jdiff

14 ms·

481.
by jdiff 1y ago
The Gameboy Advanced has a full emulator with the standard devices, and incompleteness is often not a dealbreaker as long as it supports the devices you need. There are incomplete emulators for ESP32 and STM32 based devices, DOS, and even a
482.
by jdiff 1y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention, and as I understand it from their writing, life on the sea is a constant maintenance battle against when the "ground" underneath your feet is trying to pull you in at every step, from corrodin
483.
by jdiff 1y ago
With their stance of permacomputing, you don't think the two go hand in hand? A simple VM that can be implemented quickly on almost any hardware or underlying tech stack you can scrounge together? The only thing they'd be really a
484.
by jdiff 1y ago
Plenty of small FAFO stories circulate already. There will certainly be more. Lots of demonstration code out there in the training data meant only for illustrative purposes, and all too often vibe coding overlooks the rock bottom basics of
485.
by jdiff 1y ago
Good news for you then, this idea is less and less born out by the data. The productivity and efficiency gains aren't there, so there's no reason to be compelled by the spectre of obsolescence. The models may be getting better, bu
486.
by jdiff 1y ago
No worries about the length, I appreciate you taking the time and appreciate the insight! That does help start to work ARR into a mental model that, while still not sane, is at least as understandably insane as everything else in the financ
487.
by jdiff 1y ago
Do you have any more info on the 8 figures? I hadn't come across that, but that's quite interesting to hear. For the mass layoffs, I was under the belief that those were largely driven by the tax code alterations in the US.
488.
by jdiff 1y ago
Eh, I kinda see what they're saying. They haven't become cheaper at all, but GPUs have increased in performance, and the amount of performance you get for each dollar spent has increased. Relative to its siblings, things have gott
489.
by jdiff 1y ago
> LLMs in their current state have integrated into the workflows for many, many IT roles. They'll never be niche, unless governing bodies come together to kill them. Having a niche is different from being niche. I also strongly beli
490.
by jdiff 1y ago
If the LLM thinks to consult a search engine. If the next token predicted is the start of a link rather than the start of a tool call, it's going to be spitting out a link. Getting them to reliably use tools rather than freeball seems
491.
by jdiff 1y ago
Exactly the problem. It doesn't need to be good enough to work unsupervised in order to gain real adoption. It just needs to be a performance or productivity boost while supervised. It just needs to be able to take an AI-friendly FOSS
492.
by jdiff 1y ago
If I spend an afternoon on CliffNotes, I haven't read a hundred books in a day. This isn't one weird trick to accelerate your reading, it's entirely missing the point. If any book could be summarized in a few points, there wo
493.
by jdiff 1y ago
The claim that you made was "if you still don't see how LLMs is changing [the IT] industry, you haven't been paying attention." Pointing out that there is no visible evidence of that change in the industry you mentioned
494.
by jdiff 1y ago
I understand the importance of having data, and that any measurement can be gamed, but this one seems so tailored for tailoring that I struggle to understand how it was ever a good metric. Even being generous it seems like it'd be too
495.
by jdiff 1y ago
Astonishing that that concept survived getting laughed out of the room long enough to actually become established as a term and an acronym.
496.
by jdiff 1y ago
The IT industry is also full of salesmen and con men, both enjoy unrealistic exaggeration. Your statements would not be out of place 20 years ago when the iPhone dropped. Your statements would not be out of place 3 years ago before every NF
497.
by jdiff 1y ago
Massive, organic, and unprofitable. And as soon as it's no longer free, as soon as the VC funding can no longer sustain it, an enormous fraction of usage and users will all evaporate. The Segway always had a high barrier to entry. Curr
498.
by jdiff 1y ago
I'm not asking for massive adoption. I'm asking for public facing evidence of what many claim privately, that they have evolved their job into managing agents and reviewing vs writing anything themselves. Again, not massive adopti
499.
by jdiff 1y ago
GP is pointing out the distinct lack of AI driven development in the wild. At this point, agents should be visibly maintaining at least a few popular codebases across this world wide web. The fact that there aren't raises some eyebrows
500.
by jdiff 1y ago
They make great autocompletion engines, most of the time. It's nice when it can recognize that I'm replicating a specific math formula and expands out the next dozen lines for me. It's less nice when it predicts code that&#x2
501.
by jdiff 1y ago
Your tone is quite odd here. I'm having difficulty parsing your intention, but I'm going to assume you're being genuine because why not. For the RAM cache, you hit the boundaries when you exhaust the RAM cache. It performs fa
502.
by jdiff 1y ago
If you have an area where the standard is ambiguous about its requirements, then you have a bug in the standard. And hopefully you also have a report to send along to help it communicate itself more clearly.
503.
by jdiff 1y ago
Agreed, Gleam as a language has very few, generalized syntactic constructs compared to most procedural languages. There's enough of a signal in the data to be able to answer queries about the language; but when writing, LLMs universall
504.
by jdiff 1y ago
We can also be human together and find enjoyment in shared, incorrect first impressions.
505.
by jdiff 1y ago
I don't find this to be true. There are languages that are difficult to wrap your head around initially, but that turn out to be delightfully productive with a few adjustments to the mental model. Adjustments that LLMs don't have
506.
by jdiff 1y ago
GP is talking about the nonlinear way that software engineers think, reason, and write down code. Simply doing the same thing but backwards provides no benefit.
507.
by jdiff 1y ago
I've run into this even with the modern million context length that 2.5 Pro offers, it kept trying one of a handful of failed approaches, realizing its failure, and looping without ending its train of thought until I yanked the tokens
508.
by jdiff 1y ago
This is a really weak gotcha. One person is stating an absolute, the other is adding nuance but largely agreeing that the nuance doesn't affect the takeaways.
509.
by jdiff 1y ago
I would imagine a great many things work fine on any M4 that don't work fine on a great many phones and other devices.
510.
by jdiff 1y ago
I wish, would make my job a good bit easier. Sometimes they don't even respect format query parameters and just use whatever's in your Accept headers. Will say though that it's not universal, it depends heavily on the corner

More ›