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by laserlight 7mo ago
> That means there’s an invisible hand keeping prices up, or basically that the market is not free enough. Nowhere in the economic theory there is a proposition stating that prices should fall below affordable levels, given enough compet
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by laserlight 7mo ago
I reported a similar case of mine several days ago [0]. I was able to achieve better quality than Claude Code's 624 lines of spaghetti code in 334 lines of well-designed code. In a previous case, I rewrote ~400-line LLM generated code
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by laserlight 7mo ago
> change the prompt in a way that would produce code similar to what you've achieved manually. The problem is that I don't know what I'll achieve manually before attempting the task.
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by laserlight 7mo ago
Got it. Looks like we're on the same page. Everyone makes a subjective call.
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by laserlight 7mo ago
> we now think it's +9% - +38% If you are referring to the following quote [0], you are off by a sign: > we now estimate a speedup of -18% with a confidence interval between -38% and +9%. [0] https://metr.org/blog
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by laserlight 7mo ago
I don't get the point. What does objectivity have to do with the value of x? Your example seems to validate my point of view: warmongers disguise their subjectivity by basing their actions on “objective” models.
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by laserlight 7mo ago
> this genuinely surprised me Me too. After listening to all the claims about Claude Code's productivity benefits, I was surprised to get the result I got. I'm not able to share details of my work. I was using Claude Opus 4.5,
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by laserlight 7mo ago
I did my own experiment with Claude Code vs Cursor tab completion. The task was to convert an Excel file to a structured format. Nothing fancy at all. Claude Code took 4 hours, with multiple prompts. At the end, it started to break the prev
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by laserlight 7mo ago
I don't know of any instance where modern warmongers fight wars based on subjective grounds. They all have “objectively true” reasons.
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by laserlight 7mo ago
I wouldn't expect customers to say what they really want. They are looking for faster horses after all. But law professors? Among all professors, law professors should be the ones saying what they really want.
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by laserlight 7mo ago
I've lowered my expectations over the years, but there's this single stupidity that drives me crazy: When you search for a keyword and play a song from the results, playback continues with the rest of the search results. Why the h
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by laserlight 7mo ago
GP commenter got my attention during the last few days. Judging by their claims of productivity, they should have been a billionaire already. I'm curious to know their motivation behind making such outrageous claims.
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by laserlight 7mo ago
Providing a negative reference is totally different than gathering negative references and selling them. The former could be legal while the latter could be illegal.
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by laserlight 8mo ago
> Thus productivity doesn't change. Indeed, productivity has decreased, because now there’s more output that is waste and you are paying to generate that excess waste.
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by laserlight 8mo ago
Talking about “virtues” of OKRs is a long stretch.
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by laserlight 8mo ago
Once, I told a friend that it was stupid that Claude Code didn't have native IDE integration. His answer: “You don't need an IDE with Claude Code.” I've begun to suspect response that this technology triggers a kind of religi
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by laserlight 8mo ago
> It's certainly not true in mechanical engineering. Care to exemplify?
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by laserlight 8mo ago
Can we update the title to include the name, Garrett Langley? Everyone should know his name.
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by laserlight 8mo ago
> does matter in the success of a business In many experience, many of the statistics these people use doesn't matter in the success of a business --- they are vanity metrics. But people use statistics, and especially the wrong stat
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by laserlight 8mo ago
At the very least, background playback used to work.
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by laserlight 8mo ago
It used to be cheaper and work finer.
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by laserlight 8mo ago
Have we ever had autocomplete programming? Then why have a new term for LLM-assisted programming?
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by laserlight 8mo ago
It upsets me to see YouTube Premium apologists despite all the hostile moves by YouTube. YouTube Premium is an extortion scheme. When there are enough paying customers, YouTube Premium will begin showing ads to them. They won't forget
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by laserlight 8mo ago
> Ok, but the dev might still want to monetize, and we're back to the original question. It's alright. Those who would like to monetize can. There are others who wouldn't and UBI would utilize that surplus talent, which ot
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by laserlight 8mo ago
I have friends who make such 50x productivity claims. They are correct if we define productivity as creating untested apps and games and their features that will never ship --- or be purchased, even if they were to ship. Thus, “productivity
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by laserlight 9mo ago
IMHO, agentic workflow is the autonomous execution of a detailed plan. Back-and-forth between LLM and developer is fine in the planning stage. Then, the agent is supposed to overcome any difficulties or devise solutions to unplanned situati
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by laserlight 9mo ago
I wouldn't consider the proposed workflow agentic. When you review each step, give feedback after each step, it's simply development with LLMs.
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by laserlight 9mo ago
When one is not happy with LLM output, agentic workflow rarely improves quality --- even though it may improve functionality. Now, instead of making sure that LLM is on track at each step, it goes down a rabbit hole, at which point it'
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by laserlight 9mo ago
Epicureanism is sustainable hedonism.
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Helion has a clear path to net electricity by 2024 (2021)(blog.samaltman.com)
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