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by gwerbin 5mo ago
It's a ploy to drive adoption. Once it's considered essential they can turn the screws in massive contracts with governments, big enterprises, universities, and public school systems. Probably some genuine competition on price, bu
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
> I am not sure how you imagine it being significantly improved, from a user point of view, without some kind of paradigm shift I proposed how. New harness techniques and new training data/techniques, so the harness gets better and
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I suspect the entire concept was vibe coded. There's a reason fraud detection uses machine learning.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
There is so much money at stake, and so much money pouring into AI development, that I think we are going to continue to see gains for a while. People keep coming up with new agent harness techniques like chain of thought, tool calling, and
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
There are untold billions of dollars to be had if you can make this future come to pass. You don't need AGI to make it happen either. You just need to keep making the context windows bigger and keep coming up with updated training data
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
> All these others syntheses with multiple steps up the chances of weird toxic solvents or contaminants creeping in. I think it’s a contaminant issue that’s exacerbated by the drug use. The article addresses this: > Second, the eviden
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Unions are historically how that kind of policy becomes policy.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I always saw algebraic effects as a more-ergonomic alternative to functor/applicative/monad for managing I/O and otherwise impure code. If you aren't particularly concerned with that level of purity then yeah it's &
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
How many 4-function calculators have n-key rollover? What would that even be used for? Are you touch typing on the calculator at 100 digits per minute?
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
This is one of those bizarre "how did you even get that idea" mistakes that ironically replacing developers with AI slop farmers might actually improve on. If you ask Claude to set up a project with NPM and CI, it's not going
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
When I was in school, professors attitudes around attendance was usually "you're only hurting yourself, I don't care if you show up or not". It's been long enough that I can't claim to be in touch with the curr
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
As someone else in the thread pointed out: Canvas is in fact open source, or at least source available on Github. And it's used all over the world, not just in the USA.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
It will and nobody at Google will care because they don't make money by caring about each individual user.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
> I hope that we can skip the step of having Google as the feudal lord who saves us from anarchy though. It's clear IMO that this is the plan. The Google/Meta/Cloudflare axis on the Web is just part of it. Everyone with a
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I've heard of this working in other kinds of markets, where if you can identify the traders who consistently beat the market, and you can emulate them with precise timing, then you can beat the market too.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Oh please. It wasn't even that snarky. It's also still a valid and correct (as far as anyone can tell) answer to the question.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Does it hurt Google if that happens? No, not really, unless it happens a lot and one of the victims happens to be a US senator or something. The value of the control this gives them, if adopted widely, is immeasurable, not to mention the
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Companies were doing this all along. The 2020s will be remembered as the decade when we realized, too late, that the world began ending in the 2010s.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
> Will the big labs leave anything for external competition? No, why would they if they have the choice? > what happened to platformication of everything? Business happened. The web works differently from how it used to. The users are
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I quickly skimmed and it looks like at least a few of them are intended to be more like system prompts for a tightly scoped sub agent than a skill as such. I agree, I wouldn't want to use a lot of of these in a longer-running work sess
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
It's never been about making education better. It's about building and legally mandating a money hose directly from your town property tax levy to accounts receivable at Google and Microsoft and OpenAI.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
This looks less like gambling addiction and more like a scam executed for profit.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
In this case prices are _below_ cost, no?
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I think it depends a lot on how automated the agent is and how long you let it run for. Full automation where you try to build an entire piece of software with agents... yeah, no, we are not there yet. At least not a few you care about main
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Reminds me of the libinput mouse acceleration situation. Even now that they support more configuration for mouse acceleration, a lot of desktop settings UIs abstract it all away to the point where the actual effect of a setting change is im
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
They're going to say it's the police's fault for not double checking the AI recommendation, or something like that. Privatization primarily serves to launder responsibility.
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
It's the tech version of a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire trope. Any technology must be a good thing, and if only I could just get in early on the next big tech trend, I'll have fame and money and power and women and ...
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
Which is one of many reasons why privatizing government services probably isn't a good idea. You could also make different laws but that's probably not going to happen. Think about just about any of the important laws that we rely
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
Interesting timing, because I think it was in March when I had a chat with Gemini about what the heck these things are supposed to be called, and that's where I first heard the term. It's probably just a coincidence. But that woul
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by gwerbin 6mo ago
What's your Pi setup?

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