janpeuker

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by janpeuker 2mo ago
> arguable-occupation very much occupation https://www.freewesternsahara.org/history-of-conflict-press
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by janpeuker 2mo ago
My experience is similar, people succeed with Loveable or similar platforms because they don't need to know _deployment_ and _runtime_ experience. It's like using Adobe vs Canva, most people are now used to the latter and don&#x27
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by janpeuker 2mo ago
Reminds me of this 2015 article "Beware The Pretty People" http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/28/beware-the-pretty-people/ > The establishment scions pouring into tech take on the trappings of su
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by janpeuker 2mo ago
Speaking of the orientalist critique I recommend The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
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by janpeuker 2mo ago
> Aschenbrenner, who had no prior trading experience before starting the fund, worked for the FTX Future Fund, the philanthropic arm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire before it collapsed in late 2022. He later joined OpenAI’s “Superalignment
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by janpeuker 2mo ago
> Claude is unable to look at code, look at refactorings in general and work out which are suitable to apply I am just sitting here waiting for Grady Booch to write "Architecture!"
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by janpeuker 2mo ago
Loved the acknowledgement and irony of the maids. I used to have a Kalamansi tree and it smells amazing.
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Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain – Airwars X AI Now Institute(ai-killchain.airwars.org)
4 points by janpeuker 3mo ago|0 comments
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
Regular distilled models show capacity gaps and overfitting that open-weight models don't anymore I think. This focus on distillation as "more compute-efficient" (i.e. cheaper) seems to rather be an excuse for bad (or bubble)
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
+1 Opus 5 is more creative and broad which is great. But I feel the new "use your judgement" leads [1] to it often escaping its sandbox or cheating, it keeps breaking specific rules I explicitly set. That eagerness [2] may be desi
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
Opus 5 is more creative and broad which is great. But I feel the new "use your judgement" leads [1] to it often escaping its sandbox or cheating, it keeps breaking specific rules I explicitly set. [1] https://claude.com
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
> as long as I keep their hashes that means my hashes or their hashes or them keeping my hashes, I am never sure
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
14 years ago I gave a keynote at a large German developer conference using Sci-Fi to explain the shift in system architectures at the time. I still think explaining Spanner using Spaceballs and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
The point about not using examples is important, I recently noticed with the new "eagerness" of models it constraints them too much, so I use counter-examples. Recently I've switched to "think about the existing biases a
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
Armin is a hero
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
I don't think it's a paradox at all and it might also be a hint why the word is used in the title: Using AI makes you _want slaves_, and I think it creates a culture of treating people who do the boring work the same way. For me t
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
Thank you. I stood against Maven back then so I salute you.
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
+1 especially on (2). In that sense the article being from 2023 is itself interesting as a document of change. The article mentioned no one cared about Bezos for example, but with Data Centers wreaking havoc on communities with energy price
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
Gotta appreciate the hook solution to save context and cost
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
I love the app idea but I don't think it's beginner friendly - for example it starts zoomed out of the globe and there is no button to zoom to the location; also it's unclear what the hatched lines until one zooms in.
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
The idea of this liminal space (J-space) during inference reminded me of the concept of the "error flow reservoir" during training: https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/ . Would be inte
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
Exactly - Readability Review [1] at Google was tedious but I generally liked the idea of having 2 separate discussions with different goals 1) https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch03.html#readabil...
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by janpeuker 3mo ago
Simon Wardley made an important comment on LinkedIn which is worth repeating here because I really feel the settler-colonial language here is unhelpful and obnoxious (what are we implying with 'legends are formed from chaos', dest
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
This is an extremely common technique against investigative reporting, in particular because certain social media / blogging platforms allow backdating posts [1]. So people just copy your post, claim DMCA, and then take it down quickly
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Claude Code now uses dark UI patterns to gain Google account access via MCP(claude.com)
4 points by janpeuker 4mo ago|1 comments
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
Started Claude Code and showed me an orange warning "3 MCP servers need authentication" - turns out they are for claude.ai Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive. Thanks enshittification.
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
I’d be in favour of a law that if a product cannot reasonably be purchased legally obtaining it via other means is not piracy (e.g. in my country 80% of movies are not available simply because the market is too small, even though I would be
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
Paper under https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23050 (As a side note, I do OCR locally as a small RAG for citations I read in books and also chunk input, but merely to save RAM - interesting this natural approach also work in
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
The biggest issue I've seen with people burning through tokens is using very long sessions, especially starting with plan mode and then "iterating" over extended periods. I was burnt badly by extra usage so now I run on $20 P
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by janpeuker 4mo ago
This is beautiful. I even had people reach out to me with suspiciously long "long time no chat" instant messages until I realised they were AI written (in one case misspelling the name of their own partner). "If you are reque

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