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by ipsod 8d ago
I'm pretty sure that it'd be easy for anyone of above-average intelligence to realize that Newton was on another level. So... network effects... same way most people get jobs, these days. Art got patrons, too - what practical use
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by ipsod 9d ago
> Anthropic: 17 USD (pro), 100 USD (max) GLM: 80 USD (pro), 168 USD (max) -> with "limited-time event" discount this is 56 USD and 117.6 USD GLM's "Max" plan is (was?) equivalent to 3x Claude's 20x ($200)
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by ipsod 9d ago
Look at how China does it. They'll happily sell us everything we want - more than enough of it, cheap enough, to put all of our own manufacturers out of business. Seems to work for them.
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by ipsod 9d ago
AI isn't worried about killing itself and the whole world, if something especially nasty escapes the lab. It kind of breaks the "mutually assured destruction" implicit in a super-ebola outbreak.
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by ipsod 10d ago
Sure, undoubtedly. But, also... you don't have to make a ton of money to pay more than 3% of your income. To be clear, I don't pretend to have preferences. I'm idealistically libertarian, but I think that nukes have ruined
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by ipsod 10d ago
Do they? The 2021 ProPublica tax leak showed the 25 richest Americans paid a "true tax rate" of roughly 3.4% on their $401 billion in wealth growth between 2014 and 2018, because their wealth grew without triggering realization ev
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by ipsod 11d ago
Still seems like the same driving force of curiosity behind both, but one wants to know and one wants to do. It's like yin and yang, like two sides of the same coin. I'm into engineering because I want to create what's never
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by ipsod 12d ago
if curiosity > pain avoidance: engineer
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by ipsod 12d ago
I don't get that experience at all. LLM's both relieve burden and improve speed. The only trouble I have with AI is when I run out. That, and I miss coding... but... this new thing is its own puzzle, and I still do lots of pseud
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by ipsod 12d ago
It's ridiculously fast, and generally very good with real-world knowledge. It's my go-to for anything non-coding, and for quick fixes/questions/prototypes. If metrics measured what most people need from an LLM, it'
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by ipsod 13d ago
I don't blame you for thinking that. I've been there.
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by ipsod 15d ago
Nah. I've committed over a million LOC in the past 4 months, discounting personal projects. LOC is a fuzzy measure that doesn't tell much, but, it's easier to mention that than to describe the details of my work.
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by ipsod 15d ago
I'm pretty confident that, presently, with AI, I get more done than I could with 5x hours, but less than I could with 20x hours, and 10's a nice round number.
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by ipsod 15d ago
I'm not defending AI, I'm attacking your logic.
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by ipsod 15d ago
A team of programmers is "worse" than their best member. Worse quality of code, worse thinking. You can usually get more done with a lot of mediocre hours of work than a few brilliant hours, though. AI I've used isn't
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by ipsod 15d ago
No. RoR lets you build a certain class of web apps faster. AI lets you build almost anything faster.
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by ipsod 15d ago
That's a hot take. AI has fundamentally shifted things. Start-ups can start up 10x faster, and HN is start-up flavored. If people quit talking about AI, it'll be because it's become foundational infrastructure, so it's
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by ipsod 15d ago
Nobody knew that LLM's were an option. The architecture was basically waiting there for someone to say, "do that, but turn it up to 11," if I understand right.
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by ipsod 16d ago
Is the alternative is to give the power directly to the powerful? Not only will they hold the guns, but they decide what the markets will bear - often-enough with food for the poor becoming optional, if history has any lessons. Which non-c
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by ipsod 20d ago
I think it might be like, a praise of inanity.
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by ipsod 22d ago
That's what I do. Both for this reason, and because I don't want to log into my personal gmail on work devices. I don't necessarily feel safe, though, and have moved my important stuff off of gmail.
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by ipsod 23d ago
Because it says it more often than kids say "six seven".
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by ipsod 24d ago
Not only do they have access to the hardware - they've been developing it in-house for years.
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by ipsod 24d ago
Gemini Flash is the one I get most excited about, because it's so fast and so good at real-world knowledge, and it's improving so fast - look at how much the benchmarks improved in ~1 month. It's just categorically differe
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by ipsod 24d ago
I haven't had any issues lately.
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by ipsod 24d ago
They've been my bet to win the AI race for a while. I was starting to doubt, but this 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 arc has anchored me.
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by ipsod 24d ago
3.5 pro doesn't exist yet?
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by ipsod 24d ago
IDK if it's smaller, but I know it's way faster. In one test I did, Flash 3.7 high was ~9.4x faster than Luna High. But, also... Sol crushes Flash 3.7 at writing code in a codebase of any size beyond "tiny". Flash is
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by ipsod 24d ago
> This is of course important for protecting you. Well, that's very kind of them. I am constantly impressed at the kindness of our governments, and the recent growth of that kindness. I guess that, with all of the power that moder
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by ipsod 24d ago
Do you find the variety helps? I've migrated away from such complexity, and I simply have multiple agents of the same model run the same prompt (usually Sol 5.6 high or max), and generally this gives plenty of adversarial input. I&#x

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