poisonfountain

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by poisonfountain 2mo ago
Sure, but not my point.
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by poisonfountain 2mo ago
>If deciding what to build is the hard part, why aren't market researchers, usability experts and—hell, customer success—considered rockstars in a software company? If “understanding the customer” is harder, why are business analyst
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by poisonfountain 3mo ago
My theory is that the labs are RL'ing models to output easily classifiable text so they can avoid model collapse when training the models on data scraped from the web. Of course, you can skew the distribution with some effort and gener
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by poisonfountain 3mo ago
Housing is a solved problem, it's kept scarce on purpose by artificial barriers. Food also is, the world already produces more food than people need (proper distribution remains an issue, however).
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster(theatlantic.com)
11 points by poisonfountain 3mo ago|1 comments
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by poisonfountain 3mo ago
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai...
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by poisonfountain 3mo ago
I agree with you on substance, but this "thousands of dollars in inference" figure is overstated. The margins on inference in the API pricing by Anthropic are absurd. We know from the pricing of third-party inference providers of
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by poisonfountain 3mo ago
This isn't exactly a case of lack of regulation but IP rights/arrangements expiring. The world needs less IP protection laws, not more.
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by poisonfountain 3mo ago
It is, but about AI CAPEX.
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by poisonfountain 4mo ago
This engine is not optimised for performance. It's using CSS, after all.
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by poisonfountain 4mo ago
Once you get to the Advanced/Expert words onwards it's too easy to guess the correct answer: it's usually the longest option. And once you notice this pattern it's impossible to try to guess fairly.
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Starmer to announce social media curfew and chatbot ban for teenagers(thetimes.com)
15 points by poisonfountain 4mo ago|1 comments
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by poisonfountain 4mo ago
Don't want to sound rude, but if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell to you. This is a naive justification and Dario & Sam et al are smart people and they know it is. The ends don't justify the means. OpenAI was meant to
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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
1151 points by poisonfountain 4mo ago|1074 comments
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by poisonfountain 4mo ago
It is probably both.
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by poisonfountain 5mo ago
Cloudflare is trying to push for that, but every time it's mentioned people complain (because they hate Cloudflare for making them wait 2s for a captcha) and nobody proposes an alternative solution. I don't think this is going to
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Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI(bsky.app)
79 points by poisonfountain 5mo ago|61 comments
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by poisonfountain 5mo ago
I disagree but it wasn't me who downvoted, just so you know.
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by poisonfountain 5mo ago
Ok, but you job is clearly not a good sample for a "job most mortals work on".
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by poisonfountain 5mo ago
You're downplaying the AI lobby here. They're eating down copyright laws, something that seemed impossible just a couple of years ago. Screwing privacy laws is just the next step. Also, we are seeing a cultural shift around that a
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by poisonfountain 5mo ago
>I think the rest of us should rest easy knowing that LLM's can't (and maybe were never meant to) tackle the tacit-knowledge-filled, human-system-centric, ambiguously-defined-problem-space jobs most mortals work I don't be
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by poisonfountain 8mo ago
We should be fighting back. So far I have been using Poison Fountain[1] on many of my websites to feed LLM scrapers with gibberish. The effectiveness is backed by a study from Anthropic that showed that a small batch of bad samples can corr