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by jgilias 7mo ago
Interesting, I definitely see better results on a clean session. On a “dirty” session it’s more likely to go with “this is what we implemented, it’s good, we could improve it this way”, whereas on a clean session it’s a lot more likely to f
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by jgilias 7mo ago
I saw somewhere that you guys had All Hands where juniors were prohibited from pushing AI-assisted code due to some reliability thing going on? Was that just a hoax?
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by jgilias 7mo ago
You should start a new session for the code review to make sure the context window is not polluted with the work on implementation itself. At the end of the day it’s an autocomplete. So if you ask “are you sure?” then “oh, actually” is a st
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by jgilias 7mo ago
Sounds like Donald
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by jgilias 7mo ago
The situations are not comparable at all. That was the collapse of an authoritarian (wasn’t totalitarian anymore by the time it’d collapse) system running (badly) on command economy. Most of the points you mention are therefore just really
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by jgilias 7mo ago
Oh boy, that sent me down the memory lane hard. I also had to Google “Volkov Commander”, as that name sprung to mind immediately too.
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by jgilias 8mo ago
With all due respect. If _any idiot_ can prompt their way to the _same_ software you’d have written, and your primary value proposition is to churn out code, then you’re… a bit of an outlier when it comes to principal engineers.
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by jgilias 8mo ago
* better languages and formal verification. If an LLM codes in Rust, there’s a class of bugs that just can’t happen. I imagine we can develop languages with built-in guardrails that would’ve been too tedious for humans to use.
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by jgilias 8mo ago
In general I agree. But it’s somehow very unlikely for the AI to generate a three word ticket. That’s what humans do. AI might generate an overly verbose and specific ticket instead.
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by jgilias 8mo ago
I’ve kind of done this. To an extent. “Hey Claude, you have a bunch of skills defined, some mcps, and memory filled with useful stuff. I want to use you on a machine accessible over SSH at <host>, can you clone yourself over?”
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by jgilias 8mo ago
Many moons ago I worked a job that involved physical on-premise installations of different equipment. That’s when I learned that for access all that’s needed is often a toolbox, an attitude that you belong there, and a friendly hi to the se
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by jgilias 8mo ago
I don’t think it is. The thing that needs to be kept in mind is that at the end of the day the basic building block of the AI systems is a fancy autocomplete. And I’m not saying this to somehow diminish it. It just means that it’s going to
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by jgilias 8mo ago
Interesting, do you work in that field?
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by jgilias 8mo ago
I mainly use it in a work context where it’s not my money I burn. I do have a private subscription that I’m going to use for a project. Do you have any tips how to try and do kind of what I describe, but in a more cost sensitive way?
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by jgilias 8mo ago
What you’re doing is the so called “slot machine AI”, where you put some tokens in, pray, and hope to get what you want out. It doesn’t work that way (not well, at least) The LLM under the hood is essentially a very fancy autocomplete. This
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by jgilias 10mo ago
Lots of psychopaths and narcissists in C suites all over. They mask pretty well though.
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by jgilias 10mo ago
Because then they’d have to recognise their failures. It’s like an alcoholic that keeps drinking in order to keep pushing back the reckoning of reality.
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by jgilias 10mo ago
But it’s precisely the automation around LLMs that make the end result itself impressive.
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by jgilias 10mo ago
Oh. I was reading this on a phone, and didn’t realise there’s hidden equal sign (though it’s mentioned). That does change it. In that I can see how false negatives may arise. Though, when hiring you generally care a lot more about false pos
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by jgilias 10mo ago
_How_ can you be a good hire for a _software engineering_ position, if you can’t get that one correct though?
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by jgilias 10mo ago
I have a pretty old Roborock, and I can just not attach the mop and have it in vacuum only mode.
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by jgilias 10mo ago
It’s not just that, there are other things in the article pointing to the person being a non-native English speaker. Which is fine, I’m one too. It’s somehow ironic though that his written output could’ve been improved by running it through
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by jgilias 10mo ago
Kids being banned from social media is just one side of the coin. _Everyone_ else being forced to KYC with random websites is the other. I can’t help but wonder, which of the two outcomes is the actual goal here.
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by jgilias 11mo ago
Have you done any ML-lineage languages before (ocaml, Haskell)? If yes, did you like it? If yes, the answer to your question is probably Rust. The thing about Rust is that it’s kind of this Frankenstein language with a lot of foundational i
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by jgilias 11mo ago
PHEV means a lot of things. Toyota PHEVs with e-CVT are simpler than a normal ICE. VW PHEVs where there’s an electric motor tucked into their DSG gearbox - not so much.
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by jgilias 11mo ago
It’s not an example, it’s a timeline.
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by jgilias 11mo ago
It’s not about champagne. It’s about us not making anything like the Patriot air defense system. Or us not having the capabilities to command our disparate militaries cohesively without US involvement in NATO. The whole Western order has be
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by jgilias 11mo ago
You get the sources, you click through to them to see what they are. EDIT: Like, have you actually tried this? If you ask it to summarise what Reddit is saying with sources, that’s pretty much exactly what you get.
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by jgilias 11mo ago
It’s better in that I don’t have to waste my time reading Google and Reddit myself, but can let a robot do it.
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by jgilias 11mo ago
Well, they should then add some reliability goals into the mix too to balance it out a bit.

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