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by nostrebored 5d ago
Ah gotcha, not on twitter so just hadn't seen them before!
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by nostrebored 5d ago
Is this an ad for Vals AI? Looking at their website, the rankings don't mesh with my observed utility for almost any model outside of fable and astra being good-ish.
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by nostrebored 11d ago
In my experience actual experts don’t hedge because they have a perspective. They might say “I think”, but avoid weaseling.
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by nostrebored 16d ago
what benefit do they get from making the statement? they could just say nothing. saying it and having it be untrue opens them to legal issues that are not worth the risk for this nothingburger.
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by nostrebored 16d ago
That’s a good question! A mix of both. There are definitely people who see it as a step on their validation treadmill. Most people want to make money. But a lot of people are just techno optimists who think they can do something.
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by nostrebored 16d ago
Huge amounts of insolvency is due to supporting this failed urban planning experiment. Urban centers are significantly more economically productive and significantly less expensive. Carism leads people into this trap when they should be adv
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by nostrebored 16d ago
From what I’ve been able to read it seems like it was a net positive public health intervention that’s been horribly dramatized.
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by nostrebored 17d ago
latency, instruction adherence, reliable tool cools, conversationality are all in tension. it's great when you can get a 170ms ttft. but if you have 700 ms endpointing on the stt side and 300ms ttfb on the voice side, then you haven&#x
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by nostrebored 18d ago
Having been through YC, there's certainly some of this, but the overwhelming majority of founders were pretty down to earth. People generally just want to solve hard problems.
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by nostrebored 19d ago
The objective of most large scale post training i am aware of is not to make think traces or to make them “more English and answer aligned”. It’s to achieve a result. That’s why I am calling it incidental
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by nostrebored 20d ago
Lesswrong is just so comically collectively incorrect. This makes no sense. There is no guarantee that reasoning aligns with an outcome. Reasoning is effectively saying with more compute and ability to change attention on the fly by alterin
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by nostrebored 22d ago
Celeris reaches ~50% of the speed on commodity hardware. celeris-magnus-1 is based on qwen3.8-27b. Maybe we will get there without custom silicon!
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by nostrebored 22d ago
z3 is also just so thoroughly optimized that even if your formulation of the constraints is inefficient it is faster. it is a great library that lets you solve pretty complicated DP problems with a few dozen lines of code.
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by nostrebored 23d ago
in my last tests with cerebras for coding tasks, most large tasks or anything greenfield would hit token limits. note that smaller models and the gpt-oss-120b style models they used to run are very prone to overthinking, so individual turns
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by nostrebored 23d ago
iirc input (uncached) goes towards the limit as well
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by nostrebored 23d ago
150k TPM limit on public endpoint means that it's likely unusable for many coding tasks. When we've tried Cerebras in the past, our problem has always been rates. We'd love to not deal with dedicated and to have access to a m
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by nostrebored 24d ago
As someone who grew up below the poverty line for much of my life — 2x the poverty line seemed like wealth to me. There are absolutely people getting by on “feels like” 50k a year. There are not really frills, but in terms of “have shelter
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by nostrebored 29d ago
Maybe we’re doing different things or in different regions, but I rarely see pay with PayPal now.
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
People are not as capable as you think they are and software engineering (well) is actually difficult. You cannot just push more people in. People are not fungible.
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
Many Amazon teams have had high expectations for work. The stories I’ve heard have largely been around how AI is used, slipping CR standards, and what is funded.
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
1/ Training is only effective if you can fill the function of the job and learn from it. Many software engineering jobs people claim are stolen by H1B hires are filled by human beings more likely to meet the bar. Many American candidat
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
Having worked at a few large companies, this was the case at all of them. I do think there is a messy middle of companies built on vibes.
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
AWS in large pockets was not a mess 10 years ago. The things I hear from recent AWS departures are very concerning.
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
Some of the largest, highest TPS, highest throughput systems in the world use DDB. The constraints are what let this happen. Unconstraining it might make a better generalist product but part of what you're opting into with DDB is the d
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
There’s something odd about the concentration of true believers in ai xrisk and climate change catastrophism. They are both technopessimist in a way that is seen as progressive. Stopping progress in AI would make people’s lives immeasurably
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
What do you mean by this? It certainly sounds technical but it seems to not mean anything. MCP has not smoothed over legacy cruft, and it is generally bad at exactly what you’re describing (many unintentionally coupled APIs with unintention
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
Enterprises have been managing thousands of http endpoints for decades now. It is not easier. It would have been easier to have something swaggeresque that lives at the openapi spec layer but that’s not cool and AI. What is not hard to unde
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
Your stateful remote execution needs a stateful tool middleware for your stateful agent, just to make sure that it’s impossible to test or evaluate
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
rg CLAUDE.md > refactor_hits.txt claude -p "@refactor_hits.txt support either CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md in each location. if they both exist, prefer CLAUDE.md and do not concatenate"
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by nostrebored 1mo ago
prediction: extension of promotions because of the progressive move to codex.

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