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by ehnto 1y ago
The MIT report that has everyone talking was about 95% of companies not seeing return on investment in using AI, and that is with the VC subsidised pricing. If it gets more expensive that math only gets worse. I can't predict the futur
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by ehnto 1y ago
That doesn't really challenge what I said, there's not much "different this time" except the scale is commensurate to the era. Search engine crawlers used to take down websites as well. I understand and agree with what y
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by ehnto 1y ago
The question might become, what side of the black wall are you going to be on? Seriously though I do think we are going to see increasing interest in alternative nets, especially as governments tighten their control over the internet or eve
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by ehnto 1y ago
Now imagine your government provided internet agent gets blacklisted because your linked social media post was interpreted by an LLM to be anti-establishment, and we are painting a picture of our current trajectory.
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by ehnto 1y ago
It's been going on for decades now too. It's a cat and mouse game that will be with us for as long as people try to exploit online resources with bots. Which will be until the internet is divided into nation nets, suffocated by co
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by ehnto 1y ago
> So, if OP really thinks that no cyclist can ride more than what an average motorists drive a year, then even "but a truly tiny proportion" would appear as a surprise to them. I said an avid cyclist, which is quite undefined s
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by ehnto 1y ago
I think that you got it right, expectations for cylcing are different. Even avid cyclists could never hit the kilometres travelled by your average car user in a year. Being a lot more expensive as well cars need to last longer for the cost
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by ehnto 1y ago
> work you literally would have never bothered to do before done in 2 minutes. That has been a nice outcome I didn't expect. Some of the trivial "nice to haves" I can get done by Claude, stuff I just don't have time f
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by ehnto 1y ago
That the best thing about Linux(et al), it's a fairly stable target and programs and tools are pretty much the same as they were year on year. I wouldn't get it to help me with Nix, or let it loose on an EC2 instance, but doe gene
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by ehnto 1y ago
If you're running one of the popular coding agents, they can run commands in bash which is more or less access to the infinite space of tooling I myself use to do my job. I even use it to troubleshoot issues with my linux laptop that i
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by ehnto 1y ago
I guess I disagree that the main concern is the differences per each model, rather than the overall technology of LLMs in general. Given how fast it's all changing, I would rather focus on the broader conversation personally. I don&#x2
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by ehnto 1y ago
Very interesting, definitely the first step towards writing a character for me is picturing it in my head. If it's particularly challenging I might, still in my head, project it onto the page and that seems to give my brain the spatial
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by ehnto 1y ago
I would find it more surprising if the brain did not have quirky versions like this, given how complex it is and given how often our genes are not perfectly copied.
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by ehnto 1y ago
> If you're completely new to the problem then ... yes, it does. Of course, because I am not new to the problem, whereas an LLM is new to it every new prompt. I am not really trying to find a fair comparison because I believe humans
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by ehnto 1y ago
Of course, but even those blackoxes are not empty, they've got a vague picture inside them based on prior experience. I have been doing this for a while so most things are just various flavours of the same stuff, especially in enterpri
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by ehnto 1y ago
We're measuring lengths of string, but I would not say I have worked on small projects. I am very familiar with discovery, and have worked on a lot of large legacy projects that have no tests just fine.
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by ehnto 1y ago
I never intended to say it was true of all codebases for all developers, that would make no sense. I don't know all developers. I think it's objectively true that the information is not in the LLM. It did not have all codebases to
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by ehnto 1y ago
When talking about the capabilities of a class of tools long term, it makes sense to be general. I think deriving conclusions at all is pretty difficult given how fast everything is moving, but there is some realities we do actually know ab
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by ehnto 1y ago
I imagine people give up silently more often than they write a well syndicated article about it. The actual adoption and efficiencies we see in enterprises will be the most verifiable data on if LLMs are generally useful in practice. Everyt
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by ehnto 1y ago
It's brittle, for sure. But ultimately I am the API connector so any output goes through me before being actioned on. When we pipe the LLM tokens straight back into other systems with no human in the loop, that brittle unpredictable na
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by ehnto 1y ago
I add to my prompts something along the lines of "you are a highly skilled professional working alongside me on a fast paced important project, we are iterating quickly and don't have time for chit chat. Prefer short one line comm
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by ehnto 1y ago
That is true of everything an LLM outputs, which is why the human in the loop matters. The zeitgeist seems to have moved on from this idea though.
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by ehnto 1y ago
Additionally, the more information you put into the context the more confused the LLM will get, if you did dump the whole codebase into the context it would not suddenly understand the whole thing. It is still an LLM, all you have done is p
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by ehnto 1y ago
I disagree, I may not have the whole codebase in my head in one moment but I have had all of it in my head at some point, and it is still there, that is not true of an LLM. I use LLMs and am impressed by them, but they just do not approxima
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by ehnto 1y ago
Depends on your use case though. You don't always need the best. Even if you have a hypercar, you probably drive a regular car to work. There's also a personal good enough point for everyone who's hoping to cut the cord and g
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by ehnto 1y ago
> help the "AI can't do ____" crowd grasp that it really is a skill issue when they can't get any good results from LLMs. I think the issue with this conversation is that no one tells you what they are working on, and
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by ehnto 1y ago
I wonder how under-reported desktop linux is, given the crossover between linux users and cord cutters/privacy enthusiasts. I think it's not a wild leap that linux users would trend toward technically savvy, privacy focused users.
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by ehnto 1y ago
I also believe that everyone deserves respect and dignity, I don't even think it's amorale to choose to live life in a way that deprioritises health and fitness over other joys. I think maybe it's excessive to call it a movem
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by ehnto 1y ago
I often tell LLMs to ask questions if required, and that it is a skilled developer who is working along side me. That seems to help them be more collaborative rather than prescriptive.
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by ehnto 1y ago
Much work is not "text in, text out", and much work is not digital at all. But even in the digital world, inserting an LLM into a workflow is just not always that useful. In fact much automation, code or otherwise, benefits from o

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