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by sanderjd 4mo ago
It's interesting, I tried a decent amount of "heavy duty data analysis", and found it pretty similar. But a lot of what I did was about it finding and cobbling together the right things from our existing library of domain spe
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I really don't feel this way. Seemed pretty similar to me, noticeably better, but marginally. What am I missing?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
How are you running glm and deepseek? Local or hosted? If the latter, where do you run it?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I have long felt like "out of the box", I really dislike gpt's coding style. It seems really verbose and likely to write way too much error handling and wordy comments and worse at finding existing functionality to reuse rath
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I don't think this article is about the backlash among software engineers, but rather society at large. What's going on among software engineers is interesting, but I think it's a different thing, not a microcosm of the mains
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Already did after reading your comment :)
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Well, fair enough if the situation is "the rules are complicated to navigate specifically for devrel people".
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Again, I'm pretty skeptical that this person completely missed this part of the training for seven years.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Maybe it should not, but when I worked there, I certainly knew something like this probably would . At least, if it blew up and drew a lot of eyeballs.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Not for doing it, for releasing it publicly, presumably without permission. (If he did have permission, he probably has a pretty good case to bring.)
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes, fair. I do feel like the twitter post walks this line a bit though, between "yes, I broke the rules, for a good reason!" which I think many of us here can probably respect to various degrees and "I don't understand
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yeah I'm struggling to believe that this person who worked at Google for 7 years was surprised by this outcome. Google has very clear processes for contributing to open source as an employee. I'm skeptical that this person never n
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yeah this is super weird to me, because the processes at Google for employees to release and attribute ownership of open source projects are extremely clear and well established. It's genuinely hard for me to imagine this happening in
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yeah that point about "random access is not the point of columnar formats" fell flat for me for this same reason. Almost since the first day I started using columnar data, I've been interested in solutions that strike this ba
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes, well put.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Sure, for casual evaluation, I agree. But are there serious analyses that are evaluating this kind of thing? I mean, these are the kinds of things I evaluate in my own work when a new model comes out, or when I'm evaluating a harness
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
The best people I've ever worked with and the best people they've worked with all have good jobs at all times. You have to have a mechanism for matching with people who are actually interested in a new job.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I understand that's what you were saying, but it isn't, you're incorrect.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
No, there's an entire legal system where these questions are meant to be hashed out. The current administration is subverting that system.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I agree with that. But that is different than your previous comment about it being sui generis.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I mean, in my experience some of this stuff is way closer to table stakes things than that. Like "the tool call didn't get totally confused" more than "did the communication with the user feel good".
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Yes there is, and it is a helpful one. It is good and helpful to have words that just mean a simple thing. The things an administration does are the policy of that administration. That policy been be a deliberate system, or it can be haphaz
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Aren't there benchmarks that measure at the harness level as well?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
But that's current hardware. What about future hardware? What about hardware optimized for inference? What about hardware optimized to run a particular model?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Right. Opus 4.5 8 months ago, good enough for agentic coding. How far behind that are open weight models? More than 8 months? But how much more? When will they reach Opus 4.5 level? A few months from now? A year from now? Never?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I share this sense, but my immediate thought is that we need to improve the evaluations! Do you think this is impossible? That there is something indelible that it is not possible to capture empirically? I kind of have this intuitive sense
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
I disagree with them, but they aren't the ones I'm discussing this with here. I'm discussing it with you. What do you think?
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Nope, if everyone makes exceptions for the people that specifically annoy them, then there will always be some exception for everybody. Much better to endeavor not to give into your own vices, even the understandable ones. You can come up w
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
No, it is not. This is the entire thing about the rule of law. People constantly think their pet thing is sui generis. But actually the even handed application of the rule of law is a general good.
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by sanderjd 4mo ago
Everything the government does is a policy. This is a policy. This is regulation. It's just a very bad policy, a very bad way to do regulation.

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