same thing through benchmarks (public and private).
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by dcre 8mo ago
Just because there is someone who could understand a given system, that doesn’t mean there is anyone who actually does. I take the point to be that existing software systems are not understood by anyone most of the time.
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by dcre 8mo ago
That’s what I said: it’s technically true but misleading.
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by dcre 8mo ago
“Shrinking since the election”, while technically true, is misleading because the election is when bsky experienced a massive spike in usage that was well over double the average before the election. Usage has been gradually decaying since
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by dcre 8mo ago
Yes, but GPT-5.2 and Codex were widely considered slower than Opus before that. They still feel very slow, at least on high. I should give medium a try more often.
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by dcre 8mo ago
We have investigated. Millions of people are investigating all the time and finding that the coding capacity has improved dramatically over that time. A variety of very different benchmarks say the same. This one random guy’s stupid prompt
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by dcre 8mo ago
That is not what No True Scotsman is. I’m pointing out a bad argument with weak evidence.
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by dcre 8mo ago
Human-written compilers have bugs too! It takes decades of use to iron them out, and we’re introducing new ones all the time.
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by dcre 8mo ago
Yeah, this is a bullshit article. There is no such degradation, and it’s absurd to say so on the basis of a single problem which the author describes as technically impossible. It is a very contrived under-specified prompt. And their “expla
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by dcre 8mo ago
I think this is underrating the role of intuition in working effectively with deterministic but very complex software systems like operating systems and compilers. Determinism is a red herring.
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by dcre 8mo ago
This is dead wrong: essentially the entirety of the huge gains in coding performance in the past year have come from RL, not from new sources of training data. I echo the other commenters that proprietary code isn’t any better, plus it does
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by dcre 8mo ago
Fine article but a very important fact comes in at the end — the author has a human personal assistant. It doesn't fundamentally change anything they wrote, but it shows how far out of the ordinary this person is. They were a Thiel Fel
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by dcre 8mo ago
The use of the name Codex and the focus on diffs and worktrees suggests this is still more dev-focused than Cowork.
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by dcre 9mo ago
Because they are too slow and not smart enough.
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by dcre 9mo ago
Hard to think of a worse name. Maybe Moistbot?
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by dcre 9mo ago
Sort of. It’s not necessarily a single call. In the general case it would be spinning up a long-running agent with various kinds of configuration — prompts, but also coding environment and which tools are available to it — like subagents in
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by dcre 9mo ago
It's a ridiculous argument. Complete gibberish. They're all just API calls. There's no incentive to be biased toward approving bad code.
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by dcre 9mo ago
Oh! Well that makes sense.
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by dcre 9mo ago
TS + Deno + dax is my favorite scripting environment. (Bun has a similar $ function built in.) For parsing CLI args, I like the builders from Cliffy ( https://cliffy.io/ ) or Commander.js because you get typed options objects
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by dcre 9mo ago
Incredibly ironic to make this argument using such an abstract and low-dimensional framework.
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by dcre 9mo ago
I just don’t think the question is about determinism and probability at all. When we think, our thoughts are influenced by any number of extra-logical factors, factors that operate on a level of abstraction totally alien to the logical cont
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by dcre 9mo ago
I had high hopes for this essay because I’ve tried many times to get people online to articulate what they mean by “it doesn’t really understand, it only appears to understand” — my view is that all these arguments against the possibility
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by dcre 9mo ago
To the extent this is an accurate characterization (somewhat, I think), they considered the quality difference a bug and fixed it!
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by dcre 9mo ago
And it’s just a restatement of the original, which isn’t any good either. Really mediocre.
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by dcre 9mo ago
I tend to think it would be very hard and very risky for large, successful companies to systematically lie about these things without getting caught, and the people who would be doing the lying in this case are not professional liars, they’
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by dcre 9mo ago
To be clear, the company has very directly denied doing this.
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by dcre 9mo ago
Growing up I would see authors listing particular species of trees when describing a scene, and I’d marvel at the idea of someone getting all the references. It seemed so old-timey. But during the pandemic, my wife and I got into plants be
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by dcre 9mo ago
Are we talking about the same article?

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