mkoubaa

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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
Taxation is slavery
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
His art is bad
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
They don't discuss tradeoffs of every tool, just the ones that offer the most leverage
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
It's almost like they are either stupid or the point was never about stability
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
We have such short memories don't we
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
So basically the same cognitive debt that accrues to engineers the moment they become managers.
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
Eden was probably just a metaphor for life before agriculture
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
Fallacy. (Wrong) Knife fight: a fight between people about knives (Right) Knife fight: a fight between people using knives
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
We don't regulate, governments do.
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
No, Anthropic could easily call their bluff.
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by mkoubaa 7mo ago
>We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk. Implying other civilians can be put at risk
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
We are all agents now
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Talk to an average college freshman that studies plato and you might be similarly disappointed
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
I wonder if Claude could do a good job or setting this up for someone not technically inclined
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Say what you want about coding agents, when the cost of writing code goes to near-zero, the cost of wrangling tools becomes a much bigger fraction of development effort. This is an amazing opportunity to address long-standing frictions.
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Life imitates art, even when that art is slop
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Cringe-worthy at best
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Development has always been a small fraction of B2B SaaS expenses after the first couple of years anyways
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Governments prosecute violations of laws in ways that suit their interest. News at 11
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
It's not terrifying at all, some shops will fail and some will succeed and in the aggregate it'll be no different for the rest of us
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Precision in language is important for software engineering.
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Both you and the grandparent comment are correct. The implementation is slow because the API that it exposes is so leaky that implementation changes (for example a tracing garbage collector) are impossible to implement without changing the
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
We have the unique ability for genocide but also the unique ability to invent sophisticated tools, one of which is culture, whose functions include ways to override our impulses in ways we deem valuable.
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Anything no-code or low code has a data model, and an agent can manipulate it in ways that are compatible with the system design. Letting an agent loose on a problem, without a good pilot, just leads to poor designs.
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
Read Wittgenstein
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
An algorithm written in a well specified language with precise semantics might have bugs. A "logical" argument made with natural language is orders of magnitude less precise
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by mkoubaa 8mo ago
I didn't imply it was nefarious, I meant that the causality arrow between prestige and value judgements often points in the opposite direction of what is assumed
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by mkoubaa 9mo ago
Sounds painful. Better to distrib a separate bundle per platform and use RPATH
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by mkoubaa 9mo ago
Reminds me of how rankings for high schools that are supposed to be objective always faithfully reproduce the wealth differences between neighborhoods. This is even true in situations where clusters of moderately well compensated high-intel
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by mkoubaa 9mo ago
And I used to roll my eyes at the homeless guy who ranted about the mark of the beast

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