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by piker 7mo ago
It made sense to me understanding that you can have a unit-profitable API but lose money on loss-leading campaigns like Code subscriptions. Those losses are amplified by encouraging usage. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
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by piker 7mo ago
Sure, but somebody needs to pay for GLM-6 unless you're happy to stop here.
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by piker 7mo ago
The post is factoring in training costs, not just inference.
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by piker 7mo ago
> I find myself able to work on projects of greater complexity than I would have been able to otherwise Yes. Now turn off the LLM and make an improvement to that code.
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by piker 7mo ago
"The economics of opportunity cost are unchanged" a friend told me recently, and I think that's exactly what is driving your intuition here as well.
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by piker 7mo ago
> -g GLOB, --glob=GLOB > Include or exclude files and directories for searching that match the given glob. This always overrides any other ignore logic. Multiple glob flags may be used. Globbing rules match .gitignore globs. Precede a
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by piker 7mo ago
That's like saying playing baseball must be profitable because of how much money A-Rod made. The returns are skewed.
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by piker 7mo ago
I got stuck for a minute on the caption "Harry Beck’s 1933 map of the London Underground" to: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VsWm!,f_auto,q_auto:... which contains Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3, 4
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by piker 7mo ago
Yes... a license can be granted via contract. I think the question here is whether posting a LICENSE.md file in a public github repo forms a contract (offer, acceptance, consideration) when a developer uses it. If so, I'm back to being
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by piker 7mo ago
The thing about dogfooding is that you have to force it in many domains, and if you aren't careful it can push you towards solving issues your users don't actually have. We've found ourselves trying to find this balance on Tr
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by piker 7mo ago
Yes, we support reading .doc, .pdf and read/write on .docx. Perhaps there is some greater good here, but I can tell you it's a burden for at least one competitor in the ecosystem. We basically cannot market into Germany now until
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by piker 7mo ago
The point is that compliance around docx has become a commodity. Now that you have to support 2 formats with your application, that is orders of magnitude more complex.
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by piker 7mo ago
Just in time for everyone and their brother to vibe code a docx editor. This doesn't make much sense except as a token gesture that will make everyone's life worse. [Edit: I work on a Word competitor for lawyers. If anyone here th
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by piker 7mo ago
That's really interesting. I'm a lawyer, and I had always interpreted the license like a ToS between the developers. That (in my mind) meant that the license could impose arbitrary limitations above the default common law and st
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by piker 7mo ago
I am working on a sub 100KLOC Rust application and can't productively use the agentic workflows to improve that application. On the other hand, I have tried them a number of times in greenfield situations with Python and the web stack
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by piker 8mo ago
> Soc2 is basically dead as a security artefact can you expand on that?
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by piker 8mo ago
Ha, yes I didn't even consider it meant anything other than corporate private credit. Otherwise we'd be talking about presumably mortgages or "consumer debt". Right?
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by piker 8mo ago
A charitable take would be that some of that is attributable to benefits packages to help the people transition to new work?
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by piker 8mo ago
That would be a stupid reason to fire someone when the jury is still out on the net productivity benefits of using AI to code at scale.
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by piker 8mo ago
> Incidentally, can you set off fireworks just by dropping them? That sounds unlikely to me. I understand there is speculation that Cardozo downplayed a suspicion that these were some kind of domestic terrorists carrying actual explosive
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by piker 8mo ago
Professor: and what might the railroad in this case have that the train-hopping man lacks?
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by piker 8mo ago
For those interested, the statement of facts in Palsgraf is regarded as some of the best legal writing of all time. It's really quite interesting in both its lack of detail but clarity. > Plaintiff was standing on a platform of defe
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by piker 8mo ago
> Cursor manipulation is difficult! When you’re using a text input widget, much of the behaviour you expect as table-stakes isn’t something you’re even conscious of. Exactly what happens when you hold a keybinding like ctrl + shift + lef
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by piker 8mo ago
"because they weren't using our new product"
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by piker 8mo ago
No. That's not really where I'm coming from. I believe your skills are atrophying when you use these things no matter how trivial the case. That compounds with their bias towards solving problems by producing more code to further
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by piker 8mo ago
> I’ll continue use these tools with the hope that they don’t make me obsolete too quickly. I'm starting to believe using them is more likely to make you obsolete than not.
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by piker 8mo ago
Building the legal IDE: https://tritium.legal * adding local conversation memory for LLM * improving Word spec compliance * adding/extending table and image manipulation * bug fixes!
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by piker 8mo ago
> user: lydionfinance > created: 64 days ago > debugger > 3 commits > emoji soup README I won't flag it because I caught (legit) flak for that last time, but the above should be sufficient information for the voters to a
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by piker 8mo ago
That sentiment is characteristic of the Gates to Ballmer leadership change.
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by piker 8mo ago
I appreciate your ethics. I do not share your views.

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