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by richardw 1y ago
Only if you want a production-ready output. To get execs able to self-feed enough, this works fine. Look, you don’t see value until it’s perfect. Good, other people do. I see your fallacy and raise you a false dichotomy.
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by richardw 1y ago
The processes the people want the sql for are likely filled with algo’s. An exec wants info in a known domain, set up a text to sql system with lots of context and testing to generate queries. If they think they have something good, get an
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by richardw 1y ago
Your kid with a set of AI’s is going to blow the greybeards out of the water in a few years. They learn and iterate a lot faster. They just accept the latest tech as a given. - greybeard who is trying his hardest to keep up
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by richardw 1y ago
Any algo that a human would follow can be built and tested. If you have 10 analysts you have 10 different skill levels, with differing understanding of the database and business context. So automation gives you a platform to achieve a floor
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by richardw 1y ago
We only used MQ. Against my recommendation, but it was fine if imperfect, and a known entity to all concerned. Did not use that file system.
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by richardw 1y ago
Yup. And OpenShift. And Red Hat for Linux. And SAP. And IBM. But you know what? Tiny group of people relative to the impact, revenue and competitors. If we needed skills we clicked “buy”, 100 consultants would arrive who are experts, sort i
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by richardw 1y ago
Not commoditising for enterprise. My last gig wouldn’t allow open source software or any company that might not be there in a decade, or which kept data anywhere but our own tenant. We’d look for the “call us” pricing rather than hate it, w
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by richardw 1y ago
Whoever is paying for your time should calculate how much time you’d save between the different products. The actual product price comparison isn’t as important as the impact on output quality and time taken. Could be $1000 a month and stil
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by richardw 1y ago
Do it on April 1. With a “we told you so” tagline. Have a few 2025/6 templates, like writing a presidential executive order because there are so many of them.
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by richardw 1y ago
Capture enterprise AI enthusiasm by providing a 1-stop shop for data and AI, optionally hosted on your own cloud tenant. Keep deploying functionality so clients never need another supplier. Partner with SAP, OpenAI, anyone who holds market
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by richardw 1y ago
Ok cool so what should he do today? Close up shop? Resign? Or try?
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by richardw 1y ago
Or, alternatively, it’s much harder to fight with one hand behind your back. They need to be able to compete for resources and talent given the market structure, or they fail on the mission. This is already impossibly hard. Approximately ze
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by richardw 1y ago
I thought I might get pushback on the example. I honestly just googled and found a random person being Harris, but just add anyone who accepts spacetime/relativity and how it represents not what we experience. Or anyone who accepts tha
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by richardw 1y ago
We “experience” consciousness in the same way we experience hard objects that are actually made of mostly space. It feels right but it’s impossible to say that it’s the truth. There are a lot of smart people who are less sure that our perce
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by richardw 1y ago
How do you know you’re not an automaton that thinks it’s conscious? Not feel. Not think. Not have a strong vibe. Proof. I don’t have to prove anything here, because I’m not the one making an assertion. My thought experiment demonstrates a s
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by richardw 1y ago
People run on autopilot unless we put in effort to focus on the current moment. Almost everyone demonstrates bad habits that show how little conscious awareness and control we have. LLM’s can replicate a lot of our activities, so the realm
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by richardw 1y ago
My personal mantra for these things is that life is simple [1] when you have only one principle. It gets much harder when you have to balance two or more principles. It’s still better to have the principles than not have them, just keep bal
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by richardw 1y ago
Yup, it feel similar to mining. The models are a transformation of the underlying content. The content is owned by “us”. A mining company can come in and transform rock into iron but it owes something to the grantors of the mining rights. T
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by richardw 1y ago
My opinion isn’t fully formed but I currently think either all content producers have a claim (potentially workable as eg a discount), or only those who contribute should get access to AI’s. And by all I mean the AI companies owe a huge deb
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by richardw 2y ago
Yup 30+ year dev here. Tried Cursor for a bit and honestly most of the tokens burned were fighting with stupid code generation, and having it confidently push on. Just cancelled my sub today. Been working with Windsurf the last few weeks an
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by richardw 2y ago
Our brains killed us if we figured things out wrong. We’d get eaten. We learned to get things right enough, and how to be pretty right, fast, even when we didn’t know the new context (plants, animals, snow, lava). LLM’s are just so happy to
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by richardw 2y ago
You keep the receipts for about 4 years and you speak up one minute after the government changes. You get it done long before the following election.
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by richardw 2y ago
One thing I think I’ve found is: reasoning models get more confident and that makes it harder to dislodge a wrong idea. It feels like I only have 5% of the control, and then it goes into a self-chat where it thinks it’s right and builds on
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by richardw 2y ago
They don’t have to own stocks. If they like eating and buying household goods then this will affect them negatively. It will help very few people for a long time, even if it goes perfectly to plan. I’d be extremely surprised if other countr
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by richardw 2y ago
Now the task of an adversary is to simply enable the backdoor rather than create it from scratch. The people using Signal for this are doing it on their own devices, so now you have multiple problems. Eg how to get non technical people to k
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by richardw 2y ago
A few hundred billion will buy you a lot of politicians in this climate.
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by richardw 2y ago
That’s a great segment to target. I’d take that any day over most others. It’s also a pretty hard bunch to please, so pretty defensible unless you somehow beat Kagi by a lot. It’s also much bigger than their customer base. Keep going, Kagi.
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by richardw 2y ago
Funkiest for me was a random crash in a C# app. No pattern whatsoever. No function or user role or part of the software or time of day. I had to learn crash dump analysis and bought my first Kindle books (on desktop, no kindle because I nee
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by richardw 2y ago
And if nuclear became the default clean energy technology, it would have to be shared worldwide. Every country with the same issues, but varying levels of competence, political alignment, terror risks etc. do we want 100 000 nuclear power s
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by richardw 2y ago
I’ve assumed that it’s partly because the company has done a lot of HFT, which is very focused on performance. But I’m not an expert in either.

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