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by sanderjd 2y ago
I think the other application besides code copiloting that is already extremely useful is RAG-based information discovery a la Notion AI. This is already a giant improvement over "search google docs, and slack, and confluence, and jira
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by sanderjd 2y ago
How would an automated drafting mechanism know that your daughter is sick?
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Totally agree, for myself. However, I do know people who are not native speakers, or who didn't do an advanced degree that required a lot of writing, and they report loving the ability to have it clean up their writing in professional
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yeah but I'm looking forward to the point where this is not longer about trying to be flashy and sexy, but just quietly using a new technology for useful things that it's good at. I think things are headed that direction pretty qu
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Totally. I think the comparison between the two is actually very interesting and illustrative. In my view there is significantly more there there with generative AI. But there is a huge amount of nonsense hype in both cases. So it has bee
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by sanderjd 2y ago
On the tool-invocation point: Something that seems true to me is that LLMs are actually too smart to be good tool-invokers. It may be possible to convince them to invoke a purpose-specific tool rather than trying to do it themselves, but it
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by sanderjd 2y ago
It's much easier to build targeted new things than to change the course of a big existing thing with a lot of inertia. This is a very fortunate truism for the kinds of builders and entrepreneurs who frequent this site! :)
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by sanderjd 2y ago
This is "hard" in the sense of being a really good opportunity for product teams willing to put the work in to make products that subtly delight their users.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
From experience working on a big tech mass product: They did think of that. The interesting thing to think about is: Why are big mass audience products incentivized to ship more conservative and usually underwhelming implementations of new
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I'm glad this exists, but can you describe to me why it needs to? Why can't agents just read the docs directly?
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yeah, the less tongue in cheek (but even more tragic) version of this is just that they will be very employable by very ideological right wing organizations, and not very employable outside that bubble (unless they write or otherwise highli
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Did you read the part where they kept them from reporting to the agency who would investigate?
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by sanderjd 2y ago
The prestige of being unable to include it on your resume if you ever want to be able to work again.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Which is exactly why a lot of us thought that was a really bad idea at the time.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yeah but these things are not unrelated. This whistleblower is now risking being disappeared, and that will affect the calculations of all the other people considering blowing the whistle on the many other baldly illegal things this adminis
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by sanderjd 2y ago
This is clearly relevant to HN (cybersecurity) and seems like a very straight-news recitation of the facts to me. Where do you see bias? It is not "biased" simply to report on what the government is doing.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yep, pretty much impossible to disentangle careless incompetence from malevolence with these goons.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yeah it's an interesting idea, but trying to read this code reminds me a lot of reading assembly. It's charming in its way, but there's also a very good reason we tend to reserve assembly code to very specific purposes nowada
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by sanderjd 2y ago
This is the thing I don't really love about MCP: Why should it require a separate protocol, rather than just good readable documentation?
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yes. That's exactly what will happen, over time.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Eventually, you won't be able to pass a string into the commonly-used DB libraries.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
It's so fascinating to see so many people, when faced with a simple and useful programming language feature, get all up in arms about how it's the end of the world for that language. I honestly feel like a lot of people just seem
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I'm intrigued but confused by your comment. I think it could be done like this: cur.executemany(t"INSERT INTO movie VALUES({data})") Then the Template object would have a parameter that is a list, and it could turn t
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by sanderjd 2y ago
t-strings aren't really like these others. It's definitely true that those four string formatting techniques violate the "one obvious way" advice.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
I feel like this is begging the question... This t-string feature is only controversial inasmuch as comments like yours here are criticizing it as being controversial...
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yes exactly, I meant it as evidence that there is something to this insight. Also that it stuck with me in the book enough to make the connection when I saw your comment; it's that it struck me as a good point.
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Taking a Template parameter into a database library's `execute` method is a big bright billboard level hint that the method is going to process the template parameters with the intent to make the query safe. The documentation will also
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Fun fact, I recently started reading Designing LLM Applications[0] (which I'm very much enjoying by the way) and it draws this exact analogy in the intro! 0: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-larg
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by sanderjd 2y ago
Yep, I absolutely relate to this. ChatGPT happened to come out right when I needed to learn how to use kubernetes, after having used a different container orchestrator. It made this so much easier. Ever since, this has been my favorite us
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by sanderjd 2y ago
How common is this, really? I've never had a job like this, since about my first year or so at the entry level.

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