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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
I’ve met a lot of juniors who have no idea what functional programming is.
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
In my experience, every company is great until things start going wrong. And when things start going wrong, no amount of culture is going to save you.
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
I listened to an interview with the Icelandic PM and this seems pretty much correct. She was pro EU but equally was very clear that there were other things the government could focus on instead. Do you want us to burn a huge amount of time
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
Not much different from the UK to be honest. The constituency and first past the post system means counting is a nicely decoupled distributed system. Each constituency declares the local winner and the only outside impact is the total count
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
They need time to build a cursor equivalent.
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
Lots of enterprises don’t want to use OpenAI or Anthropic directly. They will go via AWS bedrock or google’s equivalent. The model providers are in a difficult position. With an added danger of open weight models that are within reach of la
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
This really matches up to my experience on long research projects with Claude. It’s very hard to remove information - Claude has a habit of recording things all over the place and will happily treat things as facts even after they’ve been d
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
Maybe - but I would argue that the skill comes in knowing if the architecture is appropriate and knowing that LLM is not screwing it up.
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
I got this way with google (when it was still good) - what nonsense can I type and still get the right result - 99% of the time it would work.
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
Writing code with LLMs takes discipline and is difficult. You need to learn how to do it and how to get the best from it. Software engineering is dead, long live software engineering!
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
That only works if the client looks at it. The current Claude fetch system does not.
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
Somewhere, there’s a slide deck that shows future revenue going hockey stick.
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
Closest thing would be the “El Farol Bar problem” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Farol_Bar_problem
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by iamflimflam1 1mo ago
I would assume that if you were using nitter or xcancel it’s because you did not want to support X. You should be aware that linking to X content (whatever mechanism you use) supports it and encourages people the carry on posting there. Jus
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Hugging Face exploring sale valuing it at $13B, Business Insider says(reuters.com)
2 points by iamflimflam1 2mo ago|0 comments
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
For people feeling like this. There is a huge amount of work to do to make these agents work well. It’s a new and different challenge.
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
A lot of low level lawyer work is being replaced by AI.
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
Why are you unwilling to post the name here?
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
My meatbag or robot scored it as likely a robot and most likely Claude. https://meatbag.atomic14.com/
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
As someone who is now skewing towards the older side of the tech world (55 this year). It’s a journey. There isn’t some point where you’ll suddenly find you are now “wise” and understand yourself. Those moments do appear - but a few years l
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
I’ve got a PhD. I suspect the problem might be people blow too much smoke up these people.
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
Done!
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
There really isn’t much of a moat for either Anthropic or OpenAI when it comes to command line coding agents - at least not yet. I think we’re going to see some aggressive attempts at lock in quite soon. What choice do they have?
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
There’s a point where you have to start paying people back the money they gave you. I’ve been in companies that have grown fast and then realised that their margins are very slim. It’s a very grim position to be in. Great turnover - where’s
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
You have to really tend the garden of everything it has written. Random off the cuff comments or one off instructions can get recorded. And from then on they are often treated as carved in stone commandments. It will glom onto the tiniest t
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
The sad thing about this is that getting a PhD does involve knuckling down and working hard. I wonder what goes wrong.
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
Also a very trivial piece of work for an LLM to do - with a measurable end goal. Hopefully a human did give a quick look to make sure it didn’t just delete the tests.
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Detecting Claude and ChatGPT using letter counting(atomic14.com)
4 points by iamflimflam1 2mo ago|0 comments
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
It’s only been trained on opus 5. I’ll have a look at adding ChatGPT.
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by iamflimflam1 2mo ago
The right latches onto anything where a small minority are upset and amplify it. They are the ultimate rage baiters.

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