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by johnfn 3mo ago
Tell me if I am oversimplifying, but I never understood the noise about the two sigma problem. Like, of course if you have a private tutor to immediately answer any question that pops into your head at the immediate moment you get confused,
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by johnfn 3mo ago
When you hear a woosh as the point flies by, I see someone attacking a project for using AI rather than any concrete technical reason. Jared's question is to disentangle an actual Rust-related bug report from someone who likes to compl
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by johnfn 3mo ago
Pretty sure the author of Bun stated this was not related to Bun here on HN.
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by johnfn 3mo ago
I don't really get the Bun thing. Bun is running Claude Code which is probably the single most actively used development app there is. You say this was a bad use of LLMs, but it's been in production for a while and I haven't
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by johnfn 3mo ago
That also isn't saying "don't say this is an LLM". If the guidelines didn't want us to say someone is an LLM, it would explicitly say "don't say someone is an LLM". It wouldn't hint at it in an i
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by johnfn 3mo ago
I don’t see anything in there about not commenting on whether the author is using an LLM?
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by johnfn 3mo ago
The thing that annoys me most about this obviously AI-generated article is: "The quotes in orange boxes are real and checkable." No they aren't - you AI generated them, just like you generated the rest of the page.
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by johnfn 3mo ago
You mean the obviously AI generated README? Did you even read it yourself?
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by johnfn 3mo ago
To be blunt I can't take this product seriously when they don't even run benchmarks. Your prompts make Claude better? Cool: prove it. Methods to evaluate LLM performance exist, they're called evals/benchmarks, and every
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by johnfn 3mo ago
And Jest was itself a huge step up from what came before (Jasmine, Mocha...)
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by johnfn 3mo ago
It's a linter, a code formatter, a tester, and a bundler. What exists in your "boring" stack that's more boring than that?
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by johnfn 3mo ago
It's disclosed in the ToS like it's disclosed in the ToS of basically every service that exists today. e.g. "Claude Code connects from users’ machines to Anthropic to log operational metrics such as latency, reliability, and
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by johnfn 3mo ago
This entire thread has lost its collective mind. Tracking time zone has to be up there with IP address and referer in the list of "trivial things every company in the entire world collects about you", and these things are entirely
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by johnfn 3mo ago
Do you honestly think that no service out there collects basic analytics?
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by johnfn 3mo ago
> Why would they brag about something like this? It's like they know people want to use models to perform cybersecurity tasks yet knowingly deny them the ability. What exactly do you want Anthropic to say here? "This model, the
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by johnfn 3mo ago
That's just one benchmark, though. Tab to the next one and Sonnet 5 performs better as effort goes up just as you'd expect. I imagine the suggestion is that performance vs effort tradeoff is task dependent.
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by johnfn 3mo ago
You completely nailed it.
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by johnfn 3mo ago
It is better to live in the United States in poverty today than it is to live in virtually any nation at almost any point in history. The weathliest king in the 1500s didn't have access to vaccines, clean water, anesthesia... all thing
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by johnfn 3mo ago
What exactly do you imagine AI doing in this future? Making more money out of thin air somehow? How is it “enriching the lives of a select few” but also somehow in your future I simultaneously provide no economic value, where is that enrich
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by johnfn 3mo ago
Your view of a post-AI world admits both a fantastical, amazing AI that can do work so well it puts all knowledge workers out of a job for a century, but also a crippled and limited AI that is incapable of solving even our most basic needs.
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by johnfn 3mo ago
To unpack your point a little bit: what does it mean for "me" to be obsolete? Let's take that at face value and engage with it. I consider myself to be a decent SWE, maybe top 5% or so. There are somewhere around 40M SWEs in
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by johnfn 3mo ago
The worst people on the planet already have access to guns, bioweapons and refined uranium. Somehow I am still alive and mostly fine.
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by johnfn 3mo ago
When did I say anything like “it will free me up from so much labor!”? This is not even remotely close to what I believe. You are responding to a caricature of me you have in your head.
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by johnfn 3mo ago
It is astounding to me that people are not excited for the future. I live in a moment in time where I can ask AI to do something and it can think about it rationally, work on it for an hour, and basically do what I want. This is incredibl
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by johnfn 4mo ago
> Simple example: Node is the only serious OSS software I know of that has no way to document its config (in the config file itself). It's moronic! The Node people just adopted JSON without a thought, and then refused to consider an
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by johnfn 4mo ago
You might remember the io.js fork of Node.js back in 2014. Node was stagnating, a bunch of people forked it into io.js, which eventually got merged back into Node and got it back on track. Or, going further back, CoffeeScript, a "fork&
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Your response doesn't do a lot to convince me that "debugger" is anything more than a dev tool you like. It is not the only way to see what a program is doing while it's doing it -- there are plenty of other effective wa
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by johnfn 4mo ago
It is a little crazy to accuse people not using the dev tools you like of malpractice.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I feel like on HN there is an endless cycle: - Vibes are too subjective, I want an actual A/B test! - An A/B test is too limited, I want a benchmark! (You are here.) - Those benchmarks never seem to be reliable, I just go on vibes
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by johnfn 4mo ago
The blog post is entirely AI generated.

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