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by dtagames 5mo ago
Some of these coming price increases will move dev work back to dedicated shops and teams when individuals and non-devs won't want to pay the AI bill to finish and ship their projects. An outside small dev shop or internal dev team can
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by dtagames 5mo ago
We already do check English into the repo. That's context doc and rules for agents. But we also keep programming language source. It's not an either/or. Having both the context doc and the generated source is very useful for
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by dtagames 5mo ago
These kind of articles show a deep misunderstanding about how computers work. The only code ever run is machine code burned into the chip. Humans write programming languages that are compiled into that code, and so do LLMs. Suggesting that
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by dtagames 5mo ago
It's an interesting question, but I think the reason we see this kind of writing now when we didn't with previous disruptions is that it's just easier to post all kinds of content now. Everyone's 15 minutes of fame, as A
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by dtagames 5mo ago
As a heavy user, I don't think the model is their product. Cursor is primarily a harness and lately, a specialized agent dashboard. Composer, their in house model, is dispatched by other models like Claude Opus for individual items o
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by dtagames 5mo ago
Transhumanists "predict" that society will do things they like. In practice, normal people rarely share their goals and delusions, such as this one about merging with machines or designing our offspring. The prior commenter mentio
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by dtagames 5mo ago
It wasn't my intent to discover or disclose anything. It was quite accidental. The company's desire to prevent my discoveries from being disclosed resulted in a NDA and settlement offer before I even had a chance to understand wha
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by dtagames 5mo ago
I'd say don't be thrown off by the colorful language like "souls." All of science has this language problem and philosophers of science are asked to address the meaning of these kind of words all the time. Having read a
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by dtagames 5mo ago
100%. PGPR is not food and doesn't belong in food!
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by dtagames 5mo ago
The truth is that no one can tell why someone bought a Hershey bar. There's no way to distinguish childhood nostalgia from price competitiveness, developed habits, local availability, etc. It's all just guessing*. The entire ad bu
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by dtagames 5mo ago
Taco Bell went from a decent fast food joint to a place with bad service that sells premade food that comes in huge plastic bags. Yuck. KFC is also inedible. Having an AI there won't help, and it's sad because both were founded by
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by dtagames 5mo ago
One great thing about quantum physics it that is isn't solved. To paraphrase Feynman, if you think you understand it, you're wrong. Thus, it's worth exploring all these heavy hitter physics thinkers. You won't agree 100%
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by dtagames 5mo ago
How exciting to see new writing from Carlos Rovelli! He's one of the few physicists and philosophers of science (ancient or modern) who steadfastly rejects a priori assumptions that rely on things other than our observations. He also e
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by dtagames 5mo ago
I like the idea of explaining the math in his writing. I very much dislike changing people's writing to "adjust" the reading level. That's no longer their writing. Just use a different example or explain what was actuall
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by dtagames 5mo ago
It's more likely to make it take longer to figure out that there is nothing there. If one had clearly indexed and searchable content, we would see it's just garbage.
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by dtagames 5mo ago
No it would not. This is an abdication on UI. There is no reason to release a file labeled with a number in 2026 when what the user wants is searchable, categorized content with thumbnails and the ability to export groups. That's web t
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by dtagames 5mo ago
If planes have just been invented, you need to go somewhere, and you live next to an airport, the idea of flight might come to mind quickly. That's the era we're in with LLMs. It just comes to mind for the HN crowd sooner.
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by dtagames 5mo ago
The War Department has unlimited access to LLMs and compute, but these are delivered as unlabeled files that one must download individually. That's ridiculous.
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by dtagames 5mo ago
How unhelpful, but how honest. They're admitting that they just randomly release stuff now with no explanation and the public is supposed to make up their own explanation. Terrific.
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by dtagames 5mo ago
Hans Reichenbach predicted the LLM in his 1954 book, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, which is a fantastic read for anyone interested in either science or philosophy. He would not, however, have been taken in by Dawkins's anthropom
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by dtagames 5mo ago
This is ridiculous. They say they are not going to transmit electricity back to shore, but of course a data center is not useful unless it moves bits back to shore, using electricity. Were they planning to "sneaker net" the data o
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by dtagames 5mo ago
Dawkins's books are worthy of study and his insights into biology and social behavior are valuable. But like many scientists, he's unwilling to admit the concept of choice or free will, and this leads to delusions of built-in dete
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by dtagames 6mo ago
No railroad company became an airline. The first airline was Pan Am. Railroads ignored air transportation until it killed all of their passenger business and they had to be bailed out and merged into a Federal conglomerate called the Nation
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by dtagames 6mo ago
It not really even an app. It's just a thread. You'd be better off with something like Cursor where you are reading and writing files on your own drive.
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by dtagames 6mo ago
An interesting and well-written piece that shows why broadcast TV cannot become mobile TV, and broadcast shopping like QVC isn't mobile shopping like TikTok. This reminds me of the truism that no railroad company became an airline, eve
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by dtagames 6mo ago
LLMs are being used in all those apps but it's inside the codebase where you're not going to see it. They either use AI-assisted development or they have app features that call an LLM from the inside. None of those are "ChatG
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by dtagames 6mo ago
He gave several real examples. The idea is that you have to audit your own agent file and other harness settings. He can't provide an example from your file and one from his doesn't help make the point any better.
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by dtagames 6mo ago
An ancient Easter egg is revealed at the end of this interesting article. The "all free" code was `1337` or "leet" in leet!
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by dtagames 6mo ago
Whose pricing is above API rates? Not Cursor. It's 100% at each model provider's published API rate. With a bigger sub, you get it cheaper than that. Cursor makes a ton of money because the product is great. It's easily the m
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by dtagames 6mo ago
What needs to be "retired" is this cruel and pointless form of animal abuse.

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