mrbungie

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by mrbungie 1y ago
Horribly. In my experience when dealing with "unstable" or rapidly evolving APIs/designs like IaC with OpenTofu you need MCP connected to tf provider documentation (or just example/markdown files, whichever you like most
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Oops, I forgot about that. Still, having it in the system prompt seems fragile, but whatever, my bad.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
For me is just funny because if they really meant "biological being", it would be just a reflection of AI bros/workers delusions.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Nowadays having something akin to "DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE DO X" multiple times, as many as needed, is a sane guardrail for me in any of my projects. Not that I like it and if it works without it I avoid it, but when I've
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Probably they ran a frequency analysis to get the most used languages, and then, they focused on scoring high on those languages in any way they could including Prompt Engineering or Context Engineering (whatever they're calling that r
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by mrbungie 1y ago
I remember accidentally making the model "say" stuff that broke ChatGPT UI, probably it has something to do with that.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Obviously there is no total guarantee. But I'm appealing to even bigger human factors like boredom or just envy between the royalty and/or the AI itself. Now, if the AI reigns alone without any control in a paperclip maximizer, or
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Royalty from that time also had an upper hand in knowledge, technology and resources yet they still ended up without heads. So sure, let's say a first generation of paranoid and intelligent "technofeudal-kings" ends up being
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by mrbungie 1y ago
That will still need a civil war.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Are you sure about that? In those times even thousands year old knowledge access was limited to the common people. You just need SOME radical thinkers enlighten other people, and I'm pretty sure we still have some of those today.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
It sounds nice for them, until you remember what (arguably and in part educated/enlightened) people do when they're hungry and miserable. If this scenario ends up happening, I also expect guillotines waiting for the "kings&qu
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by mrbungie 1y ago
In humans and pilots defense - Most airline pilots do not claim they have PhD level intelligence (whatever that means), as OpenAI/sama hyped frequently about gpt-5 in the preceding months.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
This reaction didn't emerge in a vacuum, and also, toxicity flows both ways. In the tech field we've been continually bombarded for 2+ years about how this tech is going to change the world and how it is going to replace us, and w
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by mrbungie 1y ago
EDIT (can't reply): Have you never run a business before? Hmm, yes?, and I've seen perverse incentives ruin things even when business-client alignment should be clear. Agency problems and stupid execs/investors are a thing. A
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by mrbungie 1y ago
I would wait for neutral benchmarks before making any conclusions.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Pretty sure we're talking past each other. If you want to continue investing on this: the perverse incentive is similar to dating apps. If you totally solve your problem with less tokens/turns, you eventually churn, paying less. Y
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Ah, alright, that makes a lot more sense, like another poster said I read "'d" as "could". Point still remains for junior and semi-senior devs though, or any dev trying to leap over a knowledge barrier with LLMs. Em
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by mrbungie 1y ago
I get that. I'm exclusively talking about code quality verification after it being coded by a human or an LLM, in fact I don't really care by whom. Mainly because I do care about introducing tech debt and/or hidden balloning
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by mrbungie 1y ago
That would be a more plaussible explanation. Not sure if that disambiguation can be inferred from the comment though.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
I'm not getting this analogy. Editors can't normally discriminate if the content itself is good (after all, the writer is the SME), but rather, only perfect its form (syntax, grammar, etc). Well-written bullshit in perfect prose i
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by mrbungie 1y ago
> The code I generate is usually better than what I'd do by hand. I'm always baffled by this. If you can't do it that well by hand, how can you discriminate its quality so confidently? I get there is a artist/art cons
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Kind of understandable after seeing the reaction, I would guess that the same tricks are expected to be made by middle-man companies. Hate the game not the players, I guess?
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Customers pay Anthropic, in part, so they can figure that one out.
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Even with a CFO-level explanation, it feels like a weak excuse for "fuck the customer" as always. Notice that in some places (with good enough customer protection rules) pre-paid credits can't expire, as expiration itself is
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Yes, obviously it does cost compute (to them) but customers are not paying for the compute per-se, but rather for correct results/outcomes. This is a big alignment and accountability problem, relevant enough to some make companies like
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Gets "funnier" when you think those credits can be burned in useless tokens (i.e. they have almost negative skin on the game regarding outcomes and incentives to maximize token usage).
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Unfortunately that's what one gets for offloading intelligence into a XaaS (Intelligence as a Service?, we already got IaaS though). The only hope is that "the market / invisible hand" forces actors to implement more for
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by mrbungie 1y ago
> But as long as I kept to the letter of the rules, I considered myself ethically in the clear. Yeah, totally, just to be clear I'm not judging. In fact, if you programmed it to handle those operations, one could argue you had alrea
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by mrbungie 1y ago
Did you tell your teachers about your superpower? But normally it depends on the subject and if the automation/machine solves the primary skill being teached or if its just a "secondary/tertiary" skill. Are you in a Calc
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by mrbungie 1y ago
It might not be intended as an attack, but it does feels like one (especially that unnecesary jab at technophiles). Also I find it incredibly ironic that you are making so many assumptions about what GP meant, what HN audience understands f

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