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by efitz 1y ago
I have had a weird thought lately about testing at runtime. My thought is just to log violations of expectations- i.e. log when the test would have failed. This doesn’t prevent the bug from being introduced but can remove a huge amount of
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by efitz 1y ago
Microsoft had Tay. Google Gemini had “Black George Washington”. I think that pinning your entire view of a model forever on a single incident is not a reasonable approach, but you do you.
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by efitz 1y ago
At least he’s honest.
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by efitz 1y ago
F-35 is a boondoggle. $200M for one fighter plane is insane. If the USA ever had to go to war with this weapon, a huge number of them would be offline at any given time, and every single airframe loss would cause a huge dent in overall comb
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by efitz 1y ago
I don’t know who TF this is but he is not a significant figure on the US political right. The only places I can find on the web that connect Andreessen or Thiel to Yarvin are mid- to far-left web sites. I am not claiming that the guy is or
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by efitz 1y ago
I honestly think that partially-OSS SaaS is in for a rocky road; many popular paid or freemium tools are likely to be rewritten by AI and published as OSS with permissive licenses over the next year or two. I also think that the same capabi
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by efitz 1y ago
In one instance, the agent actually used pkill to terminate itself after realizing it was stuck in an infinite loop. That is pretty awesome and not something I would have expected from an agent; it hints (but does not prove) that it has s
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by efitz 1y ago
https://archive.ph/pwVDL
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by efitz 1y ago
Nothing that we consider intelligent works like LLMs. Brains are continuous - they don’t stop after processing one set of inputs, until a new set of inputs arrives. Brains continuously feed back on themselves. In essence they never leave t
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by efitz 1y ago
There are many people who quickly hit the limits of the $200/month plan. I hit the limits of the $20/month plan in less than a day. So I never tried the $200/month plan but I suspect you are wrong. Also, if you sign up for
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by efitz 1y ago
OP here. I was not solicited by anyone nor did I solicit or accept compensation from anyone for this or any other post. It’s not an advertisement; I apologize if I come off as a Claude Code fanboy. If you read part 1 of my post (linked in
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by efitz 1y ago
You mean like this? https://apnews.com/general-news-2fbcce48372f5c29c3ae6f6f9390...
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by efitz 1y ago
US presidents cannot bind their successors to actions they start. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/biden-terminates-bo...
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My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)(efitz-thoughts.blogspot.com)
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by efitz 1y ago
I spent much of the last several months using LLM agents to create software. I've written two blog posts about my experience; this is the second post that includes all the things I've learned along the way to get better results,
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by efitz 1y ago
Civil asset forfeiture- a law enforcement officer in many jurisdictions in the US can seize the gold bar without charging you with anything, under the assumption that it is proceeds for a crime, and in an insane twist, they get to keep part
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by efitz 1y ago
How does one precisely define love for purposes of defining morality? The article’s author was very imprecise, defining love and morality in subjective terms relating to one’s personal outlook and perceptions of others. I’m not at all inter
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by efitz 1y ago
The last thing we need is more people running around with no filter between their inner thoughts and their vocal apparatus.
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by efitz 1y ago
1:1 classroom instruction removes a number of teachers from the labor pool equal to the number of students. Apprenticeships remove only a small fraction of that from the labor pool (because the practitioner spends only part of their time t
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by efitz 1y ago
Hahaha that is an awesome middle finger to pip :-)
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by efitz 1y ago
Having a dictionary is a prerequisite but is only a small part of the spell check problem. Plus, plain text word lists are slow to parse in the 80s; better going with a Trie or some other exotic tree structure that is naturally compressed b
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by efitz 1y ago
I’m reminded of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: “I promise I won’t kill anyone.” Then he proceeds to shoot all the police in the leg.
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by efitz 1y ago
I am not sure what “the collapse of an empire” means. True empires bleed off colonies or satellites, often over hundreds of years; sometimes with wars, sometimes without. Today being imprecise with language to smear one’s political opponen
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by efitz 1y ago
To lawyers, “likeness”is a term of art and means much more than just how you look, including image, name, voice, and other identifiable features. Basically it’s what actors bring to contracts in addition to their labor. I don’t claim to un
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by efitz 1y ago
When you’re dead, you don’t have rights anymore because you’re not a person anymore. Anything of value that survived your death- property, money, IP rights, etc. now are part of an estate which is administered and distributed according to
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by efitz 1y ago
Evidently ChatGPT really likes to emit json; they had to tell it over and over again not to do that in the memory feature.
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by efitz 1y ago
I got the impression that it was specifically so as not to break the ChatGPT web site.
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by efitz 1y ago
Why? I’m trying to imagine the Venn diagram of “developers adopting agentic coding” and “developers who use emacs as their IDE”. Of course I’m going to get swarmed with anecdotes, but my intuition is that there’s just not a lot of overlap.
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by efitz 1y ago
If the NYT was journalistic, your point would be valid. They are now activist, so their motives should factor into the weight you ascribe to their analysis.
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by efitz 1y ago
Do citizens in the EU actually want this? If not, how are EU politicians so disconnected from their citizens? How did this state of affairs come to be? Is it reversible? In the US, our politicians don’t diverge quite as much, but when the

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