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by mccoyb 1y ago
These are exactly the feelings that I left with from the community in ~2021 (along with the AD story, which never really materialized _within_ Julia - Enzyme had to come from outside Julia to “save it” - or materialized in a way (Zygote) wh
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Economically rational, but bereft of identity or _soul_ -- which, paradoxically, becomes highly valued when economically rational agents all regress to a mean of mediocrity.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
It comes off as someone who lives their life according to quantity, not quality. The real insight: have some fucking pride in what you make, be it a blog post, or a piece of software.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I think this is a strictly worse name than "agentic harness", which is already a term used by open-source agentic IDEs ( https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenai%2Fcodex%20harness&... or https://git
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Congratulations: it's faster, but worse, with a larger context window.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Anecdotally: I tried hook and crook to get the best flagship model at the time (Opus) to help with technical writing for a submission. First, these models are not good at technical writing at all. They have no sense of the weight of a singl
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Is that not exactly plan mode?
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Have you used these tools at all? It's incredibly obvious. It was obvious for weeks during August, where several people posted about degradation on r/ClaudeAI ... There's a thousand and one reasons why a company valued in the
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Many of the "look at what I did programming LLMs" blog posts on Hacker News have been developed and put out in academic papers and groups. The posts which gain traction here seem to be perennially behind the state of the art.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Excellent response, completely agree.
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Share, if you please.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
That I could, except it hangs in the current version of Claude Code when switching from false to true ...
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I read this as changes to quantization and batching techniques. The latter shouldn’t affect logits, the former definitely will …
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Here’s a report: Claude Code (the software) is getting worse by the day. Removing the shown token comsumption rates (which allowed understanding when tokens were actually being sent / received!) … sometimes hiding the compaction percen
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Claude Code fails to fetch or create the GPL v3.0 license when asked
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Does Clojure solve this to a satisfying degree? One gives up static typing to embrace Clojure’s solutions. On the other hand, Rust / Haskell provide partial solutions with static typing — but run into annoying boilerplate related to th
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by mccoyb 1y ago
My optimism says the good new stuff is coming slowly because people who care about their craft and taking things slowly aren’t in any rush to get to market.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Share some references, friendo. Claims require evidence.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Try and use it for shit and play around with it — you’ll figure out where it sucks, where it is good by yourself. Play with it — that’s the only way anyone masters anything. Separate yourself from the results, be prepared to waste time, but
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I love the spirit of Zed. From the principles to the low-level implementation details, it all screams "good taste". It's immensely interesting as an object of study (the code is great, from GPUI all the way up). Having said t
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by mccoyb 1y ago
There's few new ideas in this space, it's pretty boring. How many ways can you wrap (multiple agents, worktrees, file manager, diff viewer, accept reject loops, preset specifications for agents) -- let's try Electron! Let&#x2
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by mccoyb 1y ago
These companies are fundamentally amoral. Any company willing to engage at this scale, in this type of research, cannot be moral. Why even pretend with this type of work? Laughable.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Do you think Claude 4 is conscious? It has no semblance of a continuous stream of experiences ... it only experiences _a sort of world_ in ~250k tokens. Perhaps we shouldn't fill up the context window at all? Because we kill that &quot
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by mccoyb 1y ago
A perusal of the source code of, say, Ollama -- or the agentic harnesses of Crush / OpenCode -- will convince you that yes, this should be an extremely a simple feature (management of contexts are part and parcel). Also, these companie
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Love Claude Code. Dislike, to the point of some resentment, that the code (detailing the harness, the system prompt, the agentic patterns) is not open-source and inspectable.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I think you're accurately describing a "regression to the mean" phenomenon, which LLMs have transmitted to areas involving programmatic control through text. I recently used an LLM to help scaffold a piece of technical writin
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by mccoyb 1y ago
This is a low information density blog post. I’ve really liked Zed’s blog posts in the past (especially about the editor internals!) so I hope this doesn’t come the wrong way, but this seems to be a loose restatement of what many people are
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I’ve tried to use flagship models to produce long-ish technical writing content and the result has not been satisfactory. The resulting content lacks consistency and coherency. The generated prose is rather breathless: in carefully articula
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by mccoyb 1y ago
In regards to the duplication of code — yes I’ve found this to be a tremendous problem. One technique which appears to combat this is to do “red team / blue team Claude” Red team Claude is hypercritical, and tries to find weaknesses in
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I like to be able to tweak things to my liking, and this typically leads me to make my own versions of things. Probably a bad habit.

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