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by lubujackson 2mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Maybe you should? It would be less weird than you think. There is the Japanese custom of saying "Itadakimasu" before eating - not thanking the chef, but thanking the food itself. Mr. Rogers said that that "graceful receiving
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
There is a secondary, more nefarious purpose, near as I can tell. I constantly order items from Amazon that say "arriving tomorrow/Tuesday/etc." then the item invariably doesn't actually arrive when it was supposed
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
I think the difference between the Anthropic token maximization approach (vibe code all the things!) and OpenAI's focus on efficiency, terseness and token reduction are going to be the defining features of who wins the long-term race.
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Code Is the Byproduct(yagmin.com)
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Quite different advice, actually. I do not trust an LLM to review or to code by itself, but it can enlighten or expose blindspots, without requiring me to dig through the codebase, especially around unrelated downstream impacts. The point i
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
This misses the best use of AI in my opinion, which is to gain understanding. Whst is this bit of code doing? Is there a risk of data leaking here? Are permissions enforced downstream of this function? Code review can go much deeper now if
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
I have actually found decent success recently (especially with Fable) giving it an "added line budget". This does more than anything else to keep it on task. The trick is knowing an approximate line count beforehand, but sometimes
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Sad, but not as shittifying as losing the infinite onion grinder to COVID. The hot dog was only just the delivery device.
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Like all extremists, he takes a mild view "if you have to explain the code, maybe it needs to be refactored" to "no comments ever". Never mind business logic or footguns that can't be fixed right now because of Reas
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Every round of models (plus all the secret tweaks) require new strategies to stay afloat as a human. My new tactic for Fable and Opus is to give them a line limit, both during planning and code creation. It os amazing how well that works fo
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Hey, he's a businessman! He extracts value for shareholders!
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
My family has taken up some hobbies like this, which are very therapeutic to do together. Berry/cherry picking, hiking, mushroom gathering, and on vacation we like to go to certain beaches in Oregon to find agates or other cool rocks,
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
My company's hiring process is basically: Can you code a product quickly with AI? Can you understand the generated code? That's basically it. It is surprising hard to find people that can do both, but engineers are becoming much,
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Building new massive models might not be cost efficient for a while, but the more valuable thing is the infrastructure change that is more permanent. The dot coms died but the cross country fiber that was laid down persisted and the interne
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
I feel like looking at a photo to judge how fat they are is probably equally effective tbh. It is a rule of thumb at best.
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Tell that to Kyle Shanahan, whose Tesla got into a big accident while on autopilot...
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
I think to effectively use LLMs in a controlled way, they can help with three things: - Help you pump out boilerplate, or otherwise "obvious" code, that you can review at a glance - Help you gain understanding, either through rapi
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Happened to me last year. My wife always taunted me because I have been anti-Apple since they hermetically sealed their iMacs so you couldn't stick in RAM with talking to a "genius". "It just works!" she says. I dun
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
These seem like the obvious tweaks akin to "using a cheaper hosting platform". I think the real savings come from careful context control for programmatic agents, careful tool awareness and usage to reduce thrashing, distilling wo
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Exactly. From my arts background, I'm not scared of LLMs as a replacement for human art because anything good that LLMs produce exist somewhere between "found art" and mechanically-produced art, like photography. In either ca
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Nice write-up of the webhook data consistency problem - I've been bitten by some of those Stripe issues myself. I agree that webhooks should come hand-in-hand with a "records updated since" endpoint that allows high-level dis
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Oo, I like that header font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Germania+One?preview.scrip...
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Let's assume advances in harnesses, models and efficiency continue to rapidly improve. Let's say we only run on solar power. The concept of "waste" completely shifts. Like in 1990, I had to decide if dow loading an image
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Some schadenfraude because of AWS's lack of a hard spend cap, which has screwed countless little fish and individuals over the years.
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
Giogle sunsetting has reached its final form...
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
I assume it is like the 70s wood-paneling - signifying some vague commercial sense of ruggedness and nature while completely missing the mark.
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
The entire concept of publishing as a validation step for actual science has been declining for decades, fully co-opted by pay to play and virtue signaling for academic hiring. AI is simply going to bury it as a useful system. What will gro
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
It is just like coding. If you are on top of the AI, it is a powerful tool for exploration of ideas, organization of thoughts, bridging connections, outlining, filling in gaps. But if you vibe write, it will look good on the surface but be
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by lubujackson 2mo ago
This is the black and white perspective that literally every other human-creative industry is wringing its hands over. But I think it misses a key difference that is already painfully obvious, which is creating new and engaging things will

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