kstenerud

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by kstenerud 3mo ago
My experience over the past year has been the exact opposite. I work through a design with the agent, have it research any points I'm not confident on, drill down on details I feel fuzzy on, and then have it do an adversarial critique
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
This is great news! With the advent of agentic coding, strong linting is more important than ever. What I'd really like to see is forbidigo for more languages.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
The issue is that the title "Writing by hand is good for your brain" does not follow from the cited study. At all. The EEG measurement is the only real thing in the study, but there was no actual learning task anywhere at all. Mea
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Except that he didn't actually cite evidence that supported his claim. He merely reposted a blog's incorrect conclusion.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
And in this case, Van der Meer's experiment showing more "elaborate" brain activity during handwriting was correlational. The conclusion that this leads to better learning outcomes does not follow. More to your point: calling
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
The non-sequiturs that follow do.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
> I’m not an expert on how the brain works, but I can say that, Aaaaaand time to tune out.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Doesn't matter that they're a nonprofit. I still can't trust them.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
> This is a selection problem, not a character problem. This is a times problem, not a selection problem. The unipolar world order is ending, and everyone responds by turning inward and looking for strong leaders who will protect them ag
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
They don't need to prove that it's true. They just need to get it repeated enough, with some officialdom thrown in, for it to enter the public consciousness as "true". The next step is to go dark on data about ICE, immig
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
I'd actually put one in for Clint Eastwood. Although most popular knowledge about him revolves around his earlier acting career (Westerns, Dirty Harry), you'll notice a distinct change in many of his films once he started directin
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Have I? I believe I've merely chased them around their moving goalposts. When it's closed source, that's nefarious because "they're not sharing" and that's against the whole spirit of open source. When it&
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
How do you know it's vibe coded slop? Have you seen the source code?
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Yeah. One single project that they control. Not thousands of other people's projects breaking, I'm sure with a ton of HN outcry over releasing "this pile of vibe coded slop" upon the poor populace. You just can't wi
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
So you wouldn't, for example, after doing a complete ground-up rewrite, perhaps spend a few months dogfooding it to work out the worst bugs before unleashing it upon the public, thus maximizing your initial velocity by minimizing the b
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Why is that even a thing to object to? You're talking as if you placed stock in the bizarre idea that Anthropic would close source the project and start charging for it. Stay your pitchforks.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
I've already explained in some sister comments. Sandboxing is one of those things that seems very simple on the surface, and is EXTREMELY complicated once you start actually digging into the implications, gotchas, and security issues.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Heh, good luck with that.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
How so? Orwell's stories dealt with class protectionism, and how the average person unwittingly contributes to systems of oppression and exclusion. Empire is about outsourcing the bottom end of inequality.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
I discovered this a few months ago when I was describing a binary data format using Dogma. On a whim, I tried handing the task off to Claude and it not only finished it correctly, but also fixed some errors!
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
It all seems so simple at first. Just launch a container/vm with a base image of your dev environment, mount whatever you need, do your work, and then tear down. Maybe add some iptables rules for good measure. Easy peasy, something any
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
I designed it to provide a single interface to agent sandboxing, no matter how far up the security tower you want to go. It eliminates the manual process steps you end up doing with an ad-hoc system (which gets old the 10th time you do it).
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Sandboxing is a VERY HARD problem. I've been working on it for months, and finally have something that's mostly there: - Sandbox on Linux using Docker, Podman, containerd, gVisor, Kata, Firecracker - Sandbox on Mac using Docker (D
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
You'll never know. And that's fine.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Yup, I built one! https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai You can even run simulators in it if you choose the Tart backend.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
Not if you've got a good sandbox.
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
I built yoloAI for this kind of nightmare scenario (among others). - The sandboxed agent has no access to your homedir, or ANY dir on your machine except what you explicitly give it access to. - Even with your workdir, it honors .gitignore
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
yoloAI does something similar: - Sandbox on Linux using Docker, Podman, containerd, gVisor, Kata, Firecracker - Sandbox on Mac using Docker (Docker Desktop or Orbstack), Podman, Apple containers, Seatbelt, Tart (Tart lets you run simulators
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
I made a tool that creates sandboxes (docker, podman, orbstack, seatbelt, tart, Apple containers, containerd, kata, firecracker) and then sets up an agent (claude, codex, gemini, aider, opencode) inside it with max permissiveness (no prompt
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by kstenerud 3mo ago
You don't have to use the opinionated harnesses. Nothing stopping you from launching your own.

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