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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
Seems to me the ideal language for AI has not been created yet.
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
Thanks
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
Well the reason I'm interested in Ada is because I saw a study that showed AI did worse at functional programming. So that might explain the problems with Haskell et al. But Ada has a strong type system while still having procedural co
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
I'd like to see the results for Ada on these same measures. On the theory that the Ada type system covers more classes of errors than other languages, and so AI can self correct better.
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
Might be more secure to get a real laptop and treat Claude as any other human worker. I.e. apply all the normal sysadmin tools that manage laptops for people to manage the laptop for Claude
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
I rewrote my AI agent written in POSIX sh to be a single file. So now to use it all you have to do is download the file, mark it executable, and set up environment variables. https://github.com/patrickjh/ssa
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
Yes, but there are other digital goods, like music, movies and books which are not quite as hard to make as software. In those you have a hit driven market dynamic with lots of niches instead of winner take all. I.e. because software was ha
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
I think part of the reason software was winner take most was the difficulty of making software. I remember hearing a story that in the past movies were so technically difficult to make that any movie that got made had a good chance to be a
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by pianopatrick 2mo ago
If software has become a mass-produced commodity then seems to me the software business will become a much more finance focused business You will really have to weigh the cost of making the software against the expected revenue.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
What is amazing is people do not switch away from GitHub. Maybe people are actually pretty tolerant of downtime if other things about the product or service are done right
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Maybe. I'm just spitballing but as I've been thinking about this, maybe just like a set of shell scripts. The idea could be that the agent runs as a unix user. That user has execute access to these scripts but not read or write ac
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Maybe someone could set up a CLI tool for agents such that you can give them a shell but they use this CLI tool instead of raw curl. Like a tool where the AI can only call out to certain APIs based on a config file the agent cannot change.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
This article seems strange to me talking about the lack of ATACMS mattering for a war against China. The publicly available range of the ATACMS is 300 km. Seems to me an ATACMS could not reach China from American bases in Japan, South Korea
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
One reason among several is that middle east states fund the US fiscal deficit by buying treasuries with their oil revenues. If the US loses that source of financing then the US fiscal situation gets worse
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
This feels like a moment in time, not the end state of AI. Like I read there was a time when teams of people + AI could beat pure AI at chess. But that these days, pure AI wins. For all the things people say about "how AI works" y
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Seems to me OpenAI and Anthropic are kinda following the Apple business strategy. Those two offer a premium service that gets better results and works more seamlessly. I.e. the integration between Anthropic models and Claude Code is apparen
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
As a teacher I know for a fact some people just learn faster than others. So I think part of why developers get attached to tools is because learning takes time. Some people can pick up new tools in a day. I can't. I feel like new tool
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Isn't being brittle kinda the point of playwright tests? Because each test uses the whole app those tests can catch errors that happen at many places in the code. But that means lots of things can cause a test failure.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
If a novel is 70,000 to 100,000 words, then a whole novel can fit in the context window for AI. That has to be good for the editing process. I.e. you can use AI to scan the whole book for various issues over and over again until all those i
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I have heard on podcasts that the way the Russians make plans for the Ukraine war is like this: There are rooms in the kremlin with no electronics. In these rooms there are paper maps and typewriters and printed reports. People look at the
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Well the fun part of AI is that the tools those "battle tested" sandboxes use are also becoming vibe coded more and more. For example, Linux is accepting AI code. So if your sandbox depends on Linux kernel features, your "bat
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Yeah, but you might still want to enter the field based on the aging of the current workforce. Seems likely to be a shortage of electricians over the next while.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I don't know how much of an edge hacking skills really give in war these days. A lot of America's adversaries seem to have learned tactics to deal with getting hacked. For example, Russia has these drones that use fiber optic cabl
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I don't really see the link between use of AI and military superiority. My current understanding is a lot of current US military problems are due to rare earths supply chains. I don't see how AI would either help or hurt with that
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
That makes sense to me as a tactic to prevent that problem. But the article talks about how so much code was written so fast. Seems to me that to create that much code that fast you have to have AI produce both the code and the tests. So I
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
There is no law that prices must revert to a mean. The market can keep going up in dollar terms while losing real value if we enter a phase of high inflation.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
At what point should I trust projects like this? I've heard stories of LLMs changing tests to get all the tests to pass instead of actually fixing code. So I'm not sure I trust it just because tests pass. I also think that tests d
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I wonder how articles like compare to just asking AI "review my markdown files, settings, harness and so on. Tell me any ideas to improve them" Just ask that once per week or so.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Eventually I think to truly be like Kubernetes, you would need an AI model that has public training data and that a lot of companies collaborate on. Might make sense eventually. Same logic as companies working on Linux. "An AI model is
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
"Open source" open models can also survive if they are seen as a necessary cost of doing business. Same logic as tech companies working together on Linux. "We need an operating system. But an operating system is expensive to

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