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by overgard 3mo ago
Thanks, that's helpful, although I can't help but appreciate I had to get this suggestion from a person rather than the AI..
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by overgard 3mo ago
Right, but my criticism is to the hit-and-run nature of these hype pieces. By the time there's any semblance of what it actually means everyone has moved on but then you have a bunch of people operating under delusions from the hype. I
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't really like these articles, because they seem extremely hard to verify. OpenAI has published a lot of stuff in the past where, upon close inspection, what they're saying is technically true but a lot less interesting or im
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by overgard 3mo ago
Sure; it's an example, I would never rely "Please don't delete" for real important data. However, we're being sold an idea that we should just let the agent do everything, so I think it's important to point out
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by overgard 3mo ago
There are options, but they're not great. I could ban it from using git, but having access to git logs helps it do work so I don't want to go that far. I could probably ban the subcommand, but as a convenience I do like to be able
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by overgard 3mo ago
I entirely agree, although I think this is counter to the narrative that we should just let the agent do everything that the labs want to sell. There's a really major problem with the concept of human-in-the-loop though, which is just
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by overgard 3mo ago
Same for me. Not sure if its intentional (do they want to push people towards workflows that will burn more tokens?) or if it's just a side effect, but it's very annoying. I refuse to use tools that dictate how I develop, I'm
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by overgard 3mo ago
How am I supposed to take this tool seriously if it struggles with the concept of "dont"? if what you're suggesting is true, then more important instructions like "Don't delete the production database" are a pr
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by overgard 3mo ago
I've seen it with seniors too. The smartest person I worked with (by far!) used to constantly use the menus in Visual Studio (OG Visual Studio, not code) for basically every operation. It was incredibly painful to watch. Watching him d
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by overgard 3mo ago
My experience is the more things you add to the list, the worse agents perform (I'm not exactly the first person to notice this) I actually have a pretty simple set of instructions right now and Claude still regularly messes them up. L
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by overgard 3mo ago
I'm not sure I'd call this a competence issue; it's more of a context issue. If you put talented people in a thick bureaucracy they cease being able to display those talents. I wouldn't view people working in a corporate
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't think your logic is off, but I also think that the FrobnosticatorStudio people have a point. The thing is, yes, the terminal gives you infinitely more capabilities but you probably have like, 20 actual things you do regularly?
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by overgard 3mo ago
What is with all these people that are so interested in other people's workflow to the point of writing weirdly aggressive manifestos like this. "If you don't do it like me, you're wrong!" I would like to be the f
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by overgard 3mo ago
The doom trolling mixed with social media hysteria is creating a huge mental health crisis (not to mention the AI psychosis going on). I was talking to my psychiatrist the other day and she's freaked out. Social media IMO was a hug
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by overgard 3mo ago
Ok, "most". I think it's a hard sell to go to people that have socialized health care and be like "what if instead of a slightly longer wait, instead you had a system where bureaucrats at insurance providers pull rank ov
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by overgard 3mo ago
> But if AI is a race with national security implications, they won’t be fast enough. I really don't think this is the case. As far as I can tell there are two national security things where LLMs have some utility; mass surveilance
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by overgard 3mo ago
And yet if you ask any canadian, they all prefer their system to ours.
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by overgard 3mo ago
Well, if your deductible is like $8000 or something (high deductible), you kind of want to avoid hitting that if possible, because you're out $8000
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by overgard 3mo ago
In my experience, most rewrites fall more into the realm of "it's easier to write code than it is to read it, and I don't want to read all this existing stuff!" That's kind of the fundamental motivation, and then pe
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by overgard 3mo ago
Honestly, there's just no way I'm giving these tools broad access to my computer. Claude recently started bugging me that I hadn't configured it to be able to access my email, which like, fuck off anthropic. It just seems lik
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't see this taking off. LLM's produce absolute novels worth of verbose text; and nobody wants to read someone else's conversation with it, and certainly nobody wants to read a multi-year old session log that's 20,00
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think the biggest distinction with the chinese models is that you can run them locally. I definitely wouldn't trust GLM hosted on chinese servers though. (China is not exactly known for their respect for IP rights)
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by overgard 3mo ago
Well, until these things are self hosted (and even then); running these things involves a massive amount of trust with the providers. Like, to make it even useful you more or less have to turn over all your data (IP, slack/teams conver
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by overgard 3mo ago
Do you think every society treats their elderly this way (not just now, historically)? I'm just going to go out on a limb and say if you think people deserve bad treatment because they stopped being "fun" you should probably
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by overgard 3mo ago
Um, your argument is unless I'm directly involved with something I'm not allowed to critique it? Here's a real story that's very much more likely story than your "godsend": https://www.reuters.com&#x
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't trust the unemployment numbers to be useful here because it's just measuring "do you have a job or not", not more important things like "does this job pay you enough to survive" or "do you have to
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by overgard 3mo ago
So like, remember in 2008 when we had to bail out the major banks because they had failed so hard -- but for the common person it was "oh, well, you made a bad decision so tough luck, we're taking your house." In that case it
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by overgard 3mo ago
Its weird how years of relentless doom trolling and threatening peoples livelihoods, mixed with absolutely real, measurable, AWFUL societal impacts have soured people!
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by overgard 3mo ago
While I think there are a lot of problems created by capitalism right now, I would argue that nothing about the current AI industry is actually capitalist at all. These are companies that are surviving despite absolutely bleeding cash becau
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by overgard 3mo ago
This is already a clusterfuck, but it's going to be so much worse in 10 years. We're going to have an entire generation trapped in the gig economy because their education is going to be considered worthless, and even if it wasn&#x

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