jonfw

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by jonfw 1y ago
Low income work just doesn't make financial sense for many americans. https://www.cato.org/commentary/welfare-better-deal-work#
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by jonfw 1y ago
I see this happening live- very senior folks are "retiring" in a volume I've never seen before. Will hopefully be good for the company. Unfortunately, we are not seeing much in the way of a flattened org chart, which is anoth
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by jonfw 1y ago
People way overstate the "dynamics" advantages of EVs Yes EVs can keep their weight low, but it's a lot more weight to deal with. Yes EVs have excellent 0-60, but that's just because they have a great launch. Even doing
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by jonfw 1y ago
particularly at these high prestige companies where open roles are likely to get thousands of applicants
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by jonfw 1y ago
Gemini is better at helping to debug difficult problems that require following multiple function calls. I think Claude is much more predictable and follows instructions better- the todo list it manages seems very helpful in this respect.
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by jonfw 1y ago
I find my life is best when I make time to neither create nor consume, but just to do. Play board games, go on a walk, play on the floor with my kid, play a sport. "Doing" doesn't have to be creative or productive!
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by jonfw 1y ago
> * Way way way more code in the training set. Why not convert the training code to AST?
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by jonfw 1y ago
I have a blog post here that has an example of dynamically changing the tool list- https://jonwoodlief.com/rest3-mcp.html . In this situation, I would have a tool called "request ability to edit GLTF". I This would
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by jonfw 1y ago
> If role separation were treated seriously -- and seen as a vital and winnable benchmark, many prompt injection vectors would collapse... I think it will get harder and harder to do prompt injection over time as techniques to seperate u
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by jonfw 1y ago
This reminds me of a phenomena in motorcyling called "target fixation". If you are looking at something, you are more likely to steer towards it. So it's a bad idea to focus on things you don't want to hit. The best appr
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by jonfw 1y ago
The whole article seems to hinge on the idea that cursor is unsustainable and a large driver of revenue for AI companies. It seems to think that if cursor dies, so does the revenue. I don't see that- cursor will die by losing market sh
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by jonfw 1y ago
MCP is just packaging. It's the ideal abstraction for building AI applications. I think it provides the similar benefits of decoupling the front and back end of a standard app. I can pick my favorite AI "front end"- whether t
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by jonfw 1y ago
> Answer me this question. In the near future if we could have LLMs that can traverse to massive amount of data why do we need to make excel sheets anymore? A couple of related questions- if airplanes can fly themselves with auto-pilot,
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by jonfw 1y ago
As somebody who has done both- mcp-use makes it very very simple. If you are at all familiar w/ python back-end development, it's literally just as easy use this tool to make an API as it is to put your MCP into claude desktop. MC
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by jonfw 1y ago
I have used mcp-use to write some demo functionality and it is very easy to use and works great!
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by jonfw 1y ago
GitHub copilot has a monthly rate limit for premium models- much worse! I ran into mine within hours of using Claude
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Bring Your Own MCP(jonwoodlief.com)
1 points by jonfw 1y ago|0 comments
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by jonfw 1y ago
AI let's people with no experience accomplish things. People who have experience can create those things without AI. Those experienced folks will likely outperform novices, even when novices leverage AI. None of these statements are co
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The Missing Level in REST: API Discoverability in the AI Era(jonwoodlief.com)
1 points by jonfw 1y ago|0 comments
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by jonfw 1y ago
> Where this kind of API design is useful is when there is a user with an agent (e.g. a browser or similar) who can navigate the API and interact with the different responses based on their media types and what the links are called. >
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The 10x "Overemployed" Engineer(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
11 points by jonfw 1y ago|2 comments
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by jonfw 1y ago
The AI agents that run on your machine where they have access to the code, and tools to browse/edit the code, or even run terminal commands are much more powerful than a simple chatbot. It took some time for me to learn how to use agen
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by jonfw 1y ago
Two negatives that are actively made worse by the the fact that there are a variety of distros- 1. Nothing is googleable. People have to google how to do things like adjust the layout of external monitors, and it's significantly harder
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by jonfw 1y ago
US military may be willing to pay more for chips made in the US
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by jonfw 1y ago
This is the verse that Cruz was referring to: https://www.bible.com/bible/3034/gen.12.1-20.BSB As with all things in the bible, it's meaning is subject to interpretation, and I won't attempt to argue for
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by jonfw 1y ago
There is always scheduled maintenance on that page, so that's not much of a signal in my experience
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by jonfw 1y ago
It increases the real cost of engineers. The government is keeping that money interest free, which means the company is losing the time value of money. In addition, it gives companies less flexibility to manipulate their tax burden and cash
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by jonfw 1y ago
I think that this study attributes a lot to policy that could be attributed to culture.
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by jonfw 1y ago
> there’s a little, but not a lot of insight into why an LLM does what it does. That's a "black box" problem, and I think they are some of the most interesting problems the world has. Outside of technology- the most intere
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by jonfw 1y ago
8GB of RAM w/ swap on SSD is just fine for most use cases

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