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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Be careful if you expect a dot com fallout - that was retail investor driven and took a long time to unwind as people sat through painful drops. Ai is much more of a private investment bubble. AI remains useful. What is likely to go away (a
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
I've never seen this before, it's like a modern 2600 - deeply technical, scattered topics and depth, all very hacker-curious - and beautifully designed to boot.
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Yes. Cursor is significantly better at understanding context without needing a 5 page spec or burning a truckload of tokens. And it's debug mode is top tier if you haven't tried it - people sleep on Cursor.
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Depend what your company actual does. More relevant tasks I have seen involve 2D arrays or transforming data from a Python dict, or parsing JSON. The idea is to test the ability to understand and manipulate complex objects, which is a good
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Insightful point, but we should also consider we are in a very transitory period where were are adjusting every level of these tools (how verbose? How sycophantic? What should it ignore, which details matter, etc.) And more importantly, we
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
I think the hand-wringing is a bit premature. Some mathematicians (like SWEs) view AI as a boost to their ability to explore and understand possibilities - it is a great tool. Others see it as taking the soul out of what they do (loss of fl
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Recalling "They're Made of Weights"
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Wellfound.com, workatastartup.com
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
There are 6 floristic kingdoms in the world, and Fynbos can only be found in a tiny section of Africa. When I was there it was wild to see a completely different array of plants and flowers. There is one small white flower that had petals t
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
I do think they are going to stretch their lead in value if Anthropic doesn't wake up and stop YOLOing tokens. Kimi is an amazing achievement, but it has the same (or worse) kitchen sink approach as Fable. At work, even if Fable is tec
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
I am sure he did the minimum effort needed to communicate what he wanted to communicate. If you are offended by his math gifs and feel that the widely regarded best mathematician of our time should use embedded LaTex or something better, wh
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
It's a series of tubes
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
That's 100x productivity right there.
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Our founding myths are actually Paul Bunyan and Blue. There's a whole cast of figures like Tom Thumb and more, structured around railway construction across America. Sadly, those myths have rapidly fallen from modern awareness, but the
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Whitman was first in my mind, he invented free verse poetry after all, embodying the American wilderness in form before content. If we are going to include musicians, Tracy Chapman indeed seems like a troll when have the significantly more
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
This is a fantastic article with lots of interesting questions raised between the halting problem and applications of AI. The MRI example is very interesting - add a bit of noise and the crisp results fall apart. But we know we can carve ou
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Instead of one-off fixes Claude should have a much richer interface to configure between "ask approval every time" and "YOLO dangerously". I should be able to trivially set "run this task until completed" and h
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
That is a fair assessment, but the "something else" is independently valuable, maybe even more so than model improvements - constructing an architecture for efficient rule determination and execution. In other words, I think the g
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
I think AI usage is going to fall into exactly this pattern the same way the frontend + API has become the "obvious" approach. We mostly operate with known workflows and just need a touch of LLM magic to determine when to do what.
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Best comparison is Anthropic/OpenAI are AOL/Prodigy. Massive market capture, no moat. Little by little, the convenience and weight will be scraped off, but they (probably) won't roll over and die for quite a while. By the sam
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Reading the prompt is very interesting. I always wonder how they make these long-running prompts and I guess they literally just tell it to "keep going". After working with LLMs day-in, day-out an SWE for months, I feel like this
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
In my (very) limited use of GPT-5.6, I have noticed it is quite concise in general, and significantly better at abstract thinking. Doing a PR review of a large change it was interesting to see Fable and 5.6 mention a few similar points with
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Even simpler, use Cursor with any frontier model. I see others sweat to add enough context to Claude Code while Cursor has a ton of contextual awareness, uses subagents automatically and is significantly faster with no drop off I have found
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
I think the reality is that you should focus on and serve the 2c group (best students who use AI to fill gaps or speed up learning). We have 10s of thousands (or more) students taking advanced math every year. Only a slice of those pursue P
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
You need to know what to ask and what the answer means. Also, using proper terminology greatly increases LLM accuracy to situate the response in the correct domain. Ask an LLM to "clean up this code applying SOLID principles" is m
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
This won't happen for the same reason very few professors stand up to this shit and why everyone gets straight A's at Harvard now - Goodhart's Law again. The money involved means getting accepted into the school is the whole
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Rape vans, considering gas prices
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
This question, and many "but make it a bit more challenging!" comments always strike me as CS101 navelgazing type questions. The best part of this question is that it is simple and can be used to swing into deeper concerns but it
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
That assumes the shift was entirely due to high school students becoming adults. There are also people who haven't read much over those years and have had their skills declined to the point of failure. Or, also likely, sample size issu
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
LLMs are just a dumb terminal related to permissions. What they apparently want is some synthentic permissions spun up based on their prompt which is... not a "prepared statement" solution and more of a "I will clean user SQL

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