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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Which is pretty much what I said once you factor in that you evaluate (test) the deliverables before paying more.
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Claude was immediately willing to help me crack a TrueCrypt password on an old file I found. ChatGPT refused to because I could be a bad guy. It’s really dumb IMO.
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I’ve spent nearly 20 years working as a consultant writing software, I know that. How do you think humans solve that problem?
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
> You won't know until you've finished spending the money whether it will fail or not. How do you conclude that? You start off with a bunch of tests and build these things incrementally, why would you spend 20k before realizin
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
If you evaluate the cost/benefit in isolation? It’s net negative. If you see this as part of a bigger picture to improve human industrial efficiency and bring us one step closer to the singularity? Most likely net positive.
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Great insight. Any thoughts on RisingWave?
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I don’t know how you came to that conclusion from my comment. I’m talking about a particular product named OpenClaw, representing a new style of doing work; not AI in general. I dropped $200 on Claude Max in my personal capacity to test Ope
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Here’s a copy of a post I made on Farcaster where I’m unconvinced it’s actually being used at all: I've used OpenClaw for 2 full days and 3 evenings now. I simply don't believe people are using this for anything majorly productive
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
You can easily see the timeline here: https://x.com/StriderOnBase/status/2016561904290791927 The site came first and then a random launched the token by typing a few words on X.
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
RLS doesn’t slow you down. It actually speeds things up because you are forced to design things properly. It’s like type checking.
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
> This does nothing against your ability to scrape the web the Google way I thought that Google has access to significant portions of the internet that non-Google bots won’t have access to?
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I realized a long time ago that I’m better at computer stuff not because I’m smarter but because I will sit there all day and night to figure something out while others will give up. I always thought that was my superpower in the job indust
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
> and can at any point look at the source and tell you why it did what it did Even years later? Most people can’t unless there’s good comments and design. Which AI can replicate, so if we need to do that anyway, how is AI specially worse
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. I’ve queued up that paper. I’m building an agentic solution to a problem (monitoring social media and news sources, then building world views of different participants). A single agent would have insufficient context
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Aside from what you said about applicability, the paper actually contradicts their claim! In the domain alignment section: > The coefficient for “in-domain” is 0.004(p < 0.01), suggesting that in-domain roles generally lead to better
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I don’t follow. You said it’s over engineering and then proposed what appears to be functionally the exact same thing? Isn’t a “role” just a compact way to configure well-known systems of constraints by leveraging LLM training? Is your prop
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Here’s a professional developer who built a product used across the planet daily saying they built a feature for said product, and then asked AI to build the same feature based on the design doc: the AI succeeded and did the same work in mi
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Best way I can describe it is as a different sense. I have a sense of how things relate, like a graph I can follow. So in my room I know the couch is in the corner of the room by the window and there is a desk taking up the space on the oth
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I wonder if author is one of the lucky aphantasics who doesn’t have SDAM [1]. I tried the exercise they described… and nothing happened. I can’t even remember major life events that everybody is supposed to. Best I can do is recall there’s
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
He described his feelings, albeit as a generalization of all people with aphantasia. How can somebody describing their feelings be pathologization?
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
Veritasium has a great video showing an intuitive simulation of this: https://youtu.be/HBluLfX2F_k?t=1168&si=7IwK98FnIcYV9HnH
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
These kinds of roles are for youngsters with minimal commitments who are looking for their shot to break into a wild industry. It’s not for the middle aged single parent with FTE and just enough free time to do an extra load of laundry.
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
What evidence will convince you?
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I show my young daughter this stuff and try to role model healthy skepticism. Critical thinking YT like Corridor Crew’s paranormal UFO/bigfoot/ghosts/etc series is great too. Peer pressure might be the deciding factor in what
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
> You're training yourself with a very unreliable source of truth. I don’t just look at the bot decision or accept every consensus blindly. I read the arguments. If I watch a video and think it’s real and the comments point to the s
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
This was a great article. Have you got any thoughts on Farcaster and its Snapchain?
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I’m spending way too much time on the RealOrAI subreddits these days. I think it scares me because I get so many wrong, so I keep watching more, hoping to improve my detection skills. I may have to accept that this is just the new reality -
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
I used to be happy with virtual desktops. Then I switched to macOS. What a mess it is: from the irritating virtual desktop animations that delay you, to the annoying keyboard shortcuts that don’t work in full screen mode, I’ve decided to ju
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by ryanjshaw 8mo ago
The Confused Deputy [1] strikes again. Maybe this time around capabilities-based solutions will get attention. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20031205034929/http://www.cis.up...
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by ryanjshaw 9mo ago
They could have made another $5 per 10 pizzas after order #1 by just delivering the pizza to themselves and sending the same boxes back out in the next delivery, and so on.

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