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by ekidd 4mo ago
Lol, no. I've always sounded like that, and there are decades of my writing online. Also, FWIW, Pangram scores my writing as entirely human. Claude's writing isn't easy to identify because it uses em-dashes and bulleted lists
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by ekidd 4mo ago
Claude's writing style is at least as distinctive as any human's personal style. It has a long list of favorite words, verbal tics and common structures. On top of that, LLM writing is often bad in a very particular way: it's
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by ekidd 4mo ago
This varies enormously by where you live. I live out in the countryside. If I run into someone in the road, I will nod my head, maybe introduce myself, and maybe chat, if the other person is interested. (To be fair, I know about 80% of th
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by ekidd 4mo ago
As far as I can tell, much of Anthropic genuinely believes that someone will build an AI in the next 3-20 years that's significantly smarter than any human alive. Sounds wild, but a lot of their people have been saying this since 201
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by ekidd 4mo ago
> Amazon removes guardrails from Fable, getting access to Mythos. Amazon did not remove any "guardrails" from Fable. They created a fake, obviously insecure program. And apparently their prompt was exactly, "Fix this cod
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by ekidd 4mo ago
COBOL was mostly outsourced to India, and it's a terrible professional path for anyone in the EU or US, and has been since the Y2K bugs got fixed at the last minute. (And probably a bad path in India, too, but I have no data one way
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by ekidd 4mo ago
At different size ranges: - Qwen3.6 27B runs quite nicely on a 32GB GPU, and it's a mostly usable coding agent. The biggest difference with a frontier model is that a 27B forces you work in chunks between 100-200k tokens, and to mainta
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by ekidd 4mo ago
The OP uses tons of typical AI turns of phrase, and Pangram classified it as AI with high confidence. So it doesn't surprise me at all that the methodology is weak, too.
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by ekidd 4mo ago
This is a basic survival skill in politics, and not just for scandals. Let's take Bernie Sanders, because he's well-known in Vermont for being happy to go off-script and actually talk to people. During my only personal conversatio
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by ekidd 4mo ago
> The problem is memory that you allocated in the past, have freed, but hasn't been returned to the OS[0]. There are at least two different ways in which memory might be semantically "uninitialized": 1. The memory was pr
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by ekidd 4mo ago
Calloc is generally hardening, because it zeros out any stale memory contents left over from previous uses of the memory. You can avoid this overhead if you use a language that forbids reading from uninitialized memory, but C is not that la
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by ekidd 4mo ago
It's probably more that LLM inference speed comes from having a large amount of fast RAM. And fast RAM is brutally expensive right now. At this point, your cost-efficient options include used 3090s, "frankenrigs" using recy
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by ekidd 4mo ago
> Why is this time different? If it was just programming being automated, then whatever. Lots of professions have been automated and society adapts. The underlying worry here is that current AI provides a partial automation of intelli
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by ekidd 4mo ago
The Chinese models are surprisingly cheap and performant sitting under my desk. Qwen3.6 27B is nowhere near as autonomous as Opus 4.7, but it runs in 24GB of VRAM. And it's actually great for the use cases where I'm going to caref
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by ekidd 4mo ago
As someone who hates handwriting in bluebooks, and who types constantly, yes: I think we should bring back in-class writing by hand, we should lock up cellphones for the school day, and we should proctor exams. If you're not doing this
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by ekidd 4mo ago
No insult to the Harvard grads I know. But the median grad isn't Einstein, and they won't magically earn back $5 million/year. They're not that special, on average. Now, if you have an AGI that can reliably and repeate
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by ekidd 4mo ago
I mean, over the years, I have purchased (or advised other people to purchase) multiple Nvidia GPUs for compute workloads. And the reason pretty much always came down to good integration between various open source software and proprietary
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by ekidd 4mo ago
If it's merely human equivalent but somehow costs a lot more than actual humans, then it's actually pretty marginal until the cost comes down. There are a lot of humans. So you could technically have AGI without entering a true
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by ekidd 5mo ago
They do what they claim to do maybe 20% of the time. The other 80% of the time is spent trying to figure out why they aren't working, why they corrupted their data, why they crash every 10 minutes, etc. And I want to be clear that this
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by ekidd 5mo ago
No amount of testing will save a large program with a dogshit architecture. Roughly, this is because tests increase coverage linearly with the number of tests, but weird interactions increase exponentially with code size. This might be fine
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by ekidd 5mo ago
> Coding faster leads to less understanding and higher long-term risk. Source-Code amnesia is real, and there’s a time requirement to really understand and appreciate what a system is actually doing. This is why I have switched nearly
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by ekidd 5mo ago
Which as some running a website raises a fascinating question. If Google is just going to crawl my sites and present information as an AI summary on their site, then what exactly do I gain by allowing Googlebot to crawl my sites?
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by ekidd 5mo ago
Oh, yeah, the article gets better as it goes. Gemini spouts weird corporate jargon. Grok lies about having secured crypto funding. Claude is always trying to start some revolution. Unfortunately, all of my local DJs who would actually do
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by ekidd 5mo ago
(Yes, I typed "comprehensions", but autocorrect is not my friend, I'm sad to say. Thanks for the correction!) > Why the "almost"? They are all monads (I suppose you meant list comprehensions) Sort of. In the righ
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by ekidd 5mo ago
I want to underline that fact that this stuff is not "read and move to the next chapter." A lot of this kind of "machinery" in functional programming and category theory turns out to be essentially extremely abstract &
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by ekidd 5mo ago
Tell Claude you want to set up notifications, using "hooks", including "Notification" and "Stop" and anything new they've added. Claude can figure out how to do this for your operating system. It's no
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by ekidd 5mo ago
> If they can ship code that matches a spec, why does it matter if they’re using ai or not? I am perfectly capable of writing specs, and feeding them to 3 separate copies of Claude Code all by myself. Then I task switch between the tmu
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by ekidd 5mo ago
Category theory isn't usually intended to add things. Often, what category theory brings to the table is connecting different branches of math. (It's a bit similar to abstract algebra in that way, but at a different level.) Fo
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by ekidd 5mo ago
The models also have far more intelligence built in. For example, the pi.dev agent harness has a system prompt which fits on a single page, and includes only 4 or 5 tools. Running with a small coding model like Qwen3.6 27B, this setup is co
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by ekidd 5mo ago
Where this result is actually interesting and relevant is when a coding agent splits a large source file into multiple smaller files. Opus + Claude Code will try to recite long sections of source code from memory into each of the new file

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