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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I think the threats from Iran are causing the Saudis to not strike Iran. The Saudis don't want their infrastructure blown up by missiles from Iran.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Personally I think the way to avoid a lot of this buggy new software is to use a LTS Linux distro like Debian as much as possible. Obviously you cannot do that for everything. But any software you get from Debian repos (or similar distros)
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
> Or how about go full plan-economy and just dictate price per token until investors get their money back? I've heard people talk about AI as being like a utility, like electricity. My understanding is this is how electric utilities
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
This level of preparation does not strike me as "so hard". Seems to me that if we in America and Europe were really preparing for a war there are a lot of things we would want to do that we are not doing.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Are fabs going to ramp up capacity? Wouldn't it make more business sense for them to just not ramp up capacity and enjoy the higher prices?
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I wonder what would happen if the agents did not have the spec. Like if you just said "build a simple SQL database that works as a single file", what would the agent swarm come up with.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
There was a post recently from a guy who used Haskell with AI agents. If I remember correctly he said the type checking did catch errors. The problem was the compiler was very slow, which slowed down the feedback loop and output. I think he
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Sometimes I think that if we are willing to burn tokens and rely on compilers in a loop we should be using languages that can catch as many errors as possible at compile time. Like Ada or Ocaml or Haskell or something. Or even require like
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
As a counter argument - I assume that Anthropic is using AI to write Claude Code. I've read and heard in videos that Javascript is a pretty good language for AI to write code in. Apparently this is because there is so much training dat
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Maybe that makes sense if the company already bought the hardware. But I currently think the fundamental reason the cloud models often make more sense is based in how the models work. My current understanding is that once these models are l
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
To run a local AI that is half decent at research at usable speeds requires hardware that costs thousands of dollars. Spending thousands of dollars on hardware to save dollars per month on tokens does not make financial sense. If you run th
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
The fun part of LLMs and internet research is that even if you have a URL and a quote from a primary source that primary source could be an LLM generated hallucination.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
The Chinese firms may just be making a bad business decision.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
As well, fertilized eggs and fetuses take up much less mass and do not require internal atmosphere too much. So you could have a smaller, simpler ship that takes less energy to get there
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I don't know if a generational ship is absolutely required. There's this assumption that interstellar ships would be full of human astronauts who are alive and awake. But that might not be strictly required. You might be able to h
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I think this is just a moment in time. People are spending billions of dollars to figure out how to make this AI stuff work better. A lot of the smartest people in the world are working full time to improve things. Give AI a few years and s
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
If you are worried about the cleanup operation having python code running in it, maybe you could use the SQLite CLI to run that operation instead.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
The visuals are good enough to be interesting. I just don't like the shot selection / story writing
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Well I think it's possible some of these American AI companies could still end up being a good business. It's like Apple vs Android. Globally Android is the most common, but Apple still has a good business as a premium brand for p
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Well it could end well for the general public in the sense that we get cheap, good enough AI.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Seems to me a tool like that would stop the agent from sending those specific keys elsewhere. But a tool like that would not stop the agent who is acting as you from using the SSH keys via the CLI. You would want to combine that with other
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
You could move your SSH keys onto a password encrypted usb drive that you physically remove from the computer.
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Well, you could use jsDoc to hold your types instead of writing them in typescript. The typescript compiler can still check types in jsDoc comments but you do not need a build step and the javascript you ship to the browser would be the sam
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
This month I worked on my own AI agent written in POSIX shell. It's been surprisingly useful for debugging command line problems on an old laptop running linux, like fixing an apt problem. https://github.com/patrickjh&#
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Seems to me this would get easier or harder depending on how you write the code. Like if you write the code in something standard and unchanging like POSIX shell scripts or C99 or ES5 javascript, at least the ecosystem won't change out
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Do you have any rough stats on how many total tokens per day you end up using with this setup?
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Just spit balling: could you have the agent pre warm the cache as part of your workflow? Like at the start of working on the code have the agent run a compile in the background. That way when the agent is ready to "really" compile
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
You should not underestimate how confusing those CLI tools are to people who have never used them before. For example, I would argue that for someone with no experience, figuring out how to copy a file from one folder to another is easier i
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
Let's assume AI is only good at software and math. If we can use AI to write lots of good software for cheap, that software can automate away a lot of jobs. So AI does not have to take the jobs directly, software written by AI can. Esp
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by pianopatrick 3mo ago
I'm curious but don't know much about the internals of LLMs - could you use a similar architecture with other models that have "layers"? I mean, could you have one layer do its work, then remove that layer from RAM, load

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