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by edanm 7mo ago
> I never heard that. It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it? It absolutely was the "promise" the media spun. I had the relatively unique experience of mo
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by edanm 7mo ago
I'm exactly the opposite. It'd been on my todo list for years to one day learn the difference between the different dashes. I kept putting not doing it. Then came LLMs, and there was so much talk of them using em dashes. A few wee
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by edanm 8mo ago
I agree with the sentiment in the first part of your post. But: > AI for actual prose writing, no question. Don't let a single word an LLM generates land in your document; even if you like it, kill it. Why? What's the differenc
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by edanm 8mo ago
> self assessed developers productivity increases from LLMs are not a reliable indication of actual productivity increases. I believe the other direction makes more sense; if the studies disagree with self-reported information, it'
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by edanm 8mo ago
This is based on research that happened at our company (Irregular), and I think it's very relevant to know about and to get the word out about this security issue. Especially given the pervasive use of coding agents, who may without yo
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Vibe Password Generation: LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure(irregular.com)
7 points by edanm 8mo ago|3 comments
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by edanm 8mo ago
> Only one shuffle can exist at a time, the "number of shuffles" is not a number of natural objects but rather a cardinality of a set. I really don't understand what this means in practice. If there are exactly 50 rocks in
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by edanm 8mo ago
Why? The number of ways to shuffle 5 cards is a relevant thing to talk about, and is a perfectly fine number we use all the time. What about 6 cards? 7 cards? At what point does it become "not natural"?
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by edanm 9mo ago
> I wonder if they have measured their results? This is a notoriously difficult thing to measure in a study. More relevantly though, IMO, it's not a small effect that might be difficult to notice - it's a huge, huge speedup. Ho
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by edanm 9mo ago
Aaarg I was typing quickly and mistyped. :face-palm: Thanks for the correction.
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by edanm 9mo ago
Serious question - what kind of example would help at this point? Here are a sample of (IMO) extremely talented and well known developers who have expressed that agentic coding helps them: Antirez (creator of Reddit), DHH (creator of RoR),
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by edanm 9mo ago
You're choosing to focus on specific hype posts (which were actually just misunderstandings of the original confusingly-worded Twitter post). While ignoring the many, many cases of well-known and talented developers who give more conte
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by edanm 9mo ago
FYI I think you can email dang and ask to delete old posts. Or at least I think he said that once.
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by edanm 9mo ago
It is not possible to vouch for any discussion, afaik. Only comments.
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by edanm 9mo ago
So does getting your kid's ears pierced. So does fixing their teeth for aesthetic reasons.
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by edanm 9mo ago
> The productivity studies on software engineers directly don't show much of a productivity gain certainly nowhere near the 10x the frontier labs would like to claim. Which studies are you talking about? The last major study that I
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by edanm 9mo ago
What does "actually exist" mean? Does Pi "actually exist"?
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by edanm 9mo ago
> There's just no way in hell ChatGPT at its current level is going to guide you flawlessly through all of that if you start with a simple "I want to build a raytracer" prompt! This is the entire crux of your argument. If
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by edanm 9mo ago
That's awesome! Sounds like a cool tattoo. And I totally relate on the obsession, I've been a big Sanderson fan for 15 years at this point and read almost everything he's ever written :)
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by edanm 9mo ago
Really? I read both, though fairly far apart, and I never connected them before.
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by edanm 9mo ago
Wow, that's a lot of reading! Cosmere is, what, 20-ish books at this point? What was the tattoo if you don't mind sharing?
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by edanm 10mo ago
What about letting customers actually try the products and figure out for themselves what it does and whether that's useful to them? I don't understand this mindset that because someone stuck the label "AI" on it, consum
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by edanm 10mo ago
I didn't love the opening caricature either. But, to be fair, that wasn't the kind of critique it was talking about. If your critique guns is moral, strategic, etc, then yes, you can do it without actually trying out guns. If you
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Evaluating GPT-5.2 Thinking: Cryptographic Challenge Case Study(irregular.com)
2 points by edanm 10mo ago|0 comments
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by edanm 10mo ago
You're seriously insisting that the definition of novel in science only includes things that thousands of people have worked on for decades and haven't solved? An example problem includes the "Erdos set" problems (see
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by edanm 10mo ago
Wait, you're redefining novel to mean something else. If I prove a new math theorem, it's novel - even though it's unlikely that thousands of humans have worked on that specific theorem for decades. LLMs have proven novel mat
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by edanm 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure parent poster meant they understand Python, the programming language, not that they have the understanding of the animal python.
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by edanm 11mo ago
Right! It's well known that technical people never make mistakes.
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by edanm 11mo ago
The plot is about the people trapped in the Cube trying to figure out their situation and get out. The construction of the Cube is kind of a backstory, not the main part.
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by edanm 11mo ago
I wouldn't call it the plot of the Cube, more like the setting/world-building.

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