jakevoytko

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by jakevoytko 6d ago
The only thing I would open source is the spec file from the Q/A so people can implement it if they'd like. I find it extremely unlikely that I'd be able to sell it since its two main competitors are (1) literally free to use
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by jakevoytko 8d ago
> all relevant facts will be cited and checked easily by humans I've talked to a lawyer about how they handle this. They do indeed double-check everything, since it'd be embarrassing (or worse) to send hallucinated statements t
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by jakevoytko 10d ago
These numbers are useful proxies for how likely you are to have your work disrupted outside of your own control. If you do something 100 times a day against a four-nines service, you can reasonably expect that everything will succeed. If yo
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by jakevoytko 10d ago
In my experience it’s a safe way to do something useful while everyone is getting their bearings. It immediately partitions the situation space between being persisted or systemic vs local or caused by long-running processes. Plus everyone’
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by jakevoytko 11d ago
I know there are like 5 trillion Instagram viewers. But I've never actually needed to use any of them because there is absolutely nothing so important on Instagram that I must see it. The entire site is optional.
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by jakevoytko 11d ago
Actual details.
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by jakevoytko 12d ago
I hate when companies do this. Instagram is a black box for me. Whenever someone sends me a link the web app is completely nonfunctional; clicking links just reload the page, it constantly tries opening the app, etc The last time I signed u
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by jakevoytko 12d ago
I built my own personal Google Docs clone to use as the editor for my blog I used to work on the Google Docs team, so I basically did an 8-hour Q/A with Sol spanning like 400 questions. Did my best to reach back 10 years into my memori
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by jakevoytko 14d ago
My workhorse is Opus orchestrating Sonnet or Sol orchestrating Luna, depending on which ecosystem I'm using this week. I'm a backend engineer, so for tasks that either interact with the machine learning or client codebases, I have
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by jakevoytko 18d ago
For full context, here's the HN thread from the other side of the "Concurrent Work" section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915 Unlike the vanilla read of the OpenAI press release, it is much more
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by jakevoytko 18d ago
As someone who also spent a bunch of time benchmarking various techniques, this is as good as you can do without publishing a formal versioned benchmark suite that you want to maintain and run forever at immense cost to yourself. If you act
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by jakevoytko 20d ago
This was my instant reaction when I started using a Mac. But 15 years later, even knowing more tricks for interacting with it, it still baffles me. Once you've used Windows Explorer and a few Linux distro navigators, there's no de
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by jakevoytko 22d ago
Yeah this is what I pay for Zepbound through LillyDirect. I also eat less food and drink less alcohol than I used to. So the net loss is probably smaller, maybe $200/mo
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by jakevoytko 24d ago
As always, friendly reminder to lock your credit and enable your mobile carrier's protections against SIM swapping
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by jakevoytko 25d ago
My experience with output styles for long-running sessions is that Claude starts to forget the terse output style by the middle of the context window. Obviously I don't know if 5.1 suffers the same fate but I ran into this issue with b
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by jakevoytko 27d ago
This reminds me of my first job, where we did a lot of 3d modeling and mobile robotics research. When we were trying to reproduce motion bugs, a coworker of mine would track down our manager and put him at the controls. More times than not,
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by jakevoytko 1mo ago
They see the entire universe building their own version of Claude Tag and custom internal bots connected to your internal ecosystem, and realizing that they can fight for some enterprise revenue within their own product that everyone else i
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by jakevoytko 1mo ago
I worked at Etsy when it expired and the execs got this question a lot. The TL;DR is that the expected outcome is that it massively increases the support burden (wait I didn't mean to click that; wait I actually need to send it to anot
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by jakevoytko 1mo ago
Their argument is that the user almost always experiences the moment of interaction with the controls as a single decision with 2 branches, (a) the OS behavior matches my expectations and I won't change it, and (b) the OS behavior viol
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by jakevoytko 1mo ago
It's clear that we're not the audience; it writes to be read by its training evaluator, not a professional software engineer. Professional software engineers can't read this word soup and are desperately trying to find ways t
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by jakevoytko 2mo ago
I can take notes as fast as people can talk, but I'm much slower at writing so I needed to synthesize it into a condensed idea. It doesn't feel the same, to me at least.
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by jakevoytko 2mo ago
If you’re gonna be a hater you at least gotta do it right! The pricing and the securities fraud were two separate things you can count against him.
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by jakevoytko 2mo ago
It kept me listening. When I was on minute 70 of a boring lecture I started daydreaming. If I was writing even minimal notes, I'd need to briefly consider each idea and decide whether it was worth recording.
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by jakevoytko 2mo ago
It's very simple; If you work 10x faster, you need to release 1/10th the bugs as before for the user's experience to have the same level of bugginess. And we're not incentivized for this; we're still exploring how t
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by jakevoytko 3mo ago
This is great stuff; I've been prototyping with a few language-specific parsers like the Golang and the polyglot approach looks really helpful for me
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by jakevoytko 3mo ago
At the moment I'd check the sibling comment, which has a few links!
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by jakevoytko 3mo ago
My side project is now codebase explainability. I basically don't buy the premise that we just have to give up on comprehension as code generation scales; I just think that text is too limited by itself. So going a step deeper than ask
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by jakevoytko 3mo ago
Because for its entire existence, the top HN comment on articles is typically a contrarian take or pointing out flaws. This goes double for a study, where people just hunt for some aspect of the methodology they dislike. If you don't a
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by jakevoytko 3mo ago
Out of curiosity, what has changed over time that has made it more toxic? I left Google in 2015. It certainly had its share of toxic traits, but it was at the "what place doesn't?" level.
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by jakevoytko 3mo ago
Nah, "Any other vector DB" starts to fall apart once you need stuff like scripted scoring like OP uses. Then it starts to be a question of, "do you need ANN for performance?" since SQLite only does brute-force vector sco

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