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by fhd2 8mo ago
What kills me personally is that I'm constantly 80% there, but the remaining 20% can be just insurmountable. It's really like gambling: Just one more round and it'll be useful, OK, not quite, just one more, for hours.
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by fhd2 8mo ago
I feel agentic development is a time sink. Previously, I'd have an idea, sit on it for a while. In most cases, conclude it's not a good idea worth investing in. If I decided to invest, I'd think of a proper strategy to approa
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by fhd2 8mo ago
> Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. I wonder if this is a don't-break-product-value thing, or just compliance (ads need to be clearly labeled, but OpenAI seems like it has the risk appetite to ignore that kind of t
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by fhd2 8mo ago
(1) is not something the typical employee can do, in my experience. They're expected to work eight hours a day. Though I suppose the breaks could be replaced with low effort / brain power work to implement a version of that.
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by fhd2 8mo ago
I suppose ultimately, the external behaviour of the system is what matters. You can see the LLM as the system, on a low level, or even the entire organisation of e.g. OpenAI at a high level. If it's the former: Yeah, I'd argue the
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by fhd2 8mo ago
I can't speak for parent, but I use gptel, and it sounds like they do as well. It has a number of features, but primarily it just gives you a chat buffer you can freely edit at any time. That gives you 100% control over the context, yo
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by fhd2 8mo ago
That's a job for a multi agent system.
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by fhd2 8mo ago
I can't count the times I've told clients and prospects to _not_ hire us to build something they wanted. Because they could just use off the shelf solutions that were cheaper financially, at least in the short to mid term, and muc
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by fhd2 8mo ago
It's not tool use with natural language search queries? That's what I'd expect.
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by fhd2 8mo ago
I _think_ the idea is that the first one to hit self improving AGI will, in a short period of time, pull _so_ far ahead that competition will quickly die out, no longer having any chance to compete economically. At the same time, it'd
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by fhd2 8mo ago
Well, wouldn't you be on board? 1. Does xAI seem more valuable than X? 2. Does SpaceX seem more valuable than xAI+X? Not sure a lot of people would say "no" to either of these questions. The only other question that I think i
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by fhd2 8mo ago
First thought: In my experience, this is a muscle we build over time. Humans are pretty great at pattern detection, but we need some time to get there with new input. Remember 3D graphics in movies ~15 years ago? Looked mind blowingly reali
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Just like how writing helps memorisation. Our brains are efficient, they only do what they have to do. Just like you won't build much muscles from using forklifts. I've seen multiple cases of... inception. Someone going all in wit
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Perfection.
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by fhd2 9mo ago
You're absolutely right! Sorry, couldn't resist :P But I do, in fact, agree based on my anecdotal evidence and feeling. And I'm bullish that even if we _haven't_ cracked how to use LLMs in programming well, we will, in t
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Parent didn't mention Simon Willinson, and neither me nor parent appear to imply that _all_ people posting positively about LLMs are paid influencers, that'd be a ridiculous claim. It's just that there _are_ paid influencers,
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Their Readme.md is weirdly obsessed with "2 hours": "before Claude Opus 4.5 started doing better than humans given only 2 hours" "Claude Opus 4.5 in a casual Claude Code session, approximately matching the best huma
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Fair, didn't think that one through :D
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Yeah, driving kids to stuff is my use case too. I did the cafe thing for a while, but I didn't like the overhead of going there, ordering etc. For some reason I'm pretty productive in weird environments (trains, airplanes etc), so
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Well, with the steering wheel desk contraption, the monitor is placed in front of the wind shield, looking there is what the front seat is designed for, so that part is neat. The keyboard however, is over the steering wheel, and while the a
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Bear in mind that there is a lot of money riding on LLMs leading to cost savings, and development (seen as expensive and a common bottleneck) is a huge opportunity. There are paid (micro) influencer campaigns going on and what not. Also bea
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Quite cool! I wonder if it doesn't wear down the laptop hinges to keep it at 180 degrees opened in an upright position. Could print some clamps for the sides to reduce strain if that's the case. Though that'd only work for la
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by fhd2 9mo ago
The problem is, feedback cycles for projects are long. Like 1-10 years depending on the nature and environment. As the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Maybe the deed is done here, and I&#x27
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Maybe it's GU already.
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by fhd2 9mo ago
Based on my own experience as someone taking the journey from junior developer to CTO of a mid sized company: No, you can't keep that mental model for long. At first I would write code, which involves a ton of reading and _truly_ under
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by fhd2 9mo ago
As an amateur game programmer, I found nothing too advanced in there. A classic book series would be Game/Programming/GPU Gems, about as old as Max Payne. But frankly, you'd run into most of these concepts attempting to make
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by fhd2 9mo ago
According to ancient Apple ads, a "Mac" is not a "PC".
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by fhd2 10mo ago
I think the core of the issue is that Mozilla is thinking big. They're not happy to service a niche well (which the majority of the comments on Mozilla related posts is generally asking them to), they want to get back to their glory da
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by fhd2 10mo ago
I think people commonly use the word to refer to business oligarchs, which are not technically government: "A business oligarch is generally a business magnate who controls sufficient resources to influence national politics." ht
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by fhd2 10mo ago
Quite a fascinating adventure, even if it's not continuous. Good teaching moment for why estimates of big endeavours tend to be off, too. He appears to have slightly overestimated his average walking speed and greatly underestimated br

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