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by felipeerias 8mo ago
Are you sure about that? Every information I’ve seen suggests that the DoD has been using Anthropic’s models through Palantir. My understanding is that Anthropic requested visibility and a say into how their models were being used for cla
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by felipeerias 8mo ago
If it turns out that there is significant value in everyone having their own personal agent running 24/7, we might end up needing a lot more compute than anticipated. (It’s a big if! I’m not convinced about that myself, but it’s worth
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by felipeerias 8mo ago
Civilisations in the Americas were significantly less technologically developed than those in Eurasia. We focus our analysis on the Spanish and Portuguese, but the outcome would not have been much different had their place been taken by the
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by felipeerias 8mo ago
"Here's the thing nobody tells you", "here's the part that should unsettle you"…
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
I am European and live in Japan. China is currently providing weapons for Russia to wage large-scale war in Europe, while supporting a dictatorship in North Korea that regularly launches nuclear-capable misiles in my general direction.
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
If you were looking for a good long-term AI benchmark, “build me a Web browser” should last you for a while.
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
Does that automatically translate into more openings for the people whose full time job is providing that thing? I’m not sure that it does. Historically, it would seem that often lowering the amount of people needed to produce a good is pre
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
If AI tools make expert developers a lot more productive on large software projects, while empowering non-developers to create their own little programs and automations, I am not sure how that would increase the number of people with “softw
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
As discussed elsewhere, it is apparently possible to compile and run this particular project. It seems that whatever process they followed allows commits to break the build pretty often. Nevertheless, IMHO what’s interesting about this is n
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
IMHO people are missing the forest for the trees. The point of this experiment is not to build a functional browser but to develop ways to make agents create large codebases from scratch over a very long time span. A Web browser is just a c
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
Claims based on personal experience working on real world problems are likelier to be true. It’s reasonable to accept that AI tools work well for some people and not for others. There are many ways to integrate these tools and their capabil
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
The adoption of AI tools for software development will probably not result in sudden layoffs but rather on harder to measure changes, like smaller teams being able to tackle significantly more ambitious projects than before. I suspect that
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by felipeerias 9mo ago
On many fields, the link between “writing papers” and “producing science” was already fraying before the arrival of LLMs. We will have to find better ways to share and promote valuable research, before we all drown in the noise.
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
Yes, perhaps the most reasonable approach is to tie these restrictions to the specific device (and, where applicable, account). The ban doesn’t need to catch every single case, it just needs to add enough friction to stop the most frequent
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
Some CEOs are obviously extremely skilled at marshalling large organisations in the successful pursue of business goals, while the rest derive most of their value from sharing a job title with the first group.
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
Things seem to be heading in the direction of using formal languages to define deterministic behaviour and natural languages to express matters of human taste.
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
The most important point is that even if AI capabilities do not improve much past the current state of the art, the consequences of this technology will still take years to play out, both in tech and in society as a whole. We are already se
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
This misunderstands what LLM-based tools mean for complex software projects. Nobody expects that you should be able to ask them to write you a whole kernel or a web engine. Coding agents in particular can be very helpful for senior engineer
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
As the article points out, the more of the original color scheme that has survived, the better the reconstructions look. Example: https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/... The autho
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
Thinking about the relationship between creation and verification is a good way to develop productive workflows with AI tools. One that works particularly well in my case is test-driven development followed by pair programming: • “given thi
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by felipeerias 10mo ago
Tools can make individuals and teams more effective. This is just as true for LLM-based tools as it was for traditional ones. The question is not whether one (1) LLM can replace one (1) expert. Rather, it is how much farther an expert can g
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
In this context, time constraints are measured in hours and are very informative regarding the student’s capacity to prioritise, plan and carry out their work under pressure. It is actually very informative when one person can
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
In these studies, the qualitative data is often a lot more informative than the quantitative. Understanding how concrete people navigate a domain and noting the common points between them can be illuminating. Trying to calculate a generalis
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
I share the sentiment but it seems a bit like imposing a human narrative on a Universe that does not seem to care all that much about us. Maybe we really are stuck in the Solar System and space is just too vast to do much about it.
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
In your example, you could achieve a similar outcome with a skill that included a custom command-line tool and a brief description of how to use it. MCPs are specially well suited for cases that need a permanent instance running alongside
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
If I am not mistaken, Bump still required a connection to the Internet. WiFi Aware does not, because the phones create an ad-hoc link on the spot. The connection can be very fast. In this example, a 280 MB file is transferred in less than 1
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
I was experimenting with this technology almost a decade ago as part of my work as interaction designer: https://darker.ink/writings/Mobile-design-with-device-to-dev... It has a lot of potential but unfortunately it ha
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
IMHO coding use cases are much more constrained by tooling than by raw model capabilities at the moment. Perhaps we have finally reached the time of diminishing returns and that will remain the case going forward.
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
It seems very naive to presume that a tool which explicitly works by unblocking the retrieval of harmful information will not be used for, among other purposes, retrieving that same harmful information.
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by felipeerias 11mo ago
Users will ask ChatGPT for recommendations and the answer will feature products and services that have paid to be there, probably with some sort of attribution mechanism so OpenAI can get paid extra if the user ends up completing the purcha

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