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by saghm 3mo ago
From digging deeper into these issues by making the agents self-evaluate why they refuse to do just what I say and nothing else despite repeatedly "promising" they will, I've found that some of the cheaper/lower qualit
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by saghm 3mo ago
Every time I see a new tool for sandboxing agents, I look to see if they've addressed the main annoyance I have with existing tools I've tried, and so far I've yet to see one that really seems to try. My issue is that for the
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by saghm 3mo ago
It's wild how we need to rediscover Goodhart's Law every time we have a new thing we think might increase productivity.
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by saghm 3mo ago
> That's pretty straightforward; even if the role came to exist two months ago, you can still have signed a five-year service contract Does the contract require that keep the same person "forward-deployed" with them the wh
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by saghm 3mo ago
This is useful context, but given that you're saying "delta" was in use over a decade ago and that you don't have any firsthand knowledge in the time since, it seems at least a little presumptuous to confidently asset th
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by saghm 3mo ago
You're talking about going from a single gigabyte to 16 terabytes in a low-power consumer form factor, which is 1600x. A generous estimate of the factor of the RAM sizes for low-power consumer devices between 1990 and 2000 would still
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by saghm 3mo ago
Honestly, I wish that LLMs were better at challenging their own assumptions, or even just stating them for me to validate before rushing ahead. By far the biggest aggregate waste of time for me with them is how they all seem to be tuned t
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by saghm 3mo ago
Fair enough. My instinct is that qualified immunity is such a common target because it's not an emergent property of the system that would potentially require structural changes to fix, and that lawsuits are often the only remedy peopl
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by saghm 3mo ago
That's a fun way of thinking about it! I hadn't considered that
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by saghm 3mo ago
Sure, the issues there are also not particularly nuanced; prosectors rely on cops to arrest people and provide evidence for them to do their job, so they're incentivized to keep a good working relationship with them (i.e. by not prosec
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by saghm 4mo ago
Using the term "backtracking" feels somewhat confusing, because it seems like most of the "fixed" letters they propose use what I would find more intuitively described as backtracking: having to trace back the exact path
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't know if I totally agree with your characterization here either. I'd argue that if you're not actively writing unsafe code, then you are using it as a safe language, in the same way that Python and Java are also safe
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Some people are against using LLMs and they will always find an excuse instead of experimenting with them so it doesn't matter how helpful you try to be they already made their mind. Do you think that I'm "against LLMs&q
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by saghm 4mo ago
You do realize that we have "executives" in most government jurisdictions as well? And that there are actual mechanism for changing who they are that you have the ability to take part in as a citizen, which is not a privilege affo
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by saghm 4mo ago
> The fact that anyone even knows the service and founder is a testament to accountability. As opposed to their mayor/governor/president, who they not only can easily find out who it is if they don't already, but can also
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I also don't think that it makes sense to wait to address the immediate issue of a private company centralizing the surveillance until there's sufficient political will for that (which realis
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by saghm 4mo ago
So you're saying that the solution is RICO, because they're operating as a protection racket?
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by saghm 4mo ago
How many instances of are there of qualified immunity actually resulting in an officer being found liable because of past precedent where someone else was considered to have had qualified immunity in the same circumstances? If it's not
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by saghm 4mo ago
> IMHO as you get more senior in software, after a while the only interesting metric becomes: are you raising the level of the people around you? Strongly agree, especially given how helping your teammates scales geometrically rather tha
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by saghm 4mo ago
> That's fair, I think my point is there's a nuanced theory behind my choice to be rude, which is essentially "you need to experiment more, be more open minded, really work at it, and then you'll see what others are s
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't think I agree with this framing because "definition" implies comprehensiveness in a way that "here are some properties which may not cover everything that's relevant" does not. Your "definition&quo
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by saghm 4mo ago
That's a completely reasonable take. I wouldn't have any issue with a nuanced comment like that. My issue with your above comment is that it's a lot more arrogant than nuanced.
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by saghm 4mo ago
Yes, but with the context that the person saying it is almost always the one who does understand, and is choosing to be snarky instead of helpful.
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by saghm 4mo ago
> All I can say is skill issue. I don't necessarily disagree with the overall point you're making, but I think calling it a "skill issue" is a bit reductive. These are relatively new tools that are changing quickly, a
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Can't help to think of a recent HN post about most AI-generated projects being abandoned within months. Why? > Because value of a project is not in the code produced. It's in the amount of battle-testing that code has seen
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't have a strong stance on the overall issue of whether it made sense for them to port like this, but I feel like this misunderstands the value proposition of Rust. The point of Rust is not and has never been "make literally
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by saghm 4mo ago
And you can see how well that worked by how many user-agents are such a sane, terse description of the browser rather than a hodgepodge of random words that give the impression that they're trying to seem like every browser at once.
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by saghm 4mo ago
I got chickenpox and shingles as a kid. I was young enough to not remember the chicken pox (which I I think I got from one of my older siblings), and then in second grade I got the shingles, which I had never even heard of at the time. As a
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by saghm 4mo ago
The original claim from the parent comment was running a Fable-level comment within a decade. Even if you're right about whether it's possible that another model could support that level physically, do you really think that we&#x2
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by saghm 4mo ago
Sure, but this is not at all uniform in how people use these tools any more than there was uniformity in how people balanced quality and speed before LLMs entered the picture. There was already a lot of variety in how some developers moved

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