devin

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by devin 4mo ago
A lot of people think they're above average. A lot of them are wrong. A lot of average people are producing gigantic messes. At least previous to this they were gated by their mediocrity.
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by devin 4mo ago
Yes, it should. That doesn't mean that it isn't "sad to see" a lack of transparency in our society surrounding the misdeeds of mega corporations with their hands all over the levers of power.
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by devin 4mo ago
I am not an expert, but the last time I looked at this kind of thing what I took away from it was that you're not really doing anything to negatively impact the total mosquito population, you're just creating a new nesting site th
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by devin 4mo ago
Sometimes I wonder if Keynes would under the current conditions see fit to differentiate "merely irrational" from "absolutely insane".
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by devin 4mo ago
Absolutely agree. I recently wrote a speech and can't imagine how terribly hack it would have been had I taken the LLM's words as my own. I have second hand embarrassment just thinking about someone writing something important for
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by devin 4mo ago
It's not "Why do we read?" but something related that is coming up a lot in my thinking lately is Walter J. Ong's "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Human Thought".
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by devin 4mo ago
Eh, sort of. I think a lot of API surfaces are too chatty for LLM consumption, or do not provide the primitive API surfaces that compose what they currently offer today. MCP in the middle doesn't give you that for free. The data shapes
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by devin 4mo ago
I know Clojure misses the mark for you in some major areas, but having a real, proper REPL for an agent to interact with makes for an extremely strong feedback loop. IMO, a strong candidate for an "agent endgame" language has this
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by devin 4mo ago
It depends on which people you're referring to. The allocation toward AI budget has been so massive that I think a lot of businesses are way behind on trying to assess value for dollar for the AI-related crud they're shelling out
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by devin 4mo ago
Like anything it's a mixed bag. I am certainly working with people who I think truly believe the "max out on AI usage or become irrelevant" line. There are people who will privately let you know they're just working with
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by devin 4mo ago
IMO, it's undoubtedly both. The number of product teams who have shipped expensive-to-operate AI features is wayyyy up there, and for many of the scenarios I've seen, customers simply don't care or are unwilling to pay signif
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by devin 4mo ago
The people who have ascended to leadership positions are deeply divorced from reality. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
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by devin 5mo ago
Thanks for writing what I was thinking in response to the above. Namely that the mere suggestion to the LLM that you need a “pro/con list” kicks the bias off, and that’s the problem. Edit: Well, not the whole problem, but rather insuff
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by devin 5mo ago
The flip side of this problem is that it is also easy to phrase prompt in a way that invites _too much_ criticism, so you wind up sycophantic in the other direction where the completion rejects a perfectly good idea because the prompt leads
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by devin 5mo ago
To be fair I think the only real differences since 1.6 you’d see are transducer versions of some of what’s in here for Clojure. The stuff expressed here is all very basic.
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by devin 5mo ago
This is sadly so true. I have really tried as an "old" person in the field to try and pass on the stuff I've learned, but "craft" and such really has absolutely no home in modern dev culture. The people who care abo
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by devin 5mo ago
Clojure is better. REPL + immutable defaults.
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by devin 5mo ago
And then you realize that what you’re using the smaller models for is ALSO decomposable and part of it is just a few if statements, and then you realize that for this feature you don’t actually need or want a model because the performance,
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by devin 5mo ago
nod Adding this to my growing list of "things experienced engineers would discuss which is conspicuously missing in this case" The future is going to be filled with "best practices" trendslop decision-making.
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by devin 5mo ago
From a practical standpoint, isn't it usually the case that there are retention periods for traces given how numerous they can be? I bring this up because this article starts with "I asked Claude", but it doesn't explore
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by devin 5mo ago
No. "Plays well with others" is part of being a functional member of any engineering team that I'm on.
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by devin 5mo ago
The model is optimized in a different way to "partially meet expectations". Sycophancy coupled with only really "knowing" what it has been trained on assure a different kind of mediocrity.
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by devin 5mo ago
> If you can go from producing 200 lines of code a day to 2,000 lines of code a day, what else breaks? The entire software development lifecycle was, it turns out, designed around the idea that it takes a day to produce a few hundred lin
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by devin 5mo ago
This is wishful thinking. The force of the market is "number go up". Quality increasingly has less and less of a role in the equation. You will eat your slop, and you will like it. It will be the only choice you have.
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by devin 5mo ago
The people I know like this are people I consider to be "advanced juniors". They are held back by their inability to work with other parts of the business and understand customer needs. In order to be successful they need to be sp
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by devin 5mo ago
My first website was for my guild on Chesapeake, and I hacked together scripts for macroing various skills as my first "actual programming" project. It is also what led me to join IRC for the first time, which then later led me to
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by devin 5mo ago
Flagged as sensationalist AI hype slop. No original or useful thoughts detected.
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by devin 5mo ago
I thought the negative sentiment being shared here was hyperbolic, but you look absolutely ridiculous in these comments. "Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their
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by devin 5mo ago
If anyone reading this is curious of their own, you can go to https://api.github.com/users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE and fetch it. My ID is just over 10,000. Crazy to think of the journey that I've had in computing since
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by devin 5mo ago
I sort of can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. It seems like you're explaining that in addition to not supporting the project from which your company spawned 50M, they also supplied free work for which they were nev

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