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by pgwhalen 8mo ago
Thanks for this link. I’ve failed to find specifics on this for a while but this is pretty good, particularly the example about which lane to choose when cones are set up.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
This won’t happen with general software though, that ship has sailed, the space is too competitive.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
I think he would too, but they’re obviously not going to do that.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
The top of the readme links to the accompanying paper, which explains very clearly why you would care: https://badrish.net/papers/bftree-vldb2024.pdf I admit I’ll agree that that extra hop was a little confusing to me
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
This is the second time I’ve seen Goedecke criticized as cynical and honestly it quite baffles me, I see it almost completely the opposite. His writing acknowledges the common cynical views of working at large companies but then works to ra
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
> Like https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-target-popular-nx-build ... ? I only had time to skim this, but it doesn't seem like prompt injection to me, just good old fashioned malware in a node package. Your other t
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing the example!
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
> Going back to typing all of the code yourself (my interpretation of "writing by hand") because you don't have the agent-managerial skills to tell the coding agents how to clean up the mess they made feels short-sighted t
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
I was hoping for a real world example.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
What are some examples of malicious prompt injection you’ve seen in the wild so far?
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
Presumably if hosting and sharing copyrighted content is legally questionable, then linking to it (especially systematically) might be as well. IANAL.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
I don’t follow the first paragraph of this comment at all, it just seems vaguely antagonistic. You also seem to be suggesting I’m taking a view on a debate that I am not. That such a blog post exists at least suggests the legal “question” e
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
I'm not interested in having a debate on the legality of it which is why I said "legally questionable." It doesn't strike me as implausible that you wouldn't know what copyright is, if you don't accept the pre
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
GP’s explanation is better than I would have given and didn’t seem smug or condescending to me - from my perspective it was welcome.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
Ah, I think “Math” as a single word on its means many different things to many different people, I didn’t interpret in quite the same way. But I see what you mean. I’m not sure that my colleagues who I think of as “good at math” and “good a
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
I'm confident that you didn't realize what you were saying, but I really chuckled at "I can't think of any large downsides [in institutionalizing a clearly very legally questionable practice]".
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
I agree with your original post that the need for hard skills will persist, but I see it in the other direction: software engineers are going to have to get better at thinking in larger abstractions, not deeper understanding of the stack.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
Not sure why the /s here, it feels like documentation being read by LLMs is an important part of AI assisted dev, and it's entirely valid for that documentation to be in part generated by the LLM too.
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
https://pgwhalen.com
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by pgwhalen 9mo ago
As I used LLMs more and more for fact type queries, my realization is that while they give false information sometimes, individual humans also give false information sometimes, even purported subject matter experts. It just turns out that y
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by pgwhalen 10mo ago
It probably did, but they didn't feel the need to fully explain why they were confident it was AI generated, since that's not the point of the article.
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by pgwhalen 10mo ago
It does seem like that upon reading the article, but it’s not what the title of the article suggests.
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by pgwhalen 11mo ago
I think it’s pretty mature of the author to recognize that this is the way they (and most humans) work, rather than acting like they always have the ability to treat others with their absolute full capacity for respect.
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by pgwhalen 11mo ago
It’s all a matter of perspective I suppose, and of course I understand why you say this, but no professional options trader I’ve ever met would speak in these terms.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I don't work in firmware at all, but I'm working next to a team now migrating an application from VMs to K8S, and they refer to the VMs as "bare metal" which I find slightly cringeworthy - but hey, whatever language work
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I am by no means an industry insider, but I’m skeptical of your claims about running a ln airline on tech from those eras. The visible side of airline IT (ticketing) perhaps, but surely there is a lot of behind the scenes software that faci
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
It’s not an article, it’s a live feed. They do this when a story is breaking to make it clear that they’re adding information as they learn of it, and to match the style of the rest of the internet generally.
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Maximizers vs. Focusers(cutlefish.substack.com)
1 points by pgwhalen 1y ago|0 comments
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
It reduces (often repetitive) visual noise in code, which can make it more readable. I wouldn’t recommend using it in all cases, but it’s a good tool to have.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
BlackRock did not buy “a” data center, it bought a data center company with 78 data centers. I have no comment on whether or not it was a good deal, but your framing is silly.

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