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by perrygeo 2y ago
It's a little surprising at first. It shows LLMs have a remarkable ability to generalize. Or over-generalize in this case. LLMs are modeling the world in some thousands-dimensional space - training it on evil programming results in the
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by perrygeo 2y ago
This is some bizzaro world logic, as if causality stops when a new generation is born. Europeans waged total war and stole resources for themselves, directly benefiting their ancestors. So the rule is - theft is ok if you wait long enough a
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Yeah there a ton of real AI work happening. And there's a number of apps that use the AI work. I don't think you can conflate the two. Making a web page with Google Maps doesn't make you a satellite data engineer. Doing a que
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by perrygeo 2y ago
In this case it was simply that successful projects got used, thus more bugs and maintenance issues were uncovered. It's super easy to run a web service if it doesn't have any users :-)
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by perrygeo 2y ago
And how would a new developer know to ask for a refactor? That's my point.
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by perrygeo 2y ago
The solution moving forward has to be private benchmark suites. I could see teams investing in their own set of programming challenges and periodically re-evaluating them - similar to how we would construct sets of live interview questions
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by perrygeo 2y ago
I've got people in my family in similar situation. 25 years in an unskilled cushy job was enough to buy a lifetime of cushy retirement. Boomers were basically handed life on a platter.
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by perrygeo 2y ago
I've yet to see an LLM response or an LLM generated diff that suggests removing or refactoring code. Every AI solution is additive; new functions, new abstractions added in every step. Increased complexity is all but baked into the sys
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Exactly, "spooked" makes it sound like something unexpected. We knew Trump was coming and we knew he was going to do this. If you weren't planning for this likelihood for the last few years, you're an idiot that shouldn&
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by perrygeo 2y ago
The only factor that explained the variation was the success of the project. More successful projects spent less time writing initial code relative to time in maintenance. Failed projects spent a great portion on writing code. Again, the
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by perrygeo 2y ago
> writing the initial code for a feature is about 25% of the total work involved for that feature. Over a decade ago, I had a job where we were juggling several projects and needed to track our work in 15 minute intervals. The timesheets
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by perrygeo 2y ago
> You don't even need to know there is a venv, or what activation means. > All those commands update the lock file automatically and transparently.... It's all taken care of. When is the python community going to realize tha
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by perrygeo 2y ago
I spent most of my life thinking "migraine" was just a really bad headache. Until I started getting migraines. The best way to describe it is a band of white hot pain, almost a stabbing sensation. It started behind the eyes and wo
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by perrygeo 2y ago
The shifting second-person perspective feels intentional to cause disorientation. The confusion makes the story feel like a mental illness, with thoughts jumping from the past to the future but rarely present in the moment.
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Also a shout out to Steel ( https://github.com/mattwparas/steel ), another Scheme-on-Rust which is more active. The Rust community has given us at least two Scheme runtimes, several JS runtimes, but no Clojure interprete
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by perrygeo 2y ago
And I'm dancing around the point - the problem is demand for energy, not fossil fuels. Reducing emissions means reducing demand - an end to economic growth as we know it. Again, politically toxic. The green new deal envisions us drivin
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by perrygeo 2y ago
> idea of binary economic choice presented by the current political landscape The media and US political parties frame our energy futures as either renewable or fossil fueled. Do I even need to explain this? Compare the official climate
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by perrygeo 2y ago
> The AI ecosystem will continue to be Python-first, and that’s fine! The actual interaction with models is just HTTP requests with JSON payloads, though. Wow, all this time I thought transformer neural networks required expertise and sp
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by perrygeo 2y ago
But this data fully destroys the idea of a binary economic choice presented by the current political landscape. It's not renewables vs fossil fuels. It's renewables AND fossil fuels and whatever else we can use to make stuff move.
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by perrygeo 2y ago
The big difference is that the average person knows they're no good at calculus. But the average person seems to be getting delusions of grandeur, vastly overestimating their coding chops.
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by perrygeo 2y ago
> The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just… missing. This is the key. Some people assume that the goal of programming is to produce code. Productive programmers understand that the goal is to
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Those are my top two. I'm also avoiding the grocery store bagged chicken sitting under a heat lamp, hot coffee in god-knows-what lined "paper" cups, and fatty or acidic items in plastic containers. No plastic cutting boards.
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Talking to non-technical, but otherwise well-informed people, there is a broad assumption that AIs already "learn" as they're used for inference. IME people are surprised to find training and inference to be entirely separate
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by perrygeo 2y ago
The worst offender is "feature". In my domain (ML and geo) we have three definitions. Feature could be referring to some addition to the user-facing product, a raster input to machine learning, or a vector entity in GeoJSON. Conte
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by perrygeo 2y ago
The only unrealistic part is where it happens in the distant future. 19 years since its release, we've made exceptional progress in making it reality.
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by perrygeo 2y ago
At least partly for recruitment, partly for marketing. It's an advertisement for all the cool stuff you'd get to work on if you joined the company or bought the product. Without a blog, I can't tell if a company is actually d
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Worse, JD Vance has said repeatedly that they WANT courts to rule against them, so that they can directly challenge the court's power. I believe his exact words were "Let the court enforce it." Which of course is a sick joke
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Brings new meaning to "Attention is all you need".
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by perrygeo 2y ago
The population was already declining when Europeans got here. But it dropped precipitously thereafter, starting almost immediately due to disease. By the 1600s, tribes in the east were nearly wiped out. Since the majority of "explorers
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by perrygeo 2y ago
Never committing and stubbornly committing to your first idea are two sides to the same coin. Both champion binary black/white thinking based on gut feelings, not on running real code. The only way forward is to gather data and learn f

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