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by selridge 8mo ago
It is WILD how much better things got when I ripped out all the "best practices" from https://agents.md/
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by selridge 8mo ago
>"as AI becomes more agentic, we are entering a new era where software can, in a very real sense, become self-improving." >"This creates a continuous feedback loop. When an AI agent implements a new feature, its final t
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by selridge 8mo ago
I'm not really trolling. I'm trying to push people to consider that the world is already in a state where "I used AI" is neither binary nor dispositive. I think we're used to a 2023 to mid-2025 framing where outside
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by selridge 8mo ago
That paper is hard to evaluate because their modal example of a “context file” is a bad practice that arose from early attempts at text-based agent guidance before we recognized that contextual instruction was the aim, not just “context.” W
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by selridge 8mo ago
But they're not your agents.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Thanks but no thanks.
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by selridge 8mo ago
What doesn't that explain tho? What behavior would you need to see for that explanation to no longer hold? Because it seems like it explains too much.
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by selridge 8mo ago
It's an octopus, perhaps: https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf There's also this blog post: https://julianmichael.org/blog/2020/07/23/to-dissect-an-octo... (which IMO
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yes. I’m saying that “it’s just in the training data” is a cognitive containment of these models which is incomplete. You can insist that’s what’s happening, but you’ll be left unable to explain what’s going on beyond truisms.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Ok cool cool. Instead of pretending you need to teach me, you could engage with what I'm saying or even the OP! "I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word"" is not really so much a statement of
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by selridge 8mo ago
>You're implicitly assuming that what you asked the LLM to do is unrepresented in the training data. This is just as stuck in a moment in time as "they only do next word prediction" What does this even mean anymore? Are we
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by selridge 8mo ago
Do you see a problem with a non-programmer writing code?
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by selridge 8mo ago
I hear it.
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by selridge 8mo ago
"There is nothing independent about it" Ok. We'll see how that shakes out in a year or so. Most folks in the west have never lived in a country where a dictator controls the money supply. It's REAL easy to shit talk the
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by selridge 8mo ago
And what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
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by selridge 8mo ago
Pack it in everyone, the “OK for prod use” guy has spoken.
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by selridge 8mo ago
This is satire and therefore must be judged on brevity and comedy. It fucked both up. We need to RETVRN to 120 char.
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by selridge 8mo ago
This article is far off the mark. The improvement is not in the user-side. You can write docs or have the robot write docs; it will improve performance on your repo, but not “improve” the agent. It’s when the labs building the harnesses tur
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by selridge 8mo ago
LMFAO what is this
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by selridge 8mo ago
"show the prompts" What would the prompt for this look like?
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by selridge 8mo ago
Great write-up. Hilarious situation where no one (except unwieldiness) is the villain.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yeah, I got that. It was subtle, but I managed.
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by selridge 8mo ago
the closest thing we have to explaining the issue of focusing on something is "imagine a CPU from the 1990s"? C'mon.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yeah sounds like he was really scrimping.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Take that up with the CA voters circa 1979.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I hope he sees this, bro.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Better dead in California than alive in Florida, to paraphrase.
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by selridge 8mo ago
0 to “we are even talking about this” is an astonishing leap. Acting like this stuff has been standing still is an active choice.
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by selridge 8mo ago
No questions but I appreciate the write-up! Thank you for sharing.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Alignment is impossible here. “Nearly certain” odds for success for a sports team might be 20:1, but that’s a little worse (not much!) than for a launch vehicle and not at all good for a web server. No one would say “it is nearly certain th

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