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by dgb23 6mo ago
Fully agentic development is neat for scripts and utilities that you wouldn‘t have the time to do otherwise, where you can treat it as intput/output and check both. In these cases you don’t necessarily care too much about the code itse
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I like this. Thanks for sharing. I think "config first" is an understatement. The more general term here is "data driven". It's sort of obvious that agents are way better and faster when writing data that can be val
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by dgb23 6mo ago
The issue is power. I'm not an expert in political theory or ethics either, but in my worldview, power relationships matter in these discussions. I believe power and responsibility should go hand in hand, and I hold entities to a stand
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by dgb23 6mo ago
> while web forums have had multiline text editors from the start so Ctrl+Enter=Send made the most sense This is normal/standard behavior for multiline inputs such as the textarea, while input type=text/search/email will t
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I just imagined that this was an exclusive statement. „What do you do all day?“ „Looking at the DOM. Currently there are too many divs, but the situation seems fine.“
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by dgb23 6mo ago
It's a fun image, but I was not my idea. I was playfully referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashtray_(Or_the_Man_Who_De... Although in this original case the image (that allegedly happened) used t
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by dgb23 6mo ago
Many intellectuals have this problem. They make interesting, precise statements under specific assumptions, but they get interpreted in all kinds of directions. When they push back against certain narratives and extrapolations they usually
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I would go further than this. Call the script yourself (or via some other mechanism/program) and then give the results to the LLM. The majority of processes don't need nearly as many decision making points as an agent could deal w
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by dgb23 6mo ago
That's an important point. Whether it's tools, MCP or skills: they are fundamentally all just prompts. Even if the LLM is trained to recognize those and produce the right shape of tokens that validate most of the time. But I would
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by dgb23 6mo ago
The Swiss nervously check the time when a train is 2-3 minutes late. When a train is late, the situation is basically on the brink of a national emergency.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
When I apply display:none, how would I get back the element without using the browser console? If I change things from the console, does your tool watch the changes via mutation observer or does it only know about the changes from the visua
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by dgb23 6mo ago
For those who are wondering: These LLMs are trained on special delimiters that mark different sources of messages. There's typical something like [system][/system], then one for agent, user and tool. There are also different delim
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I think Zig does a very good illustration of this distinction. They separate: - enum: essentially just a typed uint tag collection - union: the plain data structure that can contain any of several types - tagged union: combines enums and un
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by dgb23 6mo ago
To note, the approach in the article is basically the polar opposite from writing a data driven state machine. I default to the latter, but I think it’s worth exloring and understanding the former.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
Abstractions over what? A large amount of code is likely just idiosynchratic information processing, because we don’t agree on data models and meaning of terms and structure of protocols. Also we repeatedly choose easy and popular over alte
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by dgb23 6mo ago
To me it’s the other way around. It’s difficult to trust (paid) ChatGPT‘s output consistently. When I need exact, especially up to date facts, I have to constantly double check everything. I split my sessions into projects by topic, it regu
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by dgb23 6mo ago
In what way?
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by dgb23 6mo ago
Thought of the same book when reading the above.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
The first one I remember was the old whatisthematrix.com. Seems to be updated now unfortunately.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
Not a Go veteran, but I implememted a behavior tree in a little simulation game prototype. Looked very similar structurally but your version is nicer. As an aside: I don’t particularly like behavior trees. Not sure why, but they feel brute-
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by dgb23 6mo ago
It’s phrased in a confusing way, seems to be a mistake. It becomes clearer when you click the link in the sentence before.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
> 1. Why does AI need that folder structure? Why not a flat list of files and let the AI agent explore with BM25 / grep, etc. Two reasons I think: Coding agents simulate similar things to what they have been trained on. Familiarity
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I don't know what you mean. LOTR is pretty cool.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I think the bigger point is that the price tag is simply not competitive, especially given all of the issues, downsides and dangers. Whether Anthropic makes money from the $100 subscriptions or not, is their problem.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I have to agree with this. The economic culture around this tech is very toxic. There seems to be a mass anxiety around the job market even. I‘ve seen a lot of social media content, including videos of people giving advice, especially to yo
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I would try to trim this suspicion with both Occam‘s and Hanlon‘s razor.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
I agree with this. But there‘s a big difference between building a habit of doing some intellectual or creative activity regularly and pushing yourself to do a specific thing. Before having built a more regular habit I was often in a sort o
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by dgb23 6mo ago
The article felt honest and personal to me.
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by dgb23 6mo ago
There’s this special feeling when you can sit down later in the evening to tinker for a couple of hours, or read a challenging/inspiring book in peace. But when I don’t have time and frankly energy, then I still try to do _some_ minute
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by dgb23 6mo ago
Lua is a scripting language done right. It doesn’t pretend to be more than it is. Anyone can learn it a couple of sessions. It has all the stuff you need to write a program. Imagine if we had Lua instead of JS in the browser. In fact the la

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