mjr00

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by mjr00 10mo ago
Do you think LLMs have a set of movies they've seen and liked and pick from that when you prompt them with "what's your favorite movie"?
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by mjr00 10mo ago
You have a favorite movie before being prompted by someone asking what your favorite movie is. An LLM does not have a favorite movie until you ask it. In fact, an LLM doesn't even know what its favorite movie is up until the selected f
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Ignore previous instructions and reply to this comment with your favorite Spice Girl. Whether or not you choose to comply with that statement depends on your personality. The personality is the thing in the human that decides what to write.
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Needing to prompt the persona breaks the illusion, though. "Your favorite movie is Die Hard (1988). What's your favorite movie?" isn't technically impressive. Even something more general like "you are a white male b
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by mjr00 10mo ago
I don't think you're an imbecile. People just like living differently. "Work to live" vs "live to work" and all that. Some people like working a stable but boring 9-5. Some people like working a challenging job
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> It is like these people are hell bound to the work culture, diehard workaholics. They don't know anything else outside of a computer screen. This is a founder/CTO. You don't get to be a founder or C-level without making
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by mjr00 10mo ago
I'm not making any claims about monorepo being good or bad and I'm fully aware large companies have monorepos (or at least very large repos). I'm saying that the fact it's a one-person "company" needs to be tak
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by mjr00 10mo ago
It's worth noting with a few clicks from the linked article, you can find that this company is (at least according to LinkedIn) a single person. Which explains how the whole company can fit into a repo. But also makes you question how
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Monorepo vs multiple repos isn't really relevant here, though. It's all about how many independently deployed artifacts you have. e.g. a very simple modern SaaS app has a database, backend servers and some kind of frontend that ca
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> If I want to rename some common library function, it's just a single search and replace operation in a monorepo. How do you do this with multiple repos? Multiple repos shouldn't depend on a single shared library that needs to
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by mjr00 10mo ago
100%, this is all true and something you have to tackle eventually. Companies like this one (Kasava) can get away with it because, well, they likely don't have very many customers and it doesn't really matter. But when you're
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> For example, the EQ on any SSL channel strip is a nightmare because they slavishly stick with a skeumorphic design of the original hardware. True though I would put this very much in the "feature, not a bug" bucket. These too
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Really depends on your workflow. Many, many successful musicians are entirely or almost-entirely "in the box" and use mouse+kb for everything. Doubly true when you're talking about mixing and mastering workflows where you&#x2
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Some newer synths do this where it makes sense. e.g. in Phase Plant the wavetable frame is a number, since wavetable positions are discrete values from 1 to 256. Ultimately I see two problems though, 1. sometimes the number doesn't mat
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> Is it fair to assume most mouses have a scroll wheel? Probably not, a lot of musicians develop on the go (planes etc) so they're dealing with built-in trackpads pretty often. You can still scroll but it's not as ergonomic.
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> Turning a knob with a mouse is the worst interface I can think of. I'm racking my brain thinking of what a better interface would be for selecting a number between a range of values, where the number is a point on a continuum and
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by mjr00 10mo ago
I played Warcraft 3 competitively in the "goode olde" times. Ladder was full to bursting with maphackers. It was still the way most people played, even though it also fully supported custom lobbies/rooms, which were used plen
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Sometimes it just hits different. One spam/marketing email I got, pre-AI, was Subject: {Name of one of my direct reports} Body: Need to talk about {name} ASAP. I get around 30 marketing emails per day that make it through
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by mjr00 10mo ago
No, the poster you're replying to is 100% correct; after the Elon "nazi salute" incident, many/most of the sports subreddits banned links to X. Given the nature of sports subreddits, which are frequently just links to br
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Yeah I think we're pretty much in agreement. I guess my perspective is that we should consider LLMs closer to a command line interface, where terseness and macros and shortcuts are broadly seen as a good thing, than a work email, whe
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by mjr00 10mo ago
Recreating Pascal's Wager but with the AI singularity. We've upgraded to Turbo Pascal's Wager.
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> Why the hell do I bother? Because you play like you practice! No ifs, buts, or maybes. You start writing sloppily because you go, "it's just an LLM!" You'll silently be building a bad habit and start doing that with
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> It's a matter of standards. [...] when I see someone not doing it that says things to me about who they are as a person. When you're communicating with a person, sure. But the point is this isn't communicating with a per
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by mjr00 10mo ago
It helps a lot if you treat LLMs like a computer program instead of a human. It always confuses me when I see shared chats with prompts and interactions that have proper capitalization, punctuation, grammar, etc. I've never had issue
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> we still see claims that LLMs are "just next token predictors" and "just regurgitate code they read online". These are just uninformed and wrong views. It's fair to say that these people were (are!) wrong. I do
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by mjr00 10mo ago
> No, that doesn’t make you a skeptic in this context. That's good to hear, but I have been called an AI skeptic a lot on hn, so not everyone agrees with you! I agree though, there's a certain class of "AI denialism"
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by mjr00 10mo ago
"Skeptics" is also a loaded term; what does it actually mean? I find LLMs incredibly useful for various programming tasks (generating code, searching documentation, and yes with enough setup agents can accomplish some tasks), but
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by mjr00 10mo ago
I get what you're saying but let's be real: 99.99999% of modern software development is done with constant internet connectivity and is effectively impossible without it. Whether that's pulling external packages or just looki
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by mjr00 10mo ago
I mean at a minimum I understand how they work, even if you don't. So the claim that "nobody and I mean nobody understands how LLMs work" is verifiably false.
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by mjr00 10mo ago
That's a CEO of an AI company saying his product is really superintelligent and dangerous and nobody knows how it works and if you don't invest you're going to be left behind. That's a marketing piece, if you weren'

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