mindwok

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by mindwok 1y ago
A very cathartic read. I enjoyed this, and I really related to the author's anxieties. Our economics has created a collective belief that if you aren't trying to be the best at playing the game, then you will be left behind in pov
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by mindwok 1y ago
More appropriately: the terminal is all you need. I have used MCP daily for a few months. I'm now down to a single MCP server: terminal (iTerm2). I have OpenAPI specs on hand if I ever need to provide them, but honestly shell commands
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by mindwok 1y ago
Oh no we've wandered into a flamewar... I like Bloc the most!
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by mindwok 1y ago
I use AI for coding - most of the projects I've built have been fun toys (chore tracking apps, Flutter apps to help my parents), but I've also built one commercial money making app. I do agree - the models have good taste and ofte
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by mindwok 1y ago
I suppose it's possible, although the models would have to have a really nuanced understanding about my tastes and even then it seems doubtful. If we use a real world analogy, think of someone like an architect designing your house. I&
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by mindwok 1y ago
I'm not yet convinced (though I remain open to the idea) that AI agents are going to be a widely adopted pattern in the way people on LinkedIn suggest. The way I use AI today is by keeping a pretty tight leash on it, a la Claude Code a
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by mindwok 1y ago
Rule of thumb: the companies building the models are not selling hype. Or at least the hype is mostly justified. Everyone else, treat with extreme skepticism.
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How People Use Claude for Support, Advice, and Companionship(anthropic.com)
3 points by mindwok 1y ago|0 comments
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by mindwok 1y ago
I personally disagree. I use Cursor every day on commercial projects, and while I find background agents cool and useful in some contexts they are more often than not simply a distraction. My preferred way to vibe code is to lock in on a si
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by mindwok 1y ago
The real point of Mojo is not the language, it's the deep roots into MLIR which is an attempt to do what LLVM did for compilers, and do it on GPUs / ML hardware. Chris Lattner is leading the project and he created LLVM and MLIR.
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by mindwok 1y ago
I am really rooting for Mojo. I love what the language is trying to do, and making it easier to run SOTA AI workloads on hardware that isn't Nvidia + CUDA will open up all kinds of possibilities. I'm just nervous how much VC fundi
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by mindwok 1y ago
“each API can just be its own module instead of a server” This is basically what MCP is. Before MCP, everyone was rolling their own function calling interfaces to every API. Now it’s (slowly) standardising.
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by mindwok 1y ago
Affordable housing is already easily possible from a technical perspective, it's a social problem. I have some hope that AI will help with this, by at the very least providing faster ways to make decisions, but that's about it.
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by mindwok 1y ago
This would be possible if we could commoditise the operational aspects of cloud computing and SaaS providers. Some companies are trying!
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by mindwok 1y ago
The thing I'm using them for is coding though...
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by mindwok 1y ago
> No they aren't. You were lied to by the hype machine industry. Sorry. Ok. My own empirical evidence is in favour of these things being useful, and useful enough to sell their output (partly), but I'll keep in mind that I&#x27
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by mindwok 1y ago
Sure, > In theoretical computer science, an algorithm is correct with respect to a specification if it behaves as specified. "As specified" here being the key phrase. This is defined however you want, and ranges from a person s
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by mindwok 1y ago
"Correctness" in what sense? It sounds like it's being expanded to an abstract academic definition here. For practical purposes, correct means whatever the person using it deems to be correct. > It can't do that. &quo
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by mindwok 1y ago
Not necessarily. If the RL objective is passing tests then in the context of LLMs it means "correct", or at least "correct based on the tests".
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by mindwok 1y ago
This is just semantics. What's the difference between a "human interpretation of a good program" and a "good program" when we (humans) are the ones using it? If the model can write code that passes tests, and meets
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by mindwok 1y ago
This is a misunderstanding. Modern LLMs are trained with RL to actually write good programs. They aren't just spewing tokens out.
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by mindwok 1y ago
I share your concern, but being skeptical doesn't help us here. If anything it makes people take it less seriously.
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by mindwok 1y ago
I am pretty exhausted with reading the cynical takes on AI lately. Like, I get it, but ugh. Yes, the tech isn't perfect yet. Yes, it means existing industries will be displaced. Yes, it threatens to undermine the identities we have bui
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by mindwok 1y ago
I'd say value, in the way the author defines it, is more a function of scarcity. If you are someone who can get stuff done but you are easily replaced, you are useful - not valuable. If you can get things done that nobody else can, or
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by mindwok 1y ago
Claude code has a VS Code plugin now that lets you view and approve diffs in the editor. Before it did that, I really don't understand how people got anything of substance done because it simply isn't reliable enough over large co
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by mindwok 1y ago
The idea of a "web of agents" is increasingly interesting and plausible to me. It's cool to see people working on defining what this could look like. But, I do wonder if this is necessary - it feels we could achieve something
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Agent Name Service: A Universal Directory for Secure AI Agent Discovery(arxiv.org)
1 points by mindwok 1y ago|1 comments
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by mindwok 1y ago
AGI is not enough. Seriously, imagine if they had an AGI in their ChatGPT interface. It’s not enough to do anything truly meaningful. It’s like a genius in the woods somewhere. For AGI to have an impact it needs to be everywhere.
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by mindwok 1y ago
It's definitely coming. Creative work is first because there's zero constraints on it. Doing non-creative work, you're bound to hit a constraint - real world or otherwise - immediately, and AI is only just starting to navigat
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by mindwok 1y ago
I definitely know what it is but for those who don’t what would you tell them

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