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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
Not if you can review the code.
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
I don’t see definitive evidence that there is some kind of Moore’s law for model improvement though. Just because this year’s model performs better than last year’s model doesn’t mean next year’s model will be another leap. Most of the big
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
So you want LLMs to write a bunch of black box code that humans won’t be able to read and reason about easily? That will definitely end well.
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
Clearly the target audience for this device are the 90% of users who are going to use this to watch YouTube, talk to ChatGPT and upload photos to Insta, or whatever the kids are doing these days. It’s not designed or marketed at power users
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
The cost to train and run these things is going to lead to fewer players eventually. I suspect we end up with 2 or 3 big players in 10 years.
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
You could say the same thing about learning to fly a plane or play the piano. I’ve got no problem with people using llms to write useful utilities and programs for themselves, but it is leading us into a world where people are creating powe
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
But the friction and learning curve is what helps you understand what you’re doing. The friction is an integral part of the process.
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
I’d argue it’s more like driving yourself vs passively being driven everywhere. Remember that scene at the end of E.T.? Where Elliott and his brother steal the van, but they don’t know how to get to their destination because “I don’t know s
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by falkensmaize 7mo ago
Miele vacuums are better performers than Dyson, and cheaper too.
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
It's not really ironic at all. It's entirely possible for someone to be a well-credentialed liar/conman.
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
I don't know if this is the future or not, but it seems to serve no real purpose other than to enrich LLM company profits. There is real value in well designed code that has been battle tested and hardened over years of bugfixes and it
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
It turns out they're really great at building toys, cosplay gear and little plastic parts for things, but in general not that useful in most people's daily lives. Kind of like Ai.
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
I just tried this question today with Opus 4.6, and it got the answer right - “Drive. You’ll need the car”. I changed only the destination however and it got it wrong. I think they are manually “fixing” these things as they get publicized.
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
The last 16 months of layoffs are almost certainly not because of LLMs. All the cheap money went away, and suddenly tech companies have to be profitable. That means a lot of them are shedding anything not nailed down to make their quarter l
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
I wouldn’t trust “Dr” Oz to advise me on which brand of cold medicine to buy, much less the health of myself or my child.
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
All I really want from Apple is to continue perfecting their computers, phones and tablets to be the absolute best computing devices possible. As long as they keep iteratively improving those things I don’t care if they’re thought or innova
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
And the 3rd and 4th place apps are “Freecash” (some kind of get paid to take surveys app) and the Peacock streaming app. These may be the most downloaded by rank, but we have no idea what the actual numbers are, or what period of time this
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
What I never understand is that people seem to think the conception of the idea and the syntactical nitty gritty of the code are completely independent domains. When I think about “how software works” I am at some level thinking about how
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
Watching this stuff all day can literally cause you to have lifelong PTSD. I want poor people to have enough money to provide for themselves, but this is exploitative - they should get paid a LOT more to do this kind of work, the same way s
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
Pfft. Dario has been making nonsense fear mongering that never comes true.
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by falkensmaize 8mo ago
Just today I had Claude Opus 4.5 try to write to a fictional Mac user account on my computer during a coding session. It was pretty weird - the name was very specific and unique enough that it was clear it was likely bleed through from trai
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
“anti-ai sentiment” No that’s a straw man, sorry. Skepticism is not the same thing as irrational rejection. It means that I don’t believe you until you’ve proven with evidence that what you’re saying is true. The efficacy and reliability of
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
“Anti-AI extremism”? Seriously? Where does this bizarre impulse to dogmatically defend LLM output come from? I don’t understand it. If AI is a reliable and quality tool, that will become evident without the need to defend it - it’s got bill
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
What fairly complex software has it written autonomously for you?
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
Our government needs to get tf out of the “fixing things” business and back to the “maintaining a framework where people can fix things themselves” business that it was designed to be. Everything they “fix” ends up in much worse shape than
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
Nah, OpenAI can’t have it both ways. If they’re going to assert that their model is intelligent and is capable of replacing human work and authority they can’t also claim that it (and they) don’t have to take the same responsibility a human
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
AI companies are actively marketing their products as highly intelligent superhuman assistants that are on the cusp of replacing humans in every field of knowledge work, including medicine. People who have not read deeply into how LLMs work
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
This sounds like an “I want to get my ass kicked” application.
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
Software that won’t compile and doesn’t do anything is not software, it’s just a collection of text files. A computer that won’t boot isn’t a computer anymore, it’s a paperweight. A car that won’t start isn’t a car anymore, it’s scrap metal
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
We might cure cancer in 10 years. We could have Martian colonists in the next decade. Everyone might be commuting to work with a jet pack. Literally anything could happen, especially given a long enough time horizon.

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