lubujackson

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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Makes sense, I have had the biggest wins with AI by attacking nondeterminism whenever possible. BTW, you should probably fix the Beagle link on your homepage: https://replicated.live/beagle/
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Whenever I see keyboard-mashed company names I know I can go to Temu/AliExpress and get it directly there. You can tell when they are all sourcing from the same batch and instead of paying $40 the same thing is often $3.28 if you don&#
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Yup. Once you realize neither party actually cares about any of the top debated political issues (individuals do, but the party doesn't) but they thrust them in everyone's face day in and day out BEACUSE the country is divided nea
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
Very cool tool. As the "moar tokens" era is starting to wind down I think people are going to realize just how crappy these harnesses really are, especially Claude Code. I have gone back and forth between Claude and Cursor and it
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
The point is, what people are interested in is more social than inherent in the thing itself. Art is communicative and socially-bound.
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by lubujackson 3mo ago
I have gotten a lot of mileage out of giving LLMs narrow focus over the same plan or code change with different objectives. Write a plan, ask the agent to review the plan and consider where code can be consolidated. Consider downstream effe
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
I definitely agree with the core concept here - I think the the future isn't "make it so" prompts but crafting architecture and only sprinkling in nondeterminism where necessary. If a process can benefit from a DAG, it has no
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
So fans have fan fiction because they love certain worlds and characters and want more of it, or to riff on the base to take stories in new directions. We have things like TV tropes so it is no small stretch to, say, generate sitcom-type st
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
This assumes the hand-wavvy "production" of knowledge workers translates directly and equally into money. Making a CEO 5% more productive might mean a billion dollars or it might mean nothing. Making a developer 5% more productive
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
That comes down to the ability to say no (or at least "not yet"). I have seen lots of startups that land a few mid or big clients and lose the plot by serving every throwaway request the client makes. Doing this slowly turns your
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
Sure, but how will Tidal consistently determine AI generated music? This is new frontier of spam. So begins the Clone Wars...
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
That... seems too accurate.
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
The article poses if AI will be a tool, a collaborator or an oracle. Why not all 3? If mathematics is human understanding of logical consequences, understanding is the priority. But if AI proves something we can't understand but can ut
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
I notice Cursor already does something similar. Even if I have Opus 4.8 selected, it will trigger subagents using Composer 2.5. I like using Auto personally because it is pretty effective and deeply discounted, but at work I YOLO Opus high.
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
Classic old guy
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
Even more narrow - you only need to know when to consider them. I only ever bothered remembering enough of any algorithm to know my options and a few rules of thumb. If I ever actually need to consider the details of the algorithm, I certai
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
Ahh so true. I can almost hear this in George Carlin's voice.
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
Instead of saying "all of it", let me differentiate what is important to learn in your bones and what is more or less solved (or at least secondary). You need to understand abstraction layers in the code and how to mentally naviga
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
Straight out of Richard Scarry's "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go": https://a.co/d/0778Ou0A If you are a parent of a small child, you will be amazed by the depth and fun of this book. I am always surp
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
I also miss smoking my pipe in the office, surrounded by rich mahogany.
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
The reason people want to get a human on the other end of the line is usually because they want some sort of remediation,like a refund or need to escalate something to someone who can take an action. Right now, AI agents just barf the FAQ b
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
A game is 60 minutes, broken into 15 minute quarters. The play starts, the clock starts. The televised game is almost 3x that, but at least most of that is actually part of the game flow. Each play is basically a 15 second sprint.
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
Everyone is assuming this isn't a positive outcome for Anthropic. Think about the optics: everyone was shitting on Anthropic for silently downgrading Fable. Now that is forgotten, they have a chance to spend a week or two revising thei
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
I would say yes. You think they were sitting on a release waiting for the right marketing moment?
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
My approach lately, in a corporate env, has been to use Opus 4.8 for planning and GPT 5.5 for execution. I think this is a good balance, as Opus (and Fable) tend to have a wider aperture and seem better at realizing downstream effects (like
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
> Was dot-com a bubble? I don't know, if you were transported to peak 2000 hype, would you argue "you guys are in a bubble, and the internet impact on the economy will be no greater than that of the fax machine"? I am old
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
This is very reminiscent of the NSA's attempt to limit crypto access of websites in the 90s. We were very close to having the U.S. ban SSL right when it was becoming the clear solution for safe open web transfers for payments. I assume
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
This is the danger of isolating engineering from customers, or even internal customer-interfacing employees. If all they see is code, they will get satisfaction from tidy code, not user happiness. One good thing about AI is it elevates prod
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
> Fable: Mythos, until the question matters Vicious, but true. SWE at my company immediately tried "check my codebase for vulnerabilities" and was immediately downgraded to Opus.
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by lubujackson 4mo ago
We used to have payphones. You could ask a gas station attendant for directions, or someone on the street. Those sort of options have disappeared or become much less common. If my 11 year old starts asking a random person on the street how

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