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by lexandstuff 1y ago
It used to be that if I saw a typo or grammatical error in someone's writing, I'd switch off, thinking the author really didn't care that much about the text they're writing to proofread it. Now, the complete opposite. L
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Out of interest, has anyone ever integrated with Grok? I've done so many LLM integrations in the last few years, but never heard of anyone choosing Grok. I feel like they are going to need an unmistakably capable model before anyone wo
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Sometimes you just have to deal with the world as it is, not how you think it should be.
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Yes, but you're missing their ability to interpolate across that dataset at retrieval time, which is what makes them extremely useful. Also, people are willing to invest a lot of money to keep building those datasets, until nearly ever
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Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?(arxiv.org)
239 points by lexandstuff 1y ago|244 comments
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
And there's a huge increase (apparently around 36%) in road fatalities during bad weather. People have much higher safety standards for self-driving cars than they do for human drivers. Just look at how one fatality led to the total ab
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
It surely means these things will never operate safely in rain, snow or even bad fog. That seems like a pretty big issue for a taxi operation.
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A deep critique of AI 2027's bad timeline models(titotal.substack.com)
2 points by lexandstuff 1y ago|0 comments
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Maybe, but there's also some evidence that AI coding tools aren't making anyone more productive. One study from last year found that there was no increase in developer velocity but a dramatic increase in bugs.[1] Granted, the tech
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Great article. The other thing that you miss out on when you don't write the code yourself is that sense of your subconscious working for you. Writing code has a side benefit of developing a really strong mental model of a problem, tha
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Well, they just had a $3B exit, so not that grim, all things considered.
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
This is a court order. They saw them in court, and this was the result: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/NYT-v...
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Even role prompting is totally useless imo. Maybe it was a thing with GPT3, but most of the LLMs already know they're "expert programmers". I think a lot of people are just deluding themselves with "prompt engineering&qu
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Not to mention, if it's an ML workload, you'll also have to factor in downloading the weights and loading them into memory, which can double that time or more.
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Yes, that's basically correct. Except be warned that the cold start times can be huge (30-60 seconds). So scaling to 0 doesn't really work in practice, unless your users are happy to wait from time to time. Also, you also have to
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Microplastics have recently become understood, but humans have lived with a lot of plastic for many, many decades now.
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Fair enough. I guess I was mainly thinking of how rarely I need to utilise the old prompt engineering techniques. Stuff like: "You are an expert software developer...", "you must do this or people will die." etc I just t
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Isn't SWE-bench based on public Github issues? Wouldn't the increase in performance also be explained by continuing to train on newer scraped Github data, aka training on the test set? The pressure for AI companies to release a ne
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Prompt engineering isn't really that important anymore imo. If you're using a reasoning model, you can see if it understood your request by reading the reasoning trace.
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Absurdly Good Doggo Consistency with FLUX.1 Kontext(notesbylex.com)
2 points by lexandstuff 1y ago|0 comments
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
I've never had a job like that. My job has always involved helping my company, not just figure out how to build something, but what to build. We typically collaborate on a few ideas and then go away, let them percolate in our brains, b
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Re the last sentence, is the answer that more people will die in aviation disasters?
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
People seem to have forgotten how good the 2023 GPT-4 really was at coding tasks.
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Except that, all Deepseek models so far have been trained on Nvidia hardware. For Deepseek v3, they literally mention that they used 2,048 NVIDIA H800 GPUs right in the abstract: https://arxiv.org/html/2505.09343v1
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
"We added a placeholder since there are rumours swirly, and they're from reputable sources - coincidentally the timelines for releases (around 2 months) align, and it's on a Monday, so it's highly likely. But it's a
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Presumably, for this concept to stick with you your whole life, you'd have to have heard of "Borges"? From Googling that name, it appears the author you're referring to died in 86. Why would anyone expect him to win the
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
That is amazing. But I had a similar experience when I first taught my mum how to Google for computer problems. She called me up with delight to tell me how she fixed the printer problem herself, thanks to a Google search. In a way, LLMs ar
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
One of the realisations I've had recently is that the AI hype feels like another level from what's come before because AI itself is creating the "hype" content fed to me (and my bosses and colleagues) all over social med
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
Funny, I would give the absolute opposite advice. In my experience, the use of agents (mainly Cursor) is a sure-fire way to have a really painful experience with LLM-assisted coding. I much prefer to use AI as a pair programmer, that I talk
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by lexandstuff 1y ago
That's similar to asking why does everyone need a GP? Most people experience some kind of mental health challenge in their life. Your 2nd question is much more interesting to me. Why is it so hard to find a good therapist? It's no

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