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by fwlr 3mo ago
This could be due to ADD, I am still getting tested. Granted, that's a diagnosis, not a root cause. No, it’s a diagnosis of the root cause - in fact, it is plausibly the root cause of everything else described in the post
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Having trouble finding the motivation to grade that fifth essay in a row that starts with “Certainly, here’s a possible introduction to your essay”? Just ask Claude to grade it instead!
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Naturally it depends on how well Cloudflare built this implementation. In the abstract, though, a sufficiently accurate prediction system should expect to recover the causal structure of the phenomenon it is attempting to predict, and thus
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Near the end of their methods: For each likely AI-generated target, we search human controls from the same repository and same programming language, controlling for project-level practices … We also apply size matching: a control must
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by fwlr 3mo ago
For mechanical work–things like bumping versions, fixing failing tests, checking documentation for inconsistencies–the clankers have proven their worth (even before LLMs, anybody remember dependabot?)! The way to fix that, of co
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Granted, but we’re talking about agents, which fundamentally presumes the obsolescence of concepts like “end user” and “good software”.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
What do you think a tool call is? What is this small but crucial difference between a `read_file` tool call and `scp`? If your contention is just that this should upload files one by one instead of all at once, what you want is for provider
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Well said. I hope one day it becomes possible for users who choose to install and run said software to also be able to remember this.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
The jitter you add has to specifically be “jitter that mimics human cursor movement”, which is extraordinarily non-trivial to synthesise.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
If you decide that your entire home directory is the project, as the OP did by setting the repo_path to ~/, then, well… I mean, if you ask me, I don’t recommend it, but it’s your computer and your free will.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
It’s not really paranoia that makes me expect this will happen. It’s more like, well, the model weights and the files I want the model to work on have to be inside the same GPU for the agent to actually work, right? So step 1 has to be eith
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Is the Grok CLI a 2 terabyte install? Did Elon dropship you an 8U rack of B200s? No? Well the model weights, the GPUs, and the context obviously all have to be in the same place, so “sending your project to them” is literally the only thing
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by fwlr 3mo ago
I get it, I want to agree, I really do like the “this is a new tool in the toolkit of the professional software craftsperson” argument… …but consider: the Q-tip. “Don’t use it to clean your ears”, but for most people that’s all they want
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Please don’t discourage this kind of public thoughtful introspection.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Was hoping they’d link this to the Overview Effect and they did. Very plausible explanation, I like it.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
The author considers the possibility that this is an outwardly-polite form of “you should be able to solve this yourself”. Another, grimmer possibility is that it’s an inwardly-polite form of “I should have been able to solve this myself”.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Presumably, some initial information was fed into the start of this reporting process. Multiple stages of this process had near-total incomprehension of the information yet performed full ingestion and reconstitution of it anyway, leading t
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by fwlr 3mo ago
I found this post very refreshing! I’m sure it would have been very tempting to one-up the “PR-speak” of the Bun post. Likewise, it would have been very tempting to include the same set of facts that reflect negatively on Jarred, while stud
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by fwlr 3mo ago
I think we more or less agree, with the caveat that I think social engineering attacks are far more worrisome and threatening than SQL injection. The gold standard solution to sql injection (prepared/parameterized queries) is guarantee
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by fwlr 3mo ago
“Prompt injection attacks have become, to agentic AI, what SQL injections were to web applications: a systematic, category-wide vulnerability class that requires the same systematic strategies and defenses.” ??? Isn’t prompt inje
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by fwlr 3mo ago
I do see the appeal, it’s easy to imagine that workflow working, and working well - but it’s hard to how it avoids this fate: https://youtu.be/QEzhxP-pdos
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Thank you for mentioning zmx. Reading through their repo, it’s like someone read my mind, took my instinctive, almost pre-verbal, half-formed/quarter-baked preference for `screen` over `tmux`, beautifully and precisely formalized it in
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by fwlr 3mo ago
“We use Claude Code too” I understand that it’s probably impossible to sell non-AI-assisted solutions to AI-pilled companies (even when their headaches are AI-induced), but my gut reaction to “take an AI-inflated codebase and apply AI defla
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by fwlr 3mo ago
While human-readable text is a better solution for that particular case, there might be a level of scale or rate of change where this idea wins out, and in that case I recommend barcodes instead. (A standard barcode label sticker can be wra
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by fwlr 4mo ago
let _ = …? This is the Rust idiom for “I am intentionally ignoring this return value”. The linter would have caught self.poll_read()?; and in fact one of the options the linter itself suggests in this case is exactly this
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by fwlr 4mo ago
Traditionally, loudly declaring your exit like this was met with the reply, “And nothing of value was lost.”
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by fwlr 4mo ago
True for this decade, but in the previous decade it was very much the opposite. Before you used any kind of browser api or nice language feature you would feature-detect it: if (typeof Array.prototype.includes === ‘undefined’) { …
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by fwlr 4mo ago
I highly recommend consuming Casey Muratori content, particularly if it’s blue shirt Casey standing in a black void with yellow handwriting. Those are his high-production serious lectures, and they’re worth every minute. (It took me a while
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by fwlr 4mo ago
As Casey Muratori likes to say, “My superpower is that I’m old, so I remember when computers used to be fast.”
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by fwlr 4mo ago
If there is one card in this pile and no cards in the other, the probability of dropping the card from this pile is one. If instead there are some cards still in the other, a) the probability is less than one, and b) we move one step closer

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