jurgenburgen

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by jurgenburgen 26d ago
Technically true but kind of irrelevant in practice when we’re in a lukewarm war with Russia.
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by jurgenburgen 26d ago
> There's very little to do in Europe. Plenty to do. We don’t have oil or natural gas so relying on fossil fuel to power our economy is stupid.
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by jurgenburgen 27d ago
You’re reviewing at the wrong layer if you’re approving / rejecting each individual tool call that modifies source code. Look at the finished piece of work and then treat the agent as if it’s that colleague you really hate and nitpick
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by jurgenburgen 27d ago
Do you believe ants have consciousness?
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by jurgenburgen 27d ago
I 100% agree on the automated guardrails. The part where you add instructions into a document is a bit of hit and miss. If they’re general enough it works but at my employer they have gone all out and have LLMs writing instructions that are
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by jurgenburgen 27d ago
> And letting teammates read code that wasn't reviewed by a human submitting it also isn't productive. If that’s what you got from my comment then you need to review it again.
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by jurgenburgen 28d ago
> It seems that everyone loves agentic Claude code things these days but I don’t understand how you can review what it did and remain as much in the flow as you do with cursor. The way I review it is to let it finish a PR sized slice and
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by jurgenburgen 28d ago
> I'm substituting my own[0] vibe coding for buying[1] apps. Language mini-games to help with German? A few prompts. Fluid dynamics simulation for an airzooker? Vibed. A web app listening for a MIDI keyboard, upon which you can drop
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by jurgenburgen 29d ago
Because they hear about it all the time in their bubble.
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by jurgenburgen 29d ago
Or maybe an LLM could just tool call stockfish and doesn’t need to have more than a basic understanding of chess. The bitter lesson seems extraordinarily wasteful on the compute side.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
I’ll admit that it would be an interesting product, assuming you could buy the chips / cards and slot it in commodity hardware.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Quadruple for 4 degrees? Or is the cost exponential? What happens when some right-wing nut jobs take power and decide to kill this woke geoengineering because climate change is just a conspiracy? Will we get to experience decades worth of w
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
If we can’t even switch away from fossils then where do we get the magical political will to build a massive, untested system that needs constant maintenance indefinitely to keep our environment stable? Our governments don’t seem to even be
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Or just decentralize power where it makes sense.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Tariffs on, tariffs off. Have you tried turning the White House off and on again?
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
The core complaint was that it took weeks for Anthropic support to restore access. For a startup that might as well be years.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
> More broadly however, the question that I think everyone should ponder on is, "If the US falls as the world super power, do you think the alternative will be better?" The US is already behaving the way we expected China would
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
The largest energy producer in Finland is state-owned and most cities own their own energy production. What’s the big deal?
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
> Not every insight needs to be useful. Don’t they still need to be correct to be an insight? I don’t share his cynical opinion that “humans are more empty than we…think we are”.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
The ultimate tell is still the sycophancy. You agree with the suggestion output by the LLM but if it detects even a slight pushback it will completely reverse the previous suggestion. Only way to make it more obvious would be to have the LL
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Sometimes I wonder if LLMs are just revealing a section of the population with untreated mental illness or if LLMs are actively exacerbating mental illness. We might eventually regret exposing the general population to such a new technology
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
I think that reveals your cynicism more than it provides any useful insight about intelligence.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Having a dangerous flag as a backwards compatibility flag is okay. I don’t think making users decide between multiple levels of sandboxing is constructive, they will just be trained to ignore it. This is the kind of decision users likely do
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
The point of dividing your software into independent services is to be able to give those services to different teams that can independently develop and release them. What’s the point if you’re treating the whole system as a slop bucket?
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
> It's more fun like that :) Doesn't mean I genuinely believe a MySQL instance actually thinks. A lot of people are not in on the joke. ELIZA effect and AI psychosis is a thing. Interacting a lot with LLMs might be damaging to
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
That’s not solving the problem, that’s avoiding it by making it the users fault if they make a mistake.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Everyone is paying for the license. Expanding was poorly phrased but the per-unit licensing cost might not be irrelevant. It might even make smaller batches cost-efficient for smaller manufacturers if they use an instruction set that doesn’
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
My point is that if an ARM chip costs 1$ then how much is licensing? 0.1$? 0.5$? That’s money that doesn’t need to go to ARM if everyone is using unlicensed instruction sets.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Those providers are VC-funded, they don’t have the leeway to pivot away from AI. I would be interested in some examples though.
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by jurgenburgen 1mo ago
Very true. I was actually thinking that telling the customer to secure the physical location where the insecure port is located is making it the customer’s problem while solving the authentication problem is making it the manufacturer’s pro

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