glouwbug

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by glouwbug 3mo ago
Gave it my own spin once: https://github.com/glouw/ensim4 Makes audio too
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
“My formative memory of Python was when the Quake Live team used it for the back end work, and we wound up having serious performance problems with a few million users. My bias is that a lot (not all!) of complex “scalable” systems can be d
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
Sometimes your entire business is just a laptop with a python dictionary and a backup power supply
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
They aren't because we're not committing prompts. The analogous would be compiling to and then committing unmaintainable assembly when the higher level language, which is a deterministic compiler, already exists
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
I mean, iteration and interaction builds your understanding which verifies and validates what you built. Relying on agents without formal validation is like saying a tree fell in the forest
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
Sometimes you just hit impossible life scenarios like a pretax clawback in a hostile workplace which drains your liquid savings and leaves you broke, or breakup with a partner which forces you out the home, or learning that the landlord you
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
I guess at least HR doesn’t have to read 1,000 resumes. Heck, to be frank, could they make sense of the first 10 resumes?
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
Usefulness per gigabyte should be taken into account too. We could do way more with 32MB in the 90s than 4GB today
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
Yes, that's the point I'm making
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by glouwbug 3mo ago
Turns out you have to be Terence Tao to know when an LLM is right or wrong
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
It’s not a lie if everyone collectively believes it
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
This is what Anthropic did with agents and $20k to write a C compiler that survived gcc’s torture suite. But the LLM knew: 1. What a C compiler was 2. What a C compiler looked like 3. What the C compiler had to do at runtime to pass gcc’s t
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
Before 2023 I remember everyone here on HN championed that removing lines of code was the strongest senior metric
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
I’ve always wanted a git with five commands, and maybe with AST based diffing
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
I can’t remember the last time anyone actually played the game they got for free on epic’s store
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
This is obviously you on another account. What are you trying to accomplish?
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
Are you okay? They were teenagers. We were all there and we all tried. The logistics of having 7 billion people quarantine while international flights and asymptomatic carriers carried on made it _impossible_ to not play out like it did
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
I expect similar headlines like “I saved on token cost by hiring juniors” to come in soon too
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
How close was it technically to Jak2? I consider that the defining technical mastery of that generation
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
Hard numbers, no. Even high level concepts and theory you need to triangulate and prompt in different angles, across different models, and figure out what overlaps to build a mental mode that’s - even then - roughly 80% correct. It’s better
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
But what about Geico?
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
Yeah more or less
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
They’d have killed today if they were AI first
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
It’s time to bring back all the old software hacks that were so common in the 90s
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
I just saw this. Hilarious
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
I’m not sure. I’ve been reading death-of-the-software engineer for years, but recently the -vibe- feels different. I don’t have anything anecdotal to back it up so take it with a grain of salt. I might be reading what I want to see
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
I’ve noticed a massive reverse in AI sentiment in the last 3 weeks here on HN. It’s not that I don’t disagree, but I wonder what’s going on. Maybe it’s the IPO
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
I think the lack of progress is lack of understanding. If everything is generated and not viewed, does it exist? Like if a tree fell in the forest. Strip the observer and suddenly there is no universe. Strip the engineer and there is no cod
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
Starting to feel like Europe over here
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by glouwbug 4mo ago
Zero 2s look to be about ~$50 here in Canada, but thanks for looking out. I'll reconsider for the future

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