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by est31 4mo ago
The stable Linux ABI is Win32 provided by Wine.
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by est31 4mo ago
These deals are part of how the AI economy operates. Amodei has explained this in his recent Patel podcast. 1. Building datacenters takes time. Months, if not years. They take billions of investment. 2. AI revenue is highly unpredictable. S
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by est31 4mo ago
Yeah, among other factors, that "figure it out" mentality put me off in the end. Especially because often you need to show the same mentality unless you want to overkill proofs and spend more time on them than assigned to you. I s
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by est31 4mo ago
One of the reasons why over a decade ago, I dived deeply into the OSS world instead of mathematics was that it was so much more accessible: there were docs for everything, and I got direct feedback when something worked vs when something di
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by est31 4mo ago
Horrible to hear this news. Neurological diseases are the worst because we understand so little about them and usually there is no cure, just management. What have your experiences been with using AI for medical advice? Especially for such
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by est31 4mo ago
It's fine to make mistakes, that's how you learn. The problem here was that they didn't announce to the host that they are doing a test of their in-development equipment. So the host wasn't able to add the additional ris
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by est31 5mo ago
Well Bezos did actually state that he wants to turn Earth into a natural park. But yeah, the robot armies don't need grain so why hike up the price of bread? Lack of grain makes those people resentful which means you need to deal with
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by est31 5mo ago
If you give it $290 of input tokens for $10 of output tokens, you are doing something wrong. I.e. you paste the whole CI output into the prompt instead of giving it a link to the file, and then the AI greps its way through it (using a fract
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by est31 5mo ago
There is build.rs, proc macros are unsandboxed, and lastly you install the binary so that you can run it. Even if the build and install were fully sandboxed, the binary could still do malicious stuff if ran.
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by est31 5mo ago
Re vendor lock in point: this is a harness issue really. Sure, CC is restricted to Anthropic models, but it's not the only harness out there. So if one vendor has an outage or botches the quality of their models due to compute shortage
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by est31 5mo ago
This is a general fear for me whenever I take a taxi or something like it: i always remind the driver of my luggage in the back when we arrive and ask them whether they can help me get it.
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by est31 6mo ago
It's unpleasant for me at normal speed settings, but on fast mode it works really well: the AI does changes quickly enough for me to stay focused. Of course this requires being fortunate enough that you have one of those AI positive em
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by est31 6mo ago
Not a lawyer but the German constitution, Article 12a, speaks of men above 18, not of citizens, or even residents of Germany. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h... So that article can in theor
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by est31 6mo ago
This one might last longer. The AI race is on, and the US tries its best to make it as expensive for China as possible to participate in it. Every dollar China spends on GPUs they get at markup is one not spent on building navy ships. If th
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by est31 6mo ago
It's a loss leader but this is normal. Same has happened with Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, etc. Using VC money to buy marketshare and once you have it, you can milk it. The question is more around the moats that these companies have and it se
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by est31 6mo ago
> And how this end is closer with LLMs? The blog post of this thread argues that now, even average users have the ability to modify GPL'd code thanks to LLMs. The bigger advantage though is that one can use it to break open software
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by est31 6mo ago
If I look around in the FLOSS communities, I see a lot of skepticism towards LLMs. The main concerns are: 1. they were trained on FLOSS repositories without consent of the authors, including GPL and AGPL repos 2. the best models are proprie
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by est31 7mo ago
The end game is a resource based economy as all sorts of labor becomes cheap. Think of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Putin's Russia, or Norway. I.e. risk for highly nepotic dictatorships, with the potential that it might end up well despite the
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by est31 7mo ago
You have a lot of control over LLM quality. There is different models available. Even with different effort settings of those models you have different outcomes. E.g. look at the "SWE-Bench Pro (public)" heading in this page: htt
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by est31 7mo ago
AI etiquette is a great term. AI is useful in general but some patterns of AI usage are annoying. Especially if the other side spent 10 seconds on something and expects you to treat it seriously. Currently it's a bit of a wild west, bu
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by est31 7mo ago
Yeah I meant it in the context of the comment I was replying to, to be precise in the context of the comment that one was replying to, i.e. "10 years of certified Claude Code experience required". The technology is moving so fast
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by est31 7mo ago
I think the older AI users are even held back because they might be doing things that are not neccessary any more, like explaining basic things, like please don't bring in random dependencies but prefer the ones that are there already,
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by est31 7mo ago
I've been 8 years on this site, and I have 8 favorite comments. This comment just made it into a very exclusive club.
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by est31 7mo ago
yeah it writing stuff that's way better than mine is not the case for me, at least for areas I'm familiar with. In areas I'm not familiar with, it's way better than what I could have produced.
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by est31 7mo ago
Have you tried the latest models at best settings? I've been writing software for 20 years. Rust since 10 years. I don't consider myself to be a median coder, but quite above average. Since the last 2 years or so, I've been t
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by est31 7mo ago
I still think the source code is the preferred form for modification because it is what you point the AI at when you want it to make a change. Sure there might be md documents that you created that the AI used to implement the software, but
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by est31 7mo ago
I think it's a complicated issue. A lot of low quality AI contributions arrive using free tiers of these AI models, the output of which is pretty crap. On the other hand, if you max out the model configs, i.e. get "the best money
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by est31 7mo ago
That billion dollar figure is being thrown around for Steinberger's exit to OpenAI, but I couldn't find any reputable source claiming it. It might be a wrong number, idk.
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by est31 7mo ago
You can't train LLMs on proprietary data, at least not if you want to make that LLM as accessible as Gemini. Otherwise random people can ask it your home address. So it matters less than one would think. Also, ChatGPT can do 'inte
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by est31 7mo ago
From my opinion, the block layoffs were a test, to see how a) a software company manages with only half of its employees now that there's powerful LLMs, and b) how the remaining employees react to the imminent threat of them being laid

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