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by ethin 2mo ago
Is it me or is all of this essentially "we don't want to show the user anything at all when something breaks?" And what makes this funny (to me) is that this is a website for developers. I would think that of all the audience
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by ethin 2mo ago
I agree, and I very strongly dislike it, to be polite about it. It contributes absolutely nothing and is an excellent way of hand-waving away literally anything an AI model does. Saying "well people do this too" is a great way to
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by ethin 2mo ago
Can you explain to all of us how this gatekeeping is actually bad? Software would be way, way worse if we just allowed any arbitrary feature to be added to software, and ordinary people who want all the things would have to learn, the hard
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by ethin 2mo ago
It's done that to me even at the beginning of conversations. I usually end up telling it what time of day it is, but if I even do that at all it starts nannying me.
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by ethin 2mo ago
I agree, part of me seriously wonders if Fable isn't at all burning through tokens as quickly as we think and Anthropic is just doing this to get more money from us... It really wouldn't at all surprise me if this was the case, bu
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by ethin 2mo ago
I definitely have. It's like something in the system prompt has "keep the well-being of the human in mind" and of course the date and time, but something makes the model take that way way too literally.
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by ethin 2mo ago
I can definitely see his argument, although I still do believe RISC-V did a lot of things better than x86... I really do hope that the arch is eventually able to fix this. Better that there be an open ISA than them all be closed IMO.
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by ethin 2mo ago
Agreed. I wish I could turn it off completely but they no longer let you do that (because, you know, that would be too much to ask for...). The most hilarious thing is that I've had it refer to code it's generated for prototyping
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by ethin 2mo ago
The reasons thinking traces are pretty much gone is, supposedly, to prevent distillation. Whether that is actually true or just an excuse is up in the air (because I at least am not going to trust Anthropics claims on why they do it).
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by ethin 2mo ago
I primarily use Claude Web, so my experience differs from cc users, but on Claude web you can no longer completely turn off memory. So what ends up happening (and it honestly is kinda sad) is that I'll start a new conversation with it,
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by ethin 2mo ago
Yeah, will do, this sounds interesting since I'm not entirely sure how this would actually be reliable to any degree. Thanks for the help, not sure why I got downvoted since I was genuinely curious.
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by ethin 2mo ago
Can someone help me understand how exactly this watermarking of text works? Given that text is, well, text, and not some kind of binary format, I don't see how any watermarking can work unless you insert characters which are invalid un
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by ethin 2mo ago
What you describe is indeed the ideal method of learning. However, I think we both know that if LLMs are pushed as a learning device, people will substitute everything else for them (or companies will very strongly encourage that substituti
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by ethin 2mo ago
The reason is ridiculously simple: people don't put up a fight because they don't want to be labelled as a peto or as someone not in favor of the protection of Children. This is primarily why this cudgel is brought out so often: i
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by ethin 2mo ago
Sure, but Meta also wouldn't mind if age verification of some kind were used, because it would just increase the moat they already have. Meta or Google would have no difficulty complying with any of these laws regardless of how extreme
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by ethin 2mo ago
> Okay. Please write such a system yourself. Why? This has already done via existing processes. My point was to illustrate that if the future is LLMs then surely these processes wouldn't be needed anymore? After all, the LLM would j
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by ethin 2mo ago
If we assume the current administration (and the following one) continues to be bullish on AI, then this is a suckers bet. Assuming the next administration isn't too busy cleaning up the messes of the current one.
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by ethin 2mo ago
This is (exactly) why I very strongly tell people not to teach themselves with an LLM. Particularly from the ground up. If you do not understand the domain, you cannot learn from the model because you won't know what questions to ask a
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by ethin 2mo ago
Even if you tell the LLM not to use LLM pros they (still) do it. If you feed the Wikipedia article on signs of AI writing and tell them to use none of those signs they will also (still) do it. I have tried (many times) to get an LLM to expl
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by ethin 2mo ago
I've had a similar experience on huge codebases written entirely by an aI. It works for very very specific cases (e.g., Opus 5 has helped me with SIMD optimizations) but I wouldn't trust it to do a 10000 LoC project even with agen
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by ethin 2mo ago
Okay. Please generate using an AI model code for a safety-critical system which is able to be incorporated into an aircraft and that passes the coding standards and requirements in that domain and come back and tell us all about it. Surely,
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by ethin 2mo ago
I heard he'd have it done by the end of the month
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by ethin 2mo ago
Aaaaand this "ban" will be just as incompetently executed as the ban that happened like, what, a couple weeks ago about drones? Literally all the manufacturers did was create some shell companies, change the branding a bit, and bo
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by ethin 2mo ago
> it is shaking up and going to shake up a lot of the world. The problem is that this is only happening because the powerful are forcing it on us. This is exactly why the backlash against it has gotten so big. Had companies not jumped on
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by ethin 2mo ago
Ouchy. That isn't as bad as the slop I've seen: one example I saw a few weeks ago from vibe-coded software had this absolutely mind-blowing bit of Rust code: pub(crate) fn zeroed_safe<T>() -> T { unsafe { std::mem::zeroed
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by ethin 2mo ago
Not really about the content of the blog post but am I the only one bothered by the complete lack of capitalization? Granted it may be because of my screen reader but my TTS engine of choice doesn't pause on un-capitalized words/s
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by ethin 2mo ago
This is interesting but what I would love to see is Mac M4/M5 performance (speed) on an Intel laptop CPU. I know that it will be really difficult to pull off (assuming it's achievable at all) given that Intel just makes the CPU an
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by ethin 2mo ago
> Oh. So, because I said I work in software you assumed I worked in safety critical systems? No, I didn't. I asked you to provide me an example of code that you had generated via AI that might survive in such an environment. But if
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by ethin 2mo ago
Sorry, but we aren't talking about me here. You were the one who made the claim that AI pretty much makes making software trivial nowadays. Specifically, you wrote: > Making software is no longer very hard. It's becoming a few
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by ethin 2mo ago
Interesting take. Can you link us to your (correct, maybe even formally correct) AI-generated software? Given how general this post is, I assume you wouldn't mind if I extend this to, Idk, aviation or spaceflight, so mind linking to an

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