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by mediaman 5mo ago
There are plenty of US-based inference providers available, including AWS, that serve Chinese models at competitive prices (vs frontier US models). They also have lots of usage. Not necessarily for coding, but for other enterprise tasks.
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I think he likely means "code that is hand-reviewed" and not directly controlled by the agent. He's probably meaning to differentiate it against the in-process agent writing the code. It doesn't matter too much if that f
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by mediaman 5mo ago
What I've heard is that much of the model "intelligence" is a commingled bucket: although you can specialize specific knowledge somewhat, it's hard to specialize advanced reasoning to specific domains because so much of
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by mediaman 5mo ago
If "normie" means a noncorporate knowledge worker who uses the free version, yes. For enterprise, Anthropic is crushing it. In the manufacturing sector I anecdotally hear a 2:1 ratio of Claude to ChatGPT for teams who are settling
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by mediaman 5mo ago
Just look at large open weights models being served by inference providers. Kimi 2.6 is a 1 trillion total / 32B active parameter model that's something comparable to Sonnet. Sonnet's API pricing is $5 in, $15 out per million
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by mediaman 5mo ago
I've found that legacy system users (or at least the execs) are pretty excited about AI because they hate their legacy systems but can't really do anything about it (ERP changes are an extreme nightmare, and often no better system
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by mediaman 5mo ago
They built a transformer-based mold flow simulator. Mold flow analysis is used in injection molding to predict whether and how the plastic will fill a cavity. It's helpful to make sure the mold will actually be able to fill, and to try
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by mediaman 5mo ago
The book "Origins of Efficiency" by Brian Potter discusses this. Stacked sigmoids are a well-understood idea in innovation. The idea that exponential growth will continue with stacked sigmoids is also not a given. An example is th
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by mediaman 5mo ago
Yes, that's the root of it. Just let Claude create a list of demands. Then you've "done the job" of contract negotiation. You don't even have to think about what the business needs or what the partnership goals are.
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by mediaman 5mo ago
I have seen this happening with contracts. Using AI to help evaluate contracts is fine, but I'm getting 5-10 page Claude docs with dozens of asks that they haven't read and many of which don't make sense. I find it pretty cou
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by mediaman 5mo ago
I could imagine this might also be to try cover its tracks. If it gets 40x it means it's been found, time to nuke everything it can.
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by mediaman 5mo ago
That sounds like a fallacy of composition to me. That some element of the world is dystopian means the world is therefore dystopian. And if the world is dystopian, then every element of it is dystopian: no element of the world is not dystop
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by mediaman 5mo ago
It sounds like you feel that autonomous killer drones are a dystopia, and that anything related to the drones -- including mitigating their effect -- is therefore dystopian in itself, even if it is combating that dystopia? Sort of a tarring
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by mediaman 5mo ago
If you make the example any more complicated, it makes sense. A lathe operator isn’t any good if they don’t frequently operate lathes. A articulated robot implementer needs frequent experience implementing robots to be any good. That doesn’
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by mediaman 5mo ago
I think it likely performed well in A/B preference tests with chat users. I've noticed Claude does far fewer listicles than ChatGPT. I suspect that they don't blindly follow supervised learning feedback from chats as much as
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by mediaman 5mo ago
Ownership of the IP, as it were, is certainly true, but usually with these tools, most of the battle is documenting it, training people, answering questions, etc., and if you aren't motivated to do that it's very hard to make it h
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by mediaman 6mo ago
It's a big leap to go from "some users may be using large quantities of tokens" to "the labs are burning money on subs in an attempt to kill the competition." Lots of businesses have subscription programs in which a
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by mediaman 6mo ago
Many of the Chinese companies are doing very impressive open-loop sim2real. They make great demonstrations. They are not great at dealing with the real world and unpredictable environments. (That's not true of all Chinese companies - s
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by mediaman 6mo ago
She says she has memory disabled. I don’t think Kelsey is technologically illiterate.
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by mediaman 6mo ago
I wrote that carefully; I'd recommend you re-read more slowly it instead of calling me "psychotic" and telling me that I need to "touch grass." Of course they have the idea of self! The millions of pages of huma
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by mediaman 6mo ago
It has trained on vast amounts of content that contains the concept of self, of course the idea of self is emergent. And autoregressive LLMs are not stateless.
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by mediaman 6mo ago
The funny thing is that Allegorithmic (now part of Adobe) was far more devastating to certain classes of game artist than stuff like this will be in its current form. It almost totally automated vast swaths of texture generation by creating
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by mediaman 6mo ago
He has a fun writing style but has so many willful errors, and is so committed to one point of view regardless of the facts, that his writing seems kind of worthless. I soured on him when he could not calculate cumulative revenue on an expo
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by mediaman 6mo ago
SWE are paid that because the industry makes so much money off advertising, and it marks the market for everything else. It's more business model than skillset, because RF engineering is, in many ways, so much more technically challeng
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by mediaman 6mo ago
This article looks entirely written by AI to me. It's difficult to buy that it served as a mere light editing tool. It hit me in the very second sentence: "The danger is not that A.I. will make people lazy in some vague moral sens
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by mediaman 6mo ago
I think he's saying that during interviews the candidates were being asked to dive deep into their preceding employers' tech stacks. Which does seem to be asking them to tread in dicey legal waters in a coercive situation.
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by mediaman 6mo ago
Meta could turn Whatsapp into the next Slack. I know a lot of businesses (especially international ones) that use it for team communication. It's so much better than Teams. I guess they think it's a small market, or maybe you can&
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by mediaman 6mo ago
Sorry, are all of those model 3 and Y vehicles robotaxis? Or are you saying that because they produced 1.5 million non-robotaxi cars in 2025 that the estimate of producing 1 million robotaxis in the following year is pretty reasonable, beca
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by mediaman 6mo ago
Oregon gave a lot of time-limited property tax breaks. They also don't have a sales tax. So I would agree that giving away the #1 way that data centers contribute to the government isn't optimal, though you could argue it's a
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by mediaman 6mo ago
Loudoun County in Virginia generates $1 billion in property tax revenues from data centers. It funds half of all of their expenditures. Can you imagine having half of your total municipal government budget being paid for by data centers? Th

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