mattmanser

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by mattmanser 6mo ago
I just don't believe you. The vast gulf between open weights and frontier models that existed 6 months ago has suddenly disappeared? It's far more likely you're just bad at assessing model output.
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
You can say this about every single role. Why can't VCs feed your pitch deck into an AI and get a business they own 100%? If the only thing you're paying for is compute time... Some.people are claiming it's about taste. Why c
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
Why are you EXTREMELY impressed? The level of hysteria and lack of objective thought by pro-AI people on this thread is extremely concerning. Vulnerabilities are found every day. More will be found. They claim they spent $20k finding one, p
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
What a load of nonsense.
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
They don't have to. Lot of people in this thread don't seem to be getting that. If another model can find the vulnerability if you point it at the right place, it would also find the vulnerability if you scanned each place individ
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
Or would it have any way if they hadn't pointed it at it? Who knows? Just like people paid by big tobacco found no link to cancer in cigarettes, researchers paid for by AI companies find amazing results for AI. Their job literally depe
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
Who remembers sprite sheets? Does that give my age away? I did an optimization pass for a client once where I got rid of a ton of the sprites but didn't have the energy to redo it all, so it just had huge sections that were blank. Supe
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
I can't go into too much detail because of NDA. It was receiving huge volumes of data from each financial client, and matching it all up to try and find certain things. And match it with existing historical data. Not ads or online trac
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
I’ve encountered a heap of group 2. They’re the ones sick of learning new things, for whatever reason. I think it's easy to dismiss that group, but the truth is there was a lot of flux in our industry in the last decade before AI, an
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
That's not actually true. When you move to the enterprise layer, suddenly you get the opposite problem, you have a low amount of "users" but you often need a load of CPU intensive or DB intensive processing to happen quickly.
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
Seriously? The article is about scientists learning to do science, not programming. I know we're not supposed to say RTFA, but your comment really takes the cake.
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
pressure to evolve further features is quite low I'm really sorry, but you're really misunderstanding how evolution works. Worth reading something like the Selfish Gene if you want to understand it a bit better. There are always
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
There's a long, detailed, often repeated answer to your open question in the article. Namely, if you can't do it without the AI, you can't tell when it's given you plausible sounding bullshit. So Bob just wasted everyone
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
The authors point went a little over your head. It doesn't matter if Bob can be normal. There was no point to him being paid to be on the program. From the article: If you hand that process to a machine, you haven't accelerated s
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
I don't think it works like that, from my recollection of the uni courses I did 20 years ago. Even a small advantage like 1% will quickly propagate in a population, because it's about advantage over 1,000s of generations. That th
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
I can only assume they're eother setting it to Opus all the time, or they're using something like Ralph Wiggum.
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
Unless you go through the code with a tooth comb, you're not even aware of what trade-offs the AI has made for you. We've all just seen the Claude Code source code. 4k class files. Weird try/catches. Weird trade-offs. Basic b
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
The previous poster was making out that in a year the code base would be a mess if people had done it. This is a two-pizza team sized project, so it's not a project that the code quality would inevitably spiral out of control due to co
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
It's only 510k LoC, at ~100 lines of code a day for a year, this code base would take 23 engineers a year to write. That's for 220 working days in somewhere civilized. And I'm sure we all know that when working on a greenfiel
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
Just to note, Germany has 83 million people, so not 2x Germany.
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by mattmanser 6mo ago
For a lot of companies their entire income entirely depends on their uptime. Might be fine if your HR software isn't approving holiday requests, but your checkout breaks, there's no human that can pick apart the mess and you lose
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
Do you feel like rescinding your comment now this article is on the the HN front-page: "Anthropic: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
Two weeks ago typing became super laggy. It was totally unusable. Last week I had to reinstall Claude Desktop because every time I opened it, it just hung. This week I am sometimes opening it and getting a blank screen. It eventually works
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
One tengentially interesting thing about that is how THEY talk to Claude. "Don't blow your cover" Interesting to see them be so informal and use an idiom to a computer. And using capitals for emphasis.
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
It doesn't matter what defence you can think of, if they want to ban you, they'll ban you. They won't even read your defence.
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
I saw a video yesterday where a dev was critiquing Gerry Tan's gstack for being a bunch of text files. One of his points was it's not really the author's fault he's been sucked into believing he made something revolution
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
This was ripped apart on Reddit, surprised to see it here.
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
It's because wrong and creepy people will use what they record for wrong and creepy things. Especially when it comes to women. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/18/disturbing-r...
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
Their point is it is a bad sign at this stage in the game , there's a lot of competition still. Usually in a land grab like this you spend, spend, spend. Uber was still paying to subsidize customer's rides until fairly recently t
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by mattmanser 7mo ago
I have non-tech friends telling me about preferring other models like gemini, this feels like the early days of search engines when people were willing to switch to find better results.

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