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by jerf 6mo ago
Even after I explained the exact usage I was invoking, the attractive nuisance of all the science fiction that has gotten attached to the term still prevented you and Quarrelsome from reading my post as written. I really wish the term hadn&
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by jerf 6mo ago
In a roundabout way this article captures well why I don't really like thinking in terms of "normal forms", especially as a numbered list like that. The key insights are really 1. Avoid redundancy and 2. This may involve synt
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by jerf 6mo ago
The interesting question to me at the moment is whether we are still at the bottom of an exponential takeoff or nearing the top of a sigmoid curve. You can find evidence for both. LLMs probably can't get another 10 times better. But th
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by jerf 6mo ago
I think we get a "S3 clone" about once every week or two on the Golang reddit. It strikes me as a classic case of "we need all the interested people to pull in one project, not each start their own". AI may have made thi
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by jerf 6mo ago
Make sure you have a run of govulncheck [1] somewhere in your stack. It works OK as a commit hook, it runs quickly enough, but it can be put anywhere else as well, of course. Go isn't immune to supply chain attacks, but it has built in
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by jerf 6mo ago
I've got a couple of sweetener-free recipes I use with my soda maker, though I should warn you nobody else I've given them to likes them. But I like them well enough. One is a couple of squirts of vanilla, a couple of squirts of l
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by jerf 6mo ago
I also add the observation that while the dynamic typing languages are all growing in the direction of the statically-typed languages, no statically-typed language (that I know of) is adding a lot of dynamically-typed features. If anything
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by jerf 6mo ago
"Isn't the compile speed of Go so good because it's type system is much simpler?" That, and forgoing fancy compile-time optimization steps which can get arbitrarily expensive. You can recover some of this with profile-gu
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by jerf 6mo ago
It is easy to forget sometimes in the excitement, but nobody has been using (2026) AI for 20 years. We're all still new. I am sure that in the next year, something will be found that is fairly exciting, and something we could all be do
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by jerf 6mo ago
AI is in spitting distance of being able to do that too.
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by jerf 6mo ago
You don't access the computronium. You move into it. "good old-fashioned computing is interesting at all" "Computronium" is defined as "the best computing power available". I deliberately selected it as a
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by jerf 6mo ago
It's going to be difficult for anyone to have any more "data" than you already do. It's early days for all of us. It's not like there's anyone with 20 years of 2026 AI coding assistant experience. However we ca
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by jerf 6mo ago
To build more computronium than you can in your own system, assuming the demand for that will always rise.
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by jerf 6mo ago
I use the term "30,000 foot view" a lot: https://nanoglobals.com/glossary/30000-foot-view/ It appeals to me because if you've ever taken a flight you can see how the details get progressively erased
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by jerf 6mo ago
It's also kind of interesting that they don't think they can do what an economy would normally do in this situation, which is raise prices until supply matches. Shortages generally imply mispricing. There's a lot of angles yo
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by jerf 6mo ago
Ads do not pay enough to cover AI usage. People see the big numbers Google and Facebook make in ads and forget to divide the number by the number of people they serve ads to, let alone the number of ads they served to get to that per-user n
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by jerf 6mo ago
I speculatively fired Claude Opus 4.6 at some code I knew very well yesterday as I was pondering the question. This code has been professionally reviewed about a year ago and came up fairly clean, with just a minor issue in it. Opus "f
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by jerf 6mo ago
I don't need to conduct 1000 transactions per day. I don't forsee a world in which it will be some sort of fatal inconvenience to need to approve all purchases. I certainly don't plan on ever just handing over my credit card
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by jerf 6mo ago
At the risk of going against the gestalt, Facebook openly and publicly rejecting the ads is actually one of the better outcomes. They could have just put their thumbs on the scale, deprioritizing them, serving them to people they think are
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by jerf 6mo ago
You can really see this in the recent video generation where they try to incorporate text-to-speech into the video. All the tokens flying around, all the video data, all the context of all human knowledge ever put into bytes ingested into i
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by jerf 6mo ago
By the nature of the LLM architecture I think if you "colored" the input via tokens the model would about 85% "unlearn" the coloring anyhow. Which is to say, it's going to figure out that "test" in the two
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by jerf 6mo ago
One of the reasons I'm comfortable using them as coding agents is that I can and do review every line of code they generate, and those lines of code form a gate. No LLM-bullshit can get through that gate, except in the form of lines of
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by jerf 6mo ago
I know it's not what people want to hear but my response to a lot of the comments here is just a general, I agree, it's time to stop using Windows. They won't let you secure your drive the way you want. They won't let yo
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by jerf 6mo ago
I see two basic cases for the people who are claiming it is useless at this point. One is that they tried AI-based coding a year or two ago, came to the IMHO completely correct at that time conclusion that it was nearly useless, and have no
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by jerf 6mo ago
"Also, it seems like all the Copilot 'connected experiences' are really just a chat window without any real integration with the applications they are embedded in." I was triple-booked today. Two of the meetings in quest
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by jerf 6mo ago
LLM speak isn't even quite the average either. It's something more like the average, then pushed through more training to turn it into the agents we think of today (a fresh-off-the-training-set LLM really is in some sense that &qu
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by jerf 6mo ago
I would personally pay money not to have this thing. It's wonderful and I love that someone else loves it. The care put into it is fantastic. Vive la différence. ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vive_la_diff%C3%A9re
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by jerf 6mo ago
"say that AI developers should incorporate more real-world diversity into large language model (LLM) training sets," Are you kidding me? How much more "real-world diversity" could they possibly incorporate into the model
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by jerf 6mo ago
There is a study that shows that what the model is doing behind the scenes in those cases is a lot more than just outputting those tokens. For an LLM, tokens are thought. They have no ability to think, by whatever definition of that word
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by jerf 6mo ago
The existence of science does not obligate us to either receive a double-blind study of massive statistical significance on the exact question we're thinking about or to throw our hands up in total ignorance and sit in a corner crying

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