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by jedberg 9mo ago
It's rare that I downvote something on HN, but this statement is so incredibly dangerous that I felt I had to. Doctors with a decade of education still make mistakes when prescribing drugs. What chance does the layperson have of ge
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by jedberg 9mo ago
We've been experimenting with combining durable execution with debugging tasks, and it's working incredibly well! With the added context of actual execution data, defined by the developer as to which functions are important (inst
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by jedberg 9mo ago
> You had me at EHL0. You just reminded me of my time working at Sendmail, where I often had to telnet to port 25 of some machine, and pretend to be a mail server sending email. I used to be able to send all the commands without having t
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by jedberg 9mo ago
As is the case with most vibe coded software, it wasn't polished, didn't work very well, had lots of edge cases, and was pretty much bespoke to my one use case. :) It answered the question "what the heck is this software send
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by jedberg 9mo ago
Amusingly, I had the same question and asked Claude Code to vibe code me something similar. :)
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by jedberg 9mo ago
> If you ever work with LLMs you know that they quite frequently give up. If you try to single shot something perhaps. But with multiple shots, or an agent swarm where one agent tells another to try again, it'll keep going until it
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by jedberg 9mo ago
> You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work There has been a lot of research that shows that grit is far more correlated to success than intelligence. This is an interesting way to show something similar. AIs have endless gr
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by jedberg 9mo ago
> because they’re trying to normalise the AI’s writing style, AIs use em dashes because competent writers have been using em dashes for a long time. I really hate the fact that we assume em dash == AI written. I've had to stop usi
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by jedberg 9mo ago
I don't know about other areas, but here in the Bay Area (or at least Silicon Valley) our Whole Foods has subsumed all the services provided by Amazon Fresh (and Go really never worked). So we're not really losing any services, j
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by jedberg 9mo ago
This is something I've been lamenting for a long time. The lack of shared culture. Sometimes a mega-hit briefly coalesces us, but for the most part everyone has their own thing. I miss the days when everyone had seen the same thing I
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by jedberg 9mo ago
He invented electronic rasterization, a form of which is still in use today.
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by jedberg 9mo ago
Not enough to be a deterrent. Until now NATO implicitly relied on the USA as their deterrent. That seems to no longer be a smart thing to do.
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by jedberg 9mo ago
This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end. Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his tec
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by jedberg 9mo ago
> Hmm ... that has not been my experience. https://www.weather.gov/fsd/twilight It's based on how many degrees the sun is below the horizon.
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by jedberg 9mo ago
It's funny you chose that as your example, because there are very strict definitions of when day becomes night. I think what you were looking for was "when does someone become bald" or "when does an acorn become a tree&
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by jedberg 9mo ago
This isn't a "gotcha" experiment, it's a real question. And the problem with "I know it when I see it" is that right now people are biasing towards "if it's good it must be AI" and accusing legi
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by jedberg 9mo ago
How much AI is too much? Are you allowed to use Photoshop to create your digital art? Almost every tool there is now powered by AI in some way (some a lot more than others). Can you use its auto-fill button? What percent of the image ca
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by jedberg 9mo ago
Anyone remember the game Leisure Suit Larry? To get the full 18+ experience, you had to answer five trivia questions that only adults should know. But it turns out smart teens who like trivia knew most of them too (and you could just ask
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by jedberg 9mo ago
California actually produced the most food of any state. :). But I know what you mean, the water is just as critical in the middle of the country as it is on the edges. Water is critical everywhere, and this problem is just going to get wo
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by jedberg 9mo ago
And is the only state with no drought right now. Although they way they figure it is a bit biased -- it's based on how much water there is compared to historical values, so it's easier to be "drought free" if you&#x27
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by jedberg 9mo ago
A related problem is other parents . Even if you want to let your kid be free, you can't, because nosey neighbors will report you to the police. It happened to us. We let our kids stay in the car, during COVID , while we quickly sh
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by jedberg 9mo ago
> What were you thinking? What was going through your heads? I'm genuinely curious. I know two people who voted for him. Person one has voted Democrat her whole life. Has worked for the Democratic Party. Has a son who was a Democr
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by jedberg 9mo ago
Same with the Emmy. It says it right on the bottom (along with a warning that only actual winners can be photographed holding it).
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by jedberg 9mo ago
Many of your examples came from people who were funded by Universities in the 80s, which was basically the VC of the time. And in the 90s, a lot of the core committers of those projects were already working at VC funded companies. Back the
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by jedberg 9mo ago
You can be a super productive Python coder without any clue how assembly works. Vibe coding is just one more level of abstraction. Just like how we still need assembly and C programmers for the most critical use cases, we'll still nee
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by jedberg 9mo ago
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but if you pop into the DBOS discord, they can probably help you out.
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by jedberg 9mo ago
Use tool calling. Create a simple tool that can do the calls that are allowed/the queries that are allowed. Then teach the LLM what the tools can do. Allow it to call the tool without human input. Then it will only stop when it want
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by jedberg 9mo ago
This is what happens when you lay off 30% of your workforce.
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by jedberg 10mo ago
I worry that as technologists we are over indexing on accusing things of being AI. I worry about policies like this where they will remove suspected AI content without investigation. Case in point, the other day I made a comment on reddit.
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by jedberg 10mo ago
Of course they are. These donations usually come out of the marketing budget. And it's working, we're talking about them. But also they rely heavily on Python and want to support the ecosystem.

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