mccoyb

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by mccoyb 5mo ago
It has now become fashionable to dress oneself in the garb of science to sell dev environments ... for agents. It has now become fashionable to claim much, and furnish little. It has now become fashionable to fail to understand or state the
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by mccoyb 5mo ago
The problem is not vibe coding itself. The problem is that certain untrained people do not have or perhaps do not care to learn the necessary skills to refine the result into something novel, or clear / precise, something which communi
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
Re — totally fine with hand-waving for intuition. I just came away from the read thinking that this post was pointing to something very strong and was a bit irked to find that the state of results was more subtle than the post conveys it.
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
LLMs utilize categorical distributions defined by the logits computed by the matrix multiplies, and there are many sampling strategies which are employed. This is one of the core mechanisms for token generation. There's no peculiarit
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
There is not a single mention of probability in this post. The post acts like agents are a highly complex but well-specified deterministic function. Perhaps, under certain temperature limits, this is approximately true ... but that's a
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
Another way to think about it: For Anthropic to have the best version of this software, they'd have to simultaneously ... well, have the best version of the software, but also beat every other AI company at all subtasks (like: techni
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
I'm suspicious that this is going to lead to optimal orchestration ... or rather, that open source won't produce a far better alternative in time. The best performance I've gotten is by mixing agents from different companie
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
See related sibling: the use cases are compelling! My complaint is that tmux handles them perfectly. Exactly the claim that OP is making with their software - is served by robust 18 year old software. In 2026, it costs nearly nothing to tho
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
Something something medical researcher reinvents calculus. In 2026: frontend web developer reinvents tmux. Guys, please do us the service of pre-filtering your crack token dreams by investigating the tool stack which is already available in
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
I see -- and AI is just like all technologies that came before it ... It is not a class of labor ... it is all digital labor. Do you or do you not understand this? It is digital knowledge itself, and then all communication labor, and then
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview#what-you-can-do Try this one: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview#run-agent-teams-and... Or perhaps: https://code.claude.com&#x2F
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
Contempt for users is not silly when the CEO of said company has repeatedly claimed they will replace SWEs "end-to-end" by next year. I'm not sure what to say. You're either listening to the actions of these companies, o
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
Why not use datacenter of geniuses to increase capacity? Grug confused.
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
It is confusing for a company to sell you the subscription service, say "Claude Code is covered", ship Claude Code with `claude -p`, and then say "oh right, actually, not _all of Claude Code_, don't try and use it as a e
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by mccoyb 6mo ago
The vast majority of your complaints are handled by libghostty-vt itself, not by this person's Emacs wrapper software over libghostty. Ghostty is a great piece of software, with a stellar maintainer who has a very pragmatic and measure
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
It is large compared to a stripped Zig ReleaseSmall binary with no runtime. With agents, one can take this repo, and create an extremely small binary. To your point, why even advertise the number? If that particular number is completely i
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
I know off topic, but is that mostly coming from the Go runtime (how large is that about?)
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
Cool work! Aside but 12 MB is ... large ... for such a thing. For reference, an entire HTTP (including crypto, TLS) stack with LLM API calls in Zig would net you a binary ~400 KB on ReleaseSmall (statically linked). You can implement an ent
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
My recommendation: call a neurologist.
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
Tune your bot detector, I'm a real person and I think about my comments before posting them.
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
Sorry, are you familiar with what a next token distribution is, mathematically speaking? If you are not, let me introduce you to the term: a probability distribution. Just because it has profound properties ... doesn't make it diffe
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
I don't disagree with this, but I don't think the memory cost is the only issue right? I remember using Sonnet 4.5 (or 4, I can't remember the first of Anthropic's offerings with a million context) and how slow the model
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
Agreed, there's no doubt this will happen. It's likely already happening (it feels safe to assume that Anthropic is curating data from the data they record from Claude Code?) As far as I understand RL scaling (we've already m
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
It's fascinating to think about the space of problems which are amenable to RL scaling of these probability distributions. Before, we didn't have a fast (we had to rely on human cognition) way to try problems - even if the techniq
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
GitHub has a bot problem: https://github.com/trending
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
Can’t say I disagree — listening to Dario bounce between “cure all diseases” and “revenue” on Dwarkesh made it pretty clear what sort of jive turkey we’re dealing with
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
Written by a person who is infamously annoying open source maintainers with AI slop PRs (see the DWARF debacle in OCaml) … and missing much of pi’s philosophy Pass for me.
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
> I would say that the project actively expects you to be downloading them to fill any missing gaps you might have. Where did you get this perspective from? > I thought pi and its tools were supposed to be minimal and extensible. So w
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
Sure, but why implement a novel language with said feature if your concern is a harness ... not on implementing a brand new language with this feature?
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by mccoyb 7mo ago
It’s straightforward: JavaScript is a dynamic language, which allows code (for instance, code implementing an extension to the harness) to be executed and loaded while the harness is running. This is quite nice — I do think there’s a versio

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