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by jmalicki 9mo ago
The earth is an oblate spheroid to an approximation. It's not that they're not symmetric, but at the equator the north south axis has higher rates of curvature than anywhere else (but the east west has somewhat lower rates becaus
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
All you have to do is record a table of fixup locations you can fill in in a second pass once the labels are resolved.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
It's also interesting because the radius of curvature is smaller, meaning the distance to the horizon is shorter north south, and a lot of these views are north south. So the increase in mountain height more than overcomes the other e
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
I have had success with having the skill create a new branch and moving pieces of code there, testing them after the move, then adding it. So commit locally and have it recreate the commit as a sequence on another branch.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
That sounds like stacked changes (if you're not familiar think how lkml patches are like 0/8 1/8 etc where each is a standalone change that only depends on ones before), and I have been using agents create sets of stacked PRs
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
It's been a hugely popular PE play - any time a brand has a reputation for being very well made buy it for life level of stuff, that people pay a high price for, you can buy it and start reducing the quality for a few years, selling ch
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
This isn't what the parent was talking about, but probabilistic programming languages are totally a thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
In the same way in Rust you can download a package with Cargo and use it without reimplementing it, an LLM can download and explore all written human knowledge to produce a solution. Or how you can efficiently loop over all combinations of
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
But then models will do more computation, to be slower. What will have to change are workflows. Why are you ever waiting for the prompt to return? When you send an email, do you stare at your screen until you get a reply?
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Ok fair, I saw that as out of scope for an assembler - since that is a different instruction not just how to encode.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Agreed, but does it matter? LLMs will affect us by how much they displace the parts of us employers are willing to pay for. The "but they don't really think!" is just a cope.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Only for a few days - but going from $200-400/mo to $1000/day productively seems like a huge stretch. Also the eat tokens may be compared to single-tasking - when agent swarms move faster, I need to come back to that task sooner,
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
I would love to see setups where $1000/day is productive right now. I am one of the most pro vibe-coding^H^H^H^H engineering people I know, and i am like "one claude code max $200/mo and one codex $200/mo will keep you s
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
> Where is this all leading to, if after all the billions spent and all the benchmarks beaten conclusively, LLMs still can't do reasoning, can't do world-modelling, can't do context learning and so on, and so forth? Humans
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
"If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement" - how exactly is that a weaker statement?
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Is this going to get my Claude subscription cancelled if I run it with a claude backend, given that it's orchestrating the CLI? I am still a little unclear about the boundaries of that.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
I mean what was keeping Cursor from running jq there? It's just a matter of being integrated poorly - which is largely why there was a rethink of "we just made this harder on ourselves, let's accomplish this with skills inst
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
I mean, one could argue skills are sort of MCP 2.0 fixing some of the mistakes. The big pluses for MCPs are when: 1. They live remotely and update themselves 2. You install the skill and the scripts it uses together locally, so it can be m
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Fair enough.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
What is a single example where the optimal encoding depends on context? (I am assuming you're just doing an assembler where registers have already been chosen, vs. a compiler that can choose sse vs. scalar and do register allocation e
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
We have made those in the 80s. Much was learned about why probabilistic stochastic parrots are a far better model.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
I am unsure if you're joking or not, but you do have a point. But it's not about quality it's about supply and demand. There are a ton of variables moving at once here and who knows where the equilibrium is.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
At $100k/yr the joke that AI means "actual Indians" starts to make a lot more sense... it is cheaper than the typical US SWE, but more than a lot of global SWEs.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Do you have a specific reference? I'm curious to see hard data and models.... I think this makes sense, but I haven't figured out how to see the numbers or think about it.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
I suspect they're marginally profitable on API cost plans. But the max 20x usage plans I am more skeptical of. When we're getting used to $200 or $400 costs per developer to do aggressive AI-assisted coding, what happens when tho
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
I'm flattered you think I wrote as well as an AI.
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
A ton of GPU kernels are hugely inefficient. Not saying the numbers are realistic, but look at the 100s of times of gain in the Anthropic performance takehome exam that floated around on here. And if you've worked with pytorch models
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
"But even if we stipulate that radiation, cooling, latency, and launch costs are all solved, other fundamental issues still make orbital data centers, at least as SpaceX understands them, a complete fantasy. " I'm pretty his
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Unqualified it almost always means earnings (profits).
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by jmalicki 9mo ago
Instead of asking for it to write good code, why not write a coding standards doc that makes it explicit and reference it in you plans?

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