hyperadvanced

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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding but a lot of people (ok, well, a few, but you know) make a lot of money on relatively mundane stuff. Technocapitalism’s Accursed Share is sacrificing wealth for myth making about its own future.
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Thank god it’s not just me. It really makes me feel insane reading some of the commentary online.
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Totally. I’m a huge fan of it, but it rarely “just” works and I do have to babysit it to make sure it’s actually doing something good for the world
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Perhaps I’m not using the latest and greatest in terms of models. I tend to avoid using tools that require excessive customization like this. I find it infinitely frustrating to attempt to make these piece of shit “agents” do basic things l
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
I don’t think it’s “just” that easy. AI can be great at generating unit tests but it can and will also frequently silently hack said tests to make them pass rather than using them as good indicators of what the program is supposed to be doi
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Am I stupid or do these agents regularly not read what’s in the agents.md file?
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Fwiw I’m not making a comment on companies which have transitioned from private to public or doing any sort of strategic analysis related to that. I’m merely saying if we index on publicly traded companies which have made substantial AI inv
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Presumably one of these high profile people will eventually get pwned if the risks really are that high.
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
This is my understanding as well. If GPT made money the companies that run them would be publicly traded? Furthermore, companies which are publicly traded show that overall the products are not economical. Meta and MSFT are great examples o
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by hyperadvanced 8mo ago
Metacognition As A Service, you say?
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
This is a plain fact. The amount of obviously GPT’d text out there is so breathtaking. The good news is that all of this shit people are squeezing out of GPT is really reinvigorating my desire to work on novel creative projects. In nearly e
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
Correct, this is a marketing document, not a government document or a legal agreement.
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
Oh that’s good. I’m an emacs guy. I don’t like change.
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
zsh is still crazy to me. I use bash for everything. I have no idea what I’m missing out on.
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
I’m a hobbyist math guy (with a math degree) and LLMs can at least talk a little talk or entertain random attempts at proofs I make. In general they rebuke my more wild attempts, and will lead me to well-trodden answers for solved problems.
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
If you don’t know k8s, or any tech really, you can RTFM, you can generate or apply some premade manifests, you can feed the errors into the LLM and ask about it, you can google the error message, you can do a lot of things. Often times, in
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
I’m strictly talking about “Agentic” coding here: They are not a silver bullet or truly “you don’t need to know how to code anymore” tools. I’ve done a ton of work with Claude code this year. I’ve gone from a “maybe one ticket a week” tier
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
You can study the LLM output. In the “before times” I’d just clone a random git repo, use a template, or copy and paste stuff together to get the initial version working.
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
It’s crazy how fast the tables turned on SWE being barely required to do anything to SWE being required to do everything. I quite like the 2026 culture of SWE but it’s so much more demanding and competitive than it was 5 or 10 years ago
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
As a hn poster, I agree with this
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by hyperadvanced 9mo ago
You could argue (it certainly has been argued) that the ability for technology to dissolve the usually more coherent identities that we take on daily by granting unlimited role play, trolling, and exploration is simply too much for a lot of
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
The response (usually) is “OK but whatabout the $X billion we spent on the military?” Which isn’t wrong necessarily, but it doesn’t answer why or whether we should be spending so much money on everything else
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
Same. I find that if I can piecemeal explain the desired functionality and work as I would pairing with another engineer that it’s totally possible to go from “make me a simple wheel with spokes” to “okay now let’s add a better frame and br
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
This is a good point, and I’m willing to concede that I may be wrong here, that predictive power can be gained from (possibly mis-) applications of abstractions onto a real space, which is what one of the real reasons to favor abstract thin
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
Source? Source? Got any source about me? Yeah well those statistics only deal with other people who aren’t me, so I guess you’re not really trusting the science :/
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
This is just plain wrong, I vehemently disagree. What happens if a payment fails on my API, and today that means I need to go through a 20-step process with this pay provider, my database, etc. to correct that. But what’s worse is if this e
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
I agree. The reason Cursor’s “first mover” advantage doesn’t matter is because there’s fundamentally no business there. I’ve used 3 IDE or text editors my whole life, I’ve never paid for one. If I wanted, I could use AI to write myself a ne
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
Ironically, AI is really good at the adding tests later thing. It can really help round out test coverage for a piece of code and create some reusable stuff that can inspire you to test even more. I’m not a super heavy AI user but I’ve vibe
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
Yes, game theory is not a predictive model but an explanatory/general one. Additionally not everything is a game, as in statistics, not everything has a probability curve. They can be applied speculatively to great effect, but they are
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by hyperadvanced 10mo ago
On the contrary, new stuff is cheap and abundant, it’s just optimized for price and quality at the expense of UX. 20 years ago setting up a new TV required plugging in wires and shit. Now it just means installing the walled garden OS, loggi

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