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by dlivingston 6mo ago
What is being discussed is KV caching [0], which is used across every LLM model to reduce inference compute from O(n^2) to O(n). This is not specific to Claude nor Anthropic. [0]: https://huggingface.co/blog/not-lain&#x
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by dlivingston 6mo ago
There is a common stem: snEED fEED sEED Now take the implied stem from Chuck and apply it to the rest of the phrase: chUCK
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by dlivingston 6mo ago
Aw, I tried to navigate through the ownership history and it told me the last name was "Chuck's Feed and Seed." I would have been so impressed if it got it right.
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by dlivingston 6mo ago
I have an old MacBook Air I flashed with writerdeckOS [0]. Feels like a digital typewriter. [0]: https://writerdeckos.com/
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
"Learn AI" doesn't mean "learn how to prompt." It means that intelligence will be a commodity, and the business value of that will be the integration of intelligence into business models. So learn that . Where woul
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
The writing is on the wall, but what it spells we don't yet know. One thing that is virtually certain is that tomorrow's world of software engineering will be very different than today. Thinking about and preparing for this world
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
Right. Using Claude Code & friends is not some esoteric skill that needs years in the trenches to learn which magical incantations to utter. You prompt it. That's it. Yes, there are better and worse ways of prompting; yes, there ar
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
We do not interview for this nor care about it, despite using agentic and code complete tooling heavily. It's not a deep technical skill like C++ that requires years of hands-on experience. Spend a few weeks getting comfortable with Cl
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
Percy Shelley's poem Ozymandias plays in my head every time I see another short-sighted action by this administration that will cause long-term damage to our Republic: > And on the pedestal, these words appear: > "My
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
If you were familiar with his background you wouldn't be writing this comment, which makes what you wrote a bit awkwardly ironic. Short of it: 30-ish year career as a psychology professor and researcher focused on morality and emotions
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
Right here, to name one. Needless to say I feel very bleak and despondent as I watch the America I thought I knew transform into something dark. I do not anticipate the next decade+ of life in America to be free and prosperous.
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
This article feels very AI generated to me.
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by dlivingston 7mo ago
An earlier version of Sonnet (not sure which one; ~1 yr ago) refused to give me instructions on taking the life of another when I asked something like - "how do I kill a running process by name?"
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by dlivingston 8mo ago
We had a guy interview for a senior C++ position that hadn't used Git before and had no idea what a "merge" was.
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by dlivingston 8mo ago
Greater Boston area here. I've worked in C++ roles at two companies over the past three years and both times we were desperate for competent C++ developers. Similar trends for both companies: we had positions open for ~six months, inte
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by dlivingston 8mo ago
I think on a high level we're in agreement then. All of those points you mentioned are constraints. > "VC / SaaS / cloud industry is about to get hit very very hard via ... regulation" can you explain?
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by dlivingston 8mo ago
I mean sure, but that's never going to happen, so complaining about it is just shaking your fist at the sky. The only way it will change is if the economics of the web change. Maybe that is the economics of developer time (it being eas
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by dlivingston 8mo ago
If you still have the original cartridges, highly recommend getting a ModRetro Chromatic or an Analogue Pocket to replay them. I have the ModRetro and it has been a lot of fun rediscovering my old childhood games.
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by dlivingston 8mo ago
My gut feeling is that OpenAI is desperately searching for The Killer App™ for LLMs and hired Peter to help guide them there. OpenAI has tried a lot of experiments over the years - custom GPTs, the Orion browser, Codex, the Sora "TikTo
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by dlivingston 8mo ago
Hi, I consider myself a moderate. Feel free to ask me any questions. Happy to knock your silly strawman down. :)
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by dlivingston 9mo ago
Fully agree. And more than that, I think you're objectively correct. Think about the evolution of the term "social media". It evolved from social networks, which themselves evolved from forums. The "media" in "
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by dlivingston 9mo ago
Anecdotally (under 45; American), I agree that "never took a sick day" is indeed not a laudatory statement, but I also strongly believe that working hard is a prime virtue.
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by dlivingston 9mo ago
At least for American technologists (if not technologists more broadly, or Americans more broadly) failure is not at all seen as a bad thing: it's seen as a data point that XYZ didn't work, so now we'll pivot to ABC and give
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by dlivingston 9mo ago
> what advantages macOS offers for a power user The serious answer is that you get an "it-just-works"⁺ Unix-like operating system that gives you a development experience on-par with Linux. If you are doing sysadmin stuff: you w
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by dlivingston 9mo ago
I can't speak to Palantir, but Anduril is growing rapidly. Headcount has been ~doubling every year.
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by dlivingston 9mo ago
Microsoft's Copilot AI software has been integrated in every corner of the operating system, from the start menu to the notepad to settings. Beyond the intrusiveness of it, it also does not work very well. Other AI mishaps include Reca
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by dlivingston 10mo ago
Wtf is up with the Windows 7 screenshot in the article? It looks like an image generated with AI... and a particularly poor AI, too; maybe the same model that gave us "Will Smith eating spaghetti." On top of that, the article says
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by dlivingston 10mo ago
1. Copilot for Microsoft PowerPoint 2. Copilot for Windows Notepad 3. Copilot for Windows 11 Start Menu
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by dlivingston 10mo ago
"If you wish to make an [operating system] from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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by dlivingston 10mo ago
I had a friend in grad school who influenced my political beliefs more than anyone I'd met. He never engaged in political conversation with "here's what I believe, and here's why you should too." His approach was mo

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