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by keeda 10mo ago
Ah, gotcha, I am still working through the article, but its detailed focus on all the moving parts under the covers is making it hard to grok the high-level workflow.
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by keeda 10mo ago
A couple of important points you should consider: 1. The AI water issue is fake: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake (This one goes into OCD-levels of detail with receipts to debunk that enti
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by keeda 10mo ago
Actually, I've been saying that even models from 2+ years ago were extremely good, but you needed to "hold them right" to get good results, else you might cut yourself on the sharp edges of the "jagged frontier" ( h
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by keeda 10mo ago
Aren't #2 and #14 mostly the same point? And they seem to indicate a rather unhealthy cultural dynamic. Amazon's "Disagree and commit" is a much healthier dynamic than "Pretend to agree and then silently sabotage.&q
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by keeda 10mo ago
Unfortunately, Tesla resale values have also plummeted, so even if people wanted to sell them desperately it may not be a financially sensible decision. Personally, as a Tesla owner I'm concerned that if my car gets totalled I'll
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by keeda 10mo ago
Hmm I don't know that it was that obvious in advance... I think the earliest recorded case of AI psychosis was that employee Google fired for being convinced LaMDA was sentient: https://www.theguardian.com/technology&#x
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by keeda 10mo ago
And here's where it can get really freaky: what if someone intentionally released a model that led to harmful or illegal outcomes when targeted at specific contexts. Something like "Golden Gate Claude" except it's "
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by keeda 10mo ago
I think we will enter some novel legal territory with cases like this. Intent is a crucial part of the law, and I wonder if we will see "Yes we built this thing, but we had no idea it could do THIS" as a legal defense. Or, more fo
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by keeda 10mo ago
TFA is directionally correct, though it repeats a few cliches which are no longer accurate. E.g. people and some empirical data report improved productivity even on large, brownfield codebases, with the caveat that effectiveness seems to be
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by keeda 10mo ago
IIRC it was about 3 weeks old. I hadn't used it for anything else in that time either, which probably also contributd to the lack of reputation.
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Anecdote, but I've never been able to use Claude (directly) because their defense systems seem overly sensitive to your email address. I signed up for Claude using a relatively new Outlook email address that I set up for an independent
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The way I would phrase it is: software engineering is the craft of delivering the right code at the right time, where "right code" means it can be trusted to do the "right thing." A bit clunky, but I think that can be
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by keeda 10mo ago
The folks at Stanford in this video have a somewhat similar dataset, and they account for "code churn" i.e. reworking AI output: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDDYKRFjhk -- I think they do so by tracking if the
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by keeda 10mo ago
Sure, these features may never catch on... but if they do, consider the risk to Firefox: an underdog with dwindling market share that is now years behind capabilities taken for granted in other browsers. On the other hand, if these features
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by keeda 10mo ago
I think Mozilla can get pretty far with one of the smaller open source models. Alternatively, they could even just use the models that will inevitably come bundled with the underlying OS, although their challenge then would be in providing
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by keeda 10mo ago
In isolation that makes sense, but consider that these AIs have been trained on a vast corpus of human creative output without compensating the human creators, and are now being used to undercut those same humans. As such there is some room
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by keeda 10mo ago
There was a huge discussion on this a few weeks ago, seems still far from settled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503867 Personally I think "vibe-coding" has semantically shifted to mean any AI-assisted co
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by keeda 10mo ago
Everyone is reacting negatively to the focus on AI, but does Mozilla really have a choice? This is going to be a rehash of the same dynamic that has happened in all the browser wars: Leading browser introduces new feature, websites and exte
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by keeda 10mo ago
> I'm so surprised that I often find myself having to explain this to AI boosters but people have more value than computers. That is true, but it does not survive contact with Capitalism. Let's zoom out and look at the larger
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by keeda 10mo ago
Heheh a bit tangential, but a long time ago, I had a similar thought: how much performance could we gain if we just compared hash values (typically integers) and avoided comparing actual keys -- and the pointer-chasing that entails -- as fa
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by keeda 10mo ago
Yes and no -- filing patents is quite affordable (probably outdated info, but I recall average costs for drafting and filing was ~10K / patent, most of the costs being related to the drafting rather than filing.) Compared to all the ot
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That's why the ITC is so relevant here: it is relatively quite speedy compared to regular patent trials, and have the power to issue injunctions against imports (which is partly why it was relied on a lot during the smartphone patent w
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by keeda 10mo ago
While those patents are not enforceable in China (unless equivalents were also filed in China -- unsure if they would be worth much) they would be when imported to the US. This is one of the reasons the ITC exists, and it played a prominent
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by keeda 11mo ago
Technical debt and understanding is exactly why I still review the code. But as I said, it's getting rare that I need to change anything the AI generates. That's partly because I decompose the problem into small, self-contained ta
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by keeda 11mo ago
We still have complete control over the code, because after the AI generates it, it's right there to tweak as we want! But the point is, there were no assumptions or tooling or bad designs that had to be fought. Just an informal, high-
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by keeda 11mo ago
I think you would be surprised by how much these AIs can "fill in the blanks" based on the surrounding code and high-level context! Here is an example I posted a few months ago (which is coincidentally, related to the reply I just
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by keeda 11mo ago
> My comment was based on you saying you don't care about the code and only what it does. But now you're saying you care about the code and review everything so I'm not sure what to make out of it. I'm not the perso
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by keeda 11mo ago
Wait, so let me get this straight. Altman got Disney to pay OpenAI , via an investment, for Sora -- which was likely trained on and used to generate infringements of all kinds of their copyrighted material. And then Disney sends Google a
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Note I'm not saying one is better than the other, but my takes: 1. The problem solving is in figuring out what to prompt, which includes correctly defining the problem, identifying a potential solution, designing an architecture, dec
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by keeda 11mo ago
Hilarious! Kinda reinforces the idea that LLMs are like junior engineers with infinite energy. But just telling an AI it's a principal engineer does not make it a principal engineer. Firstly, that is such a broad, vaguely defined term,

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