notnullorvoid

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by notnullorvoid 2mo ago
> The problem is, your employer doesn’t care whether your brain is creating new neurons and connections. They care about productivity and profit. It was/is a struggle to get them to recognize and balance tech dept, we must now push
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by notnullorvoid 2mo ago
> that makes me wonder if the trillion dollar valuations for OpenAI and Claude are even justified. They aren't, not even if we forget about the capable Chinese models. I suspect Anthropic will implode soon when employees are unable
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by notnullorvoid 2mo ago
Models can be trained with seperate contexts for these things, but the companies with all the resources are so focused on racing to AGI and "scaling laws" that they don't actually care about research into fixing security risk
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by notnullorvoid 2mo ago
If you look at the data 25% of the people who reported attempting a task without AI did not complete it. Seeing as the time spent on AI tasks was not that much higher than the time spent on completed Non-AI tasks, I suspect it was less abou
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by notnullorvoid 2mo ago
Have you looked at the raw data of the follow-up? It doesn't paint a pretty picture, many tasks attempted but not completed, refusal to attempt without AI, higher overall estimates and completion times than the previous study (both for
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by notnullorvoid 2mo ago
> One thing I've noticed is, that coding manually is exponentially more stressful than the slow AI approach. I find the exact opposite. Typically the AI will make too many mistakes (even with latest advanced models), they usually ar
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by notnullorvoid 2mo ago
People pleasing is a component for some, some also like the technical challenge. The biggest factor though is that as a software engineer "No" is basically never an accepted answer (even from management with an engineering backgro
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
> So their survival rests on the presumption that AI progress will fall between these two extremes. That feels like a very generous framing. There's very little opportunity between the extremes that would paint a convincing outlook
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I dislike their practices, but the main motivation for hoping they'll crash is that I think their immense overvaluation posses too much economic risk.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
Always nice to see more open-weights in the heavy model class. I can only hope this trend continues, causing OpenAI and Anthropic to crash and burn.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I wouldn't be worried so much about those examples. One could take the open weights and fine tune them to either fix the poisoning or omission of obvious topics. It's the subtle topics that we should be concerned about, and double
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I mostly agree with the prediction though maybe a bit more pessimistic about the timeline. Also I'm not sure our current usage of parameter count would make sense in this scenario, such a feat would require compressing current paramete
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
The Google Play store did (maybe still does?) allow installing some PWAs advertised as light versions of the apps.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
On desktop or on mobile? On mobile it's rare for apps other than web browsers to allow multiple tabs/windows and the ones that do (Ex: Gmail allows a draft to be a second window) have many multi window related bugs.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
No defense for not writing or reading code if want to call yourself a software engineer or programmer. However I do think there is reason to use Java or Python (as much as I loathe both) they have GC, and it'd be a lot easier for AI t
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
Neither is mutually exclusive. They get lock-in, and through that lock-in are more effectively able to inflate token usage.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
If China is able to undercut Nvidia on high performance local AI hardware, they will pop the AI bubble in a matter of days. They wouldn't even need to make something equivalent to the latest hardware. A Chinese RTX 3090 equivalent woul
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I think all 3 are pretty important for using TS in online sandboxes and IDEs.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
Performance of tsc wasn't an issue for small projects, and for larger projects it could be fixed by using incremental build option, and/or TS project references. Most either didn't care enough about the perf or were too lazy
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
Boolean attributes are less about types and more about syntax convenience IMO, even HTML treats them as empty strings. <tag attr> is a shorthand for <tag attr="">, which then in your program you can decide if some attr
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I'm going to choose to look at this in a positive light. In the long term this talent will feed into more indie games and studios, and perhaps studios will be less inclined to get acquired by Microsoft and other big orgs going forward.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
Meanwhile valid XHTML like having custom elements as table children, in HTML gets silently "corrected" to an malformed document. I'd much rather have the stricter syntax parsing of XML, vs the complex and outdated structural
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
The one good feature of HTML 5 was the introduction of boolean attributes. It's a feature XML could and should adopt. The whole handling of custom elements was fumbled beyond belief. The HTML spec is a disaster particularly it's p
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
It bothers me that these popular UI toolkits render copious amounts of divs. I went to look at Base UI and for nearly every component it's "Renders a <div> element", when there are native elements that can achieve the s
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I've yet to update to Android 17, but I ended up disabling haptics on 16 because the annoying pop sound feels like a gimmick compared to what haptic feedback used to be.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I run podman for local dev containers or for isolated sandboxes mostly. Anything needing orchestration and I go straight to k8s, never liked docker compose.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
I hear this argument all the time, but I've always found it lacking connection with the human behaviour I observe as someone growing up low-middle class, now middle-upper class. It completely misses the mark on human behaviour of those
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
> loudly stating the foreign labs have been distilling their models for a while now. They would be stating this even if it weren't true, because it fits their marketing. While I don't disbelieve the claim outright, I highly sus
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
It's going to be a lot worse if these companies IPO before the crash. The US gov should dissolve Anthropic and OpenAI tomorrow. Failing that they should block them from going public.
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by notnullorvoid 3mo ago
As much as I'd like to see Sam and Dario fall from power, I don't think they should be the ones going to prison for this. Investors gave them money full well knowing there would be no return until they could steal from retail inve

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