pmarreck

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by pmarreck 1mo ago
This is what I think of when people complain about the quality of code from AI agents.
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by pmarreck 1mo ago
Yes. You can't patent an ABI and rebuilding against a specification has always been OK. Reimplementing the same logic has not.
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by pmarreck 1mo ago
There's going to be a lot more cool shit like this now that AI can help build anything! This guy just built a preemptively-multitasking OS for the Intel 8088 chip, the one from the original IBM PC, which also features an early Mac-like
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by pmarreck 1mo ago
Yes, that makes more sense now! There was no clue of that before the forced signup. One would like to know what one is even signing up for, you know? Give me a tease at least! haha. Good luck!
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by pmarreck 1mo ago
It disheartens me that if I want to find the most objective lowdown on the USAID and governmental meddling thing, I can get it trivially from an AI, and people will immediately dismiss it as slop, even if it provides receipts for all of its
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by pmarreck 1mo ago
> after going through their approval process Are you really trying to compare my experience as a NON-certified security professional, with yours? Mostly understood re: the rest. Musk knows what damage he caused, and he knows it likely be
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
*comprehend *people Also, that's not what strawmanning is. I never denied that Grok didn't act bizarrely offensively over a fucking year and a half ago (so did other LLMs, btw... and so have many other experiments over the years
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
too*
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
So basically, nothing that actually affects working with it in August 2026. Got it. Facebook has a far longer (and worse) laundry list of offenses and I'm sure you still use it. Or Threads, or Instagram. > My organization has outrig
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
Opus 5 is terrible. I'd even say it's a step backwards from 4.8. I'm getting high error rates from it, and then it catches the error, and then it sometimes errors the error fix (!). Just today I had to switch another agent to
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
I will say this: Grok Build has a very nice TUI! It even has... mouse rollovers/tooltips?? I was like whoa . I used Grok 4.5 for a security review the other day and it did a FANTASTIC job. I mean it thoroughly ROUTED my app's sec
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
Wow. This is strangely similar to my first experience. I was also 12, in 1984, and we were possibly the last people in our relatively affluent neighborhood not to already have either an IBM PC, an Apple ][ or a Commodore 64. My parents were
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
B: not part of the language. 1) Some would call this a perk. 2) When your tooling around a language works better when it's not actually written in the language... That should tell you something. And yet...
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
Ah, it's Python. Python is gross. That explains why I couldn't find it. /shrug
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
Well, I'm putting that to the test, and so far the results support my thesis https://github.com/pmarreck/aedicule
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
I, too, am a parent of a toddler who would like more control over what YouTube feeds my kid's brain. It's almost as if YouTube should be the responsible party here, and yet... isn't. I'm on the verge of building my own f
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
I disagree. I think WAT (WebAssembly Text), perhaps with some more niceties added, is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering. https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/text/index.html
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
what is "Black"? (For hopefully obvious reasons, I couldn't find results with google, lol)
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
Maybe today Also, who tests the expensive testers? ;)
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
I had issues with reproducing some fuzz testing failures in CI locally; turns out that glibc, musl and macOS actually DO NOT return the same floating point values for certain trig/transcendental functions across all OS'es, so I de
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
What a paper! And you missed an even MORE relevant excerpt!! Man and Slave The problem, and it is a moral prob- lem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great problems of slavery. Let us grant
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
There's also showering. (But I've taken to playing music in the shower with a waterproof boombox. Bluetooth'd from my phone, of course.) And of course, sleeping. ;) But there is something to this. Intuitive ideas come to you
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
> prentensious quote It's "pretentious." (said pretentiously, lol) Hey, at least we know AI didn't write it, lol
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
I like your "who watches the watchers" reference, but AI's reviewing AI work, and notably, people reviewing people work, are subject to the same problem! The same principles that worked for auditors tracking risk compliance i
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
well, that's disappointing; someone needs to miniaturize that and reduce the cost massively
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
The whole space is so scammy that I'd pay for a good USB-C cable tester
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
A very useful concept to know!
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
It says nothing about customer happiness or that if dishonesty is resorted to and customers OR owners find out, that will essentially seal the fate of the business.
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
I have a lot of things that are built around git already- such as my very commandline, which shouts in bright red if we are on DETACHED HEAD. I know WHY detached heads happen when using jj (from git's perspective); that doesn't me
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by pmarreck 2mo ago
I think you overestimate the number of photographers who are also comfortable with CLI tools, because doing this via web-facing UI's is quite less capable currently

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